Maintaining Self-Storage Roll-Up Doors: A Guide for Facility Operators
This maintenance guide reveals the most effective ways to keep self-storage doors in the best possible condition.
View Article10 Amazing Money-Makers: Add-On Products and Services for Self-Storage
When it comes to operating in the black, many self-storage operators think about cost-cutting measures rather than adding new profit centers. This is for good reason—instituting a new service or...
View Article2011 Self-Storage Construction and Development Report
The past few years have been tough for many builders and developers, including those in self-storage. The rising cost of raw materials, combined with the recession and real estate bust, created an...
View Article10 Things Every New Self-Storage Manager Should Know: Advice From Deep in the...
The self-storage manager plays an integral role in the success of every facility, regardless of the market and occupancy. Managers handle a plethora of responsibilities including sales and marketing,...
View ArticleSelf-Storage Real Estate Investment Trusts: Financial-Results Summary for...
The four publicly traded self-storage companies—CubeSmart, Extra Space Storage, Public Storage and Sovran Self Storage—recently released their financial results for the third quarter of 2011,...
View ArticleCutting Costs and Saving Cash: Controlling Operating Expenses in Self-Storage
Self-storage is a business that can be operated frugally. It doesn’t require a lot of glitz and glimmer. However, the industry has evolved, and to compete, facility operators must sometimes invest in...
View ArticleSuccessful Self-Storage Advertising: Powerful Promos and Other Marketing...
In today's competitive self-storage marketplace, simply having a facility in a good location with reasonable rents isn't enough. Increased competition means you must get customers' attention, and...
View ArticleConsumer Trends in Self-Storage: How Tenants Choose, Rent and Use the Product
See the results of a recent online survey of self-storage tenants that reveals insight to consumer behavior around the product. Gathered and provided by SpareFoot, an online self-storage marketplace,...
View ArticleWhy Me?! Self-Storage Pros Share Strategies for Handling Troublesome Tenants...
Whether it’s being screamed at by a tenant, needing to discipline a customer or discovering a tenant living in a unit, there are some days when self-storage operators may wonder, “Why me?!” What should...
View ArticleStand Up! 10 Things You Need to Do When a Self-Storage Customer Walks Through...
There are many things self-storage operators should do to attract and retain customers including having a solid marketing plan and offering great customer service. However, it’s these top 10 items that...
View ArticleSelf-Storage Metrics Checkup: 10 Facility-Performance Checklists Owners...
Just like you'd check your car's oil periodically, you should also inspect your self-storage facility's operating performance. Here are the 10 key metrics owners should monitor monthly, if not more...
View ArticleInside the Numbers: Trends and Revelations in the ISS 2013 Top-Operators List
This slideshow takes you inside the numbers of the Inside Self-Storage 2013 Top-Operators, looking at growth, decline and general movement among this year's top 100 participants. See who's growing in...
View ArticleThe 10 Worst Types of Self-Storage Customers: True Tales From the Trenches
Inside Self-Storage asked members of Self-Storage Talk, the industry’s largest online community, to discuss customer stereotypes and the characteristics of tenants and prospects who give them the...
View Article10 Things Your Self-Storage Business Is Begging You to Learn at the 2013 ISS...
In the self-storage industry, the professionals who experience the most success are often those who continue to develop their knowledge of the latest industry trends and business methods. Here are 10...
View ArticleTraining for Success: Cultivating Talent in Self-Storage Facility Managers
These days a self-storage operation cannot be successful without a quality, well-trained facility manager. Some talents and skills must be present at the time of hire. Others can and should be imparted...
View ArticleWhat's Your Damage? 5 Steps to Take When a Tenant Breaks Your Self-Storage...
If a tenant causes damage to your self-storage facility, it’s important that you're prepared to take these five steps to minimize the negative affect on the property, employees and other tenants.
View ArticleDon’t Be a Social Media Amateur! Advice to Strengthen Your Self-Storage...
If you’re not using social media to build your self-storage brand and engage with customers and prospects, then you’re missing out on a medium that can elevate your reputation among consumers and...
View ArticleSelf-Storage in Western Canada: An Overview of Development, Real Estate...
This presentation provides a detailed overview of self-storage in Western Canada, including development activity, real estate transactions, rental rates and occupancies and more. It also includes...
View ArticleWho’s Moving Up in Self-Storage? Notable Numbers From the 2014 Top-Operators...
This slideshow takes you inside the numbers of the Inside Self-Storage 2014 Top-Operators List, looking at notable growth and decline in portfolio square footage and number of facilities among this...
View ArticleSelf-Storage Building Blunders: Common Development and Construction Mistakes...
Investing in and building a self-storage project is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor, so it’s critical developers anticipate and minimize as many problems as possible to keep timelines moving...
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