About Trent Dyrsmid
In 2019, I made my first commercial real estate investment. I bought a 15,000 sq foot light industrial building in Garden City Idaho for $1,300,000. I intended to occupy a small portion of the building, so I only had to put down $130,000 and got an SBA loan for the balance.
When we purchased the building, it was run down, pooly managed and ripe with opportunity to make improvements.
And that is exactly what we started doing.
Over the next two years, we raised rents to market rates (~20% increase in income). All the old tenants got so mad that they all left (they were on basic month to month leases).
With the new tenants, we had them all sign proper triple net (NNN) lease where they would be responsible for their insurance, their share of the property taxes, and maintenance and repairs.

Additionally, we invested about $135,000 to make improvements to the building like adding bathrooms and moving walls around to make each of the 7 units more of a standard light industrial space (roll up door, small office, shop area).
Once we were done, we have stabilized the building, we had a very normal multi-tenant layout, we had $2,000 per month in positive cashflow, and the building had massively increased in value.
So much so that we were able to sell it just two years later for a whopping $2,000,000 and that was a huge EUREKA! moment for me.
Why do I say that? Well, over the two years it took us to fix up the building, I was busy running my eCommerce & SaaS businesses (I’ve sold them both now) and it made less money that we made on the building over the same period of time.
Better still, to do all the things we did only took a handful of hours per week.
Suffice to say, I was HOOKED on commercial real estate!
Since selling my companies, I’ve been investing in multi-tenant light industrial, self-storage, and mobile home communities.
The returns on these asset classes has been nothing short of amazing.
What I'll Be Focused On Learning & Teaching You
Over the next while, I’m going to be learning (and teaching you) as much as I can about the following topics:
- How to leverage AI and automation to find off-market opportunities so I can avoid bidding wars that can’t be won
- How to build relationships with brokers to maximize deal flow
- How to invest in more multi-tenant light industrial properties
- How to invest in self-storage facilities
- How to build a personal brand to make all of the above so much easier!