• January 01, 2025

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MSM Exclusives

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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1 Aug, 2018

From Asset To Liability

What To Do When An Employee Becomes A Cybercriminal By Bryce Austin The FBI caught David Yen Lee at his home before he could depart for the airport...

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30 Jun, 2018

Firearms: Gun Storage Becomes A Unique Specialty Niche

While the national debate over gun laws and safety continues, the fact remains that a large percentage of Americans own guns. Per a study conducted...

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1 Jun, 2018

Troy Bix, President of R3 Division, Janus International Group, LLC

Depending upon who you ask, the self-storage industry is approximately 50 years old. Whether the business concept began in the 1960s or the 1970s,...

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1 Jun, 2018

Automate To Proliferate

New Technology Answers The Call For Smartphone Advances Technology of the 21st century continues to knock down the doors of self-storage facilities,...

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1 Jun, 2018

Technology: Friend Or Foe?

What It Means To Be “Smart” In Self-Storage By Pete Frayser In decades past, the word “smart” was not a term that puzzled many people. “Smart” was...

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1 Jun, 2018

On The Rise

Will Self-Storage See Sky-High Construction Costs? By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell When President Donald Trump announced a 25 percent tariff on imported...

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1 Jun, 2018

Upgrades And Updates

New Offerings In Self-Storage Software By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell Computers have become such an integral part of any business that making sure the...

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1 Jun, 2018

Sexual Harassment

Not Just In Hollywood Or In Congress Over the last few months, the country has certainly seen a significant renewed focus on the issue of sexual...

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1 Jun, 2018

Understanding Backlinks

What are They and Why are They Important? The self-storage industry is getting more competitive every day. For most storage owners, it’s imperative...

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1 Jun, 2018

The Times They Are A-Changin'!

Tom Garden – Owner of Syrasoft Management Software and co-owner of Catskill Self Storage in Leeds, N.Y. A dozen years or so ago, while hiking in...

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1 Jun, 2018

Altruism As An Elixir

How The Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic Is Improving Lives By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell When speaking with Ian Burnstein about the Gary...

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1 May, 2018

What Does That Mean?

Understanding The Language Of Self-storage By Scott Zucker The self-storage business has been around, some would say, for over 50 years. During...

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1 May, 2018

The Interest Rate Factor

Where Are Values Headed? By Dale C. Eisenman, CCIM, and Michael Morrison After a period of high transaction activity for the past few years, the...

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