• April 30, 2025

MSM Exclusives

MSM Exclusives

4 Apr, 2022

Supporting Servicepersons: StorageGives Funds Homes For Our Troops

How do you possibly say “thank you” to the men and women who have sustained some of the most severe injuries imaginable to protect and defend our...

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29 Mar, 2022

Let’s Talk Rooftops: Is It Time To Replace Or Restore Your Roof?

There is an argument to be made that a functioning roof is the single most important aspect of any facility. Water intrusion goes far beyond the...

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29 Mar, 2022

Batten Down The Hatches! Preparing Your Facility For Hurricane Season

Weather and climate disasters do staggering amounts of damage and impose huge financial costs annually. From 1980 through 2021, 310 such disasters...

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13 Dec, 2021

Goodwill Auctions: Storage Partnerships Support Charities

What started as a business partnership has developed into a mission to collectively impact people in need. In 2020, Lonnie Bickford launched Storage...

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8 Dec, 2021

2021 New Facility Of The Year Winner: Rockwell Storage, Mill Creek, Utah

Many studies have found that people want to purchase experiences more than things, but what happens when the concept of experiences and things are...

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8 Dec, 2021

2021 Facility of the Year Construction Winner: Life Storage at the Promenade, Scottsdale, Arizona

From its earliest planning, the team that brought to fruition Life Storage at The Promenade in Scottsdale, Ariz., faced a monumental design,...

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8 Dec, 2021

The 2021 Facility of the Year Overall Winner! Compass Self Storage - Jupiter, Florida

One day back in 2014, Todd Amsdell got a return phone call from a broker about a property in Jupiter, Fla. Amsdell is president and CEO of...

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8 Dec, 2021

2021 Facility Of The Year Specialty Winner: Vineburg Wine & Self Storage, Sonoma, California

Greg Van Cleave has always had a philosophy about life: “If something is supposed to happen, it does, and if it’s a struggle, it doesn’t.” He says...

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11 Nov, 2021

A Legacy Lives On: Westport Properties Keeps Community at Its Core with Charity Storage

Many non-profits nationwide lack adequate funding to serve the communities or causes they support. It’s no secret. But it’s a problem easily...

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8 Nov, 2021

Family Ties ...The Parhams’ Lasting Legacy

Faith is more than a five-letter word. It’s a commitment, like the one made between husband and wife. It’s a process, like making approximately...

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28 Oct, 2021

Cap Rate Compression Continues - Newmark Investors Survey Q3 2021

The self-storage asset class is now generally considered CORE or CORE+ commercial real estate, comparable to office, industrial, retail, and...

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Rachel Parham

8 Oct, 2021

Look Who’s Talking: Rachel Parham, President of Noah’s Ark Development

Heading into the fourth quarter, it’s safe to say that 2021 has been a fairly profitable year for the self-storage industry. Rental rates at...

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5 Oct, 2021

MiniCo Insurance Agency Helps Facility Owners Insure Their Investments And Manage Risk

Since its founding in 1974, MiniCo Insurance Agency has focused on providing specialty insurance solutions for the self-storage industry. But the...

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5 Oct, 2021

District Manager’s Dynamic Revenue Management Gives Operators New Tools To Compete With REITs

During the economic downturn in 2008-09, the self-storage industry appeared to be in a “race to the bottom” in offering big discounts and...

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5 Oct, 2021

Global Reach With Storage Expertise CBRE, Self Storage Advisory Group

As the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, CBRE Group, Inc., a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los...

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5 Oct, 2021

With .STORAGE, Self-Storage Now Has A Home Of Its Own Online

The problem with the tried-and-true dot-com domain is that most of the good names are taken. In addition, anybody can take a dot-com name that...

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5 Oct, 2021

The SAFE Co Introduces Revolutionary Containers With 4-Point Delivery System

The SAFE Co, a Canadian company, has introduced a line of revolutionary portable storage units offering four different delivery systems on their...

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5 Oct, 2021

A Family Business With Top-Notch Service Cannon Storage Systems, Inc.

Lawton, Okla.-based Canon Storage Systems, Inc., is a second-generation family-owned business with humble beginnings. The turn-key building supplier...

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5 Oct, 2021

SkyView Advisors Focuses Services Exclusively To Self-Storage Clients

SkyView Advisors (formerly BayView Advisors) may appear to be the new kid on the block in the self-storage arena, however, further inspection...

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29 Sep, 2021

Cyber Connections: Effective Networking In A Virtual World

With the shift to our new virtual world, you have probably found it more difficult to build and sustain professional relationships. Yet, the virtual...

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covid impacts self storage

29 Sep, 2021

Rental Rate Pressures During COVID-19

Unfortunately, as we sit here today, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. As a result, issues that many self-storage operators had thought were...

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9 Sep, 2021

Spotting Impaired Workers: Employers Tackle Costly Drug Misuse

The employee’s request had a certain degree of logic. He had just received a prescription for medical marijuana from a naturopathic physician. Could...

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8 Sep, 2021

All-Ability Access: The Dos And Don’ts Of Website Accessibility

By Let’s take a poll. When you need to know something about a business, where do you look? Call it a hunch, but we bet you look online, even if it...

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1 Sep, 2021

An Eye For Danger: Mitigating Risk In Self-Storage

When you hear the term “risk mitigation,” what comes to mind? “Mitigating risk is really about being aware of your surroundings and if you notice...

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Self Storage Data

24 Aug, 2021

Information Influx: Making Dollars And Sense Of Data

The dictionary defines data as “facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.” In this digital world, in which facts and...

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24 Aug, 2021

Firearms In The Workplace: Creating The Right Company Policy

The question of whether an employer can restrict their employees from bringing guns into the workplace has continued to be a challenging issue...

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20 Aug, 2021

Converter Conundrum: Thieves Set Up Shop In Self-Storage Units

Precious metals, catalytic converters, and self-storage might seem like an unlikely combination, but thefts of catalytic converters are on the rise...

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consumer privacy

6 Aug, 2021

Consumer Privacy Concerns In Self-Storage

One of the bigger issues facing both companies and their customers (and even potential customers) today is the collection, retention, and possible...

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13 Jul, 2021

Prorize The Science Of Pricing: Using Data To Adjust Prices And Maximize Revenue At Self-Storage Facilities

When they initially invested in self-storage facilities in 2014, Stein Investment Group found it easy and manageable to monitor and update rates for...

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13 Jul, 2021

Mako Steel Engineering Services Designed For Economical And Efficient Self-Storage Construction

Following the stoppage of virtually all construction during the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous projects came off the drawing...

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