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The Occupancy Objective: Don’t Leave Money On The Table

There are so many urban legends that just will not die: the Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, and aliens at Area 51. Another...
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Management

Focus On Commercial Tenants: Adding Profits To The Bottom Line

The self-storage industry has developed dozens of specialty products over the past decades to add an element of product diversity and accommodate...
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Legal Issues

Rental Rate Pressures During COVID-19

Unfortunately, as we sit here today, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. As a result, issues that many self-storage operators had...
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Management

Spotting Impaired Workers: Employers Tackle Costly Drug Misuse

The employee’s request had a certain degree of logic. He had just received a prescription for medical marijuana from a naturopathic physician....
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Issues

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...
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Issues

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....
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Issues

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...
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Management

A Decade Of Growth: The Ascent Of Storage Asset Management

On May 20, 2020, Storage Asset Management (SAM), the largest privately owned third-party self-storage management company in the United States, celebrated its...
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Operations

Urban Exodus: Should Storage Shift To The Suburbs?

In March 2019, when the initial threat of COVID-19 became evident and mass lockdowns were ordered, almost everything stopped, including many transactions...
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Covid-19

Hammer Time! Are Live Auctions Going, Going, Gone?

In 2019, Casey Jones, owner of BC Cole Auctioneers in Phoenix, Ariz., was thinking of adding an online platform to his auction...
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Issues

Starting Out Strong: Five Magic Questions You Must Ask

I’m talking about our telephone and walk-in greeting process and the questions and command of the situation that determine how things will...
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Covid-19

Mastering Online Meetings: Industry Embraces A New Reality

The pandemic brought changes to the way most companies do business, and the self-storage industry is no exception. One challenge to be...
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Due Diligence

Lease It Up! Tackling Tenancy Troubles In Tough Markets

Owners and operators who were part of the first- and second-generation wave of self-storage may have lived by the “build it and...
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Operations

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, including the question...
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Operations

Improving Collection Rates: Valuable Tips From Industry Experts

Self-storage facility operators have a long to-do list to keep up with, including facility maintenance and upgrades, safety and security, reconciliation of...
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Operations

Safeguard Your Site: Planning And Preparing For Disasters

Editor’s Note: This story was written prior to the coronavirus pandemic challenges. The sidebar in blue at the end of this article...
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Operations

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 has done wonders for many...
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Operations

Implementing New Ideas: 10 Key Preparations For 2021

Cooler temperatures have arrived in many parts of the country. Before we know it, we’ll be ushering out 2020 (many say, “Good...
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Operations

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, and the appeal process can...
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Issues

Raising Rents on Existing Customers: ...

Editor’s Note: This story was written prior to the corona pandemic challenges. Raising rents. Just those two words can...
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Issues

Make Room For Awesome!

StorQuest’s Philosophy For Business And Life Over two and a half decades ago, William “Bill”...
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Legal Issues

The Problems With Deferred Maintenance

Regular maintenance on leased real estate is a topic that affects all property owners and managers. Although budgets are...
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Operations

Behind Life Storage’s Warehouse Anywhere

Could It Be A Game-Changer Everywhere? For the past seven years, Life Storage has...
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Operations

Convenient Communication: Why Customers Want To Text You

By Christine DeBord We all know how important it is to meet our customers where they are and to...
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Issues

Silver Tsunami

The Impact Of Aging Baby Boomers On The Self-Storage Industry The baby boom generation (born between 1946 and 1964)...
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Financing

Storage CX: The Customer Experience

The Next Competitive Battlefield The self-storage customer experience is changing. You may even be wondering why it’s called customer experience...
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Disaster Diligence: Transforming Employees To Emergency Responders 

Responding to disasters is one of the most important activities that employees can be asked to handle....
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Deliverance From Evil: Restoring Trafficking Victims’ Lives Through Charity

Human trafficking is a $150 billion industry according to the latest United Nations Trafficking In Persons (TIP...
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Volumize Your Value: Fees As Alternative Revenue Streams

Admin fees, insurance, merchandise, late fees, other fees, charges, and add-on services—all of these can add up...
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Kalternborn Enterprises & Rancho Storage Center: A Conscious Self-Storage Model

“You either love self-storage or you don’t,” states Kari Kaltenborn, president of locally owned and operated Kaltenborn...
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Strenuous Staff: Dealing With Difficult Employees

Everyone has them, the employees who are difficult. Maybe they’re late each day, call in excessively, or...
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All About Bluetooth Low Energy

Since its inception in the mid-1990s, Bluetooth technology has evolved into an effective application for use in access control security....
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Why Your Self Storage Facility Needs an Integrated Payment System

Electronic Payment Options Transform the Self Storage Industry Businesses in every industry are making the move to electronic payment options,...
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Running 100 Miles Is a Lot Like Starting a Business

There are some things that are commonly considered off limits, if not crazy. Things like running 100 miles or...
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Self Storage Consultancy 101: What a Self Storage Consultant Does and Why You Need One

Occupancy rates and rents at self storage facilities are at record highs, drawing investors and entrepreneurs looking for growth...
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Self-Storage Demand Rises as Sales of Boats and RVs Soar

Call it cause and effect.  Call it the sign of the times.  But it’s happening.  Sales of boats and...
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