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1 Oct, 2018

The "Creepy Tenant Dude" Syndrome

What’s A Self-Storage Manager To Do? As odd as these stories have become, the solution to the type of tenants that seem to spend an inordinate...

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1 Oct, 2018

Mixed-Use Storage

Mixing And Matching To Gain NOI By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell Mixed-use storage, or the practice of combining other businesses on a facility’s...

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1 Oct, 2018

Pink Slip Panic

10 Tips For De-Hiring Managers There are two things that are pretty certain in the job world: The first is that no one likes to be fired; the second...

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1 Oct, 2018

Checks For Success

Advice For Conducting Property Visits By Bobby L. Hickman Frequent, thorough property visits to self-storage facilities are a critical method for...

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1 Oct, 2018

What It’s Worth?

Determining The Real Value Of A Property Operating a self-storage business also means owning a property—a physical building where tenants rent...

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1 Oct, 2018

Social Recruiting

How to Use Social Networks to Attract Top Talent Hiring top talent has never been easy. With the current tightening of the labor market, though,...

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1 Oct, 2018

Boost Your Presence

Six Leading Marketing Strategies For Self-Storage Facilities By Sarah Baker Your marketing strategy is the key to guiding more potential tenants...

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Noah Springer Family

1 Oct, 2018

Self-Storage Perspectives: Are Your Kids Ugly?

Before I had kids, I knew that mine would be the best looking, most polite, and smartest kids out there. They would possibly even be born with a...

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1 Oct, 2018

Stop – Do Not Pass Go Without a Feasibility Study | MSM

In the game of Monopoly, players move their piece around the board in an attempt to purchase as many properties as possible. When a player has...

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1 Oct, 2018

Pete Panos, President, Third-Party Management and Strategic Partnerships, Public Storage

Within the self-storage industry, there are more than 20 companies of various capacities that offer third-party management services. While some of...

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1 Sep, 2018

A Sunny Investment: Solar Power at Extra Space | MSM

One of the best things about my position as senior vice president of facilities at Extra Space Storage is that I get to oversee our solar power...

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1 Sep, 2018

The Help Heroes Heal Campaign

Raising Funds For Wounded Warrior Charities Sherman Gillums, Jr. Throughout 2018, AZSA is encouraging self-storage facilities to participate in the...

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1 Sep, 2018

Tapered Growth

Has The Industry’s Development Cycle Passed Its Peak? The self-storage industry has been living in a fantasy world for the past few years, a kind of...

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1 Sep, 2018

Self-Storage Franchising

Does It Work? By Marc Goodin We know franchising works for many businesses like hotels, restaurants, coffee shops, and others, because we spend our...

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1 Sep, 2018

Pawns Of Price

Stalemates In The Sales Process According to one source, there may be $400 million in self-storage properties that have sat on the sales market for...

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1 Sep, 2018

Clear The Table!

Putting Profits Back Into Your Pockets By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell The numbers don’t lie. There’s a reason the self-storage industry has grown since...

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1 Sep, 2018

Enveloping New Profits

Add-On Services That Provide Customer Conveniences As self-storage facilities become more customer oriented, many owners and operators are seeking...

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1 Sep, 2018

Employees First!

Creating Cultures And Environments That Attract And Retain Top Talent Like the circle of life, the American workforce is constantly changing. New...

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1 Sep, 2018

Restoring Your Doors

Step-By-Step Instructions For Two Do-It-Yourself Options By CJ Steen One of the toughest questions when remodeling anything is what color white did...

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1 Sep, 2018

Marcus Trufant, Self-Storage Owner/Investor and Retired NFL Cornerback for Seattle Seahawks

Similar to winning a football match, making a successful self-storage investment requires knowledge of the game, a well-thought-out strategy,...

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1 Sep, 2018

Wield The Five Keys

Leaving A Positive Leadership Legacy In Your Life By Jeffrey W. Foley Many successful business people have pondered their leadership legacy; how do...

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1 Aug, 2018

Something Fishy Is Going On Here

Handling Suspicion Of Criminal Activity At Your Facility Law enforcement commonly describes certain red flags for self-storage operators that might...

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1 Aug, 2018

Lost In Cyberspace

How To Handle Productivity Problems Of The Digital Age Similar to other industries, the self-storage industry’s reliance on technology and the...

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1 Aug, 2018

Uncorking The Possibilities

How To Make Wine Storage Work It’s been said that you can make bad wine from good grapes, but you can’t make good wine with bad grapes. The same...

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1 Aug, 2018

Credit Reporting

Can It Generate Extra Income? By Scott Zucker Self-storage owners and operators are smart to consider all types of ways to increase the value of...

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1 Aug, 2018

The Valuation Question:

Cash Flow Or Cap Rates In the commercial real estate world, most investors apply value to a property through something called the capitalization...

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1 Aug, 2018

Franklin Young, CEO, PTI Security Systems

From conception to completion, self-storage owners spend several million dollars and years developing state-of-the-art facilities before they can...

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1 Aug, 2018

Reconsidering The College Rental

By Norm Shore, Director, Kayne Anderson Real Estate How many years have we heard that the college rental is not the preferred customer? Long enough...

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1 Aug, 2018

The Development Challange

Demand, Competition & New Supply Self-storage contractors are holding the blueprints to an aggressive development cycle that is ushering in a brash...

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1 Aug, 2018

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...

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