When my Grandson Jackson was in the first grade, at his first “Leadership” day at his school, he informed me that he would start college in 2025. I don’t even think he knew what college was. Many people...

I recently was on a panel discussion at the SIN Summit (Self Storage Investor Nation). One of the panel members was talking about Beginning With the End In Mind when it came to getting in (or growing)...

Getting into the self storage business can be challenging in today’s world. Any markets are overbuilt. Prices are high—A lot of people with cheap money buying. But those are external factors. I have no control over them. Yes, I could chase industrial warehousing or...

Well, no doubt about it… 2020’s self storage goals I created in Dec. 2019 didn’t come to pass. In the old days, we would create one-year, five-year, & ten-year goals. Hard to do today. It can be challenging to set even quarterly goals now, given how fast things...

As I stated last week, I recently attended a virtual business summit. I have been translating what I have been learning onto the self storage industry. I think all too often, we hear our industry voices bouncing back and forth, and it is good to get out and see what...

I was recently attending a virtual (obviously written in 2020) Business Summit meeting, and one of the sessions was entitled How To grow Your Business. I can insert “self storage” into that, and everything remains exactly the same. My observations about people have...

We have been exploring the current challenges our self storage company is focused on to keep our self storage companies going strong over the next year or so. Let’s complete this series. If you want to, you can review Episodes 263,264, 265 , 266 ,267 here. As a...

We are in the fifth episode of a series, discussing the current challenges our company is focused on to keep our self storage facilities going strong over the next year or so. If you want to, you can review Episodes 263,264, 265 & 266 here. As a review, I laid out...

We are in the third episode of a series, discussing the second current challenges our self storage company is focused on to keep our self storage companies going strong over the next year or so. If you want to, you can review Episodes 263,264, & 265 here. As a...

We are now in the third episode of the series. We're discussing the current challenges our self storage company. We're focused on keeping our self storage companies going strong over the next year or so. If you want to, you can review Episodes 263 here & Episode...