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...
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The Road To Recovery
Recuperating From 2017's Natural Disasters Hurricanes Harvey and Irma inundated the Gulf Coast region...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
Varied Valuations: Is It Time To Appeal Your Property Tax Assessment?
Higher property tax bills can deliver a body block to self-storage facility owners’ budgets and business models,...
Hindered Performance: The Continuing Impact Of Elevated Development
Self-storage has been a booming asset class within the commercial real estate industry in recent years. Driven...
Winning With Websites: Six Steps To Maximum Your ROI
Automated technology is supposed to make our lives less complicated and it has in many ways. It...
Pandemic Lien Sale Restrictions: Going Forward After Commercial Eviction Bans
The self-storage industry has not gone through the COVID-19 crisis unscathed, especially in regions where moratoriums on...
Raising Rents on Existing Customers: ...
Editor’s Note: This story was written prior to the corona pandemic challenges. Raising rents....
Blog
Fourth Smart Storage Facility by Green Storage Opens in Sweden in under 14 Months
After building their first self-storage facility in April 2019, and being the first to bring a smarter, more convenient...
StorageMart Welcomes New Partners
Largest privately held company in self-storage industry welcomes GIC, Cascade Investment, and others as co-owners StorageMart, the largest privately owned...
Absolute Storage Management, Inc. Excited to Announce Promotion of Michelle Dean to Vice President of Operations
MEMPHIS, TN - Absolute Storage Management, Inc. (ASM) is excited to announce the promotion of Michelle Dean to Vice...
Storage Structures welcomes Kurt Conlon
Villa Rica, GA, October 5, 2020 -- Storage Structures, Inc., a national metal building subcontractor and the leader of...
Real8 Group Recruits Training Coordinator for Pogoda Companies
Real8 Group Recruits Training Coordinator for Pogoda Companies
Pogoda Companies, who has over 3.5 million square feet of self storage...
