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.
Explore ways to maximize your self-storage technology outlay, including strategies for getting staff and customers on board and guidelines for general maintenance. You’ll also learn how to measure ROI.
If you’re new to the self-storage industry, the panel of experts in this seminar will teach you about the history and evolution of the business as well as its current status and future as an asset class.
The 2016 Top-Operators List features data on 100 of the industry's largest players. Ideal for self-storage investors, developers, owners and suppliers. The package includes an Excel spreadsheet and PDF report.
This session, presented by an industry attorney, addresses some of the common legal questions asked by new self-storage managers and provides the answers they need to successfully run their facility.