Learn how to create policies, procedures and best practices that make sense for your facility. Discover how laws affect your policies as well as how to build an operations manual and ensure compliance.

Get valuable suggestions to help self-storage managers evaluate and improve their own job performance. You’ll also get a checklist for professional development and learn ways to make yourself indispensable.

This session helps guide you through the initial procedure to gain jurisdictional approval and provides strategies for securing the entitlements and permits you need to build your dream self-storage facility.

This session addresses criteria for ensuring a self-storage project’s site design and layout are an appropriate fit for the market and provides advice for maximizing square footage, unit mix and more.

This session explores the unique qualities of the self-storage industry and its application in different international markets for those who wish to expand their business or investment capital overseas.

Gain insight to the state of the mobile-technology market as it relates to apps, their current benefits and how they’ll likely impact the self-storage industry.

Learn how to recruit, evaluate, hire and train your new self-storage managers to ensure they operate the asset to maximum profitability. Get insight on interviewing, background checks, references and more.

Review current self-storage real estate cycles, including factors that will shift the market into a new phase and how these correspond with facility value. Also learn ways to maximize return on investment.