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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 lien sales have prevented operators...
Issues
Securing Credit Card Information
By J. Ashley Oblinger, Esq.Associate Attorney Over the last few months, we have all experienced many changes to our...
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The Problems With Deferred Maintenance
Regular maintenance on leased
real estate is a topic that affects all property owners and managers. Although
budgets are...
Financing
Fair Assessments – How To Appeal Property Taxes
Studies have shown that
property taxes are the most hated taxes in America. Why? There might be several
reasons,...
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Compliance With The ADA
When Are Repairs To A Facility Not "Readily Achievable"? Self-storage facilities are
"public accommodations" under the Americans with Disabilities...
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E-Sign Lease Agreements
Understanding the Legalities Starting with the passage of the
E-Sign law in 2000 (formally the Electronic Signatures in Global...
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Workplace Drug Abuse
Reducing the Risk of Impaired Workers Workplace drug abuse can threaten your
bottom line in...
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What’s The Difference Between A “Clickwrap” And A “Browsewrap”?
In that so many self-storage companies are moving to online lease transactions, it is becoming increasingly important...
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The “Creepy Tenant Dude” Syndrome
What's A Self-Storage Manager To Do? As odd as these stories have
become, the solution...
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Something Fishy Is Going On Here
Handling Suspicion Of Criminal Activity At Your Facility Law enforcement commonly describes certain red...
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A Unique Specialty Niche
Dedicated Gun Storage Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell While
the national debate over gun laws and...
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Sexual Harassment
Not Just In Hollywood Or In Congress Over the last few months, the
country has...
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Legislative Victories
Enhancing Self-Storage Operations Around the Country 2017 saw some positive changes relating to self-storage operations around the...
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What’s A Waiver Of Subrogation?
A "Waiver of
Subrogation" is a common provision found in most self-storage rental
agreements. It involves the subrogation rights of an insurance company as...
International
Keeping Pace With Spare Space
Challenges Confront The Peer-To-Peer Self-Storage Disrupters There has been some noise recently in Australia about self-storage industry disruption from...
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Natural Disasters Continue To Impact Self-Storage Operators
Once again, I find myself writing about natural disasters that have impacted our country. After years of dealing with the aftermath of...
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Data Breach
State Laws Govern As it currently stands, there is no specific federal law addressing a business's obligations when it...
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Online Crime
Are You Prepared For The Next Cyber Attack? Cybercrime has dominated news headlines this year, from a phishing scam...
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Workplace Drug Abuse
Reducing the Risk of Impaired Workers Workplace drug abuse can threaten your
bottom line in many ways: higher absenteeism, lower...
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What’s The Law On The “Salary Question”?
What's The Law On "Banning The Box"? Salary
"What's your current salary?" may seems like an innocuous question
that you might...
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A Storage Owner’s Rights:
When a Rental Truck Damages Their Facility The use of a rental truck is a common
occurrence in the self-storage...
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Surplus Uncertainties
Handling Excess Lien Sale Proceeds It’s been more than six years since Storage Wars, a reality television show
that...
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After A Lien Sale
Dealing With The Return Of Personal Property The situation is not that
uncommon. At the conclusion of a lien...
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Lawsuit Tsunami
Thousands Of ADA Compliance Claims Flood Phoenix California and some other states have dealt with multiple lawsuit filings related...
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Payroll Pitfalls
Which Workers Are Overtime Eligible? As in many industries, employers in the self-storage business are being caught up in...
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Presidential Projections
Will Trump Be A Boon For Self-Storage? Here is something to consider as we move into the Trump Era...
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....
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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...
