Security

Burglaries Without Break-Ins: New Type Of Theft Challenges Outdated Ideas About Locks

A crafty burglar arrested in Texas is making the news in self-storage circles. He is suspected of breaking into units in various parts of...

Converter Conundrum: Thieves Set Up Shop In Self-Storage Units

Precious metals, catalytic converters, and self-storage might seem like an unlikely combination, but thefts of catalytic converters are on the rise across the country,...

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. The mass...

Cybercrime 101: Identifying And Combatting Cyber Risks

The amazing power and flexibility that information technology brings to the marketplace and to people’s lives come with some caveats. One of them is...

Competitive Positioning

Keeping Pace With Technology To Protect Your Investment By Stan Houser Savvy self-storage operators are taking advantage of technology to gain a competitive edge and command...

Using ICC’s cdpACCESS

Building And Fire Codes Open To All The International Code Council® (ICC) code development process is a process that is open to everyone. Anyone...

Dealing With Customer Data Security And The Risk Of Identity Theft

There are two separate issues that need to be addressed when discussing security for customers’ personal information in the self-storage business. The first is...

Protect From Peril

Fire Safety Improvements For Self-Storage Facilities In 2015, a website called Becoming Minimalist posted 21 statistics that exposed how materialistic the average U.S. citizen has...

The Price Of Safety

Fire Code Sparks Costly Change In Charleston, S.C., a memorial, appropriately called the Charleston Nine site, protects the sacred ground where the Sofa Super Store, a...

No Guarantee In Security

The Best Deterrence Measures For RV And Boat Storage Placing too much faith in a property’s security features is a dangerous, foolhardy practice. In August...

Vigilance Is Key!

How Managers Prevent Crime And Tragedy Incident: The terrorist kept his volatile materials in a Kansas self-storage unit until the time was right to strike....

Voluminous Value

Four Unconventional Storage Services By its nature, the self-storage industry encompasses a diverse collection of companies, each made up of owners and managers working...

The Nuts And Bolts Of Security

Choosing The Right Locks For Your Storage Business Who sets the security level for your self-storage facility: you or your customers? Your first response is probably, “I...