So you’ve bought or developed a self-storage facility. Now what? Managing a self-storage business isn’t necessarily rocket science. After all it isn’t unheard of for some old school self-storage facilities to keep tabs on their…
From Alaska to Alabama, roughly 50,000 self-storage facilities are scattered around the country. That’s about the same number of McDonald’s, Starbucks and Subway locations across the U.S. combined. These facilities are the foundation of the U.S….
Article by Kayleigh Alexandra Assuming you’re in the thrilling early stages of setting up a business, then what specifically you need to know about business storage depends on the exact nature of your operation. Are…
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…
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,…
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…
