Marc Goodin - Your Self Storage Planning-Site Selection-Design-Construction

Your Self Storage

Planning - Site Selection -Design - Build

Over 150 proven ideas to save you time andmoney and make your project a success!

Marc Goodin

Copyright 2012 by Marc Goodin

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Catch Your Dreams

About the Author

Marc Goodin is uniquely positioned to provideunusually simple information you need to build your first selfstorage and increase your profits. At a very young age, he not onlylearned the importance of a good product, but also the importanceof a great marketing message and campaign. Long before the InternetMarc would go to work with dad, a real estate developer. At ageeight, he cleaned up after the construction workers and learned theimportance of dreaming, a great product, and marketing. To thisday, he still remembers one of his dads marketing campaigns thatfilled up his 300 apartments long before the competition. GatewayApartments, where your neighbors are your squirrels.

As a civil engineer and owner of anengineering company, Marc learned that the lifeblood of the companydepended on good planning, skilled people, and marketing,especially if you wanted to be an industry leader. Not only did youhave to do an outstanding job, but you also had to find a way tolet everyone know they get more than their moneys worth when theybuy from you.

Marc designed his first self storage over 25years ago and dozens more for many clients since then. He presentlyowns two self storage facilities in the United States that hedesigned, built and manages. His first personal international selfstorage facility was recently built in Canada. Again, he designed,obtained the approvals and built this facility. His expertise andexperience with management, ownership, sales, and marketing in thebusiness world and self storage is clearly evident in hiswritings.

Marc has learned about self storage andmarketing from real life experiences and his street smarts continueto expand every day. After talking to many people who wanted tostart a self storage business, but did not know how to get started,he decided it was time to put his experiences from the trenchesinto a book for potential self storage developers and owners. Heaccomplished his goal with this easy to use, how-to, hands-on book.The examples, tactics, and ideas that can be implementedimmediately for a better and more profitable self storagebusiness.

Authors Offer:

For 1 year after you buythis book I invite you to send me your self storage questions. Youmay have a question on one of the practices or concepts in thisbook or another question I can help you with. Please email meat and l will be happy to get back to you!

Make sure you find ways to enjoy your selfstorage journey!

Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Author's Offer

About the Author

Should You Take Control of Your Destiny?

Start Today

Eleven things you can to do this week to getstarted fast.

The Five Most Frequently Asked Questions

Site Selection

Ten factors to help you make a better siteselection.

Design

Thirty two items you dont want to forgetduring the design process for a better & more profitablefacility.

Site Plan Regulatory Approvals

Seven items you do not want to forget tobring to your Wetlands Commission meeting, for a fasterapproval.

Ten items you dont want to forget to bringto your Planning and Zoning Commission meetings, which can make adifference.

Construction

Twenty six items you want to remember duringthe construction process to save you time and money.

Development/Start Up Fees OftenForgotten

Eight development/start up fees you may notbe aware of.

Nine Things No One Else isGoing To Tell You.

Important Things You Need To Know Before YouOpen The Doors.

Fourteen simple items that make a bigdifference.

Start Your Marketing

Here are 19 marketing ideas to implementprior to opening the doors for a faster rent up period.

Should You Take Control OfYour Destiny?

The entrepreneur, theprofessional, the self storage owner, the investor, you anyonewho wants to build a self storage facility and take control theirdestiny will value the ideas in this book. It will provide a simpleplan and required research that you can use to make your dreamscome true; all you need do is make the choice to succeed. In thisbook, there are over 150 practices that have been outlined to helpyou plan, design and build a better self storage facility and makemore profits . I have bolded 17 criticallyimportant items that can literally save you thousands of dollars,even hundreds of thousands of dollars .Please read them twice and E mail if their importance is notexceptionally clear to you! selfstoragemarc@gamil.com

Self storage is easy, doesnot take a lot of planning or time or out of pocket money andalways makes money. There is nothing further from the truth, but Ihear this all the time. For a typical self storage facility of50,000 square feet you may invest over $400,000 of your own money,borrow over a million dollars from the bank, and will personallyspend many hours before you rent the first unit. But a properlyplanned, operated and funded self storage facility can be a veryrewarding and profitable business.

As soon as your self storage business isunder construction everyone is going to tell you I was going tobuild a self storage but I never got around to it. You are takenthe first step by reading this book. The second step is to takeaction every day until your dream comes true.

My daughter Taylor checking out theconstruction site after hours.

Start Today

Eleven things you can to do this week to getyou started fast.