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Lonnie Bickford, owner/operator of Appletree Storage and founder and president
Throughout the global COVID-19 pandemic, the self-storage facilities across the country that were deemed an essential business by their states...
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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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Donald Jones, owner/president, Donald Jones Consulting & Service, LLC
Within the self-storage industry, the notion that you only have one chance to make a first impression gets a substantial amount of...
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Douglas Kotelly, Chief Investment Officer of Prime Group Holdings, LLC
It’s already the second month of the new year, but hopefully your New Year’s resolutions—both professional and personal—have not fallen to the...
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Chuck Gordon, CEO of SpareFoot, SiteLink, and storEDGE
Despite being at the tail end of
a development cycle, the self-storage industry experienced a significant uptick
of new supply in 2018. Similar to...
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Charles Plunkett, CEO, Capco Steel, Inc. & Capco General Contracting
After the holiday spirit takes hold at our Thanksgiving
dinner tables, December is brimming with energy. There are facilities...
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Dean Keller, Broker, Bancap Self Storage Group, Inc.
In its infancy, the self-storage
industry’s need for leadership and education was paramount to its success. For
that reason, some...
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Pete Panos, President, Third-Party Management and Strategic Partnerships, Public Storage
Within
the self-storage industry, there are more than 20 companies of various
capacities that offer third-party management services. While some...
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Marcus Trufant, Self-Storage Owner/Investor and Retired NFL Cornerback for Seattle Seahawks
Similar to winning a football
match, making a successful self-storage investment requires knowledge of the
game, a well-thought-out strategy,...
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Franklin Young, CEO, PTI Security Systems
From conception to completion, self-storage
owners spend several million dollars and years developing state-of-the-art
facilities before they can turn a...
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Troy Bix, President of R3 Division, Janus International Group, LLC
Depending upon who you ask, the self-storage industry is approximately 50 years old. Whether the business concept began in the 1960s...
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Dave King – Vice President Self-Storage, Wentworth Property Company
Thanks to pent-up demand and more readily available construction financing, the self-storage industry experienced a significant uptick in ground-up development projects...
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Don Sedlacek, Vice President of Claims, MiniCo Insurance Agency, LLC
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Joel Deis, vice president and regional manager, Marcus & Millichap – Seattle Office, and national director of Marcus & Millichap’s National Self Storage Group
Best known for its hip coffee shops, lively music scene, thriving tech industry, and abundance of apples, Washington may soon be...
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Kate Spencer, MAI, Managing Director/Practice Group Leader, Self-Storage Valuation & Advisory at Cushman & Wakefield
Over the past 20 years, self-storage facilities have been slowly evolving. The iconic, first-generation storage properties made up of rows of...
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Paul Schween, Author/Speaker/Trainer/Sales Professional
With the start of the new year, many self-storage owners and operators are implementing new or enhanced technologies at their facilities...
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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Erica Shatzer, editor of Mini-Storage Messenger, Self-Storage Now!, and Self-Storage Canada
Ten years ago, knowing next to nothing about the self-storage industry, I joined MiniCo Publishing as a circulation coordinator. With a bachelor’s...
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Cory Sylvester, principal of Union Realtime, LLC
Since the last recession, the self-storage industry has experienced exceptional growth. Years of limited development, swelling populations, and continued job growth within...
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Troy Downing, CEO, AC Self Storage Solutions, Big Sky, Mont.
Through humble beginnings, there is a propensity for greatness. That’s the path Troy Downing, CEO of AC Self Storage Solutions, with national...
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Terry Campbell, General Manager – Self-Storage, Live Oak Bank
Although more than half the year has passed and plenty of new self-storage developments have come on line in 2017, there are...
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Carlos Vizcarra, president of AMERCO Real Estate Company (U-Haul International), Phoenix, AZ
There’s no denying that
self-storage is a customer-centric business. Storage owners and operators go to
great lengths to hire and...
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Jim Ross, founder of 3 Mile Domination
Although the telephone is one of the original self-storage management tools, it’s far from obsolete. As a matter of fact, according to...
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Lance Watkins, CEO of storelocal
Over the past several years,
consolidation has become somewhat of a buzzword among self-storage owners and
operators. Speculations abound about how many established storage...
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Jeff Helgeson, principal at 180 Self-Storage
Thanks to high occupancy rates, increasing residential development, and the improvement in the economy, the increase in new storage supply of 2016...
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Paul Yoachum, chief marketing officer at .Storage
There’s no denying that printed, hard-copy phone books and telephone directories have nearly disappeared from our lives within the past decade. And,...
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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...
Raising Rents on Existing Customers: ...
Editor’s Note: This story was written prior to the corona pandemic challenges. Raising rents....
Strategy Shift: Structuring Transactions In The COVID Era
2020 has ushered in a dramatically different landscape for not only the self-storage industry but the entire...
Smart Storage: How to Integrate Your Technology for Contactless Rentals
What makes a storage facility smart? Twenty years ago, you might have said naming it AAA Storage...
Marijuana In The Workplace
As of Jan. 1, 2020, there will be 11 states (and the District of Columbia) that have...
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Wentworth Property Company Increases Revenue with Portable Storage
Revitalizing an Aging Facility with Portable Storage
Eager to expand its presence in an established market, Wentworth Property Company acquired...
Self-Storage Success From a Wife’s Collecting Heart
Customer Spotlight: Climate Storage - Knoxville, TN
Climate Storage has grown substantially since it began back in 1999. Going from...
EasyCode Mobile App Reaches 2 Million Activations Amid Increased Hands-Free Access Adoption
PTI Security Systems, the global leader in access control technologies for the self-storage industry, announced today that their...
Texas Self Storage Association Elects 2020-2021 Board of Directors, Officers
The Texas Self Storage Association membership recently elected new members to its board of directors. The new members elected...
EZstorit.com is pleased to announce our first ever recipient of the “EZstorit.com Self Storage Employee Scholarship”!
EZstorit.com has been offering its “EZstorit.com Get Ahead Scholarship” to college students since 2016 and this year announced the...
