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Financing

Save Or Shred?

Dealing With Annoying Business-Saving Records The IRS recently reminded every self-storage...
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Management

You Can’t Store That!

Preventing the Storage of Prohibited Items Throughout the years, self-storage tenants have stored—or...
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Management

The Changing Workforce

Training Means A Lot To Millennials By Evan Hackel When baby boomers took their...
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Management

They Did What?

Coping Effectively With Customers Who Behave Badly By Kate Zabriskie Polite Notice: When it’s your...
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Operations

Mobile Millennials

Is Your Business Smartphone Friendly? By Samantha Nicole Traina With the new smartphone releases...
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Operations

An Operations Perspective

Due Diligence When Your Facility Is Being Sold By Vince Toenjes The...
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Marketing

Reaching The Millennial Market

Four Ways To Bring Them To Your Self-Storage FacilityGrey’s Anatomy premiered on ABC in 2005. For 12 seasons this hospital-based television drama...
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Management

Boosting Employee Retention

Five Pillars To Success As A Manager Why does your organization exist, and why should anyone care?...
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Financing

When And How To Increase Rents

Determining Unit Pricing On A New Facility By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell A lot of research and calculations...
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Management

The Package Predicament

Is Acceptance Problematic? It’s a question as old as self-storage facilities themselves: Should you take responsibility for packages delivered to...
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Financing

Pondering Property Performance

How To Use Occupancy And Vacancy Rates As Gauges  Most self-storage operators understand the three principal metrics used...
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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...
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Operations

All In The Family

Three Burnam Generations Build StorageMart Into Top 10 Operation Sometime in the early 1970s, Gordon Burnam took his three...
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Management

Employee Handbooks

Profitable Tools For Small Businesses What commonly neglected business tool can help your workplace run more smoothly, orient new...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Marketing

Conscious Consumers

Millennials Know They Are Buying More Than A Product Technology has created a huge interactive world. With social media,...
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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’...
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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...
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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...
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Operations

Software Selection

What You Don’t Know Could Hurt You “Just sign right here on the dotted line …”
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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...
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Look Who’s Talking – Ramey Jackson, CEO, Janus International Group

There’s no denying that technology is here to stay. It has become a permanent part of our...
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Recipe For Disaster: Extreme Weather, COVID-19, And Rising Construction Costs

Natural disasters, COVID-19, and rising construction costs are proving to be the perfect storm, frustrating owners of...
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Lights, Camera, Action! Video Is A Marketing Star

Video tours of real estate and resort properties have long been used in those industries to help...
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Planting Storage Seeds: Grow Your Business With Grassroots Marketing

Large or small, brand new or older properties, we are all in need of a constant stream...
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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...
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Relocatables: A Solution for Supply Chain Challenges

Relocatables: A Solution for Supply Chain Challenges The demand for building materials, such as wood and steel, has grown substantially...
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Janus International Expands Nokē® Smart Entry Team to Support Continued Growth and Accelerate Future Development

Shane Self named Nokē® Smart Entry Wireless Networks Director and Jennifer Shaver named Nokē® Smart Entry Training & Development Manager TEMPLE,...
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Janus Signs on as a Sponsor Partner for The Hawaii UnConference

Waikoloa, HI (April 20, 2021) - The Self Storage Hawaii unConference is happy to announce that Janus International Group...
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Public Storage Recognized as One of the Best Places to Work by Comparably

GLENDALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 22, 2021-- Public Storage (NYSE:PSA), the largest self-storage operator in the nation, has been recognized as one...
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A Modern & Economical Approach to Designing your Self Storage Facility

A Case Study on STORAGE EVOLVED “Storage Evolved” is the tagline from Get Space, a real estate development company headquartered in...
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