On June 26, 2023, the board of directors of SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. declared a distribution rate for the month of July 2023 of approximately $0.05096 per share on the outstanding shares of common stock payable to Class A and Class T stockholders of record of such shares as shown on the Company?s books at the close of business on July 31, 2023. Such distributions payable to each stockholder of record will be paid the following month. On July 24, 2023, the Company?s board of directors declared a distribution rate for the month of August 2023 of approximately $0.05096 per share on the outstanding shares of common stock payable to Class A and Class T stockholders of record of such shares as shown on the Company?s books at the close of business on August 31, 2023.

Such distributions payable to each stockholder of record will be paid the following month.