Storage Moguls

About Storage Moguls

What does it take to go from knowing absolutely nothing about self-storage investing to owning your first storage facility? Turns out, less than you think. And Storage Moguls is going to show you exactly how. Storage Moguls is hosted by entrepreneur and storage investing expert Joe Downs. Each week, Joe sits down with seasoned storage operators, real estate investors, SBA lenders, acquisition specialists, and students who've already done the deals, breaking down every piece of the self-storage and Boat & RV storage investment process so that anyone can understand it, act on it, and succeed with it. Whether you're a first-time real estate investor trying to understand cap rates, NOI, and due diligence, or an experienced entrepreneur ready to scale your commercial real estate portfolio through storage acquisitions, this show removes every barrier between where you are today and your first storage facility. No fear. No gatekeeping. Just the real storage education, SBA financing strategies, underwriting breakdowns, and passive income playbooks that turn beginners into Storage Moguls. storagemoguls.ai. Practitioners, Not Professors.

Publisher

Joe Downs, Stories and Strategies

Category

business · business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

20 Apr 2026

Latest episode

9 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

30 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Nov 2026

   Self-Storage Investing: Run It, Hire It, or Fund It

   Send us Fan Mail What happens when a management company's monthly minimum eats the profit on a small-town storage facility, and you already have a full-time job? Joe Downs sits down with Gary Edmonds, a 25-plus-year self-storage owner and operator from Macomb, Illinois, who left a 20-year insurance career to go all in on storage. Gary has run facilities himself, run them for other owners through The Storage Manager, and now protects them with Knight Watchers overnight camera monit...

2. 

   2 Nov 2026

   Storage vs. Flipping: Which Makes More Money?

   Send us Fan Mail Is house flipping quietly turning into the hardest way to build wealth in real estate, while self-storage investing hands back the time and equity flippers keep chasing? Joe Downs sits down with Christin Blunk, a former insurance company VP who, with her husband Rod, closed more than 450 residential deals across flips, rentals, wholesaling, and private lending. Today she owns and operates three self-storage facilities, is finishing a ground-up build, and is a part...

3. 

   26 Oct 2026

   How Do I Get The Money?

   Send us Fan Mail Did the SBA just lock first-time buyers out of storage investing? Not according to the lender who finances storage deals every day. Joe Downs sits down with Anne Mino, a senior loan officer on the self-storage lending team at Live Oak Bank, one of the country's largest SBA lenders. Financing storage acquisitions, expansions, and new builds since 2019, and an owner of storage herself, Anne explains why projections-based lease-up deals are still in play, which debt ...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

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