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Holiday Giving Guide: Five Ways To Give Back To Your Community And Strengthen Your Team
November ushers in the beginning of a very familiar season. On top of turkeys, treats, and together time, the holidays also ignite an undeniable...
Strenuous Staff: Dealing With Difficult Employees
Everyone has them, the employees who are difficult. Maybe they’re late each day, call in excessively, or they aren’t filing reports nor making bank...
Ride The Wave
Over the past two years, our industry has seen historical high numbers in both occupancies and income. Not only did we survive through COVID,...
Do You Have A Silent Partner? Detecting Fraud In Self Storage
Why Is Employee Theft Common in Self Storage? Many self-storage owners, real estate developers, professionals and entrepreneurs are not interested in overseeing the asset, much...
Dealing With OSHA: More Inspections, Greater Citations Ahead
Employers trying to avoid costly OSHA citations are facing new challenges in the form of heightened enforcement activity and greater liability for workplace COVID-19...
Batten Down The Hatches! Preparing Your Facility For Hurricane Season
Weather and climate disasters do staggering amounts of damage and impose huge financial costs annually. From 1980 through 2021, 310 such disasters occurred in the...
Virtual Liabilities: Cyber Risks And Self-Storage
The self-storage market has been valued globally at over $40 billion. As part of the industry’s growth and expanded use of technology to operate...
The Neuroscience Of Innovation: How Your Own Brain Limits Your Creative Thinking
Several neuroscience principles limit our ability to creatively solve problems and generate innovative ideas. Understanding some of these principles can help you optimize your creative...
2021 Facility Of The Year Specialty Winner: Vineburg Wine & Self Storage, Sonoma, California
Greg Van Cleave has always had a philosophy about life: “If something is supposed to happen, it does, and if it’s a struggle, it...
2021 Facility of the Year Construction Winner: Life Storage at the Promenade, Scottsdale, Arizona
From its earliest planning, the team that brought to fruition Life Storage at The Promenade in Scottsdale, Ariz., faced a monumental design, engineering, and...
2021 New Facility Of The Year Winner: Rockwell Storage, Mill Creek, Utah
Many studies have found that people want to purchase experiences more than things, but what happens when the concept of experiences and things are...
The 2021 Facility of the Year Overall Winner! Compass Self Storage – Jupiter, Florida
One day back in 2014, Todd Amsdell got a return phone call from a broker about a property in Jupiter, Fla. Amsdell is president and...
Family Ties …The Parhams’ Lasting Legacy
Faith is more than a five-letter word. It’s a commitment, like the one made between husband and wife. It’s a process, like making approximately...
Cap Rate Compression Continues – Newmark Investors Survey Q3 2021
The self-storage asset class is now generally considered CORE or CORE+ commercial real estate, comparable to office, industrial, retail, and apartments based on robust...
Look Who’s Talking: Rachel Parham, President of Noah’s Ark Development
Heading into the fourth quarter, it’s safe to say that 2021 has been a fairly profitable year for the self-storage industry. Rental rates at...
Cyber Connections: Effective Networking In A Virtual World
With the shift to our new virtual world, you have probably found it more difficult to build and sustain professional relationships. Yet, the virtual...
All-Ability Access: The Dos And Don’ts Of Website Accessibility
By Let’s take a poll. When you need to know something about a business, where do you look? Call it a hunch, but we...
Information Influx: Making Dollars And Sense Of Data
The dictionary defines data as “facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.” In this digital world, in which facts and statistics are...
Converter Conundrum: Thieves Set Up Shop In Self-Storage Units
Precious metals, catalytic converters, and self-storage might seem like an unlikely combination, but thefts of catalytic converters are on the rise across the country,...
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 an act of workplace violence. The mass...
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, sheds, or driveways, as well as owners...
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 to weather the economic storm that distressed...
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 with some caveats. One of them is...
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 for outdoor recreation, combined with the low...
RV And Boat Storage Facility Design
In a booming economy, expendable income fuels ancillary purchases. RV sales in the past decade have resulted in a growing need to store these...
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Is It Time for a Self-Storage Renovation?
How To Assess and Plan for Renovations at Your Self-Storage Facility
As any facility owner knows, it’s essential not to...
AZSA 23rd Annual Conference & Trade Show and Golf Tournament
Register for Hotel Here Member Rate - Regular admission is $230 until 2/11/23
February 15-16, 2023
23rd Annual Arizona Self-Storage Conference &...
4 Lessons the Self-Storage Industry Can Learn From Big Brands
Remember when you thought the best instant photos were Polaroids and Sears was the only place to buy appliances?...
The Truth about Self-Storage Lead Aggregators
Over the last decade, the self-storage industry has witnessed the rise and fall of several specialized lead aggregation websites....
Owning Your Stress For Success
It’s no secret that today’s work environment is stressful. With our current economy, labor force, and global supply chain,...
