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How To Handle Productivity Problems Of The Digital Age Similar to other industries, the self-storage industry’s reliance on technology and the...
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...
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...
Cash Flow Or Cap Rates In the commercial real estate world, most investors apply value to a property through something called the capitalization...
From conception to completion, self-storage owners spend several million dollars and years developing state-of-the-art facilities before they can...
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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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...
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...
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,...
New Technology Answers The Call For Smartphone Advances Technology of the 21st century continues to knock down the doors of self-storage facilities,...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
How The Gary Burnstein Community Health Clinic Is Improving Lives By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell When speaking with Ian Burnstein about the Gary...
Understanding The Language Of Self-storage By Scott Zucker The self-storage business has been around, some would say, for over 50 years. During...
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...
Digging Into Industry Data By Cory Sylvester With the development cycle in its third year, the analysis required to evaluate a new or existing site...
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Thanks to pent-up demand and more readily available construction financing, the self-storage industry experienced a significant uptick in ground-up...
by Jeffrey W. Adler, Yardi Systems, Inc. Storage rent growth is decelerating but still trending up. Rent growth for self-storage properties...
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