Building a long-term portfolio of independent self-storage.
Seedhouse Capital buys owner-operated storage facilities in small and mid-sized towns, straight from the people who built them. Then we keep them and run them well, paying for each one privately, without a bank.
Good, simple facilities in towns the big buyers overlook.
The large storage companies want new, climate-controlled buildings in growing metros. We go after the drive-up facility on the edge of town that someone built in the eighties, paid off years ago, and has run the same way ever since. They tend to be well built and under-managed, and hardly anyone is competing to buy them.
We buy direct
Every deal starts with a conversation with the owner. There are no brokers, no auctions and no bidding wars, and that keeps the price fair on both sides.
We run them better
Fair market rents, online rentals, tenant protection and a working gate. Nothing exotic.
We keep them
We aren't flippers. We buy to hold for the long term. Our strategy
Sell on your terms, and keep more of what you built.
If you've owned your facility for twenty or thirty years, most of what a buyer pays you is gain. Take it all at once and a big piece of it goes to taxes in a single year. There's another way to sell, and very few owners have had it explained to them.
A monthly check for years
You get a down payment at closing, then regular payments with interest. The note is secured by the facility itself.
The tax gets spread out
With an installment sale, the gain is generally taxed as you're paid, not all in the year you sell.
Private until closing
No listing and no sign out front. Nothing becomes public until the sale closes.
This is general information, not tax advice. Every owner's situation is different, so please run any structure past your own CPA.
We walk every facility in person before we make an offer.
You deal with a partner of the firm, from the first call to closing.
When you call Seedhouse, you talk to Gabe. There's no call center, and nobody hands you off after the first conversation. We'll show you the math behind every number we give you, buy the place as it sits, and let you pick the closing date.
Seedhouse Capital is the parent company of We Buy Self Storage, the name we use to reach owners who are thinking about selling. Whichever one you find first, the buyer and the handshake are the same.