Bankrupt carpenter to a $200 billion blind spot.
I build storage yards — fenced dirt that contractors pay for every month. I went bankrupt at 30, rebuilt from one 9.7-acre lot, and now I show other operators and landowners how to do the same thing without the decade of guessing.
More pins on the map.
Longyards is building a network of fenced, gated storage yards across North America — 170 open today, 207 more in progress. There are three ways to help build it. Pick yours, and Chris’s team will book a call to walk you through it.
Own a Longyards yard
Run a yard in your market with the Longyards system and brand behind you — we build it with you, or for you.
Ask about franchisingPut capital into yards
Founder-led rounds, one site at a time. Read how it works, then talk it through with the team.
Invest with ChrisTurn your land into a yard
Start with a free feasibility on your parcel — partner, lease or sell, and see what it could earn.
Get a free feasibilityJust need yard space? Find one on Longyards.com →
Nothing here is an offer to sell securities or a franchise. Any investment is offered only to qualified investors through the relevant offering documents; a franchise offer can only be made through a Franchise Disclosure Document, where the law allows.
Chris walks the whole model, live, every week.
An hour on how a storage yard actually gets found, built and let — the site, the numbers, the mistakes that cost him money — then time at the end to ask him anything.
Sessions run most weeks — register and we will email you the next one.
Where the deals are
What makes a piece of dirt work as a yard, and how Chris finds the ones nobody else is looking at.
The real numbers
What a yard costs to open, what it rents for, and the mistakes that cost him money before he wrote them down.
Your first move
How to go from watching to an LOI on a parcel — and the questions to ask before you commit a dollar.
Live on Zoom, about an hour, with time at the end to ask him anything. Can’t make it live? Your seat includes the replay.
He has explained this on 19 shows.
Watch a few minutes of any of them. Then come get the whole model, live, with your questions answered.
From a crew of 14 to a 9.7-acre yard.
Chris Long is the founder and CEO of Longyards, an eight-figure storage-yard business built from a single 9.7-acre location he bought for $470,000 and grew into a $3.64M appraisal in three years.
Before that, he was a licensed carpenter running a construction crew with 14 employees. Busy, broke, and bankrupt by 30. He rebuilt from zero and kept a promise to himself: freedom in under three years.
That is the whole reason Go Long Or Go Home exists — and the weekly webinar is where he hands over the model, start to finish.
Girl dad of four, dogs included.
Put a real operator on your stage.
Chris speaks from lived experience — a carpenter who bet on himself, disrupted an industry nobody was watching, and raised millions building it. His talks hit hardest on:
Keynotes, panels, workshops and podcasts. Tell Chris about the room and he will tell you straight whether he is the right fit for it.
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A real person reads every enquiry, usually the same day.
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Chris’s team will come back to you about the date and the fit.
How one storage yard can create financial freedom.
And why investors & private equity are noticing this asset class.
While Wall Street chases overpriced multifamily and retail investors fight over saturated self-storage, a $200 billion industry is hiding in plain sight: Industrial Outdoor Storage (IOS) and contractor yards.
- Exposed dirt lots generating 15–20% cash-on-cash returns
- Month-to-month tenants with nowhere else to go
- Minimal buildout. No HVAC. No toilets. No headaches.
- Recession-resistant demand from contractors who must store equipment
The book is the short version. The live webinar is the whole model, with your questions answered — save your seat →
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