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Construction & Development

Recipe For Disaster: Extreme Weather, COVID-19, And Rising Construction Costs

Natural disasters, COVID-19, and rising construction costs are proving to be the perfect storm, frustrating owners of new self-storage facilities under construction...
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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...
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Insurance & Risk Management

Ella Tayrien

Ella Tayrien, Vice President of Claims, MiniCo Insurance Agency, LLC December is here, bringing with it the possibility of...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Insurance & Risk Management

The Road To Recovery

Recuperating From 2017's Natural Disasters Hurricanes Harvey and Irma inundated the Gulf Coast region...
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Insurance & Risk Management

Profitable Protection

Tenant Insurance Boosts Bottom Line It took the devastation of Hurricane Harvey in Texas to impress upon residents the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Financing

It’s Raining Claims!

Obtaining Adequate Roof Insurance The recent cycle of extreme weather has created havoc for residents, businesses, and insurance companies...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Publisher's Picks

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Workplace Violence: How to Reduce the Risk of Tragedy

It’s a nightmare scenario that haunts every business owner: A troubled individual’s simmering anger boils over into...
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Neighborhood Start-Up: An Industry Disruptor or Passing Trend?

Neighbor Storage Inc. started with the simple premise that people with extra space in their homes, garages,...
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Look Who’s Talking – Tron Jordheim, Managing Partner of Self Storage Strategies and the Host fo the Self Storage Hawai’i unConference

Thirteen years ago, during the tail-end of the Great Recession, the self-storage industry was doing its best...
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Cybercrime 101: Identifying And Combatting Cyber Risks

The amazing power and flexibility that information technology brings to the marketplace and to people’s lives come...
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Five Keys To Unlocking The Power Of Solar

There’s no doubt the opportunity for RV and boat storage facilities is tremendous today. The expanding demand...
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Janus International Agrees to Acquire Building Components Manufacturer DBCI

TEMPLE, GA. JULY 27, 2021 – Janus International Group, Inc. (NYSE: JBI) (“Janus”), a global manufacturer and supplier of...
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Best Practices for Handling and Preserving Self-Storage Building Materials

Whether you are constructing a new self-storage building or renovating an existing facility, one of the most important aspects...
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Convert Twice As Many Leads With Calcumate

Scenario time: someone looking for storage has found your website, having searched for a nearby storage provider. The next...
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Extra Space Storage Surpasses 2,000 Store Milestone

SALT LAKE CITY (July 19, 2021) – Extra Space Storage, Inc. (NYSE: EXR), a Real Estate Investment Trust and...
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National Storage Affiliates Trust Announces Pricing of Upsized Public Offering of Common Shares

GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- National Storage Affiliates Trust (the "Company") (NYSE: NSA) today announced the pricing of its previously...
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