[Brian Cameron]

RV / car storage looks like it could be pretty lucrative - the closer to town / main highways, the more the facility seems to be able to charge - roughly how close to Calgary is your 1/4?

For RV storage most places seem to be charging about $600-800/year for a trailer or RV, depending on length. Startup costs don't seem that daunting - a fence, a key card access system, and maybe video surveillance.

Seems to be a real need for car storage in cowtown too, there's a guy near deWinton who has a couple of good size steel agri buildings; I used to store the 911 there until we built a house with 3rd garage bay.

Facility is very discrete - you'd never know what it was from the road - full of exotics, classic detroit iron, even a good sized "porsche only" section. Last time I was there, he was putting a lift at the end of each row, with a set of overhead tracks so he could go double decker.

I think he's charging abou $800 a year, or $150/month for storage, IIRC there were about 40 rows of cars, probably about 6-8 deep, now stacked double - that's pretty close to 1/2 mil per year. However, the building costs would be significant, and bigger op costs (heating, mainly, plus sprinkler system, insurance, security etc).

Too bad you don't have a long, skinny chunk of land - with Race City closing in 2011, there's gonna be a big need for a road course near Calgary...