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Houston-Based NewQuest Properties Joins Self Storage Industry

By Alex Hassel, Storage.com After working as a full-service commercial real estate company for the last 15 years, Houston-based NewQuest Properties is turning its attention...

Theatre Company Out of London Brings Self Storage Stories to Life

By Alex Hassel, Storage.com For many people, self storage is a safe place to store belongings of emotional or nostalgic value while going through a difficult life transition. Dante or...

Michigan Passes Self Storage Tenant Insurance Bill

By Alex Hassel, Storage.com Michigan has become the 22nd state to allow point-of-sale self storage tenant insurance. Self storage operators in the state are celebrating after...

SiteLink Reaches New Breakthrough With 13,000th Customer

By Alex Hassel, Storage.com Web-based self storage software and payment processing company SiteLink is celebrating its most recent milestone of 13,000 customers. This comes after...

Sovran Self Storage Acquires LifeStorage for $1.35 Billion

By Alex Hassel, Storage.com You’re about to see a lot more Uncle Bob’s Self Storage locations across the U.S. By the same token, Life Storage,...

Baranof Holdings Makes Big Leap Into Self Storage

By Alex Hassel, Storage.com Baranof Holdings, a Dallas-based developer, has eight different self storage properties in various levels of development. This is the organization’s first...

Should Bay Area Self Storage Operators Worry About a San Francisco...

By Alex Hassel, Storage.com A new survey released by the Bay Area Council shows that a large segment of the San Francisco area's residents aren’t...

Thinking About Offering On-Demand Storage? Boxbee Can Help

By Alex Hassel, Storage.com After pioneering the on-demand storage market back in 2012, Boxbee is now influencing the self storage industry in a different way. Kristoph...

SiteLink Celebrates 2016 User Conference Success

By Alex Hassel, Storage.com SiteLink, a leader in web-based software and payment processing in the self storage industry, held its fifth user conference on April...

Personal Gyms: The Next Big Trend for Self Storage Units?

By Alex Hassel, Storage.com Across the U.S., self storage operators are allowing tenants to bring exercise equipment into their storage units to set up gyms....