Welcome to The Legacy Wealth Podcast where we help accredited business owners become educated & get access to, private investments that the wealthiest investors in the world utilize to grow their net worth. We do this by providing insight & access to successful fund managers & investors across multiple asset classes.

We are your hosts, Pascal Wagner & Mike Klein, and today we are interviewing Ben Lapidus, CFO of The Spartan Investment Group and we're diving into:

• What makes Self Storage an interesting investment to consider in your portfolio
• How some of the best funds operate
• And why you should consider Spartan Investment Group as a fund to invest in

With that said, let’s get to it!

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Links from our Guest

• https://twitter.com/BenLapidus
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/blapidus/
• https://www.instagram.com/benlapidus/
• https://spartan-investors.com/

  
  Time Stamps:
  00:00 - Intro
  00:21 - What's self-storage? and success stories in the industry.
  01:00 - Ben explains the concept of cap rates and how they are used in real estate investment.
  02:00 -  Ben discusses the potential for a home run experience in self-storage investments
  03:00 - Ben explains that while real estate investments are low risk, they also have lower returns compared to venture capital investments. 
  05:00 - Why real estate is a potentially strong investment because of future supply and demand?
  06:00 - Why self-storage is a fundamentally strong asset class?
  12:00 - The challenges of self-storage
  14:18 - How Ben got into self-storage
  16:00 - The importance of investing in self-storage facilities
  17:00 - The difference between primary, secondary, and tertiary markets in the context of self-storage facilities.
  19:41 - How Ben became an expert 
  20:35 - Ben's typical day
  22:41 - How many deals per day and the margin
  27:57 - The collateral of self-storage
  32:13 - Ben's strategies
  32:21 - Ben's due diligence process and best questions
  41:38 - What's full cycle and what can get sideways?
  43:00 - The importance on having a game plan
  49:46 - Ben discusses Spartan Investment Group's three funds: a private debt fund, an income fund, and a growth fund
  51:45 - Outro