Can You Use Storage Units As Workspaces?
Everyone knows that people aren’t allowed to live in self storage units— and if you didn’t already know that, you do now. But does the same necessarily go for using your self-storage rental as a workspace?…
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Finding the Best Self-Storage Management Software For Your Facility
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…
Everything You Need to Know About How to Start a Self-Storage Business
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….
What You Need To Know About Business Storage
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…
Can You Write Off the Cost of a Storage Unit For Your Business?
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…
Who Are The Women of SpareFoot?
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…
5 Things You Need to Stash Away Before Renting Your Space on Airbnb
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…
How to Invest in Self Storage
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…
Entrepreneurs Rely on Storage to Grow Their Businesses
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…
World’s Fanciest Storage: Geneva Freeport Stores Art, Cigars, Lamborghinis (Mercy!)
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,…