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Commercial Outlook- Inflation and Interest

Monday, January 16

Responding to a Blog post.  Thought I would share. There is tons of Noise around the economy, historical, political, world events, etc. I look at two different sets of information: 1.Commodities: March December Today/latest Steel                 ...


Self Storage- Can I Buy your location?

Wednesday, January 11

Was watering some new trees we had transplanted into the dark about 8PM. Sitting there got a call from someone in either Virginia or Tennessee. Will you sell your location at xxxxxx? Thanks for calling but not interested at this time. That week we received a letter in the mail and 3 phone call...


Self Storage- Layout 1

Wednesday, January 11

Was asked for comments on a new Self storage Location layout. Layout is a little hard to read on the attachment. Questions and responses below. This is just a quick glance. I will try to note the reason for each of my questions on each one. Normally I recommend someone to get a long tape mea...


Self Storage- Failure at 100% Occupancy

Saturday, August 13

My wife and I have been discussing our Retirement life, running 8 Self storage locations in 5 towns and how to relax a little more. Our major focus has been developing two larger (for us 220/365 units) locations in a larger town and we haven't looked back at our original locations. Our son just...


Self Storage- Deaf, a DUH moment

Tuesday, May 03

Had a teacher from the Iowa School for the Deaf call yesterday and ask if her students could visit. They are taking them through different life experiences such as renting a storage unit. They stopped by today and I took them through how to rent self-storage and the self-storage "pricing" game ...


Self Storage- Convention, Asset Protection

Sunday, April 24

Had a chance to go to the SelfStorage Convention in Las Vegas this past week. Although there were many things that interested me from the vendors and the conferences, the best one was an "Asset Protection" seminar I sat in on. "American Society for Asset Protection" Las Vegas. This is a fee b...