2018 Facility Of The Year It’s long been a dream for Jonathan and Allison Brett to add wine storage to their facility, Highlands Self Storage. They...
2018 Facility Of The Year The evolution of architecture is responsible for some amazing additions to our nation’s cities and towns. When a building...
What Are Public Storage’s Future Plans? Public Storage has been in business for more than 45 years, and Ron Havner has been a key member of the...
Research And Evaluation To Stay At The Top Back when self-storage was a relatively new concept, depending on the market, owners and operators may...
Trends In Self-Storage Design By Judy Colbert “When the last recession hit,” says Ken Carrell, principal of ARE Associates in Lake Forest, Calif.,...
Exploring Tertiary Markets Growth—it’s the universal trend of post-World War II America. When our central cities, and later our suburban areas,...
Handling Issues With Finesse No one likes getting customer complaints, but, let’s face it, even the cleanest, best facilities will receive some...
The Industry’s Star Players Similar to last year, new supply continued to surge into the self-storage industry in 2018, with no shortage of...
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In its infancy, the self-storage industry’s need for leadership and education was paramount to its success. For that reason, some of the industry’s...
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...
Mixing And Matching To Gain NOI By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell Mixed-use storage, or the practice of combining other businesses on a facility’s...
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...
Advice For Conducting Property Visits By Bobby L. Hickman Frequent, thorough property visits to self-storage facilities are a critical method for...
Determining The Real Value Of A Property Operating a self-storage business also means owning a property—a physical building where tenants rent...
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,...
Six Leading Marketing Strategies For Self-Storage Facilities By Sarah Baker Your marketing strategy is the key to guiding more potential tenants...
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...
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...
Within the self-storage industry, there are more than 20 companies of various capacities that offer third-party management services. While some of...
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...
Raising Funds For Wounded Warrior Charities Sherman Gillums, Jr. Throughout 2018, AZSA is encouraging self-storage facilities to participate in the...
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...
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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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...
Add-On Services That Provide Customer Conveniences As self-storage facilities become more customer oriented, many owners and operators are seeking...
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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