Self Storage- I can't Outbid my Government
Monday, August 09
Its 94 degrees and 55% humidity. Its hot. Trying to wrap up our last location. Both the Building pad and the Road crew are pouring concrete today. Normally neither of them pour in this type of weather. Puts to much stress on the concrete and on the workers. Normally they would shoot to sta...
Self Storage- Bus Bench Advertising
Saturday, July 31
Self Storage- Bus Bench AdvertisingA lot of people consider Self Storage to be a very simple business of Metal buildings with no maintenance and counting cash. They are right to a degree, and then I go through the complexities. I made the same error when I started looking at Bus Bench Advertising...
Self Storage- Jamocha Shake, Large please
Tuesday, July 27
Have enough concrete and dirt work done on the job site, that we can take out the silt fence down below. Used a chain to pull out the stakes. Then tied the chain and silt fence together to pull up the silt fence, by lifting up and going backwards. Glad to be able to mow this piece to get rid of w...
Self Storage- Value Add options
Tuesday, July 20
Been running the Skidsteer spreading about 60 truckloads of dirt on our upcoming Contractor building location. One of the Bumps, made me think of Value Add as a topic. In between Breaks, kept jotting concepts down. Sure there are more, but this is a start. Overview: Operational: A. Raise rents B....
Self Storage- To U-Haul or Not
Tuesday, July 06
We do U-Haul at one of our 8 locations. Since we do self service Self Storage, it does not work to do U-Haul at all of our locations. There is a Self Service U-Haul option, but we don’t use. The one location is about 2 miles away from our house. We started U-Haul at this location since the locati...
Self Storage- Fire Marshal Considerations.
Tuesday, May 18
Response to a person about to build in Louisiana, on how to navigate Fire Marshal items. Actually being from Northwest Louisiana, the way to navigate the Louisiana Fire Marshal is to give them a Fifth of Whiskey and a paid saltwater fishing trip. Otherwise:Get your site plans and building plans d...