Ugly Duck Self Storage conversion

Most people look for empty Walmart stores and other similar big-box stores for self storage conversion projects. Sure, they are one option. But if you are not looking at the ugly duck buildings, you are missing the more frequent conversion opportunity.

The uglier, the cheaper, and often the more profits to be made. Often, you can get the building(s) for nearly the value of the land. This site has 2 usable buildings!

UGLY DUCKS = $$$$$

Here is an Ugly Duck conversion recently found and purchased by one of our Franchise owners. The owner wanted to sunset his business. It was on the market for over 1,000 days

Here is what it will look like after a bit of solid makeup.

Imagine that - 30,000 cars drove by this site for 3 years and they all missed out big time opportunity!

50,000 sf Existing sf in 2 buildings + 6 more buildings

Cities often like re-purposing old buildings. And often, there are advantages such as no yard setbacks since the building exists. And less stormwater detention is often required because much of the site was already built or paved, so we only need to address the increase in impervious surface. (increase in storm runoff)

Start looking for Ugly Ducks today!

As CEO of Storage Authority Franchising, Marc Goodin shares his passion, expertise, and unconventional wisdom with busy professionals to help them develop their own self storage while they continue their careers. He owns 3 self-storage he designed, built, and manages. He can be reached at  marc@StorageAuthority.com or directly at 860-830-6764 to answer your franchising, development, marketing, sales and operations questions.  His best-selling self-storage books are available at Amazon.