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  • 1.  Breakeven Cost

    Posted 7 hours ago

    Hi all,

    Currently have about 45,000 sq ft of land in downtown Houston and was trying to crunch some numbers to see if building a climate controlled self storage unit is worth it. Would love to hear some outside perspectives on what I might be missing. A few assumptions I've made

    • 3 story unit or about 100,000 of building sq ft (not rentable) at $75 a sq ft so $7.5M to build.
    • Commercial loan of $7.5M at 5.8% interest rate for 30 years = $574K a year 
    • ~2% property tax on a $9M assessed value (building + land) = $180K a year
    • 2M kwh electricty at $0.07 = $140K a year
    • $115, average unit rent, 5% growth rate in rental rate every year

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    By my calculations it'll take about 4 years to break even again. Are these reasonable assumptions?



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