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		<title>EBS Wraps up strong year with two more acquisitions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ebscorp.com/blog/?p=204</link>
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		<title>EBS Helps Sponsor Cystic Fibrosis Fundraiser Gala at Fairbanks Ranch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Equity Based Services, Inc. and principals Stephen Kaplan and Troy Downing spent an evening with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to help raise money to fund research to find a cure for this debilitating disease.
Mr. Kaplan was a table sponsor and competed in the pro/am tennis match that followed the event. Donors sponsored teams by bidding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ebscorp.com/blog/?p=196</link>
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		<title>Finding Self Storage Opportunities in a Down Economy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Troy Downing
If you build it, they will come. In the heady, cash flowing, free lending days of the first half of the decade that may have been the case, but, as we&#8217;ve all seen, the times they are a changing.So where are the opportunities today? We keep hearing the mantra &#8220;self-storage is recession proof.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ebscorp.com/blog/?p=197</link>
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		<title>Is Recession Good for Self-Storage Sector?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EBS has been in the press this week. Two interesting articles to note. The First was an article that was featured in today&#8217;s (Oct 5, 2009) edition of the San Diego Business Journal. The article was titled &#8220;Recession Good for Self-Storage Sector?&#8221; with a subtible of &#8220;Equity Based Services Sees Sales Rise, Others Don&#8217;t&#8221;.
The SDBJ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ebscorp.com/blog/?p=192</link>
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		<title>Youth Tennis San Diego</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Friends and Partners;
Stephen Kaplan and I share a vision of giving back to the community where possible and supporting the efforts of others who are, in our opinion, striving to make the world a better place, performing admirable work in finding cures for debilitating diseases, and/or create opportunities where there is need.
Stephen and I, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ebscorp.com/blog/?p=184</link>
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		<title>Advantage Storage- Rockwall, TX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a great week at EBS with the successful refinincing of a construction project in Arizona, and the acquisistion of Advantage Storage in Rockwall, Texas.
Rockwall has great demographics (one of the fastest growing and wealthiest counties in the country) and is a stabilized Class-A facility in a city with a moratorium on any new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ebscorp.com/blog/?p=182</link>
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		<title>EBS is number 12 in Top US Storage Operators</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ebscorp.com/blog/?p=179</link>
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		<title>Holding Real Estate in Retirement Accounts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ebscorp.com/blog/?p=174</link>
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		<title>June Operations highlights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few highlights for operations for the month of June, 2009.
 
Storage Inn of Las Vegas, NV

Occupancy remains 88%+/-.  
Year to date we have been able to decrease expenses by approximately 5% compared to last year. 

Pro-Storage Chattanooga, TN

Occupancy remains 90% +/-. 
Year to date through June 30, 2009 we have been able to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ebscorp.com/blog/?p=171</link>
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		<title>Calculating Cash on Cash Returns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Troy Downing
I&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ebscorp.com/blog/?p=168</link>
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