Listen to This PSA and Buy Public Storage

As the housing sector has continued to struggle along, many investors have turned their attentions to multifamily and apartment real estate investment trusts (REITs) as a way to profit from the change and delay in homeownership. While that play has born some significant dividend and capital appreciation fruit, another real estate play could be a better buy over the long haul.

In this case, we’re talking about the self-storage REITs, and the king of them all is Public Storage (PSA ).