Over the past few years, I have been questioning if the standard measure we all use, how many square feet of self storage per person exists in a given trade area, is the best measure to determine the...

I recently was traveling looking at some sites for some self storage projects and thought it might be good to write an episode outlining what I think makes a good site. I have made some real mistakes on...

Here is a recent article I wrote for Inside Self Storage. If there was a self storage soapbox, and I was standing on it, what you would have heard me say over the past few years was “get a feasibility report!” This statement rings louder than ever with so much new...

No doubt about it, there is a lot of self-storage out there today. One thing about it, however, is that the majority of the new self-storage construction has been focused in the larger, tier one markets. We have all heard about Dallas/Ft. Worth bringing on 16% to 20%...

Whatever city you are in, no matter where you go, you see new self-storage being built. Even people who have nothing to do with the industry, when they hear you are involved with self-storage in some way, will comment, “I see it going up everywhere.” All this leads us...

If there was a self-storage soapbox, and I was standing on it, what you would have heard me say over the past few years was “Get a self-storage Feasibility Report!” Let’s discuss the feasibility reports.  The first thing we should know about them is that we are very...

The self storage world has never been as easy and as complicated as it is right now. There are a lot of software programs out there that make it easier. There are a lot of software programs out there that make it more complicated. In the old days if we found a site we...