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Self Storage- Customer Insurance

Thursday, December 31

Well it rained, so that is great. We were bone dry. Can't do any dirt work at our new Self Storage site today. Here are some notes on Customer Self Storage Insurance. Enjoy sharing our experiences whenever we have down time. Building our last location and none of you will be our competitor so wan...


Self Storage- 25% vacancy, Where's the EASY button?

Monday, December 28

Corresponding with a person on an older location that has 25% vacancy. Initial response:Your original issue is 1/4 vacant. Your steering the conversation towards online marketing. Attached is a checklist to work your way through, which you may have already done.1. Unit size mix- what is your va...


Self Storage- Autopay only?

Monday, December 28

Responding to a question that popped up. We have two approaches to autopay depending on market size.a. Small markets, we offer cash or autopay. All of our locations are at high occupancy rates. We have then started culling customers. If you are consistently late, we "require" you to move to auto...


Self Storage- Building a New location

Tuesday, December 22

Day in the life- Constructing a New Facility location 23 June 2020, 08:39 We are starting our 8th and final storage location. I will try to give an update as we go through construction. Although this will be instructional, you will probably also get to see the "thinking" and "concerns" about the...


Self Storage Rewards- Belize Adventure

Thursday, November 05

Will take you through our Belize adventure ( its an investment, but not really) over the last 2 years and get you up to date. Will do in segments, so I might get somethings out of date sequence. This will be the good, bad and ugly. If you have a question, ask, but the answer will probably be j...


Self Storage- First auction since Covid

Saturday, October 10

Held our first auctions since Covid started. Haven't held an auction since February. Had 4 units out of about 860 total rentals. Only had one person we know moved out due to covid because one of them lost their job. Since we are full at all of our locations, any habitual lates we are having move ...