From Accounting to Self Storage CPA

When I went to college, I thought if I could learn the number side and the marketing side, I could probably do anything, right? I could understand both of it. So that's why I went for accounting. I got my CPA. I did tax for about 5 years. And that was, that was boring. I did not like it. It was not fun. You couldn't help anyone, you couldn't talk to people. And then I knew storage because I managed it. And niching as an accountant was big then. I had kids and wanted to be home with them. And a friend of mine said, storage is an incredibly lucrative industry. You know the operations, you really need to focus. And I was like, it's Storage is boring. I don't want to do that. And he was like, no, it's— you need to focus on that. And thank goodness he told me that because that launched— I started, I called myself the self-storage CPA. I started doing accounting. I'd do operational audits. I'd go travel around and help people just make more money, right? Because I could understand like the levers to pull to get the results that they wanted. And then took all the CCIM classes, started developing, learned the underwriting piece of it. analysis, because that was an important piece to get the returns to our investor. Because if we're not managing it well, we're not making the asset work.