by Mark Helm | Jun 1, 2019 | Self Storage Business Planning
Are you in the self storage business? Are you getting in the self storage business? For a long time, I related to myself as someone in the self storage business. For a couple of years in the 1990’s I was someone getting in the self storage business. But really? Lets look at what business you are REALLY in.
by Mark Helm | May 10, 2019 | Build Self Storage, Buy Self Storage, Self Storage Business Planning
It has become very popular in the self-storage industry today, to do conversions as an entry point into the business, or as a way to expand your self-storage business. I like them very much and wrote an article about it for Inside Self-Storage a few months ago....
by Mark Helm | Apr 26, 2019 | Self Storage Business Planning
One of the big trends in self-storage today is the use of a kiosk. There are a lot of self-storage companies that just use the kiosk and no onsite managers. In the old days, it was primarily just companies with smaller facilities. Now, there are many companies that...
by Mark Helm | Apr 19, 2019 | Build Self Storage, Buy Self Storage, Self Storage Business Planning
I want to take a few Episodes and share some of the take away I have from attending the Inside Self Storage Convention a few weeks ago in Las Vegas. We are now in an industry that is growing and evolving at a fast rate, and it is important to keep our finger on the...
by Mark Helm | Mar 29, 2019 | Self Storage Business Planning, Self Storage Management
I know most of us to turn over the marketing of our self-storage facilities to vendors to handle because, for many of us, it is a world we don’t want to figure out. It is really like learning a foreign language. Add the leavers and dials needed for marketing, it seems...
by Mark Helm | Mar 11, 2019 | Financial Analysis of Self Storage, Self Storage Business Planning, Self Storage Management
I was reading an “Investor Survey” in the last half of 2018 provided by one of the large Commercial Real Estate companies. Not that these are exact numbers, but they do tend to point to a direction the industry is going. I have seen these surveys from three different...
