Mark Helm has been in the real estate industry since 1985. In 1999 Mark formed Helm/Dischinger Property Management, Inc., and placed his commercial real estate brokerage business with RE/MAX Commercial Brokers of Louisville. Helm/Dischinger Property Management currently manages approximately 300,000 square feet of office and retail product and employs six full time staff people.
Always thinking outside box, in 1999 Mark Purchased a residential REMAX Franchise and rolled a Commercial Division, Auction division, and Property Management Division, creating Louisville’s only full service RE/MAX Brokerage. Mark has consistently earned top agent awards in the Kentucky/Tennessee RE/Max Region. He sold the franchise and focuses on building a self-storage portfolio and online self-storage training business.
Mark also owns, manages, and develops self storage facilities. The Q2 Self-Storage brand is a growing company that acquires self-storage in multiple markets. Mark oversees the asset management of the facility, operations, and expansion of the investor friendly self-storage enterprise.
Mark authored an internationally bestselling book “Creating Wealth through Self Storage” in 2014. In his book Mark delivers a proven, step by step strategy on how to find, analyze, and acquire self-storage facilities that meet the goals of each individual that is trying to start or grow a self storage business.
Mark is the creator of Storage World Analyzer – an online self storage analysis program that is the only one of it’s kind for the self storage market.
Mark also shares his knowledge of self storage through his website CreatingWealthThroughSelfStorage.com where he writes a weekly blog, and QuickStart Academy – an online, in-depth training program which currently features two courses: “How to Buy Your First Self Storage Facility” and “How to Build Your First Self Storage Facility.”