Self Storage Industry Blog

Benefits of having an On Site Storage Manager

Have you ever considered having an on-site manager at your facility—someone who lives there and can keep an eye on the place,...

How Many People Should Have Access to a Storage Unit?

You’d think that renting a self storage unit would be easy. Someone comes in and...

How to Stop Tenants From Tailgating Your Storage Facility’s Gate

Wouldn’t it be nice run a storage facility where every tenant followed the rules...

What to Do When Tenants Leave Units Dirty

While some surprises are nice, such as discovering that your box wholesaler has a deal that will save your storage facility m...

Networking at Self Storage Conventions

Are you about to attend your first self storage convention? Or have you gone to several but can’t quite get the knack of netw...

Transferring a Unit from One Customer to Another

Managing a self storage facility is one of those jobs where surprising new situa...

How to Create Mobile Friendly Marketing

77% of Americans now have smartphones. In fact, a lot of your tenants probably found you via an internet search on their smar...

Installing Electrical Outlets in Storage Units

If you’re looking for ways to improve your storage facility, you may be considering installing outlets in the units. Is it a ...

What If Someone Gets Hurt at Your Storage Facility?

There are always risks to running a business, but we don’t always think about th...

10 Best Markets for Wine Storage

As industry insiders know, self storage in the U.S. has been expanding for decades. Many facilities even offer more specific ...

Do Millennials Value Customer Service or Automation?

The answer to this question depends on what part of your business you’re talking...

6 Ways to Communicate Better with Tenants

When running a self storage business, it’s important to have effective ways to communicate with customers. Customers who aren...

Long Term vs. Short Term Customers

Here’s a basic question you may have considered. Should your storage facility focus on long term or short term renters? Of co...

Working with a Call Center

You have a smoothly-running self storage operation with high occupancy, satisfied customers, and top-of-the-line security. Ye...

Investing in an Older Storage Facility

As self storage continues to grow as an industry, you may be thinking about starting a self storage business, or expanding yo...

Should You Accept Packages for Commercial Self Storage Tenants?

Any business that keeps stock needs a place to store it. They may sell books, cl...

Do You Have To Turn Over Surveillance Footage to the Police?

As a self storage operator, your relationship with law enforcement is balanced b...

What Happens When RV/Boat/Vehicle Storage Renters Don’t Pay Their Rent

Self storage auctions take place all the time. When you rent units to hundreds o...

How to Cater to Customers with Disabilities

Your storage facility has all sorts of customers, and you want all of them to feel welcome. For your customers with disabilit...

How to Tailor Your Resume for a Career in Self Storage

Creating a resume is a tricky business. You want to include all your past jobs a...

Helping a Tenant Move Between Units

As a self storage operator, you want to make moving between units as easy as possible for your tenants. A good experience for...

4 Types of Difficult Self Storage Customers (And How to Deal With Them)

We’ve talked about customers who hoard items and those who don’t pay their rent—...

Hiring Someone With No Storage Experience

When looking for new employees, you want to hire the best workers possible, and that generally means hiring people with prior...

7 Quirky Ideas for Setting Your Storage Facility Apart from the Competition

When it comes to setting your self storage business apart from the competition, ...

How to Decrease Your Storage Facility’s Carbon Footprint

As environmental awareness rises, you may be wondering how you can make your sto...

Under New Management: Advice for Taking Over an Existing Storage Facility

Starting a new business can be tough, and as many as 90% of startups fail, accor...

What to Do When the Police Show Up at Your Facility

Even the safest, most secure storage facilities receive the occasional visit fro...

Fire Safety for Storage Facility Operators

Fire is a serious danger that takes people by surprise at school, work, and home. It destroys belongings, causes terrible inj...

Choosing the Right Security Camera System for Your Storage Facility

Whether you’re upgrading your camera security system or getting one for a brand ...

7 Ways to Keep Your Storage Facility Clean

There are huge benefits to keeping your storage facility clean. It creates a great first impression to new customers and keep...

Essential Things to Consider When Dealing with Commercial Self Storage Users

When you run a self storage facility, you have individuals and families renting ...

A Self Storage Operator’s Guide to Pinterest

Looking to expand your social media presence? It can be tough to select which ne...

How To Turn Over Vacant Storage Units Faster

One of the goals of any self storage facility is to fill as many units as possible, thereby maximizing revenue. It can be a c...

How to Grow Your Self Storage Career with LinkedIn

Do you want to get grow your self storage career or break into the industry for ...

Preventing Mold at Your Storage Facility

As we all learn in grammar school, there are germs everywhere. When it comes to keeping your storage facility clean, excess m...

How Your Storage Facility Can Earn a Great Reputation in the RV Community

Do you want to move into the RV storage market? Do you already offer RV storage ...

Should You Charge a Security Deposit on Storage Unit Rentals?

As a self storage facility manager, you know that there is extra work to do ever...

6 Marketing Tips for Small Self Storage Businesses

Marketing is a tricky business. What worked in decades past doesn’t work quite a...

What to Do if You Suspect a Tenant is Storing Illegal Drugs

This is a tricky subject for any self storage operator, and for many reasons. If...

6 Signs Your Facility is Outdated

Life moves pretty fast, and with it come with new advancements. Today, all sorts of businesses run differently than they once...

How to Handle Tenants Who Give Partial Payments

Partial payments from tenants can be tricky. On the one hand, you surely understand how a tenant can go into a financial slum...

How Your Storage Facility Can Give Back This Christmas

Christmas is coming soon! It’s never too early to start thinking about the most ...

Going Offline: Which Old Fashioned Marketing Strategies Still Work?

Remember marketing before the internet? Advertising your storage facility was a ...

Hosting a Customer Appreciation Day at Your Storage Facility

When running a self storage business, you’re always on the lookout for ways to k...

6 Ways Your Storage Facility Can Be Charitable

When researching ways for self storage facilities to be charitable year-round, one word kept coming up. Drive. As in food dri...

16 Questions to Ask When Interviewing for a Self Storage Job

Interviewing for a self storage job—or any job, for that matter—can be nerve wra...

How to Choose Which Retail Products to Offer

So, you’ve decided to expand your self storage business with retail products. That’s a great move! Years ago, not many storag...

7 Ways to Learn From Your Competition

One of the big challenges to running a self storage operation is keeping up with or surpassing the competition. After all, if...

Lessons in Phone Etiquette for Self Storage Employees

If you’ve ever had a customer service job—in self storage or some other industry...

Decorating Your Storage Facility for Halloween

Halloween is rolling around soon, a time of costumes, candy, and frights. If you’re a self storage operator, don’t miss the o...

Should You Intervene if a Tenant is a Hoarder?

Hoarding can be a serious problem. Many people who hoard fill their homes with things they don’t need—items that they’ve accu...

How to Attract Boat Storage Renters

To attract self storage renters anywhere, you need competitive prices, friendly, helpful employees, and a clean, secure facil...

RV Terms That Every Self Storage Operator Should Know

Every profession, hobby, and passion has its own vocabulary. Those in the know u...

Team Building Tips for Your Self Storage Staff

For some people, a job is just a job. They don’t particularly want to be at work, and though they may not hate it, they would...

Renting to Homeless Tenants

In self storage, we generally expect tenants in certain situations. Some are in the process of moving and use their unit as a...

How to Properly Inform Tenants When Raising Rent

Every stable economy is going to have inflation, and as prices go up, so must se...

Adding Truck Rental to Your Storage Facility

Adding a truck or two to your self storage business can help in numerous ways. First, think of it like you would about sellin...

How to Help New Tenants Understand Their Leases

Each self storage facility will have at least one version of its lease, especially if the company operates in more than one s...

7 Ways to Impress Your Summer Self Storage Tenants

Summer is coming fast! Think of the approaching summer in the same way you’d thi...

Should You Be Advertising Your Storage Facility on the Radio?

Decades ago, businesses knew how to advertise. They would get their service or p...

What to Do If a Tenant is Storing Prohibited Items

There are some things you just don’t want in your self storage facility. These i...

7 Things You Must Communicate to First Time Self Storage Renters

When a new customer signs a lease with your facility, you can’t assume that they...

When Tenants Leave Items Behind

Daily lock checks are important to the functioning of any self storage facility, and they can turn up some strange things. To...

Tips for a More Environmentally Friendly Storage Facility

Having an environmentally friendly business is a big topic these days. Global cl...

Are You Doing Enough to Keep Your Facility Secure?

Security is one of the big selling points in self storage. Customers want to kno...

Attracting Self Storage Customers in an Oversaturated Market

Self storage is a huge industry. If you’re lucky, you run a facility in an area ...

Disaster Averted: How to Prevent Accidents at Your Self Storage Facility

Accidents happen. As a self storage operator, it’s your job to do everything you...

A Closer Look at the Retail Aspect of Your Self Storage Facility

When it comes to self storage, most people think of the basic service: providing...

Self Storage Marketing Techniques That No Longer Work

Technology is rapidly advancing. This is the most obvious with computers, includ...

The Life and Responsibilities of a Resident Self Storage Manager

Have you ever considered looking for work as a self storage resident manager? Pe...

Should You Join Your Local Chamber of Commerce?

Have you just started your self storage business, or opened a branch in a new area? Then you may be wondering if it’s worth i...

Should You Let a Tenant Store That?

As a self storage facility operator, you want to protect your property and business from legal problems, fires, pests, and mo...

What to Do If A Self Storage Tenant Dies

While hopefully your storage facility doesn’t have to deal with tenant deaths often, it’s important to know the proper proced...

Freshen Up Your Facility

Nothing says “Welcome in!” like cleanliness. You can have the warmest logo and the most comforting colors in your office and ...

The Dos and Don’ts of Responding to Self Storage Reviews

At some point, every self storage facility starts receiving reviews. Even those ...

Security Breach: How Your Storage Facility Can Recover from Theft

Theft can be devastating for anyone, from individuals with homes to business own...

Book Review: “Self Storage” by Jay Bonansinga

As self storage continues to become a bigger part of American life, it’s only natural that it will increasingly become a sett...

How to Cater to Military Storage Users

Active members of the armed forces have unique needs from businesses. This is especially true when it comes to self storage. ...

Should You Screen Your Self Storage Tenants?

Self storage facilities are prone to experiencing some pretty strange things. This can include tenants living in their storag...

How to Keep Pests Out of Your Storage Facility

Nothing can spoil a tenant’s view of a self storage facility quite like entering one’s unit and finding a pest infestation. I...

Can Your Storage Facility Weather the Storm?

You’ve worked hard to grow your self storage business, so of course you want to protect it. Your facility’s biggest asset—the...

Your Storage Facility as Community Hero

Do you want your self storage facility to be just another local business, or do you want it to have a positive reputation in ...

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Benefits of having an On Site Storage Manager

How Many People Should Have Access to a Storage Unit?

How to Stop Tenants From Tailgating Your Storage Facility’s Gate

What to Do When Tenants Leave Units Dirty

Networking at Self Storage Conventions

Transferring a Unit from One Customer to Another

How to Create Mobile Friendly Marketing

Installing Electrical Outlets in Storage Units

What If Someone Gets Hurt at Your Storage Facility?

10 Best Markets for Wine Storage

Do Millennials Value Customer Service or Automation?

6 Ways to Communicate Better with Tenants

Long Term vs. Short Term Customers

Working with a Call Center

Investing in an Older Storage Facility

Should You Accept Packages for Commercial Self Storage Tenants?

Do You Have To Turn Over Surveillance Footage to the Police?