EP 72: Sizing Up Acquisitions in Self Storage Business and Adding Up Square Footage with Scott Lewis

Many people are becoming more interested in self-storage—it is a niche business. Scott Lewis, our guest for today, explains how he sized up his acquisitions in the Self-Storage Industry and the real essence of adding up square footage.  

Take risks and be motivated by Scott Lewis on how he will improve lives as part of their mission and improve personally and professionally as their vision. The best thing about today's episode is it will let you set your plans and boost you to do them so listen now!

💥💥 Remember, this is your MBA. Have a notepad handy, and get ready to take some 📝 notes!

Key Points from This Episode:

  • Scott shares a lot about how he learns from tangential things.

  • How did Scott adapt to being a leader?

  • Scott talks about how the military helps him be in business today.

  • What are the strategies to build your adaptivity?

  • Scott shares that the financial aspects of the world are not at risk right now.

  • What are his past successes?

  • Scott talks about how they started Risk Mitigation.

  • How does Scott talk about storage?

  • Scott shares about the expansions and his contribution to some of their projects.

  • How does technology help Scott’s business?


Tweetables:

“You gotta pick a strategy and you gotta kind of keep going with it .” - Scott Lewis

“Just because an operating environment changes doesn't mean you should throw out your strategy.“ - Scott Lewis

“Cause then you just don't do something. The hot war pops off, you can get outta control really, really fast. ” - Scott Lewis

“So I personally don't think I'm one of those small waggly trees, but I mean, there's probably a big fish out there that probably see me as a small scraggly tree.” - Scott Lewis

“And we're much better operators now than obviously we're where we were started.” - Scott Lewis

“I think now is not one of those times where you wanna go out there and take risks. You wanna do what you know” - Scott Lewis

Links Mentioned:

Scott Lewis on LinkedIn

Spartan Investment Group website

Real Estate investor MBA

About Scott Lewis

Scott Lewis is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Spartan Investment Group, LLC (SIG). As the CEO, Scott is responsible for the strategic direction of the company and ensuring it aligns with SIG’s mission to Improve Lives Through Real Estate. Prior to Spartan, Scott held positions as a regional sales manager for a biotech firm, various positions in strategic and project management for the federal government culminating at the GS 15 level, and was on active duty in the US Army as an Infantry Officer.

In addition to Spartan, Scott is active in the US Army Reserves and an Iraqi Freedom combat Vet.

Scott graduated from Michigan State University with degrees in Chemistry and Marketing, from Catholic University with an MS in Management, and from Georgetown University with a Certificate in Project Management.

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