Operations
Operations
Financing
Pondering Property Performance
How To Use Occupancy And Vacancy Rates As Gauges Most self-storage operators understand the three principal metrics used...
Operations
Fences Are Moving Back
The Correction Process Has Begun Two years ago, at an annual
symposium conference in Houston, I was asked my opinion...
Operations
All In The Family
Three Burnam Generations Build StorageMart Into Top 10 Operation Sometime in the early 1970s, Gordon Burnam took his three...
Management
Employee Handbooks
Profitable Tools For Small Businesses What commonly neglected business tool can help your workplace run more smoothly, orient new...
Financing
Auditing: Employee Theft
It is important for storage owners and supervisors to understand not only what is being stolen, but what motivates people to embezzle. ...
Marketing
Surviving Market Shifts
2017 Arizona Self-Storage Update Let’s never forget that all real estate is cyclical. What has made these cycles in...
Construction & Development
Elevators Vs. Lifts
Multistory self-storage units continue growing in popularity as facility owners build higher structures to stack additional rentable space on smaller parcels of...
Legal Issues
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...
Marketing
Winds Of Change
How Success Is Impacting The Market At mid-year 2017, the self-storage
transaction market remained brisk, with many brokers and buyers...
Financing
The Irony Of Cap Rates
Objective Value Is A Matter Of PerspectiveBy Adam Karnes A capitalization rate, or cap rate, is
a useful tool...
Marketing
Conscious Consumers
Millennials Know They Are Buying More Than A Product Technology has created a huge
interactive world. With social media,...
Marketing
Length Of Stay
Customer Satisfaction Is Paramount Several years ago, The Self-Storage Almanac, published by
MiniCo, provided data on the various user groups’...
Operations
Automating Your Storage Business
How To Utilize Technology To Save Time And Money It seems like
unmanned, fully automated self-storage properties are popping up...
Marketing
Markets On The Move: Boston
The Hub Of New England Boston, Mass., is the business
capital of New England and ranks among the premier...
Operations
Software Selection
What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You “Just sign right here on the dotted line …”
Insurance & Risk Management
Think Outside The Box!
Competing With On-Demand Storage Businesses While the concept of on-demand storage
is not a new one, as PODS (Portable...
Operations
Passé Pages
Is Your Website Obsolete? While we were busy chasing new tenants and conducting day-to-day business with existing customers,...
Operations
Specialty Storage20 Products To Meet Your Customers’ Needs
How very interesting our industry has become. Gone are the days of drive-up only storage developments as we say hello to a...
Marketing
Southern New Hampshire
A Stable Secondary Market The Southern New Hampshire (SNH) region is located within the Greater Boston Combined Statistical Area,...
Legal Issues
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...
Operations
The Changing Portable Storage Industry
Accommodating A Growing Millennial Market If you’re tired of hearing about Millennials–the generation born between 1981 and 1997–and their...
Operations
More Than Just Storage
New Self-Storage Facilities Have a Mixed-Use Component Self-storage industry development has seen a shift in recent years from...
Operations
An Expected Amenity
Considering Climate Control The self-storage industry has come a long
way from its roots of plain metal buildings with...
Operations
Streamlining Operations
Now’s The Time To Prepare Operational Playbook For Uncertainty Ahead Self-storage has enjoyed an exceptional run in recent years...
Management
The Bigger Picture
Unlocking Profits With Software If you only
consider the software you use at self-storage business as a necessary expense
for tracking...
Operations
A Good Fit
Finding And Keeping Good Employees Without Breaking The Budget Vince Lombardi once said, “The achievements of an organization...
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....
Blog
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...
