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2 Jan, 2018

Decelerating Performance

2018 To Bring Sustainable Growth Rates And Realistic Expectations The perception of the self-storage industry by outside investors is vastly...

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2 Jan, 2018

Looking For Lenders

Solid Construction Financing Exists For Your Self-Storage Project Today’s self-storage facilities are more than concrete walls and steel doors;...

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2 Jan, 2018

Profitable Protection

Tenant Insurance Boosts Bottom Line It took the devastation of Hurricane Harvey in Texas to impress upon residents the value of having insurance to...

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1 Jan, 2018

Reaching The Millennial Market

Four Ways To Bring Them To Your Self-Storage FacilityGrey’s Anatomy premiered on ABC in 2005. For 12 seasons this hospital-based television drama...

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1 Jan, 2018

An Operations Perspective

Due Diligence When Your Facility Is Being Sold By Vince Toenjes The on-site manager is critical to the company’s day-to-day success. When the...

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1 Jan, 2018

Outselling Your Competition

Do you feel like there’s a self storage property on every corner? Or, you have had several large publicly traded storage operators just come in to...

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1 Jan, 2018

Helping Hands: ALYN Wheels Of Love Bike Ride Benefits ALYN Children’s Hospital

Seasoned bike riders know when preparing for a ride in a far-away location, there’s only so much they can do. The terrain will be different, and, in...

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1 Jan, 2018

Mobile Millennials

Is Your Business Smartphone Friendly? By Samantha Nicole Traina With the new smartphone releases from Apple and Samsung, it’s clear that we are...

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1 Jan, 2018

Paul Schween, Author/Speaker/Trainer/Sales Professional

With the start of the new year, many self-storage owners and operators are implementing new or enhanced technologies at their facilities to...

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1 Jan, 2018

Boosting Employee Retention

Five Pillars To Success As A Manager Why does your organization exist, and why should anyone care? Organizations exist to perform, period. Be...

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1 Dec, 2017

2017 Facility Of The Year Overall Winner: Red Carpet Self Storage, Franklin, Tenn.

If you’re ever in Franklin, Tenn., strolling through its downtown shopping area, featuring a stunning array of historical buildings, don’t be...

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1 Dec, 2017

2017 Conversion Facility of the Year Winner: Metro Storage, Skokie, Ill.

Converting a former furniture store and health club into a storage facility might seem like a typical conversion, but for Metro Storage, located at...

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1 Dec, 2017

International Facility of the Year: Mr. Storage,Santiago, Chile

When you think of Santiago, Chile, you might think of the beautiful mountains that surround the city, the Plaza de Armas (city center), shopping in...

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1 Dec, 2017

Realistic Projections With Proformas

The Precursor To Any New Self-Storage Build On the popular Showtime series, “Ray Donovan,” Bunchy Donovan was presented with the “perfect, no lose”...

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1 Dec, 2017

2017 Construction Facility of the Year Winner: Storage Inns of America, Dayton, Ohio

What traits identify a winner? While the question is surely debatable, ingenuity must certainly be among them. Ingenuity provides the...

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1 Dec, 2017

2017 Specialty Facility of the Year Winner: Sobe Self Storage, Miami Beach, Fla.

Affluence. That’s most likely the one word that comes to mind when talking about south Miami Beach, Fla. Upscale art deco buildings, giant yachts...

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1 Dec, 2017

2017 New Facility Winner: CubeSmart, Peoria, Ariz.

Nestled within two of Phoenix’s suburbs, along an offramp of the highly traveled 101 freeway, a new CubeSmart managed self-storage facility shines...

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1 Dec, 2017

James Appleton, MiniCo Insurance Agency, LLC, Director of Sales, Special Risk

When it comes to customers’ stored belongings, industry professionals jest that tenants store junk but lose heirlooms. In other words, the items...

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1 Nov, 2017

Pondering Property Performance

How To Use Occupancy And Vacancy Rates As Gauges Most self-storage operators understand the three principal metrics used to determine how well a...

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1 Nov, 2017

Self-Storage Possibilities, Nassau County, New York

Also known as “The Island of Possibilities”, Nassau County in New York is one of the self-storage markets that continues to be strong. Within Nassau...

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1 Nov, 2017

Networking iIn The Self-Storage Community

By Nick Malagisi, SIOR, Managing Director/National Director Self-Storage of SVN Hardy Good, one of the pioneers in our industry, is one of the first...

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1 Nov, 2017

Fences Are Moving Back

The Correction Process Has Begun Two years ago, at an annual symposium conference in Houston, I was asked my opinion on where the self-storage...

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1 Nov, 2017

Erica Shatzer, editor of Mini-Storage Messenger, Self-Storage Now!, and Self-Storage Canada

Ten years ago, knowing next to nothing about the self-storage industry, I joined MiniCo Publishing as a circulation coordinator. With a bachelor’s...

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1 Nov, 2017

The Package Predicament

Is Acceptance Problematic? It’s a question as old as self-storage facilities themselves: Should you take responsibility for packages delivered to...

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1 Nov, 2017

What's A Waiver Of Subrogation?

A “Waiver of Subrogation” is a common provision found in most self-storage rental agreements. It involves the subrogation rights of an insurance...

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1 Nov, 2017

From Analyst To Ally

The Formation Of A Unique REIT From the numerous Native American tribes, each with its own unique origin and language, to the once plentiful wild...

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1 Oct, 2017

When And How To Increase Rents

Determining Unit Pricing On A New Facility A lot of research and calculations must go into developing and opening a successful new self-storage...

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1 Oct, 2017

Auditing: Employee Theft

It is important for storage owners and supervisors to understand not only what is being stolen, but what motivates people to embezzle. This will...

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1 Oct, 2017

The Importance Of Securing Every Unit Door

In today’s world of instant access to goods and services, we’ve all grown accustomed to a certain level of customization and personalized service....

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1 Oct, 2017

Keeping Pace With Spare Space

Challenges Confront The Peer-To-Peer Self-Storage Disrupters There has been some noise recently in Australia about self-storage industry disruption...

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