The Inside Self Storage Expo 2025 is coming up next week in Las Vegas, and I’ll be there.

I make it a point to attend at least one self-storage convention a year to stay sharp—tracking trends, seeing new products, and deepening relationships in the industry. Events like these are essential if you’re in or entering the self-storage business.

But today, I want to talk about something most people overlook:

Let me share with you where most of the biggest leaps in my self-storage business came from!

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Let’s talk about charity work and your self-storage business.

As business owners—especially those of us making a living in a particular trade area, city, or region—I believe we owe something back. We should contribute in some way as good corporate neighbors.

Let’s discuss some different approaches to this today.

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I hate to say I told you so… but… I told you so.

This headline popped up in my news feed dashboard: “California Senate Bill 709 Seeks To Limit Self Storage Rent Increases.”

Let’s discuss Rent Increase Regulations that are starting to happen and put them into perspective.

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In episode 451, we discussed how uncertainty in Washington, combined with mixed economic signals, is causing some investors to sit on the sidelines. But for those who can make quick decisions and move fast, this could create a window of opportunity.

One thing I can almost guarantee, though, is that construction costs are not going down.

With new tariffs (why are we doing this?) and immigration policies restricting labor availability, construction costs are only going to rise.

Let me share with you how we are adjusting to that.

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I am hosting a virtual online Bootcamp in March on the 21st & 22nd and have been revising some of my content for the event.

This is the second episode of three, where I will be sharing some of the things I am going to be bringing up that I haven’t necessarily focused on in the past.

I will step out a little today and have a political conversation that is not designed to be a political statement but points to something that may affect smaller self-storage players like me and probably you.

Regardless of whether you are in the Bootcamp or not, this conversation will be relevant to your upcoming next few years in the self-storage space.

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I am hosting a virtual online Bootcamp in March on the 21st & 22nd, 2025, and I have been revising some of my content for the event.

I thought I would do a couple of episodes sharing some of the things I am going to be bringing up that I haven’t necessarily focused on in the past.

This is a simple idea that I have seen help people gain momentum in an industry that is maturing fast.

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The last three episodes have covered my deep dive into the previous 35 to 40 years into exploring how creating goals and achieving them can work.

Let’s talk about one of my most crazy experiences in this world of creating a self-storage business and what it can look like on the court.

This transaction changed my life and taught me how putting my attention on the correct things can work.

Let me tell you a story…

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If you are in the self-storage business and trying to grow it, or if you have been trying to get in the business and it has been slow-going, then this episode may be for you.

But I will take a very different approach than most in the next couple of episodes concerning how to get the most out of this year (or any year for that matter) for your business.

This episode concludes a 3-part series with the steps that I have learned to make a difference in having the goals we create in 2025 in our self-storage business succeed.

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If you are in the self-storage business and trying to grow it, or if you have been trying to get in the business and it is slowly going, then this episode may be for you.

But I will take a very different approach than most in the next couple of episodes concerning how to get the most out of this year (or any year for that matter) for your business.

I started last week with my experience on my lifelong journey of creating wealth and goals and what I have discovered so far.

If you haven’t read or watched the last episode, 446, start there.

This week, we are going to dive deeper into what I have learned.

Last week’s Episode: https://youtu.be/V0mE9_4ENbo

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