I attended RE-convene in Los Angeles in September hosted by Moses Kagan. 280 real estate investors were in attendance. And we’re not talking about your local realtor or mortgage banker – we’re talking about folks with $100m real estate portfolios who are deep in the business of managing risk and acquiring real estate.
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A quick self storage update
With no homes selling (and the housing market in free fall) we are seeing new rentals slow down quite a bit. I don’t have the final data yet but I would guess new rentals in October are down about 25% vs last year across our portfolio. Occupancy is dropping slightly. This could be seasonality but it seems a bit amplified this year. I’ll report back.
There is a lot of stress in the real estate market right now. A lot of real estate syndicators, developers, operators are dealing with complete chaos inside their organizations. You aren’t hearing about it yet, but its there.
The time to buy real estate is right around the corner and we’re ready.
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At Re-convene in September I sat down with Jay Schuminsky – the owner / operator of All-Storage.
He sold his portfolio of self storage facilities for $1.5 BILLION to Public Storage a few months ago.
The company was much much smaller when he took over at 31 years old after the sudden passing of his father. He tells the story of how he grew it, took giant swings with the development of 200,000 rentable square foot facilities, and ended up making the sale happen.
On top of that he did a 1031 exchange FOR THE ENTIRE SALE PRICE into several portfolios of multifamily assets.
Watch the interview here.
Nick