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SSA Industry Confidence Survey: Regional Outlook

George Leon posted on 10/11/2024 3:05:00 PM

More than 8 out of 10 owners and managers expect the industry to remain stable or improve in the upcoming year in four out of five regions. The single exception is the West Coast, where about three-fourths are bullish on the industry.

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SSA Industry Confidence Survey: Continued Optimism - with Some Caveats

George Leon posted on 7/24/2024 4:07:00 PM

On June 30th, 2024 the SSA released early results from the SSA Industry Confidence Survey, conducted in May with self storage owners and managers. The summary concluded that operators had an optimistic outlook for the industry today and for the remainder of the year.

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Operators With New York Customers Must Prepare for New Data Security Requirements

posted on 10/8/2019 1:37:00 PM

New York recently passed a comprehensive overhaul of its data security and breach notification requirements called the Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security Act (the SHIELD Act).

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New Privacy Requirements Coming for California and Nevada Businesses

posted on 9/20/2019 1:13:00 PM

California and Nevada have both passed laws affecting consumers’ data privacy rights, which create affirmative compliance obligations for certain self storage owners, operators, and vendors.

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Analysis of Second Quarter 2019 REIS Findings in the Self Storage Sector

Shan Ahmed posted on 9/13/2019 3:59:00 PM

Reis expects supply conditions to ease towards the end of the year and into 2020. In the meantime, we are projecting rents for both climate controlled and non-climate controlled units to trend negative in 2019 and recover in 2020 and beyond.

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The Big Data Take Over

posted on 8/2/2019 3:24:00 PM

Digital technology is changing the world around us as we know it, and the self storage industry is no exception.

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Self Storage Quarterly View

Shan Ahmed posted on 7/5/2019 12:24:00 PM

Analysis of First Quarter 2019 REIS Findings in the Self Storage Sector

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How to Get the Most Out of Your Storage Facility's Website

Matt Huddleston posted on 11/16/2018 10:38:00 AM

A website is no longer just a placeholder for your storage facility on the internet, it’s an integral part of how you communicate to potential customers what you offer – and if you’re doing a lousy job, you could be saying that they should go elsewhere.

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The Impact of Population Growth on Self Storage Development

Will Sanford posted on 4/13/2018 9:54:00 AM

Now at 326 million, the U.S. resident population grew by 2.3 million residents (or 0.7%) from July 1, 2016 to July 1, 2017. However, that increase did not start a new trend. In fact, the U.S. population has grown by approximately 2.3 million residents or 0.7% in each measured time period since 2010.

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The Four D's

Alexander Harris posted on 6/21/2017 1:36:00 PM

Most of us are familiar with The Four D’s, the long-running mnemonic device that explains the drivers of self-storage demand. For those unfamiliar, The Four D’s are death, divorce, dislocation…

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