SSA Blog

One of a storage business’s greatest challenges is ensuring compliance with a patchwork of federal, state, and local legal requirements affecting its operations. The Self Storage Association wants to draw your attention to two federal employment law issues that may affect business.

The Self Storage Association and affiliated state associations have had a busy year legislatively, with activity in more than half of the states.

A lot of attention has been generated recently regarding what “late fees” may be charged by self storage operators to their tenants based on state law requirements.

You know a topic is relevant when “60 Minutes” runs a story on the topic. Their program titled “Drive-By Lawsuits” that aired in early December explained how the Americans with Disabilities Act has resulted in hundreds if not thousands of lawsuits where individuals have filed complaints against businesses not as actual customers, but based solely on a drive-by of the property or worse yet, by viewing the property on Google Maps and basing a claim on what is seen only from the computer screen.