Equity Based Services, Inc

Equity Based Services, LLC (“EBS”) closed on two new Self Storage properties, one in Colorado and one in Texas with new, non-recourse life insurance notes.

EBS has been in the press this week. Two interesting articles to note. The First was an article that was featured in today’s (Oct 5, 2009) edition of the San Diego Business Journal. The article was titled “Recession Good for Self-Storage Sector?” with a subtible of “Equity Based Services Sees Sales Rise, Others Don’t”.
The SDBJ [...]

According to the 2009 Top Operators list published annually by the Mini Storage Messenger, Equity Based Services, Inc. is number 12 in the Private Sector with more than 4.3 Million Net Rentable Square Feet of Self Storage owned and operated. If you include the 5 public REITS, EBS is number 17 in the Nation. All [...]

by Troy Downing�
Generally, when we talk about Self Storage Real Estate Investments, the topic of tax sheltered income comes up. This is a great way of deferring taxes on a large portion of the income that a real estate investment makes. But what about growing and accumulating this income tax free?
Real Estate belongs in your [...]

by Troy Downing
I’ve been asked a few times lately about the differences between cash flow, cash on cash returns, and total returns in Commercial Real Estate transactions. In other words, there seems to be confusion about what the difference on a pro forma is between a 9%/year cash flow distribution and a 25%/year total cash [...]

by Troy Downing
There is still a lot of turmoil in the equities markets. It almost seems as if the stock market is an economic news amplifier. If there is good news, the market rises, neutral news, the market recedes, bad news and the market falls.
These movements are essentially mob-driven reactions to how the masses think [...]

by Troy Downing
There is no question that acquisitions in Self Storage Properties have slowed down in the last year. There has been very little news of the big public operators acquiring new facilities. One of the smaller newcomers, SST has been moving on some small portfolio deals, but, in general acquisitions are slow.
There are a [...]

Reactionary influences on the stock market, Stimulus effects, and Inflationary influences on the economy

by Troy Downing
I’ve been getting a few questions about how to interpret the numbers on a Schedule K-1 lately. Obviously, this is a question for a tax professional, which I am not, but, I will try to answer the basic questions of what numbers are represented on our K-1s and how to interpret them.
First off, [...]

March 16, 2009
2:00 p.m. PST
STEVE KAPLAN, CEO, EBS: Hi, I just want to welcome everybody to the first annual Equity Based Services corporate conference call. I am proud that our company has grown to the size and status that merits a call like this. And I want to thank all the investors, team members, and [...]