The “Netflix” of real estate In the 135th episode of Cash Flow Pro, we talk with Kris Bennett of PassiveInvesting.com. Kris first tapped into real estate in 2007 when he got his license as a residential broker. By 2008/2009, he...
The “Netflix” of real estate
In the 135th episode of Cash Flow Pro, we talk with Kris Bennett of PassiveInvesting.com. Kris first tapped into real estate in 2007 when he got his license as a residential broker. By 2008/2009, he worked in foreclosure, anticipating the impending recession. Cash was king, and loans were hard to get. These hard times left a bad taste in his mouth, so he decided to return to school.
He began to take real estate classes at UNC’s business school. After school, he took an internship working for a guy who specialized in buying apartments, making him aware of the possibilities in real estate. Instead of buying one door at a time, he could fundraise and buy 150!
After the internship, he became Director of Acquisitions, which meant he found deals to buy. As the economy prepared to change, the whole company pivoted into self-storage. Today we will cover how self-storage could arguably be the most stable real estate asset.
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Casey Brown
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[casey_]: hey there and welcome to today's episode
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[kris_bennett]: oh
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[casey_]: of cash flow pro your
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[kris_bennett]: my
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[casey_]: daily real
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[kris_bennett]: oh
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[casey_]: estate investing podcast and youtube channel i'm
here today with chris bennett from and he
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[casey_]: with my friends over at passive investing
dot com over in charlotte north carolina which
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[casey_]: i had
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[kris_bennett]: oh
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[kris_bennett]: h
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[casey_]: meeting basically the whole team here a
couple of months back and is welcome to
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[casey_]: the show how are you today
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[kris_bennett]: case i am doing well thank you
appreciate it
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[casey_]: absolutely man we're glad to have you
here and glad you could take time to
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[casey_]: share with the listeners a little bit
about you all and your business and and
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[casey_]: where things are headed and what the
outlook looks like now
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[kris_bennett]: m
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[casey_]: for those that don't
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[kris_bennett]: my
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[casey_]: know past investing dot com has
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[kris_bennett]: oh
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[casey_]: has really kind of staked a claim
in this in the passive
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[casey_]: investing indication war l of
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[kris_bennett]: oh
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[casey_]: just a bunch of different
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[kris_bennett]: yeah
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[casey_]: things really for forgetting a conference that's
basically going on every year that's pretty much
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[casey_]: started from nothing i mean i think
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[kris_bennett]: yeah
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[casey_]: basically just just been like hey i
think you all were like hey let's let's
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[casey_]: do a conference and now it's just
kind of grown every year of course with
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[casey_]: shikilonil and barbara working on at the
at the show this past year
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[kris_bennett]: yeah dan dan is the one who
kind of heads that up so dan one
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[kris_bennett]: of the managing partners and founders of
past investing dot com he started the multi
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[kris_bennett]: family investor nation just to give people
a background here so he started multi family
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[kris_bennett]: investor nation i don't know like three
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[casey_]: sure
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[kris_bennett]: something like that and i think it
started as kind of like meat ups if
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[kris_bennett]: i'm not mistaken but that's how he
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[kris_bennett]: first meet up in charlotte like three
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[casey_]: yeah
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[kris_bennett]: ago something like that before he actly
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[kris_bennett]: whatever in multi family or in real
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[kris_bennett]: in tel and that's how there's more
details to it than that but eventually he
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[kris_bennett]: wanted to add on a storage team
to passive investing dot com so he called
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[kris_bennett]: me up and we talked and i
had a partner at the time we had
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[kris_bennett]: our own l l c john allen
and i we were doing our own smaller
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[kris_bennett]: deals looking for deals and charlotte and
what not so he called me up and
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[kris_bennett]: we formed a partnership and went from
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[kris_bennett]: lead the co lead the storage team
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[kris_bennett]: the one so your listeners and viewers
and all that excuse me might be more
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[kris_bennett]: familiar with the multi family investigation than
we do a smaller one for storage investigation
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[kris_bennett]: but that's
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[kris_bennett]: the in person thing that you're event
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[casey_]: awesome
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[kris_bennett]: to be mine in this last year
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you know our listener base is not
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[casey_]: what's the difference in in you know
what classes are there because i know
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[casey_]: a lot of different elements this but
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[kris_bennett]: yeah that sounds good man so i
just to give the quick background summary i
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[kris_bennett]: started in real estate two thousand and
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[kris_bennett]: twentieth was my first day on the
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[kris_bennett]: what was going to happen with recession
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[kris_bennett]: so i was doing for close work
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[kris_bennett]: if nobody was if your listeners weren't
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[kris_bennett]: to go school and get a job
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[kris_bennett]: i worked for a company after graduating
work for a company that was doing multi
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[kris_bennett]: was calling brokers and trying to find
deals couldn't make the numbers work for our
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[kris_bennett]: strategy won't get backed down in details
of all the stuff we decided to pivot
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[kris_bennett]: to self storage because the guys i
worked for had two three i'm sorry it
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[kris_bennett]: was about three really small deals that
they owned or were developing at the time
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[kris_bennett]: small meaning like fifteen thousand square feet
about a hundred and fifty units that's small
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[kris_bennett]: and storage and we i had to
go out and raise a fund and kind
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[kris_bennett]: of build a story around it and
so that's what we did it was successful
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[kris_bennett]: on crowd street dot com crow street
was a lot smaller in the early stages
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[kris_bennett]: at that time this is about twenty
sixteen twenty seventeen
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[casey_]: yep
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[kris_bennett]: so i was able to compare the
underwriting the operations the the market in the
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i just fell in love with storage i
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[kris_bennett]: am not the person if anybody s
looking for the person to say storage is
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[kris_bennett]: the only way multi family is the
only way that you can make money like
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[kris_bennett]: that's not me i'm not one of
the gores trying to sell you a course
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[kris_bennett]: so i can make you can make
money in the stock market you can make
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[kris_bennett]: money doing real estate you can make
money working a full time job it's not
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[kris_bennett]: going to have money in your four
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[kris_bennett]: that's how i look at it so
anybody can do it that way i like
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[kris_bennett]: storage for the operations and just the
opportunity and that's the way i look at
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[kris_bennett]: that's a long story short how i
got into it and then if you want
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[kris_bennett]: to talk about you know hey how
the heck doesn't work like all that kind
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[kris_bennett]: of stuff happy to talk about that
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[casey_]: well
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[kris_bennett]: of things too
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[casey_]: i guess the first the first thing
that kind of jumps out to me is
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[casey_]: so a lot of times and it's
really kind of just happen it's just kind
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[casey_]: of accidentally happened this way we don't
we don't necessarily focused on getting people who
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[kris_bennett]: oh
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[casey_]: past engineers and stuff on the show
but like
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[kris_bennett]: yeah
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[casey_]: we've had probably like i'd say six
out of ten people that have been on
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[casey_]: show well let's say eight out of
ten people have been these two things military
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[casey_]: or engineers right
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[kris_bennett]: yeah that's funny
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[casey_]: so the engineering element of people that
come into this business are into it because
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[casey_]: it's very systematic it's very
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[kris_bennett]: hm
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[casey_]: replicatable it's very
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[kris_bennett]: do you mean just
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[casey_]: like
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[kris_bennett]: acquiring real estate is that what
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[casey_]: just
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[kris_bennett]: you mean
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[casey_]: just yea any type of the sindication
kind of stuff it's
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[kris_bennett]: oh got
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[casey_]: where
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[kris_bennett]: it
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[casey_]: it's duplicatable like like you do the
same thing and it's a very system oriented
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[casey_]: process which then leads me to the
self storage part of the whole puzzle and
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[casey_]: that almost in a way at least
from the outside looking in seems to take
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[casey_]: a lot of the human element out
now obviously
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[kris_bennett]: yeah
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[casey_]: you have to still collect payment in
sta deal with stuff and still deal with
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[kris_bennett]: hm
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[casey_]: i guess
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[kris_bennett]: m
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[casey_]: dead bodies and self storage
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[kris_bennett]: uh
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[casey_]: i mean i don't know this kidding
but but i mean you got
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[kris_bennett]: uh
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[casey_]: to deal with that stuff but it
seems like it's a lot
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[kris_bennett]: oh
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[kris_bennett]: yeah
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[casey_]: but what's the give their cash flow
i r increase in rents i mean because
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[kris_bennett]: no
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[casey_]: you can't can you increase rents three
per cent a year on self
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[kris_bennett]: yeah
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[casey_]: storage like you do
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[kris_bennett]: yeah yeah so if there's a lot
that you just said in there so you
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[kris_bennett]: talked about the o perations of the
business how that works earlier on you talked
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[kris_bennett]: about you were asking you know how
does it how do you even know a
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[kris_bennett]: good location there was all different types
as well three store though three story five
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[kris_bennett]: story climate control versus single story so
there's like what we look for which we
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[kris_bennett]: can talk about that but you just
now brought up kind of the operations and
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[kris_bennett]: how it works and then the return
so looking at how all that affects everything
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[kris_bennett]: so if you look at it from
just an operational standpoint what is self storage
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[kris_bennett]: it's a space a garage you want
to think of it that way with a
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[kris_bennett]: roll up metal door typically that people
just put ther stuff in and in my
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[kris_bennett]: mind if i was looking from the
outside looking in i am a person who
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[kris_bennett]: throws away things i don't like to
keep stuff
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[casey_]: correct
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[kris_bennett]: and so i will never have a
storage unit personally
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[casey_]: oh
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[kris_bennett]: and there's a lot of people that
can relate to me out there n the
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[kris_bennett]: like i understand it they understand the
multi family like story everybody needs a place
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[kris_bennett]: to live right
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[casey_]: yep
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[kris_bennett]: at some point the multi family they
live an apartment they go buy a house
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[kris_bennett]: if they can you know like everybody
gets that even mobile home parks they understand
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[kris_bennett]: that kind of like lower income generally
speaking they need a place to live have
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[kris_bennett]: lot rent you know whatever like they
understand that story as well but story just
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[kris_bennett]: like god if i had stuff i
just throw it away i don't i don't
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[kris_bennett]: want to keep it
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[casey_]: yep
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[kris_bennett]: yes but not everybody is like that
and people utilize storage for different reasons one
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[kris_bennett]: is usually they're moving or they're down
dicing or something like that when they need
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[kris_bennett]: it for a temporary period of time
maybe one month two months something like that
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[casey_]: yep
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[kris_bennett]: then they think i'm going to get
it for two months some people stick to
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[kris_bennett]: that plan a lot of people don't
and they end up staying longer six months
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[kris_bennett]: nine months a year because it becomes
part of their life and they realize oh
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[kris_bennett]: actually i need this space
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[casey_]: yep
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[kris_bennett]: another reason people utilize it which is
a more recent reason is i'm sorry de
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[kris_bennett]: clattering making room for home offices and
that sort of thing working from home et
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[kris_bennett]: cetera
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[casey_]: sure
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[kris_bennett]: so people needed the space during the
pandemic and they still need the space even
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[kris_bennett]: though there's that kind of tension right
now between going back to work for some
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[kris_bennett]: days of the week work at the
home for the rest if you're working from
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[kris_bennett]: home at all you need space you
need to clear out some areas and people
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[kris_bennett]: are utilizing storage for that business is
also utilized storage when people have changed in
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[kris_bennett]: their life like death or divorce you
know kind of the downside of storage the
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[casey_]: yep
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[kris_bennett]: they have to they need space to
put stuff and storage is obviously where they
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[kris_bennett]: go to do that and then then
they end up staying long then they expect
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[kris_bennett]: so that any given facility roughly roughly
half of the people there are long term
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[kris_bennett]: users so anywhere from nine months to
a year or
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[casey_]: hm
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[kris_bennett]: longer they've been attendant there everybody else
is ittle more transitory there
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[casey_]: yeah
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[kris_bennett]: and so on the operation side yes
you can remove like you can have one
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[kris_bennett]: manager managing four hundred units i've seen
it before we had literally like an elderly
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[kris_bennett]: lady managing four hundred units for or
in multi family you can't do that right
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[kris_bennett]: if you got for units you're one
person you're gonna have problems right you need
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[kris_bennett]: like six roughly to manage that on
the maintenance and leasing side and then in
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[kris_bennett]: storage world too because you're dealing with
short term leases right that's a rental agreement
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[kris_bennett]: not rally a lease it's a short
term rental agreement is almost like the netflix
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[kris_bennett]: of storage
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[casey_]: yep
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[kris_bennett]: you can cancel it right and so
i'm starting the netflix of real estat where
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[kris_bennett]: you can cancel it when you don't
need it and move out
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[casey_]: yes
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[kris_bennett]: so that enables us to raise rents
quickly if we need to in an interest
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[kris_bennett]: rate environment like we're in right now
an inflationary environment we can raise rents faster
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[kris_bennett]: so the rats actually reported this week
and last week as at the time this
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[kris_bennett]: recording in august twenty twenty two year
over year rent growth on average from fifteen
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[kris_bennett]: to up to twenty five per cent
no growth i'm sorry no growth
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[casey_]: wow
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[kris_bennett]: fifteen to twenty five per cent in
a growth yeah so imagine that that's that's
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[kris_bennett]: incredible growth
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[casey_]: yeah
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[kris_bennett]: no not everybody is going to realize
that growth we're talking about publicly traded reads
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[kris_bennett]: who have their systems dialed in right
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[casey_]: yep
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[kris_bennett]: so that's a little bit different but
the point is is that you can see
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[kris_bennett]: yeh based upon public data storage obviously
can't perform very very well during an inflationary
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[kris_bennett]: period and based upon data not just
me or anybody else saying it you can
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[kris_bennett]: go back and look at the returns
on self storage publicly traded reads for self
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[kris_bennett]: storage and compared against all the other
asset classes multi family data centers whatever manufactured
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[kris_bennett]: housing and you can see that stores
just performed one of the best performers out
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[kris_bennett]: there top three always if not number
one when it comes to the public publicly
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[kris_bennett]: traded rats and the data that you
can do load on red dot com so
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[kris_bennett]: there's
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[casey_]: sure
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[kris_bennett]: a couple of things there like yes
returns are great the operations are very simple
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[kris_bennett]: i will rent a unit from time
to time just to kind of check the
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[kris_bennett]: comps and i'll rent units from our
own places just to make sure operations are
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[kris_bennett]: smooth i never talked to anybody literally
just go on you rent online i make
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[kris_bennett]: my payments online via text or email
or whatever i just made the payment the
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[kris_bennett]: other day you can set it up
for auto pay and never even think about
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[kris_bennett]: it which is what we try to
e people to do so m yeah so
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[kris_bennett]: it's a very
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[casey_]: yeah
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[kris_bennett]: uh
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[kris_bennett]: technologically
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[casey_]: yeah
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[kris_bennett]: up to date process really smooth
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[casey_]: yeah
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[kris_bennett]: process typically
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[casey_]: and
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[kris_bennett]: speaking
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[casey_]: i
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[kris_bennett]: so
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[casey_]: have to admit i've said it on
the show before
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[kris_bennett]: m
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[casey_]: and probably it might
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[kris_bennett]: m oh
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[casey_]: it definitely um
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[kris_bennett]: yeah
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[casey_]: doesn't speak to my intelligence level to
some degrees
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[kris_bennett]: yeah
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[casey_]: but we actually have
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[kris_bennett]: right
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[casey_]: a self storage unit and its seventy
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[kris_bennett]: yep
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[casey_]: five books a month like a tax
right um
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[kris_bennett]: hm
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[casey_]: and it becomes this and literally like
and i'll be let me let me back
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[casey_]: up so i don't have a self
storing my wife has a self
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[kris_bennett]: there
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[casey_]: store
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[kris_bennett]: you go yep
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[casey_]: and it literally seventy five bucks a
month right is nine hundred
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[kris_bennett]: hm
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[casey_]: dollars a year ye
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[kris_bennett]: hm
417
00:15:39,315 --> 00:15:44,137
[casey_]: it might have three hundred dollars worth
of stuff in it
418
00:15:44,691 --> 00:15:44,832
[kris_bennett]: yep
419
00:15:44,719 --> 00:15:46,623
[casey_]: may be for if i'm stretching
420
00:15:47,614 --> 00:15:47,634
[kris_bennett]: h
421
00:15:47,746 --> 00:15:53,637
[casey_]: and the point of the matter is
is not the financial part of that which
422
00:15:53,717 --> 00:15:59,587
[casey_]: is just almost embarrassing to discuss but
the point of the matter is s americans
423
00:16:00,288 --> 00:16:04,198
[casey_]: or people in general don't want to
get rid of their stuff like it's
424
00:16:04,333 --> 00:16:04,920
[kris_bennett]: hm
425
00:16:04,359 --> 00:16:11,704
[casey_]: just it's stuff and it's like you
know we we just have this marriage with
426
00:16:12,365 --> 00:16:16,331
[casey_]: with like our things and then and
then we just go we go buy more
427
00:16:16,411 --> 00:16:18,455
[casey_]: things and then we what do we
do with old things well
428
00:16:18,480 --> 00:16:18,743
[kris_bennett]: oh
429
00:16:18,735 --> 00:16:20,799
[casey_]: no we don't throw them away we
keep those and then
430
00:16:20,910 --> 00:16:21,194
[kris_bennett]: oh
431
00:16:20,959 --> 00:16:22,021
[casey_]: we go buy more and then once
432
00:16:22,048 --> 00:16:22,170
[kris_bennett]: yeah
433
00:16:22,081 --> 00:16:25,627
[casey_]: we've bought enough it keeps going so
it almost to a certain degree has a
434
00:16:25,747 --> 00:16:28,191
[casey_]: field of a recession proof or even
435
00:16:28,813 --> 00:16:28,976
[kris_bennett]: yeah
436
00:16:28,952 --> 00:16:30,759
[casey_]: an econo cal pre
437
00:16:31,590 --> 00:16:31,712
[kris_bennett]: yeah
438
00:16:31,924 --> 00:16:39,152
[casey_]: economy proof scenario because what is seventy
five bucks a month for and that's more
439
00:16:39,212 --> 00:16:43,920
[casey_]: probably on the low end because our
our average income here is not very extremely
440
00:16:43,980 --> 00:16:44,982
[casey_]: high we've got
441
00:16:45,032 --> 00:16:45,660
[kris_bennett]: hm
442
00:16:45,042 --> 00:16:48,588
[casey_]: a military it's close so they keep
they keep the sword
443
00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:49,680
[kris_bennett]: yeah
444
00:16:48,728 --> 00:16:50,431
[casey_]: storage kind of balanced but
445
00:16:50,591 --> 00:16:50,632
[kris_bennett]: hm
446
00:16:50,892 --> 00:16:55,619
[casey_]: seventy five bucks a month um and
you're really it's like a gym membership you
447
00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,222
[casey_]: hardly recognize that it's gone
448
00:16:57,230 --> 00:16:58,275
[kris_bennett]: yeah you only think
449
00:16:58,205 --> 00:16:58,408
[casey_]: ito
450
00:16:58,335 --> 00:16:59,382
[kris_bennett]: about it yeah
451
00:16:59,684 --> 00:17:03,871
[casey_]: correct so with that being said i'd
like to transition this discussion a little bit
452
00:17:04,031 --> 00:17:09,921
[casey_]: towards the what we were talking about
like specifically the asset like like there has
453
00:17:10,001 --> 00:17:15,430
[casey_]: to be buy box for you all
and i don't want to get into proprietary
454
00:17:15,550 --> 00:17:18,716
[casey_]: stuff that maybe you're like hey man
we've been really finding these deals the
455
00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:19,181
[kris_bennett]: no
456
00:17:19,116 --> 00:17:19,837
[casey_]: down by river
457
00:17:19,684 --> 00:17:19,825
[kris_bennett]: yeah
458
00:17:20,418 --> 00:17:20,539
[casey_]: but
459
00:17:20,550 --> 00:17:20,711
[kris_bennett]: that's
460
00:17:20,679 --> 00:17:20,819
[casey_]: i'd
461
00:17:20,771 --> 00:17:20,972
[kris_bennett]: fine
462
00:17:20,879 --> 00:17:26,407
[casey_]: like to know i'd like to know
a little bit about what you all specifically
463
00:17:26,447 --> 00:17:29,372
[casey_]: look for if there has to be
a minimum unit count i'm sure there has
464
00:17:29,412 --> 00:17:35,963
[casey_]: to be because and then also transition
into the the automation like you said you
465
00:17:36,003 --> 00:17:37,807
[casey_]: just go on and a lot of
these places
466
00:17:37,795 --> 00:17:38,430
[kris_bennett]: hm
467
00:17:37,867 --> 00:17:41,677
[casey_]: are finally getting to that where you
can literally go get a twelve or twelve
468
00:17:41,737 --> 00:17:44,584
[casey_]: storage unit and never even see another
human like
469
00:17:44,651 --> 00:17:44,774
[kris_bennett]: yeah
470
00:17:45,086 --> 00:17:45,828
[casey_]: period so
471
00:17:46,100 --> 00:17:46,223
[kris_bennett]: yeah
472
00:17:46,249 --> 00:17:47,914
[casey_]: talk a little bit of about the
buying
473
00:17:47,913 --> 00:17:47,954
[kris_bennett]: m
474
00:17:47,995 --> 00:17:50,241
[casey_]: strategy the finding strategy or what
475
00:17:50,220 --> 00:17:50,500
[kris_bennett]: yeah
476
00:17:50,322 --> 00:17:50,502
[casey_]: not
477
00:17:51,602 --> 00:17:56,730
[kris_bennett]: yeah so we look for for our
group we look for deals very roughly i'd
478
00:17:56,790 --> 00:18:02,420
[kris_bennett]: say forty thousand square feet and larger
fifty thousand is really kind of a the
479
00:18:02,500 --> 00:18:06,687
[kris_bennett]: cut off but depending on the market
et cetera so that's roughly depend on the
480
00:18:06,747 --> 00:18:10,173
[kris_bennett]: unit count and how there how the
big the units are small they are et
481
00:18:10,213 --> 00:18:15,021
[kris_bennett]: cetera but roughly call it three hunder
fifty to former units minimum something like that
482
00:18:15,522 --> 00:18:15,782
[kris_bennett]: um
483
00:18:15,545 --> 00:18:15,565
[casey_]: a
484
00:18:16,163 --> 00:18:20,390
[kris_bennett]: and then you go larger from there
so um that's really what we look for
485
00:18:20,550 --> 00:18:24,437
[kris_bennett]: in good growing markets so that's the
type of facility that could be single story
486
00:18:24,977 --> 00:18:30,106
[kris_bennett]: all non climate drive up units that's
completely fine it could be multi story we
487
00:18:30,146 --> 00:18:34,053
[kris_bennett]: have those three story deals right in
all climate control is really nice class a
488
00:18:34,173 --> 00:18:40,430
[kris_bennett]: type facilities so we'll look for anything
within that range because it's just it's you
489
00:18:40,470 --> 00:18:44,276
[kris_bennett]: don't get a so there's trade off
stairs so with the with the non climate
490
00:18:44,316 --> 00:18:49,124
[kris_bennett]: let's say it's all single story drive
up that's really easy access for customers and
491
00:18:49,164 --> 00:18:50,146
[kris_bennett]: a lot of people like that
492
00:18:50,544 --> 00:18:51,414
[casey_]: mhm
493
00:18:50,687 --> 00:18:53,952
[kris_bennett]: your venders think about your painters other
folks they like to use that type of
494
00:18:54,012 --> 00:18:56,637
[kris_bennett]: storage because they get in there in
the morning they open the door they get
495
00:18:56,657 --> 00:18:59,582
[kris_bennett]: their stuff out they close the door
they don't they leave they don't come back
496
00:18:59,622 --> 00:19:01,966
[kris_bennett]: to the end of the day and
it's really easy to get their stuff in
497
00:19:02,006 --> 00:19:05,872
[kris_bennett]: and out a lot of other customers
like that kind of storage because that's frankly
498
00:19:06,032 --> 00:19:08,877
[kris_bennett]: that's all they need they're storing you
know whatever it is and it can stay
499
00:19:08,917 --> 00:19:12,683
[kris_bennett]: in the non climate controlled unit and
they're fine with that some of the customers
500
00:19:12,723 --> 00:19:16,790
[kris_bennett]: they want maybe the climate controlled units
you can do single story climate old units
501
00:19:16,810 --> 00:19:18,253
[kris_bennett]: where you just open a door and
it takes you
502
00:19:18,204 --> 00:19:18,224
[casey_]: m
503
00:19:18,293 --> 00:19:21,578
[kris_bennett]: into a hallway and you walk in
there and actually on a contract on a
504
00:19:21,618 --> 00:19:24,603
[kris_bennett]: deal that has a bunch of those
kinds of units are all a single story
505
00:19:25,004 --> 00:19:29,411
[kris_bennett]: clime controlled first floor really the only
ground floor access um when you get into
506
00:19:29,451 --> 00:19:33,478
[kris_bennett]: the three story deals they look really
pretty really nice but from an operations perspective
507
00:19:33,939 --> 00:19:37,485
[kris_bennett]: and an n y perspective the more
the higher you go up the more of
508
00:19:37,545 --> 00:19:41,071
[kris_bennett]: a discount that the customer use gets
because it's a pain but to go up
509
00:19:41,111 --> 00:19:42,874
[kris_bennett]: and down the elevator
510
00:19:43,404 --> 00:19:43,609
[casey_]: okay
511
00:19:43,515 --> 00:19:47,401
[kris_bennett]: excuse me so you tend to put
these larger units on the first floor because
512
00:19:47,441 --> 00:19:51,548
[kris_bennett]: that's obviously convenience rights easy to unload
and unload our get a large ten by
513
00:19:51,648 --> 00:19:55,234
[kris_bennett]: twenty when we go up to the
third floor for that so generally speaking you
514
00:19:55,294 --> 00:19:58,780
[kris_bennett]: try to put more large units on
the first floor or the second floor and
515
00:19:58,820 --> 00:20:01,745
[kris_bennett]: then the smaller ones on the top
on the third floor and they use to
516
00:20:01,785 --> 00:20:03,208
[kris_bennett]: get a discount the higher they go
517
00:20:03,694 --> 00:20:03,797
[casey_]: got
518
00:20:03,708 --> 00:20:03,809
[kris_bennett]: so
519
00:20:03,899 --> 00:20:04,002
[casey_]: you
520
00:20:04,410 --> 00:20:09,198
[kris_bennett]: really depends on the customer and the
area and the h when i say area
521
00:20:09,258 --> 00:20:12,203
[kris_bennett]: i mean like the local market and
then just the state you're located in so
522
00:20:12,243 --> 00:20:15,127
[kris_bennett]: if you look at colorado for example
we own three deals and call it in
523
00:20:15,168 --> 00:20:23,361
[kris_bennett]: the denver m a in colorado typically
climate controlled gets a discount to non climate
524
00:20:23,401 --> 00:20:27,087
[kris_bennett]: controlled units so in other words if
i had two units that were ground floor
525
00:20:27,228 --> 00:20:31,034
[kris_bennett]: access and one was kind of one
of those hallways and its climate controlled usually
526
00:20:31,054 --> 00:20:34,760
[kris_bennett]: that's like a five maybe ten percent
discount to a non climate unit because the
527
00:20:34,860 --> 00:20:39,969
[kris_bennett]: weather in colorado is dry and pretty
comfortable most of most of the time right
528
00:20:40,510 --> 00:20:40,590
[kris_bennett]: and
529
00:20:40,544 --> 00:20:40,668
[casey_]: yep
530
00:20:40,610 --> 00:20:43,976
[kris_bennett]: you don't really need to preserve your
stuff like you would like in a human
531
00:20:44,096 --> 00:20:48,223
[kris_bennett]: area like in florida so that's kind
of well look at everything you know forty
532
00:20:48,263 --> 00:20:51,989
[kris_bennett]: thousand fifty thousand square feet and above
it's great if it has some land to
533
00:20:52,049 --> 00:20:56,396
[kris_bennett]: expand don it's really good if it's
been run by our own by someone who's
534
00:20:56,496 --> 00:21:00,423
[kris_bennett]: not keen on the self shores business
sometimes in that range your looking at institutional
535
00:21:00,483 --> 00:21:04,790
[kris_bennett]: type deals when they're that size but
they could be built by like a veloper
536
00:21:05,071 --> 00:21:05,171
[kris_bennett]: or
537
00:21:05,865 --> 00:21:06,050
[casey_]: sure
538
00:21:06,153 --> 00:21:09,638
[kris_bennett]: somebody else who doesn't they don't like
do stories they built this deal one off
539
00:21:09,658 --> 00:21:12,623
[kris_bennett]: they had some extra land they built
this deal one off and they're just you
540
00:21:12,663 --> 00:21:15,127
[kris_bennett]: know they're going to just sell it
because thats what they want to do and
541
00:21:15,147 --> 00:21:19,294
[kris_bennett]: they want to go build other things
um so we see that pretty often um
542
00:21:19,435 --> 00:21:21,959
[kris_bennett]: and then for your listeners you might
want to jump in the business on like
543
00:21:21,999 --> 00:21:25,184
[kris_bennett]: a g p side heck you can
make you can make good money i used
544
00:21:25,284 --> 00:21:29,291
[kris_bennett]: the deals i've done in the past
for like that first company worked for out
545
00:21:29,331 --> 00:21:34,840
[kris_bennett]: of school we did only small deals
thirty thousand square feet or less like in
546
00:21:34,940 --> 00:21:38,486
[kris_bennett]: growing markets right but thirty thousand square
feet or less you might pay a million
547
00:21:38,567 --> 00:21:41,912
[kris_bennett]: two million three million dollars from one
of those uh but those deals can make
548
00:21:41,992 --> 00:21:45,017
[kris_bennett]: money it's a little bit tighter because
depends on how you're gonna run it if
549
00:21:45,057 --> 00:21:48,363
[kris_bennett]: you run it manned or unman you
know with a call center and all that
550
00:21:48,523 --> 00:21:51,829
[kris_bennett]: there's different ways to do it but
the point is is you can take those
551
00:21:51,949 --> 00:21:56,777
[kris_bennett]: mom real mom and pop operations and
improve them and by adding in some tack
552
00:21:57,318 --> 00:22:02,607
[kris_bennett]: et cetera and really really make good
amount of money on those as a percentage
553
00:22:02,647 --> 00:22:06,653
[kris_bennett]: of the purchase price so yeah there's
operate ity across the spectrum i think but
554
00:22:06,994 --> 00:22:12,163
[kris_bennett]: we avoid deals people have made money
on deals and very turshary markets that i
555
00:22:12,203 --> 00:22:16,890
[kris_bennett]: know people who do those kinds of
deals just fine and they work but we
556
00:22:17,111 --> 00:22:20,917
[kris_bennett]: personally don't buy those kinds of deals
we want to buy in places where population
557
00:22:20,957 --> 00:22:27,168
[kris_bennett]: is growing ad there's an economic diverse
economic market there and base there that's
558
00:22:27,135 --> 00:22:27,277
[casey_]: yeah
559
00:22:27,188 --> 00:22:27,909
[kris_bennett]: where we look for deals
560
00:22:28,194 --> 00:22:30,522
[casey_]: how many markets are you in right
now specifically
561
00:22:31,472 --> 00:22:36,832
[kris_bennett]: as far as deals that we own
wearing like one two three four four right
562
00:22:36,892 --> 00:22:39,236
[kris_bennett]: now if i remember off the top
of my head and
563
00:22:39,204 --> 00:22:39,386
[casey_]: okay
564
00:22:39,296 --> 00:22:42,882
[kris_bennett]: we started last year in twenty twenty
one we raised our funds in the first
565
00:22:42,982 --> 00:22:47,289
[kris_bennett]: fourteen twelve fourteen months we closed or
put call it i don't know the number
566
00:22:47,530 --> 00:22:51,804
[kris_bennett]: actly but call a little over hundred
million dollars closed on and under contract something
567
00:22:51,734 --> 00:22:51,935
[casey_]: got
568
00:22:51,824 --> 00:22:52,065
[kris_bennett]: like that
569
00:22:51,975 --> 00:22:52,095
[casey_]: you
570
00:22:52,406 --> 00:22:52,808
[kris_bennett]: in storage
571
00:22:52,597 --> 00:22:53,581
[casey_]: okay now
572
00:22:53,430 --> 00:22:53,450
[kris_bennett]: m
573
00:22:54,704 --> 00:22:58,750
[casey_]: how involved i know we've we've heard
basically everything so i want to kind of
574
00:22:59,672 --> 00:23:01,735
[casey_]: cut the operations talk and
575
00:23:02,205 --> 00:23:02,820
[kris_bennett]: hm
576
00:23:02,477 --> 00:23:05,642
[casey_]: physical asset talk and talk a little
bit about the capital side
577
00:23:06,370 --> 00:23:06,534
[kris_bennett]: sure
578
00:23:07,409 --> 00:23:14,885
[casey_]: and and and again i know that
you became the part of the arm of
579
00:23:15,246 --> 00:23:19,253
[casey_]: passive investing dot com are you vere
of the self storage arm of passive
580
00:23:19,220 --> 00:23:19,364
[kris_bennett]: yeah
581
00:23:19,293 --> 00:23:24,081
[casey_]: investing dot com but how involved are
you in the on the capital raising side
582
00:23:24,181 --> 00:23:28,769
[casey_]: the because used the word fund a
time or two which obviously proves to me
583
00:23:28,829 --> 00:23:32,054
[casey_]: and my listeners that there's there's a
fund of some kind there which
584
00:23:32,510 --> 00:23:32,652
[kris_bennett]: yeah
585
00:23:32,875 --> 00:23:37,623
[casey_]: i like to get into some of
the maybe some of the high level overview
586
00:23:37,924 --> 00:23:42,952
[casey_]: some of the workings of that because
raising capital is a very important part of
587
00:23:42,992 --> 00:23:47,159
[casey_]: this business so i'd like to know
a little bit more about what your involvement
588
00:23:47,199 --> 00:23:50,666
[casey_]: is there or maybe that's why the
partnership exists was you were really good at
589
00:23:50,806 --> 00:23:52,750
[casey_]: the self storage part and dan maybe
590
00:23:52,601 --> 00:23:52,744
[kris_bennett]: yeah
591
00:23:52,851 --> 00:23:57,321
[casey_]: or whoever was really good at the
capital rising but whatever whatever kind of insight
592
00:23:57,341 --> 00:23:58,122
[casey_]: you can give us on that
593
00:23:58,190 --> 00:24:01,996
[kris_bennett]: yeah that's the way you describe it
just there is the way it was the
594
00:24:02,056 --> 00:24:06,183
[kris_bennett]: way it is i'm sorry so we'll
get involved a little bit on i have
595
00:24:06,203 --> 00:24:08,888
[kris_bennett]: an investor call coming up here pretty
soon some folks reached out and said hey
596
00:24:08,948 --> 00:24:11,612
[kris_bennett]: we want to learn more i did
a webinar the other day and that's why
597
00:24:11,652 --> 00:24:15,258
[kris_bennett]: they reached out and for a storage
investor nation so they sat in on the
598
00:24:15,299 --> 00:24:18,464
[kris_bennett]: webinar and they wanted to learn how
to invest with us so great no problem
599
00:24:18,544 --> 00:24:21,549
[kris_bennett]: happy to talk to them and answer
questions directly because they sometimes wouldn't talk to
600
00:24:21,609 --> 00:24:23,176
[kris_bennett]: us l and you know ask
601
00:24:23,107 --> 00:24:23,291
[casey_]: sure
602
00:24:23,216 --> 00:24:24,403
[kris_bennett]: their questions it's no problem
603
00:24:24,254 --> 00:24:24,999
[casey_]: ask their questions
604
00:24:24,825 --> 00:24:25,106
[kris_bennett]: in then
605
00:24:25,059 --> 00:24:26,609
[casey_]: maybe about operations and stuff
606
00:24:26,710 --> 00:24:30,316
[kris_bennett]: exactly yeah you know whatever it might
be which is completely fine so we do
607
00:24:30,396 --> 00:24:33,701
[kris_bennett]: get involved with some of the investor
q and a from time to time but
608
00:24:33,882 --> 00:24:38,589
[kris_bennett]: generally speaking on the capital rays like
the specific with the email list in black
609
00:24:38,790 --> 00:24:41,054
[kris_bennett]: at that kind of stuff like i
don't have anything to do with that i'm
610
00:24:41,314 --> 00:24:46,883
[kris_bennett]: the deal hunter the broker relations the
the guy who's making relationships with other owners
611
00:24:47,484 --> 00:24:50,049
[kris_bennett]: institutional owners to see if they want
to sell in the future if they want
612
00:24:50,109 --> 00:24:51,391
[kris_bennett]: ever do a deal off market so
613
00:24:51,444 --> 00:24:51,645
[casey_]: yeah
614
00:24:51,791 --> 00:24:56,039
[kris_bennett]: that's my specialty and john my business
partner he's on the corporate finance side so
615
00:24:56,139 --> 00:24:58,603
[kris_bennett]: he used to do all of our
underwriting we've hired an analyst to do that
616
00:24:58,663 --> 00:25:01,828
[kris_bennett]: for us now but he's on the
corporate side looking at hey should we sell
617
00:25:01,928 --> 00:25:06,236
[kris_bennett]: should we not and closing our deals
and that sort of thing so so yeah
618
00:25:06,316 --> 00:25:09,962
[kris_bennett]: that's why we formed a partnership but
we do have a fund we're on our
619
00:25:10,022 --> 00:25:14,750
[kris_bennett]: second fund right now our very first
deal we syndicated that one that was as
620
00:25:14,850 --> 00:25:18,496
[kris_bennett]: in like march or some ike that
of twenty twenty one we'reactually getingready to list
621
00:25:18,576 --> 00:25:21,902
[kris_bennett]: that one for sale now it's then
super well we added on another twenty two
622
00:25:21,942 --> 00:25:24,827
[kris_bennett]: thousand square foot building to it we're
going to put that on the market here
623
00:25:24,867 --> 00:25:29,494
[kris_bennett]: pretty soon but that one sold here
by the end of this year hopefully and
624
00:25:29,534 --> 00:25:31,758
[kris_bennett]: then the rest of the deals that
we did so call it eighty or ninety
625
00:25:31,818 --> 00:25:37,247
[kris_bennett]: million dollars we've closed on and that
was our fund one so we raised i
626
00:25:37,287 --> 00:25:40,713
[kris_bennett]: think it was roughly thirty million litte
ver thirty thirty million almost forty million dollars
627
00:25:40,773 --> 00:25:44,700
[kris_bennett]: in equity from limited partners to put
into self stored so if they came in
628
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,346
[kris_bennett]: and they invested in our fund they're
invested in i forgot the number of eight
629
00:25:48,406 --> 00:25:52,933
[kris_bennett]: deals or eight or nine deals across
markets and so their money is diversified that
630
00:25:52,993 --> 00:25:58,523
[kris_bennett]: way we're on fund to now a
bit smaller fund because of these economic times
631
00:25:59,104 --> 00:26:02,249
[kris_bennett]: we wanted to be able to move
quicker if we needed to so and raise
632
00:26:02,309 --> 00:26:05,374
[kris_bennett]: capita quicker et cetera in deployed faster
so we did our fun we're doing our
633
00:26:05,434 --> 00:26:08,439
[kris_bennett]: fund to which we're goin to close
as of the time of this recording we
634
00:26:08,459 --> 00:26:12,546
[kris_bennett]: should close that next week here in
the middle of august fund two is a
635
00:26:12,867 --> 00:26:17,715
[kris_bennett]: thirty million dollar total acquisition rice and
roughly call it fifteen seventeen million dollar raise
636
00:26:17,755 --> 00:26:21,962
[kris_bennett]: on that where we going more conservative
on the l t c h just because
637
00:26:22,042 --> 00:26:23,524
[kris_bennett]: of interest rates et cetera so
638
00:26:24,075 --> 00:26:24,216
[casey_]: sure
639
00:26:24,266 --> 00:26:28,372
[kris_bennett]: but yeah that's that's what we're at
so we we a fund model with it
640
00:26:28,533 --> 00:26:33,761
[kris_bennett]: and allow investors to diversify cost across
a couple of assets and yeah that's how
641
00:26:33,801 --> 00:26:37,988
[kris_bennett]: we do it i've done indications in
the past but personally i prefer a fund
642
00:26:38,049 --> 00:26:41,474
[kris_bennett]: model where it's large a fund a
large fund or a small one either way
643
00:26:41,514 --> 00:26:45,140
[kris_bennett]: because it makes it easier when you
talk to sellers and brokers and to say
644
00:26:45,241 --> 00:26:48,987
[kris_bennett]: we have a fund so they understand
that we have the capital commitments in hand
645
00:26:49,067 --> 00:26:52,479
[kris_bennett]: were able to close the deal that's
kind of important so anyway
646
00:26:52,347 --> 00:26:52,531
[casey_]: yeah
647
00:26:52,540 --> 00:26:53,907
[kris_bennett]: that's that's how we have it structure
648
00:26:54,634 --> 00:26:59,662
[casey_]: awesome that's great well then you know
the fund so walk us through so so
649
00:26:59,742 --> 00:27:05,111
[casey_]: you find so you you've got broker
relationships broker collogyand says chris i got this
650
00:27:05,192 --> 00:27:09,479
[casey_]: deal it uh whatever whatever you underrated
it's great
651
00:27:09,183 --> 00:27:09,750
[kris_bennett]: hm
652
00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:10,621
[casey_]: then
653
00:27:10,420 --> 00:27:10,542
[kris_bennett]: yep
654
00:27:11,382 --> 00:27:14,667
[casey_]: so i want you i'd like for
you to maybe explain a little bit about
655
00:27:14,707 --> 00:27:19,955
[casey_]: how this works then do you all
have the cash and the fund to just
656
00:27:20,015 --> 00:27:23,938
[casey_]: close the deal and then re finance
it do you say hey we just go
657
00:27:23,978 --> 00:27:27,281
[casey_]: to the fund and get our down
payment and we borrow the balance what does
658
00:27:27,321 --> 00:27:27,502
[casey_]: that
659
00:27:27,450 --> 00:27:27,630
[kris_bennett]: yeah
660
00:27:27,542 --> 00:27:29,003
[casey_]: look like when that comes about
661
00:27:28,832 --> 00:27:33,640
[kris_bennett]: if we've closed one i know one
maybe two deals i can't remember now but
662
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,683
[kris_bennett]: at least one deal all cash and
663
00:27:35,604 --> 00:27:35,788
[casey_]: okay
664
00:27:35,723 --> 00:27:40,572
[kris_bennett]: then put the financing on it later
so we always underrate two financing the property
665
00:27:40,972 --> 00:27:44,298
[kris_bennett]: and most everybody outside know if they're
going to pay cash for a property that's
666
00:27:44,358 --> 00:27:48,144
[kris_bennett]: fine they're able to close he quicker
and give some confidence to the broker or
667
00:27:48,184 --> 00:27:53,072
[kris_bennett]: the seller that the cash is there
take that's not a problem but they will
668
00:27:53,133 --> 00:27:58,702
[kris_bennett]: usually they it makes sense to underrate
to a refy whether that be a month
669
00:27:58,782 --> 00:28:02,789
[kris_bennett]: after closing or whatever the case may
be but they got to replace that capital
670
00:28:02,849 --> 00:28:06,034
[kris_bennett]: so sometimes some people will have a
line of credit that they drawn which is
671
00:28:06,114 --> 00:28:08,218
[kris_bennett]: great like a credit card to go
out and buy real estate
672
00:28:08,624 --> 00:28:08,768
[casey_]: yep
673
00:28:08,698 --> 00:28:12,064
[kris_bennett]: you got to pay that back right
at some point and so you're either raising
674
00:28:12,124 --> 00:28:12,725
[kris_bennett]: capital you have
675
00:28:12,714 --> 00:28:13,374
[casey_]: yeah
676
00:28:12,805 --> 00:28:16,311
[kris_bennett]: institutional partners going to pay that back
in some some fashion or you're gonna have
677
00:28:16,371 --> 00:28:19,557
[kris_bennett]: like a loan placed on it to
pay back part of that capital that that
678
00:28:19,617 --> 00:28:24,004
[kris_bennett]: draw down that you credit car that
you've used so there's some some way shape
679
00:28:24,064 --> 00:28:27,169
[kris_bennett]: or form you're going to end up
putting debt on the property not just keeping
680
00:28:27,229 --> 00:28:27,850
[kris_bennett]: all equity there
681
00:28:28,434 --> 00:28:28,640
[casey_]: oh
682
00:28:28,451 --> 00:28:32,635
[kris_bennett]: um so yeah that's usually how we
do it so we'll always underrate to having
683
00:28:32,716 --> 00:28:35,739
[kris_bennett]: debt in place but we have closed
deals all cash in the past
684
00:28:36,754 --> 00:28:40,618
[casey_]: um as of recording mid august twenty
twenty two what
685
00:28:40,833 --> 00:28:40,874
[kris_bennett]: h
686
00:28:40,899 --> 00:28:41,239
[casey_]: is
687
00:28:41,709 --> 00:28:41,730
[kris_bennett]: m
688
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:44,623
[casey_]: what are cap rates looking like right
689
00:28:44,650 --> 00:28:44,790
[kris_bennett]: right
690
00:28:44,683 --> 00:28:44,783
[casey_]: now
691
00:28:44,830 --> 00:28:50,299
[kris_bennett]: now they've expanded so most people are
underwriting right now if it's stabilized right so
692
00:28:50,359 --> 00:28:55,808
[kris_bennett]: let's call it in story that's roughly
eighty five percent economic occupancy ninety percent physical
693
00:28:55,969 --> 00:29:01,939
[kris_bennett]: occupants um so if it's a stabilized
property with those types of metrics uh your
694
00:29:02,019 --> 00:29:05,525
[kris_bennett]: cap rates ough it depends again in
the market the asset et cetera but call
695
00:29:05,545 --> 00:29:09,792
[kris_bennett]: it a six somewhere around there whereas
if we asked me six months ago
696
00:29:10,404 --> 00:29:10,567
[casey_]: uh
697
00:29:10,954 --> 00:29:12,777
[kris_bennett]: let's say let's say charlotte let's say
698
00:29:12,704 --> 00:29:12,826
[casey_]: yep
699
00:29:12,877 --> 00:29:16,202
[kris_bennett]: charlot for example so maybe it's six
now if you'd asked me six months ago
700
00:29:16,283 --> 00:29:17,384
[kris_bennett]: it literal would ave been like a
four
701
00:29:17,894 --> 00:29:18,016
[casey_]: yep
702
00:29:18,446 --> 00:29:22,553
[kris_bennett]: so there has been many deals that
have come ack to us and like when
703
00:29:22,614 --> 00:29:27,967
[kris_bennett]: we just under wrote yesterday nothing is
changed for us that came out to market
704
00:29:28,107 --> 00:29:34,042
[kris_bennett]: like nearly close to twenty million dollars
and they at thirty sixty days ago they're
705
00:29:34,062 --> 00:29:38,570
[kris_bennett]: bringing it back to market with a
roughly thirty percent price reduction on that
706
00:29:38,837 --> 00:29:39,021
[casey_]: ah
707
00:29:38,990 --> 00:29:43,037
[kris_bennett]: and the deal for us still doesn't
pencil now that's a drastic example we have
708
00:29:43,077 --> 00:29:46,402
[kris_bennett]: seen others whether you know king off
half a million or a million dollars or
709
00:29:46,442 --> 00:29:51,308
[kris_bennett]: two million dollars off the purchase price
but still the deal doesn't pencil because while
710
00:29:51,368 --> 00:29:57,087
[kris_bennett]: that that might make sense you know
three or sixty days ago it still doesn't
711
00:29:57,128 --> 00:30:00,653
[kris_bennett]: make sense today because they just raise
rates you know three days ago so
712
00:30:00,725 --> 00:30:00,848
[casey_]: yeah
713
00:30:01,114 --> 00:30:03,999
[kris_bennett]: how do we make the numbers work
with that so there's a disconnect we ran
714
00:30:04,059 --> 00:30:06,002
[kris_bennett]: through our numbers on offers and all
that and
715
00:30:06,534 --> 00:30:06,739
[casey_]: oh
716
00:30:06,844 --> 00:30:10,209
[kris_bennett]: i keep track of how far we
are off you know on guidance or other
717
00:30:10,269 --> 00:30:14,677
[kris_bennett]: purchase price based upon our offer and
were usually about ninety eight called ninety ninety
718
00:30:14,737 --> 00:30:19,204
[kris_bennett]: five percent off ninety ight percent um
you know as far as how far we
719
00:30:19,284 --> 00:30:20,366
[kris_bennett]: are apart from the seller
720
00:30:21,084 --> 00:30:21,266
[casey_]: sure
721
00:30:21,087 --> 00:30:25,735
[kris_bennett]: asking price m this last month in
july we were about seventy called seventy five
722
00:30:25,775 --> 00:30:31,587
[kris_bennett]: percent off so that that spread widen
between what sellers expect and buyers what
723
00:30:31,604 --> 00:30:31,747
[casey_]: yeah
724
00:30:31,647 --> 00:30:33,873
[kris_bennett]: we expect to pay for something so
it's
725
00:30:33,839 --> 00:30:34,021
[casey_]: yeah
726
00:30:33,913 --> 00:30:35,537
[kris_bennett]: slow down and we've seen that so
727
00:30:35,874 --> 00:30:44,336
[casey_]: and that's and it's it's always interesting
to me when you have sellers who even
728
00:30:44,497 --> 00:30:48,844
[casey_]: i guess maybe they're approaching the idea
of selling because if they can find somebody
729
00:30:48,924 --> 00:30:52,710
[casey_]: that's maybe looking to place some ten
thirty one money or looking to do something
730
00:30:52,570 --> 00:30:52,711
[kris_bennett]: yeah
731
00:30:52,750 --> 00:30:58,059
[casey_]: but it's almost like why even present
this deal to a company such as yourself
732
00:30:58,179 --> 00:31:03,488
[casey_]: knowing what the underwriting has to look
like in order to like like that's what
733
00:31:03,548 --> 00:31:07,014
[casey_]: i guess is always kind of i'm
like hey you make money when people proachyou
734
00:31:07,054 --> 00:31:10,740
[casey_]: with deals that work they're able to
sell when the deal works and everybody knows
735
00:31:10,901 --> 00:31:14,166
[casey_]: what's going to make that deal work
especially in self storage and it seems like
736
00:31:14,226 --> 00:31:19,555
[casey_]: multi family and some other asset classes
you can have some really outline factors that
737
00:31:19,595 --> 00:31:22,881
[casey_]: could could just drastically change a lot
of stuff but
738
00:31:23,244 --> 00:31:23,407
[kris_bennett]: yeah
739
00:31:23,702 --> 00:31:26,066
[casey_]: up stores just seems like it seems
like
740
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:26,286
[kris_bennett]: yeah
741
00:31:26,106 --> 00:31:30,233
[casey_]: it would be an easier asset class
to just pair one pair one and then
742
00:31:30,734 --> 00:31:33,739
[casey_]: everybody figures out what makes it work
either they want to sell or they don't
743
00:31:34,219 --> 00:31:37,845
[casey_]: but i guess they're possibly out looking
for ten thirty one money or looking for
744
00:31:37,946 --> 00:31:42,493
[casey_]: a cash buyer that needs to place
something immediately or something like that so you
745
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:42,640
[kris_bennett]: yeah
746
00:31:42,533 --> 00:31:42,633
[casey_]: know
747
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:42,800
[kris_bennett]: it
748
00:31:42,775 --> 00:31:42,795
[casey_]: i
749
00:31:42,861 --> 00:31:46,967
[kris_bennett]: just depends yeah like it depends on
how if it's a broker deal sometimes the
750
00:31:47,007 --> 00:31:50,633
[kris_bennett]: broker it's just like selling your house
you know somebody on a sell their house
751
00:31:50,674 --> 00:31:54,560
[kris_bennett]: they call up one two or three
agents haven't come over and do their their
752
00:31:54,861 --> 00:31:58,126
[kris_bennett]: agent presentation and tell them what they
think the house is going to sell for
753
00:31:58,186 --> 00:32:02,674
[kris_bennett]: and all that in today's market sometimes
one agent oftentimes there's one agent who's like
754
00:32:02,854 --> 00:32:05,398
[kris_bennett]: way above everybody else because they want
the listing and
755
00:32:05,384 --> 00:32:05,528
[casey_]: yeah
756
00:32:05,418 --> 00:32:07,722
[kris_bennett]: they'll get the listing they'll take it
to market and the they'll get all the
757
00:32:07,782 --> 00:32:08,804
[kris_bennett]: offers in and all
758
00:32:08,806 --> 00:32:08,867
[casey_]: it
759
00:32:08,844 --> 00:32:08,924
[kris_bennett]: the
760
00:32:08,928 --> 00:32:09,214
[casey_]: down
761
00:32:08,964 --> 00:32:12,129
[kris_bennett]: offers will be ten per cent less
than that but they'll say look boy this
762
00:32:12,169 --> 00:32:14,934
[kris_bennett]: is where the price is you know
well why don't you tell me where you
763
00:32:14,994 --> 00:32:15,655
[kris_bennett]: knew that you just
764
00:32:15,665 --> 00:32:15,829
[casey_]: yep
765
00:32:15,695 --> 00:32:19,220
[kris_bennett]: won't get the listing so in some
cases you have brokers who just want the
766
00:32:19,260 --> 00:32:23,044
[kris_bennett]: listing and they're willing to kind of
inflate the price a little bit to try
767
00:32:23,104 --> 00:32:26,567
[kris_bennett]: and get that listing and then the
prices the office coming later on their their
768
00:32:26,607 --> 00:32:27,028
[kris_bennett]: way below
769
00:32:27,514 --> 00:32:27,754
[casey_]: try to
770
00:32:27,769 --> 00:32:27,909
[kris_bennett]: that
771
00:32:27,815 --> 00:32:28,055
[casey_]: mash
772
00:32:27,989 --> 00:32:28,209
[kris_bennett]: number
773
00:32:28,115 --> 00:32:29,118
[casey_]: them together get them
774
00:32:29,090 --> 00:32:29,310
[kris_bennett]: yeah
775
00:32:29,218 --> 00:32:29,860
[casey_]: to agree at
776
00:32:29,871 --> 00:32:30,011
[kris_bennett]: yeah
777
00:32:29,900 --> 00:32:30,402
[casey_]: some point
778
00:32:30,252 --> 00:32:33,397
[kris_bennett]: and they say okay well the market
quote and quote the market has spoken and
779
00:32:33,417 --> 00:32:36,502
[kris_bennett]: therefore this is the price and then
the seller is like well if i go
780
00:32:36,542 --> 00:32:39,387
[kris_bennett]: through this whole process again when somebody
else you know you don't want to do
781
00:32:39,447 --> 00:32:42,632
[kris_bennett]: that because then it looks like something
that's wrong with the deal and then it's
782
00:32:42,672 --> 00:32:44,656
[kris_bennett]: going back to market with another broker
like you just
783
00:32:44,624 --> 00:32:44,789
[casey_]: yep
784
00:32:44,736 --> 00:32:49,383
[kris_bennett]: never know how people perceive that so
so that happens and then other times you're
785
00:32:49,403 --> 00:32:53,210
[kris_bennett]: right like if you're in the institutional
like the larger type deals there are anthy
786
00:32:53,330 --> 00:32:56,716
[kris_bennett]: groups out there who do have ten
thirty one money or they have a lower
787
00:32:56,816 --> 00:33:00,823
[kris_bennett]: cost of capital and they're able to
pay more for deal than somebody else and
788
00:33:01,263 --> 00:33:03,367
[kris_bennett]: and here able to get that price
or get close to the price that they
789
00:33:03,467 --> 00:33:07,153
[kris_bennett]: want so there's usually a couple of
factors on why people why it's kind of
790
00:33:07,213 --> 00:33:11,040
[kris_bennett]: hard to get the price you know
to be where it needs to be to
791
00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:15,186
[kris_bennett]: trade also sometimes sell our expectations because
they've put in a ton of work or
792
00:33:15,227 --> 00:33:18,712
[kris_bennett]: they've done this and that or whatever
everybody sees it differently right if i had
793
00:33:18,752 --> 00:33:22,959
[kris_bennett]: a pen here and that pen was
given to me my by my grandfather you
794
00:33:22,999 --> 00:33:25,724
[kris_bennett]: know who died in world war two
you know some crazy story
795
00:33:26,058 --> 00:33:26,178
[casey_]: more
796
00:33:26,165 --> 00:33:26,245
[kris_bennett]: may
797
00:33:26,219 --> 00:33:26,279
[casey_]: to
798
00:33:26,325 --> 00:33:26,365
[kris_bennett]: be
799
00:33:26,339 --> 00:33:26,480
[casey_]: you
800
00:33:26,425 --> 00:33:29,230
[kris_bennett]: mirth like whoa this is like this
is worth a lot o know and you
801
00:33:29,310 --> 00:33:32,377
[kris_bennett]: like that's an ugly panama throw it
away you know like
802
00:33:32,364 --> 00:33:32,549
[casey_]: yeah
803
00:33:32,457 --> 00:33:34,401
[kris_bennett]: it's so stupid i won't even offer
you a dollar for it
804
00:33:34,814 --> 00:33:34,976
[casey_]: yep
805
00:33:34,882 --> 00:33:37,648
[kris_bennett]: so yeah there's there's that emotional aspect
of things too
806
00:33:38,614 --> 00:33:41,900
[casey_]: well awesome all right well listen chris
so we have a couple of questions we
807
00:33:41,980 --> 00:33:46,347
[casey_]: ask every guest that comes on the
show and the first of those questions is
808
00:33:46,548 --> 00:33:51,813
[casey_]: what is the best book that you
have recently read or our current lager kay
809
00:33:51,791 --> 00:33:55,217
[kris_bennett]: well there's a couple i do like
the one thing that's when i haven't read
810
00:33:55,257 --> 00:33:58,182
[kris_bennett]: it recently but i've listened to it
and read it you know numerous times audio
811
00:33:58,422 --> 00:34:01,788
[kris_bennett]: book version of that numerous times in
the past and i think it always applies
812
00:34:01,808 --> 00:34:04,312
[kris_bennett]: that's kind of how i tried to
set it my day is getting the most
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00:34:04,372 --> 00:34:06,055
[kris_bennett]: important things done first and when i
do that
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00:34:05,994 --> 00:34:06,117
[casey_]: yep
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00:34:06,115 --> 00:34:09,240
[kris_bennett]: i feel good and when i don't
do that sometimes i feel like i missed
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00:34:09,340 --> 00:34:13,527
[kris_bennett]: on something today you know because you
get so distracted by answering emails and doing
817
00:34:13,567 --> 00:34:17,594
[kris_bennett]: all this kind of other stuff that
doesn't really move the ball forward so that
818
00:34:17,654 --> 00:34:21,761
[kris_bennett]: book is really good i recommend that
to anybody and then another one actually garry
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00:34:21,821 --> 00:34:22,963
[kris_bennett]: keller's books i haven't sitting
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00:34:22,874 --> 00:34:23,018
[casey_]: yep
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00:34:22,983 --> 00:34:25,547
[kris_bennett]: over here the millionnaire real estate investor
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00:34:26,326 --> 00:34:26,568
[casey_]: man
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00:34:26,429 --> 00:34:26,709
[kris_bennett]: that does
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00:34:26,688 --> 00:34:26,708
[casey_]: i
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00:34:26,769 --> 00:34:26,869
[kris_bennett]: not
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00:34:26,889 --> 00:34:27,131
[casey_]: just
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00:34:26,950 --> 00:34:30,856
[kris_bennett]: plied like really to commercial but like
yeah just throw his thought process on going
828
00:34:30,896 --> 00:34:33,480
[kris_bennett]: for units and you know all the
things in there that are like nuggets
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00:34:33,504 --> 00:34:33,666
[casey_]: yeah
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00:34:33,521 --> 00:34:36,205
[kris_bennett]: that you can take away it's a
great book i think and it can be
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00:34:36,225 --> 00:34:39,555
[kris_bennett]: applied to commercial real estate just as
well as as well inancials so
832
00:34:39,714 --> 00:34:42,657
[casey_]: that book actually just came across my
pad i didn't even
833
00:34:42,632 --> 00:34:42,775
[kris_bennett]: yeah
834
00:34:42,717 --> 00:34:44,559
[casey_]: know he wrote that i didn't en
know he wrote that
835
00:34:44,450 --> 00:34:44,591
[kris_bennett]: yeah
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00:34:44,619 --> 00:34:45,380
[casey_]: book i've always
837
00:34:45,395 --> 00:34:45,556
[kris_bennett]: yeah
838
00:34:45,740 --> 00:34:49,535
[casey_]: the one thing or not the one
that what's the is that
839
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:49,620
[kris_bennett]: he
840
00:34:49,575 --> 00:34:49,655
[casey_]: what
841
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:49,820
[kris_bennett]: wrote
842
00:34:49,696 --> 00:34:49,917
[casey_]: you just
843
00:34:49,840 --> 00:34:50,020
[kris_bennett]: another
844
00:34:49,977 --> 00:34:50,098
[casey_]: said
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00:34:50,040 --> 00:34:50,341
[kris_bennett]: one called
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00:34:50,158 --> 00:34:50,400
[casey_]: the one
847
00:34:50,441 --> 00:34:55,706
[kris_bennett]: shift and then he wrote another one
called the millionaire real estate agent and then
848
00:34:55,827 --> 00:34:57,949
[kris_bennett]: garry keller he wrote the one thing
also
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00:34:57,754 --> 00:34:58,817
[casey_]: that's right and that's
850
00:34:58,830 --> 00:34:58,952
[kris_bennett]: yeah
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00:34:58,897 --> 00:35:01,405
[casey_]: the one that i always kind of
but i didn't realize he wrote that one
852
00:35:01,445 --> 00:35:03,451
[casey_]: but the villionaire but anyway yeah
853
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:03,921
[kris_bennett]: the millionaire
854
00:35:03,571 --> 00:35:03,832
[casey_]: it was
855
00:35:03,962 --> 00:35:05,005
[kris_bennett]: real estate investor yeah
856
00:35:04,934 --> 00:35:05,615
[casey_]: i just saw it come
857
00:35:05,527 --> 00:35:05,667
[kris_bennett]: yeah
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00:35:05,675 --> 00:35:09,301
[casey_]: across the other day so all right
what is a dream vacation that you have
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00:35:09,321 --> 00:35:10,563
[casey_]: either taken or hoped to take
860
00:35:11,580 --> 00:35:15,767
[kris_bennett]: oh you know what i like to
travel and what not we went to disney
861
00:35:15,827 --> 00:35:18,572
[kris_bennett]: world a little while ago that wasn't
a dream because that was a lot of
862
00:35:18,652 --> 00:35:19,894
[kris_bennett]: work actually with the kids
863
00:35:19,944 --> 00:35:20,625
[casey_]: a nightmare
864
00:35:20,435 --> 00:35:20,655
[kris_bennett]: uh
865
00:35:20,705 --> 00:35:21,246
[casey_]: i've been there with
866
00:35:21,276 --> 00:35:21,457
[kris_bennett]: yeah
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00:35:21,286 --> 00:35:23,469
[casey_]: my kids who man
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00:35:23,382 --> 00:35:23,524
[kris_bennett]: not
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00:35:23,509 --> 00:35:23,589
[casey_]: i'd
870
00:35:23,626 --> 00:35:23,889
[kris_bennett]: fine
871
00:35:23,649 --> 00:35:26,153
[casey_]: rather be in hell with my back
broke i swear
872
00:35:26,822 --> 00:35:31,069
[kris_bennett]: yeah yeah so i guess probably getting
away to like greece or something like that
873
00:35:31,109 --> 00:35:31,570
[kris_bennett]: ease you see all
874
00:35:31,535 --> 00:35:31,678
[casey_]: yeah
875
00:35:31,590 --> 00:35:35,096
[kris_bennett]: the pictures like the pretty water and
like the mountain side stuff or something like
876
00:35:35,136 --> 00:35:38,421
[kris_bennett]: that would just me and my wife
and just hang it out honestly sometimes we
877
00:35:38,521 --> 00:35:42,989
[kris_bennett]: just like when when it's funny because
i got three kids eleven eight and two
878
00:35:43,670 --> 00:35:43,810
[kris_bennett]: and
879
00:35:43,704 --> 00:35:43,846
[casey_]: yep
880
00:35:44,551 --> 00:35:48,979
[kris_bennett]: when my grandma my grandma when my
mom comes with grandma comes and she watches
881
00:35:49,019 --> 00:35:52,223
[kris_bennett]: and retakes out of whatever it's like
do you want to go anywhere nope let's
882
00:35:52,263 --> 00:35:53,424
[kris_bennett]: just sit on the couch and
883
00:35:53,455 --> 00:35:53,636
[casey_]: let's
884
00:35:53,505 --> 00:35:54,105
[kris_bennett]: do nothing
885
00:35:53,716 --> 00:35:58,070
[casey_]: just stay here ye still you'd be
like yeah let's go burn and
886
00:35:58,270 --> 00:35:58,753
[kris_bennett]: exactly
887
00:35:58,331 --> 00:35:58,812
[casey_]: now it
888
00:35:58,794 --> 00:36:00,182
[kris_bennett]: let's go party it's
889
00:36:00,084 --> 00:36:00,304
[casey_]: it's like
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00:36:00,222 --> 00:36:00,343
[kris_bennett]: like
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00:36:00,344 --> 00:36:00,504
[casey_]: it's an
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00:36:00,484 --> 00:36:00,685
[kris_bennett]: now
893
00:36:00,625 --> 00:36:01,606
[casey_]: ap time yea
894
00:36:01,761 --> 00:36:02,587
[kris_bennett]: yeah exactly
895
00:36:02,608 --> 00:36:02,929
[casey_]: awesome
896
00:36:02,869 --> 00:36:02,970
[kris_bennett]: so
897
00:36:03,229 --> 00:36:08,037
[casey_]: well listen chris how can the listeners
if they've heard something that resonated with them
898
00:36:08,057 --> 00:36:08,979
[casey_]: and they want to get in touch
899
00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:09,062
[kris_bennett]: sure
900
00:36:09,380 --> 00:36:09,981
[casey_]: what's the best
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00:36:09,891 --> 00:36:10,033
[kris_bennett]: yeah
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00:36:10,061 --> 00:36:11,203
[casey_]: way for them to get in touch
with you
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00:36:12,240 --> 00:36:15,303
[kris_bennett]: typically leaked in so i'm out there
and linked in just search you know chris
904
00:36:15,363 --> 00:36:18,766
[kris_bennett]: k r s chris bennett and you'll
see me up there and then you can
905
00:36:18,806 --> 00:36:22,869
[kris_bennett]: always shoot me an email chris k
r is a passive investing dot com
906
00:36:23,624 --> 00:36:28,131
[casey_]: awesome awesome and i can vouch for
the pass of investing dot com guys they
907
00:36:28,392 --> 00:36:34,442
[casey_]: are great bunch who have always it
seems like to the investment world you all
908
00:36:34,582 --> 00:36:38,869
[casey_]: give far more than you take from
from all of us as far as just
909
00:36:38,989 --> 00:36:43,377
[casey_]: wanting to assist and help and talk
and and offer advice and what not so
910
00:36:44,038 --> 00:36:44,238
[casey_]: i will
911
00:36:44,221 --> 00:36:44,644
[kris_bennett]: absolutely
912
00:36:44,298 --> 00:36:48,345
[casey_]: personally vouch for that so anyway listen
i want to think chris i know you're
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00:36:48,365 --> 00:36:51,691
[casey_]: a busy man and i want to
thank you first of all for being on
914
00:36:51,731 --> 00:36:56,418
[casey_]: the show today and taking the time
to explain to us what the self storage
915
00:36:56,479 --> 00:36:58,282
[casey_]: arm of pass investing dot com looks
like so
916
00:36:58,691 --> 00:36:59,582
[kris_bennett]: absolutely yeah
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00:36:59,824 --> 00:37:04,712
[casey_]: and listeners as always please head down
and leave us a review leave us a
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00:37:04,792 --> 00:37:08,338
[casey_]: five star review we will be very
appreciative of that
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00:37:08,570 --> 00:37:08,853
[kris_bennett]: do it
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00:37:08,899 --> 00:37:09,019
[casey_]: and
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00:37:09,510 --> 00:37:09,952
[kris_bennett]: oh
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00:37:09,620 --> 00:37:15,170
[casey_]: while you're there that subscribe button so
that you can be notified of new episodes
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[casey_]: and new content as we release it
and again i want to thank you chris
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00:37:19,697 --> 00:37:20,959
[casey_]: i want o thank you listeners for
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00:37:20,850 --> 00:37:21,233
[kris_bennett]: oh
926
00:37:21,040 --> 00:37:22,843
[casey_]: spending the last
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00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:23,300
[kris_bennett]: m
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00:37:23,504 --> 00:37:27,111
[casey_]: you're forty five minutes with us and
we really appreciate and hope everybody is wonderful
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[casey_]: rest of the day
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[kris_bennett]: awesome thanks casey