Self-storage units are the best for small business owners, aren’t they? They come in handy to hold a wide variety of necessities, such as extra inventory, materials used to create your product, excess office supplies, parts…
Inspired by a desire to create opportunities for women to expand their skill sets, SpareFoot employees Leslie Hall and Megan Oertel co-founded the Women of SpareFoot (WoS) organization in August 2016, with the mission to…
You want to list your home or room on Airbnb, but your place is packed. Don’t worry — stashing some stuff in storage will allow you to host with ease. Deciding what to store is…
Self-storage may not have the glamour of high-rise office buildings, luxury hotels or urban apartment lofts, but it should be a strong contender for an individual’s investment portfolio — whether that’s in the form of…
Some might say it’s magic. Transforming furniture of yesteryear into chic conversation pieces, Jacqueline Sharp’s business combines the childhood world of imagination with the mystery of nostalgia and times past. Interestingly enough, Sharp’s innovative venture…
Entrepreneur Cheri Garcia invented a tanning bed that floats and was keeping her inventory of about 1,000 beds in a spare bedroom. But as her company grew and a major pool supply company agreed to carry…
Most of the stuff we put in self-storage is pretty pedestrian: Bed frames, unused furniture and boxes of magazines probably make up the majority of storage units in America. Who would have known that in Europe,…
If you’ve seen Toy Story, or any variation of a moving away story made by Disney/Pixar/Nickelodeon/etc. – yes, Homeward Bound counts – then you know that inevitably, you always leave something behind when you move…
The $22 billion self-storage industry is a hidden giant among us. You probably drive past at least one storage facility on your daily commute, with or without realizing it. They’re everywhere, but you don’t notice…
by Justin Lee, SquareFoot (unaffiliated real estate startup) So you’ve signed an office lease on a new hub for your business. Tip of the cap to you, because that’s no easy feat. Hopefully you didn’t…
