BETCO and S&W Group Offer Free Seminars

The S&W Group of companies, which provides property-management, development and financial services, and BETCO Inc., a full-service building manufacturer, are hosting free seminars for self-storage developers and owners in 2006. In addition to their past offering, “Building Your Future in Self-Storage,” they have put together a new full-day seminar titled “What Every Self-Storage Owner Should Know,” which focuses on key operational issues:

• The growing danger of criminal activity at self-storage sites

• Legal issues and ways to avoid litigation

• Facility valuation

• Tapping trapped equity

• Calculating and improving cash-on-cash return

• Increasing market share in a competitive environment

• Facility marketing

The developers’ seminar will kick-off on May 3 at the Embassy Suites in Nashville, Tenn. The first owners’ seminar takes place on May 4 in the same location. The events move to Denver in June and Orlando, Fla., in October. For more information, contact Margaret Fox at 888.817.9422, ext. 401; visit www.sandwgroup.com.