From criminal activity to onsite injuries to natural disasters, self-storage operators must predict and and mitigate all manner of business threats. Important aspects to managing risk include understanding legal issues, practicing theft prevention, investing in insurance coverage, and keeping pace with laws that affect the industry.
As a self-storage operator, the last thing you want is for one of your customers, guests or employees to hurt himself onsite. Here’s guidance on preventing accidents and what to do if one does occur.
The new General Data Protection Regulations are now in effect, and they impact the way self-storage operators gather, store and use personal data from customers, staff, suppliers and the public. Learn key elements of the legislation.
Hong Kong firefighters battled a fire for nearly nine hours last week in the 15-story Wing Chai Industrial Building, which houses an Apple Storage self-storage facility on the fourth floor. The fire broke out on the ninth floor about 10:15 p.m. on...
Update 6/7/18 – Eric Capitanich has been sentenced to three years of probation for being an accessory after the fact in his mother's suicide last year at Peabody Self Storage. He also received credit for time served during the prosecution of...
Credit screening and reporting can help self-storage operators weed out customers with a history of delinquency or default as well as motivate tenants to be timely in their payments. Read more about the benefits of making a credit check a...
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton signed an update to the state’s self-storage lien law on May 29 that grants facility operators the right to hold their lien-sale auctions online. Though the previous wording indicated “online sales are...
