Honored to be awarded the most enthusiasistic award at Flex Space Connect. Many of you may know my personal story. I have a younger brother with Down Syndrome. I try and remind myself daily that if he can smile every day, so can I. This ones for Francis who is the most popular person in Franklin County, Massachusetts. So cool to see everyone from Basecamp at the event! Appreciate you all. Looking forward to building this incredible community with all of you.

Quick update since a few of you asked after my intro: I hired @Vanessa Ballard and she made a beautiful, new, conceptual site plan. The plan grew from about 36,000 SF to 51,240 SF of 1,500 to 2,000 SF bays because she found a much more efficient layout than my own test fit. Feasibility is next, then entitlement, then financing. Two things I learned that I did not know two weeks ago: If you lease 15 or more bays on a well, TCEQ treats you as a public water system. That changes the budget and the timeline. The fire code line that matters for contractor bays is not 12,000 SF. It is 5,000 SF if tenants park work trucks inside. I have to find out how that is assessed by the marshal in our pre-development meeting, however. What I'm looking for now is a partner, not just a quote. That could be a lender who has done spec small bay in a rural county, a JV partner who wants in on the equity side, or a GC willing to partner on a 50K SF metal building program. If you're any of those or know someone who is, I'd like to talk. I'll be at the meetup tomorrow night and at the conference. Come find me if you're building around Houston! -Sai Vipparla

Thanks to everyone that showed up in Houston. We packed the room with over 50 people. It was great to meet everyone in person and talk Flex. A big thank you to @Barry Sherman Sherman at S3 Partners and @Nick Basso Basso at Kiwi II for sponsoring the event.

Hi everyone - I'm a self-storage and newer small-bay investor in PA and West Texas. I've been in this group for a while but just started reading all the community posts and they're awesome! There is so much great info - thanks for doing this Will! Hope to meet a bunch of you in Houston this week.

I talked through how Basecamp came together with Thaddeus Campbell on Storage Unlocked