Building Codes
By Cecile Blaine Designing a self-storage facility requires an eye toward security, traffic flow, durability and making the most efficient and profitable use of the land available. Those considerations are added to other criteria determined in advance by the building codes, ...More
January 1, 1998 Cecile Blaine
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Customer Storage Insurance
Customer Storage Insurance Protect Yourself Against Litigation By David Wilhite As you may know, every self-storage facility operator may be subject to litigation from tenants who have suffered damage to their goods. The good news for facility owners is that courts have ...More
January 1, 1998 David Wilhite
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A Strict Liability Tort
By D. Carlos Kaslow According to an article that appeared in the July/August 1997 issue of The Self Storage Legal Review, the tort of conversion is the most dangerous claim storage operators face. It can be likened to civil theft of property and is the one tort claim in ...More
January 1, 1998 D. Carlos Kaslow
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Waterwood Self Storage
Waterwood Self Storage Edmond, Okla. By Jeff Sacks Bill Howard is a modest man to say the least. After all, he runs several successful self-storage facilities in Edmond, Okla., and attributes his good fortunes to nothing more than the fact that Edmond has virtually doubled ...More
January 1, 1998 Jeff Sacks
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Valuing Your Facility
Valuing Your Facility Part II By R.K. Kliebenstein There are three basic approaches to valuation that are commonly recognized in commercial real estate. The first is the income approach, which we discussed in detail in the September issue. The second method of evaluation is ...More
January 1, 1998 R.K. Kliebenstein
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Is Now the Time to Sell?
Is Now the Time to Sell? By Mike McCune Great markets are wonderful, but we all know they will eventually end. What does that mean, in general, for self-storage owners? First of all, it doesn't mean you should panic. After spending 27 years in the commercial real-estate ...More
January 1, 1998 Mike McCune
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A New Supervisor? Don't PanicTurn change into a positive for your position
A New Supervisor? Don't PanicTurn change into a positive for your position By Kim Alton In an increasingly competitive and overgrown market, many self-storage owners take a hard look, not only at their facilities, but also at the team of people who help operate them. A ...More
January 1, 1998 Kim Alton
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State of the Industry
State of the Industry Will the Boom Continue? By Cecile Blaine They say hindsight is 20/20. That's why we must look to the past in order to anticipate the future. It is especially true in gauging the health of the self-storage industry. Since self-storage is a real-estate ...More
January 1, 1998 Cecile Blaine
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Development,
Finance
