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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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Make Room For Awesome!
StorQuest’s Philosophy For Business And Life Over two and a half decades ago,
William “Bill”...
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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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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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...
Issues
Silver Tsunami
The Impact Of Aging Baby Boomers On The Self-Storage Industry The baby boom generation (born between 1946 and 1964)...
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...
Construction & Development
Catering To Millennials
The Most Diverse Generation With One Common Trend As one of the largest generations, millennials are a constant topic...
Marketing
Be A Product Specialist
How To Create A Retail Environment That Wows When running a successful retail store,
you have to know...
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Let’s Make A Deal – The Cost Of Concessions
The Christmas season is behind
us, but some retail establishments may still be adjusting from the hustle and
bustle...
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Politics, The Economy, And Self-Storage
What’s In Store For 2019? The divided Congress resulting from the 2018 mid-term elections created uncertainty for the economy,...
Legal Issues
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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Bulletproof Planning
Is Dedicate Gun Storage A Good Fit For Your Facility? While the national debate over gun laws and safety...
Marketing
Knowing The Competition
Research And Evaluation To Stay At The Top Back when self-storage was a...
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The Industry Leader Looks Ahead
What Are Public Storage’s Future Plans? Public Storage has been in business for...
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2018 Top Operators
The Industry’s Star Players Similar to last year, new supply continued to surge into the
self-storage...
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Workplace Drug Abuse
Reducing the Risk of Impaired Workers Workplace drug abuse can threaten your
bottom line in...
Management
Top 10 Customer Complaints
Handling Issues With Finesse No one likes getting customer
complaints, but, let’s face it,...
Management
Pink Slip Panic
10 Tips For De-Hiring Managers There are two things that are
pretty certain in the job...
Management
Checks For Success
Advice For Conducting Property Visits By Bobby L. Hickman Frequent, thorough property visits to self-storage...
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...
Management
Clear The Table!
Putting Profits Back Into Your Pockets By
Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell The numbers don’t lie. There’s a...
Management
Wield The Five Keys
Leaving A Positive Leadership Legacy In Your Life By
Jeffrey W. Foley Many successful business people...
Construction & Development
Restoring Your Doors
Step-By-Step Instructions For Two Do-It-Yourself Options By CJ Steen One of the toughest questions when...
Management
Employees First!
Creating Cultures And Environments That Attract And Retain Top Talent Like
the circle of life,...
Financing
Self-Storage Franchising
Does It Work? By Marc Goodin We know franchising works
for many businesses like hotels, restaurants,...
Publisher's Picks
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...
Blog
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...
