Finding Land for Self Storage takes multiple goals.

Setting goals to help you find land to build your self storage is a must!

We all know things just don’t happen on their own.??There must be a starting point, and end game and a strategic plan to accomplish the multiple intermediate targets.??

About 2 years ago, one of my goals or end game was to continue my bad habit of Junk food?and wine and stay in good shape and healthy.???After my research I decided the best way to reach my goal was 10,000 steps a day.??For the last 2 years I never hit my goal constantly and instead had to limit my snacks and wine (now and then).??And I had to accept gained weight gained – lost weight lost – weight gained – weight gained and so on.

About 6 months ago I asked myself is this on again off again plan my plan or is there a better way.??Since I like wine and I like to walk I reset my walking plan – Kind of the same but with some modifications.

?I set a goal top do 10,000 steps a day for a year.???I finally understood it had to be a daily, weekly, monthly, bi yearly and yearly goal for it to work for me.??When it was just a daily goal I could easily start over.??My making it also my weekly, monthly, and yearly goal it was a more serious goal.??And I could see the effects of skipping a day.??It is one thing to start over when you missed a day but starting over when you missed a week, a month, or 6 months was an obvious setback.??And you could see it got progressively harder to meet the perinate goal as the time frame got longer if you did not meet the daily goal.

To repeat: I quickly realized how important it was to meet the daily step goal if I was going to me my intermediate targets.??And if it did occasionally miss my daily goal. it was critical to make up the steps the very next day – no matter what.??And being the engineer, I am I quickly learned often beating the 10,000 steps by a 1,000 or 2,000 steps added a tremendous amount of safety for those days where walking was interrupted by family, weather, work or host of other delays.

But now after having met my 10,000 steps for a week, month and 6 months I have a good routine and rarely miss a day.??And I really enjoy it!??Now I have many walks to choose form to reach my daily goal:

Walk???????????????????????????????????????????????????# Steps

Emergency night walk:???????????????????????8,000

Short walk with my wife?????????????????????4,000

Long walk with my wife:?????????????????????6,000

Water garden and minor weeding????? 1000

Mow the river cottage lawn?????????????? ?3,000???add 1500 steps if I am in the mood to mow neighbor’s lawn ( the kids cottage)

Work outside on the cottage??????????????6,000????(lots of flower garden to clean up and wood top cut)

Fishing?up & down the river???????????????6,000 ++++++

If you have an I phone it has an app on it that has been recoding you steps each day – check it out it the red heart icon

How does this pertain to developing a self storage???Self storage is just hard enough and takes enough cash that next to no body will build a self storage.???Even most people who do the research and decide to do self storage will not develop a self storage because they do not have the commitment, goals and game plan to find land

The Starting and end point is easy to determine.??Even and all but one targets are easy because they generally have known time frames, so it is much easier to make the time and?commitment to accomplish them.??Here are the targets:

Starting point:??Confirm you have the cash and self storage is something you are serious about making happen

Item????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Time Frame

Finding land????????????????????????????????????????????????????Unknown:??Depends a lot on YOU

Site plans designed?????????????????????????????????????????3- 4 months +_

Building plans designed??????????????????????????????????3 -4 months +_

Bid the project/choose contractor?????????????????2 Months+_

Banking???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????3 months+_

Build the facility??????????????????????????????????????????????8 – 12 Months +_

Premarket the facility?????????????????????????????????????Start 4 -6 months before you open

Of course, an experienced developer may do multiple items at the same to shorten the time frames.

While they all depend to some degree on you and your team, finding land depends a lot on you.

Inn other word once you reached the starting point the one target that is more likely to stop you from reaching you end goal and is Finding Land.

If you want to be successful finding land, I suggest you set and keep track of what you are going to do daily and weekly to find land.??And then keep track to confirm you are doing these items, daily, weekly, monthly, bi yearly and for the full year.

It often takes 8 – 10 hours a week of your time constantly using multiple strategies to find land in 6 – 12 months.??And waiting for a real estate agent to find you land is NOT going to work.?

The top 2 ways for finding land is word of mouth and driving the roads.??The third way is YOU finding land via multiple internet sources. Land from a real estate agent does not even hit the top 7 ways of finding land.

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I own a push mower and a riding mower. But I enjoy the push mower because of the free steps I get each time I use it.??But it is not your ordinary push mower.??It automatically match the speed of your walk.

If one on one guidance would help you reach your end game of owning a self storage give us a call.

Marc

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