{"id":10401,"date":"2025-12-02T13:26:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/?p=10401"},"modified":"2026-02-13T10:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T10:38:14","slug":"featured-brokers-kevin-friedman-alec-j-pacella-ccim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/featured-brokers-kevin-friedman-alec-j-pacella-ccim\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Brokers \u2013 Kevin Friedman &#038; Alec J. Pacella, CCIM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10410\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10410\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10410\" src=\"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Featured-Brokers_Kevin-Friedman.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"240\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10410\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin Friedman<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Kevin Friedman<\/b> is the owner and principal broker of Hayes Ventures in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Kevin has been transacting in the self-storage sector exclusively for over a decade, closing $533 million of self-storage transactions. He specializes in the acquisition, disposition, and valuation of self-storage properties of all types and sizes. Kevin is dedicated to delivering exceptional value and service to his clients while collaborating with them to achieve their sales and acquisition goals. Prior to forming Hayes Ventures, he most recently served as the Vice President of Acquisitions for SmartStop Self Storage REIT. Kevin earned his BSBA from the University of Denver and is a CCIM. He represents Argus Self Storage Advisors in Michigan and Ohio.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10411\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10411\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-10411\" src=\"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Featured-Brokers_Alec-J.-Pacella-CCIM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"270\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10411\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alec Pacella, CCIM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Alec Pacella, CCIM,<\/b> is a seasoned investment professional with 20 years of experience as both a principal and a highly successful real estate salesperson. As Senior Vice President, he focuses on the marketing and sale of institutional-quality real estate assets. Alec has received numerous professional accolades during his career. He is a three-time winner of NAIOP\u2019s Investment Deal of the Year, winning the award in 2004, 2005, and 2006. He completed the largest individual investment transactions in Cleveland five times since 2000. He was named to Crain\u2019s \u201cForty Under 40\u201d in 2005 and was recently appointed as an associate instructor for the CCIM institute.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><u>Contact<\/u>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.listselfstorage.com\/us\/vendors\/profile\/Argus-Self-Storage-Advisors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Argus Self Storage Advisors<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Kevin Friedman<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">[Argus Territory: Michigan, Ohio]<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Hayes Ventures<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">616 Yarmouth Road<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Alec J. Pacella, CCIM<br \/>\n<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">[Argus Territory: Ohio]<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">NAI Pleasant Valley<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">6060 Rockside Woods Blvd. N., Suite 402<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Independence, Ohio 44131<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Friedman is the owner and principal broker of Hayes Ventures in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Kevin has been transacting in the self-storage sector exclusively for over a decade, closing $533 million of self-storage transactions. He specializes in the acquisition, disposition, and valuation of self-storage properties of all types and sizes. Kevin is dedicated to delivering exceptional value and service to his clients while collaborating with them to achieve their sales and acquisition goals. Prior to forming Hayes Ventures, he most recently served as the Vice President of Acquisitions for SmartStop&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":10412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10414,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10401\/revisions\/10414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}