Insurance & Risk Management
Insurance & Risk Management
Insurance & Risk Management
Insure For Disaster: Protecting Your Investment Against Extreme Weather And Natural Disasters
In 2019, the National Centers for Environmental Information recorded 14 weather and climate disaster events across the...
Insurance & Risk Management
Ella Tayrien
Ella Tayrien, Vice President of Claims, MiniCo Insurance Agency, LLC December is here, bringing with it the possibility of...
Insurance & Risk Management
Single-Source Insurance Protection
Inside MiniCo’s New Workers Compensation Program An employee tries to fix a stuck roll-up door and cuts his hand,...
Insurance & Risk Management
The Importance of a Good Business Owner’s Policy
Recovering from a financial loss arising from a lawsuit or property damage can make it difficult for business owners to find the...
Insurance & Risk Management
The Importance of a Good Business Owner’s Policy
Recovering from a financial loss arising from a lawsuit or property damage can make it difficult for business owners to find the...
Insurance & Risk Management
MiniCo Insurance Agency Publishes Tenant Insurance Best Practices
To better differentiate the
various financial products targeted to self-storage customers, Phoenix-based
MiniCo Insurance Agency has published a list of...
Insurance & Risk Management
The Road To Recovery
Recuperating From 2017's Natural Disasters Hurricanes Harvey and Irma inundated the Gulf Coast region...
Insurance & Risk Management
Profitable Protection
Tenant Insurance Boosts Bottom Line It took the devastation of Hurricane Harvey in Texas to impress upon residents the...
Insurance & Risk Management
James Appleton, MiniCo Insurance Agency, LLC, Director of Sales, Special Risk
When it comes to customers’ stored belongings, industry
professionals jest that tenants store junk but lose heirlooms. In other words,
the items they place...
Insurance & Risk Management
Think Outside The Box!
Competing With On-Demand Storage Businesses While the concept of on-demand storage
is not a new one, as PODS (Portable...
Insurance & Risk Management
Why Offering Tenant Insurance Is Good Customer Service
James Appleton, Director of Sales, Publishing & Special Risk, MiniCo Insurance Agency, LLC There’s a reason people choose...
Insurance & Risk Management
Insurance Update
Coming To Terms With Aging Storage Facilities As the self-storage industry matures, the 50,000-plus facilities that house customers’ contents...
Financing
It’s Raining Claims!
Obtaining Adequate Roof Insurance The recent cycle of extreme weather has created havoc for residents, businesses, and insurance companies...
Insurance & Risk Management
Protect From Peril
Fire Safety Improvements For Self-Storage Facilities In 2015, a website called Becoming Minimalist posted 21 statistics that exposed how...
Insurance & Risk Management
Risk Management: Maintaining Roof Integrity
A focal point of self-storage facility maintenance is the integrity of the roof, especially with respect to preventing water damage claims resulting...
Insurance & Risk Management
Insuring Profits
Tenant Insurance Flows New Revenue Stream To Bottom Line As self-storage occupancy reaches all-time highs nationwide, operators are eagerly...
Insurance & Risk Management
The Price Of Safety
Fire Code Sparks Costly Change In Charleston, S.C., a memorial,
appropriately called the Charleston Nine site, protects the sacred...
Insurance & Risk Management
Thinking Outside The Box
Insuring The Most Challenging Properties We have all seen the news reports of businesses and homes damaged by hail,...
Insurance & Risk Management
Training Is The Key To Tenant Insurance Success
Tenant insurance is one of the oldest insurance products in the self-storage industry. Once viewed as a novelty, the product has evolved...
Insurance & Risk Management
Are You Protected?
Industry Specific Policies Safeguard Owners Against Mishaps, Litigation, And Disasters A manager at a self-storage facility noticed an odd...
Publisher's Picks
The New MSM Buyer’s Guide: Loaded With New Features And Benefits
The new Mini-Co Buyer’s Guide is online and ready for use. The site includes new features as...
Mastering Online Meetings: Industry Embraces A New Reality
The pandemic brought changes to the way most companies do business, and the self-storage industry is no...
Look Who’s Talking: Ann Parham, CEO and President of Joshua Management
In March, no one could have predicted that COVID-19 would be an ongoing issue and topic of...
2020 Facility Of The Year Overall Facility Winner: Brickhouse Self Storage
When the owners of Brickhouse Self Storage began envisioning their dream, they didn’t have a cookie-cutter facility...
2020 Facility Of The Year New Facility Winner: SmarterSpace Storage Archer Road
As a new developer, Erik Henson, owner of SmarterSpace Storage Archer Road, took a wise approach and...
Blog
Bliss Edwards promoted to Executive Vice President as SmartStop Self Storage continues to expand its Canadian presence
LADERA RANCH, Calif., Jan. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartStop Self Storage REIT, Inc. ("SmartStop" or the "Company") today announced that Bliss Edwards will be...
Storage Exchange Launches Real Estate Brokerage Platform for Self-Storage
Storage Exchange has launched an interactive website for buyers, sellers and brokers of self-storage real estate. The platform leverages...
Marcus & Millichap Hires Self Storage VP in Philadelphia
With 16 years of experience in the self storage sector, Kevin Bledsoe has taken part in the sale of...
Self-Storage Supplier Janus to List on NYSE Via Merger With Juniper Industrial Holdings
Janus International, a global manufacturer and supplier of building components and security technology for the self-storage industry, will go...
Self-Storage Real Estate Firm Marcus & Millichap Acquires LMI Capital
Marcus & Millichap (M&M), a commercial real estate investment services firm with offices in Canada and the United States,...
