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Poppy Behrens

14 Oct, 2020

Implementing New Ideas: 10 Key Preparations For 2021

Cooler temperatures have arrived in many parts of the country. Before we know it, we’ll be...

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5 Oct, 2020

Varied Valuations: Is It Time To Appeal Your Property Tax Assessment?

Higher property tax bills can deliver a body block to self-storage facility owners’ budgets and...

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23 Sep, 2020

Winning With Websites: Steps To Maximum Self Storage Marketing

Automated technology is supposed to make our lives less complicated and it has in many ways. It...

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23 Sep, 2020

Pandemic Lien Sale Restrictions: Going Forward After Commercial Eviction Bans

The self-storage industry has not gone through the COVID-19 crisis unscathed, especially in...

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15 Sep, 2020

Strategy Shift: Structuring Transactions In The COVID Era

2020 has ushered in a dramatically different landscape for not only the self-storage industry but...

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15 Sep, 2020

Raising Rents on Existing Customers: It’s A Must Not An Option!

Editor’s Note: This story was written prior to the corona pandemic challenges. Raising rents. Just...

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8 Sep, 2020

Smart Storage: How to Integrate Your Technology for Contactless Rentals

What makes a storage facility smart? Twenty years ago, you might have said naming it AAA Storage...

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25 Aug, 2020

Securing Credit Card Information

By J. Ashley Oblinger, Esq.Associate Attorney Over the last few months, we have all experienced...

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13 Jul, 2020

Insurance for Weather Disasters & More | Mini-Storage Messenger

While the 2019 California wildfires caused less damage than the two previous seasons, a total of...

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13 Jul, 2020

The Perfect Storm: It’s A Hard Insurance Climate For Business Owners

Natural disasters and other factors are beginning to take their toll on business owners who...

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1 Dec, 2019

Construction Winner - Armour Self-Storage III, El Paso, Texas

The El Paso, Texas, site was located at the crest of a natural drainage arroyo in a flood zone...

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1 Dec, 2019

International Winner - aki KB Minibodegas Alonso Ovalle, Santiago, Chile

Surrounded by the picturesque Andes and Chilean Coast Range mountains, Santiago, Chile, the...

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1 Dec, 2019

Conversion Winner - Extra Space Storage, Birmingham, Ala.

2019 Facility of the Year If one looks at any major metropolitan area in the country, they will...

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1 Dec, 2019

Overall Winner – Key Storage, San Antonio, Texas

Within the second largest city in Texas, nestled in between two heavily traveled highways, stands...

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1 Dec, 2019

New Facility Winner – Security Self Storage VII, LLC, Solon, Ohio

Within northeast Ohio’s largest metropolitan area, there is a suburb of Cleveland called Solon....

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1 Nov, 2019

Make Room For Awesome!

StorQuest’s Philosophy For Business And Life Over two and a half decades ago, William “Bill”...

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1 Sep, 2019

Behind Life Storage’s Warehouse Anywhere

Could It Be A Game-Changer Everywhere? For the past seven years, Life Storage has been undertaking...

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1 Jun, 2019

Convenient Communication: Why Customers Want To Text You

By Christine DeBord We all know how important it is to meet our customers where they are and to...

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2 Dec, 2018

Construction Winner: Congress Storage, Austin, Texas

2018 Facility Of The Year When the developer of Congress Storage in Austin, Texas, sought an...

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2 Dec, 2018

Overall Winner: National Self Storage – Dove Mountain, Marana, Arizona

2018 Facility Of The Year Soaring above the rest of this year’s applicants is a high-tech and...

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1 Dec, 2018

Charles Plunkett, CEO, Capco Steel, Inc. & Capco General Contracting

After the holiday spirit takes hold at our Thanksgiving dinner tables, December is brimming with...

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1 Dec, 2018

Redevelopment: West Coast Beaverton Self Storage, Beaverton, Oregon

2018 Facility Of The Year When a company purchases a self-storage facility with redevelopment in...

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1 Dec, 2018

Specialty Storage Winner: Highlands Self Storage, Hardyston, New Jersey

2018 Facility Of The Year It’s long been a dream for Jonathan and Allison Brett to add wine...

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1 Dec, 2018

Conversion Winner: Morningstar, Charlotte, N.C.

2018 Facility Of The Year The evolution of architecture is responsible for some amazing additions...

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1 Nov, 2018

The Industry Leader Looks Ahead

What Are Public Storage’s Future Plans? Public Storage has been in business for more than 45...

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1 Nov, 2018

Knowing The Competition

Research And Evaluation To Stay At The Top Back when self-storage was a relatively new concept,...

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1 Nov, 2018

Drafting Developments

Trends In Self-Storage Design By Judy Colbert “When the last recession hit,” says Ken Carrell,...

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1 Nov, 2018

Farther Afield

Exploring Tertiary Markets Growth—it’s the universal trend of post-World War II America. When our...

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1 Nov, 2018

Top 10 Customer Complaints

Handling Issues With Finesse No one likes getting customer complaints, but, let’s face it, even...

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1 Nov, 2018

2018 Top Operators

The Industry’s Star Players Similar to last year, new supply continued to surge into the...

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