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Putting Profits Back Into Your Pockets By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell The numbers don’t lie. There’s a reason the self-storage industry has grown since...
Add-On Services That Provide Customer Conveniences As self-storage facilities become more customer oriented, many owners and operators are seeking...
Creating Cultures And Environments That Attract And Retain Top Talent Like the circle of life, the American workforce is constantly changing. New...
Step-By-Step Instructions For Two Do-It-Yourself Options By CJ Steen One of the toughest questions when remodeling anything is what color white did...
Similar to winning a football match, making a successful self-storage investment requires knowledge of the game, a well-thought-out strategy,...
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Handling Suspicion Of Criminal Activity At Your Facility Law enforcement commonly describes certain red flags for self-storage operators that might...
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...
Demand, Competition & New Supply Self-storage contractors are holding the blueprints to an aggressive development cycle that is ushering in a brash...
Keeping Pace With Technology To Protect Your Investment By Stan Houser Savvy self-storage operators are taking advantage of technology to gain a...
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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...
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New Offerings In Self-Storage Software By Kerri Fivecoat-Campbell Computers have become such an integral part of any business that making sure the...
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...
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