Who We Are
Freedom Storage Investments is a family-run business with deep roots in the self-storage industry. Founded in 1998, we have spent over two decades building a reputation for transforming under-managed self-storage facilities into highly profitable, efficient, and well-operated businesses.
Our mission is simple: to purchase self-storage facilities with untapped potential, then apply our expertise in management, marketing, and operational improvements to unlock that potential. We focus on increasing occupancy, growing rental rates, and identifying new opportunities for additional profit centers to drive long-term growth and sustainability.
At Freedom Storage Investments, we are dedicated to creating value for our investors, tenants, and communities. Through strategic acquisitions and thoughtful management, we continue to build a legacy of success in the self-storage industry, one facility at a time.
Twenty-Five Years of Growth
A patient start, then a deliberate acceleration. Every point on this chart is a real, dated acquisition.
Why Self-Storage
Self-storage has quietly become one of the most resilient, fragmented, and undercapitalized sectors in real estate — which is exactly why we built our business around it.
Over 54,000 facilities nationwide — more locations than McDonald's, Subway, and Starbucks combined — generating roughly $38 billion in annual sales.
Smaller homes, a growing population, and tighter zoning restrictions keep pushing more households toward self-storage every year.
Zoning hurdles, construction costs, and operational complexity limit new supply, protecting existing facilities from oversaturation.
Beyond rent, well-run facilities add revenue through truck rentals, tenant insurance, admin fees, and RV or boat storage.
Undermanaged facilities can be improved, refinanced, or sold — creating value whether buying, operating, or exiting.
Income is spread across many tenants rather than concentrated in a few, and most tenants stay even through rate increases.
Self-storage has outperformed retail, industrial, residential, and the S&P 500 — averaging 17.43% annual returns from 1994 to 2017.
Self-storage lost just 3.8% during the 2007–2009 downturn, far less than the S&P 500's 22% decline.
State self-storage statutes allow facilities to reclaim and auction units in as little as 28 days, without costly legal proceedings.
Roughly 73% of facilities are still independently owned, leaving significant room for disciplined operators to grow through acquisition.
How We Work
Two decades of broker relationships bring us deals before they hit the open market. A longstanding self-storage attorney keeps every acquisition clean. And once a facility is ours, we focus on the unglamorous work — pricing, marketing, profit centers — that turns a good purchase into a lasting asset.
See What We've Built