Sometimes real estate brokers may forget that the details associated with a transaction may be quite unfamiliar to their clients when they decide to buy or sell self-storage properties. With this in mind, I thought I would take you through some of the behind-the-scenes aspects of a real estate transaction and focus on the due diligence requirements. Obviously, the devil is in the details in buying and selling a self-storage property and due diligence can separate the winners form the losers.