Meet our Team of Self Storage Experts

Our Team

Storage Study

Ben Burkhart

Owner

Ben Burkhart is the owner of BKB Properties/StorageStudy and personally performs or oversees all consulting services. Ben lives in central Virginia, near Richmond. He has actively participated in hundreds of self-storage development or acquisition transactions. Prior to opening his own consulting firm, Ben worked as a lender with Wells Fargo, specializing in self-storage underwriting. He has participated as a speaker and educator at regional and national self-storage conventions and seminars and regularly contributes articles to the trade magazines MiniStorage Messenger  and Inside Self-Storage. Ben also developed and is owner-operator of a 70,000 s.f. self-storage business outside of Richmond, Virginia. When not working in the self-storage industry, he enjoys songwriting, guitars, hunting and fishing, coaching youth sports, participating in his local Church, and especially time with his young family.

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Allison Walton

Project Assistant

Prior to joining the BKB Properties team, Allison was an elementary school teacher and math specialist. During her 11 years in education, she was passionate about building positive relationships with her students and their families as well as staying on the forefront of new teaching strategies and technologies. She is excited to bring her expertise in relationship building, project management and strategic planning to support the BKB Properties team as the Project Assistant. She is a proud graduate of the University of Mary Washington, with a B.S. in Mathematics and an M.S. in Elementary Education. But she never stops learning, and frequently engages in coursework to develop new professional skills. In her free time, she can be found imagining and building with her son, playing family board games, reading novels, crocheting, and taking care of her many plants. She is also a cancer survivor and is dedicated to supporting the fundraising efforts of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society through the yearly Light the Night Walk.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

If you are competing in a market with multiple, strong competitors, then the answer is probably yes. Where the strongest competitors compete (urban and suburban areas), we generally cannot collect good quality data via phone survey, and we need to visit individual stores to gain a high-level of confidence in the data we report. We will tell you the truth about your project, even if it hurts your feelings or “dashes your dream.” Our objective is to provide the best analysis so you can make the best decisions as you invest.