Anyone work/own mini or self storage?
I am just looking to chat with someone who owns or works for mini storage. More so the real estate aspects and not so much the day to day.

I'm looking for info like what to look for in potential buy's, cap rates, best SF/GLA, IRRs, RoR, etc. 
[{"id": "d0ebm49", "text": "I don't own, but I know self-storage on the west coast is tough to come by. I think most of the units are owned by a handful of guys. Those guys hold onto them because they're freaking sweet to own. ", "replies": [{"id": "d0eqtsg", "text": "same here.  I briefly dabbled in that for a client (no transactions wound up happening).  Figured out real fast the same few people own all of them and their philosophy on selling was basically \"make me a deal I'd be crazy not to take and I might consider it\".  \n\nI'd love to learn more about that too.  I've not noticed a lot of starts, but on some of my land listings it seems like I get a lot of  traffic from folks wanting to build them.  They seem to evaluate very quickly.  I'm not really sure what they are looking for.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]