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- The Risks of Shipping and Delivery
Self-storage operators and managers are always looking for ways to improve their offering, draw more customers and increase revenue. As modern-day ancillary services, shipping and delivery conveniences are gaining favor with operators and consumers alike. But could this add-on profit center be putting your business in jeopardy? How much do you really know about shipping/delivery services and how they ...
03/01/2008
- Professional Liability Insurance
Insurance professionals are often asked about professional-liability insurance by self-storage operators. The purpose of this coverage is simple: to keep you out of trouble and in business. In more technical terms: In your position as a storage operator or manager, you may be exposed to a potential lawsuit with regard to the professional advice, service or consultation provided to a ...
- The Risks of Shipping and Delivery
Self-storage operators and managers are always looking for ways to improve their offering, draw more customers and increase revenue. As modern-day ancillary services, shipping and delivery conveniences are gaining favor with operators and consumers alike. But could this add-on profit center be putting your business in jeopardy? How much do you really know about shipping/delivery services and how they ...
- Tenant Insurance: Providing Peace of Mind
Successful storage facilities have evolved to provide more than just space; they offer solutions to their customers’ need for storage under multiple circumstances. Twenty years ago, most facilities simply rented out space and maybe sold locks. Today, facilities sell services and products such as truck rental, packing materials, mailboxes, wine storage, tenant insurance and a variety of other specialized offerings. ...
- Recovering From Facility Fire
Metal buildings and concrete pads are key ingredients of many self-storage facilities. Some owners believe their facility could not, and will not, sustain a loss from fire because metal doesn’t burn and the concrete pad can’t be damaged. While we wish this were true, it’s not. The intense heat produced by a fire can cause metal to distort and ...
- Coverage for Limited Pollution Removal
In the business of self-storage, operators are like landlords who rent storage units instead of living space. What a tenant puts into his unit is not the operator’s concern—unless those contents violate certain contractual limitations and conditions. Self-storage owners are obligated to provide space that is reasonably safe, dry and suitable for the storage of property. They must not, ...
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