Episode 262: Equity Warehouse Founder Ian Horowitz on Self Storage Investing

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Episode 262: Equity Warehouse Founder Ian Horowitz on Self Storage Investing

Guest: Ian Horowitz is the co-founder of Equity Warehouse, as self storage and small bay industrial development company. Ian is also the host of the Real Estate Reserve podcast.
Big Idea: How to progress from single family house flipping and rentals to commercial real estate investing.
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Resources mentioned in this episode:
https://www.EquityWarehouse.com

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Dan Breslin: for any of our listeners. Ian, who don’t already know about you and Equity Warehouse. Do you want to kind of give us the origination story where you started, what you were doing. And then maybe a reader’s digest of your summary and a career, and and what you’re working on now.
Ian Horowitz: Yeah, you know, we had. We had very humble beginnings. Myself and my business partner. We grew up outside of Philadelphia, and we wanted to be big city firemen, and at the time you had to live in Philadelphia you had to live there your whole career. And we said, Nope, not doing that. And we started taking tests all across the country, and me, my business partner and a few other friends. We ended up in Baltimore City. If you ever watch the wire that’s where we worked. If you watched all the riots that happened, that’s where we worked, we were in the heart of it. And the interesting thing, though, is, we got hired in 7 and 8. Well, why is that important? We all know what happens. The end of the world comes the global financial crisis. And here we are taking government jobs in exchange for security. Right? But then here we are being faced with furloughs, pensions, issues, company closures. Detroit’s going bankrupt. California pension systems are going bankrupt private industry and are going bankrupt...

Ian & I Discuss Self Storage Investing:
• Scaling from SFR to Commercial

• Flying Planes & Fighting Fire builds real estate skill set

• $10M deals take as much time as $100,000 deals

• Small Bay Industrial Development
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