Leaving your home alone for a month? Three months? A Year? Whether you’re a snowbird, or just taking a long trip, everyone needs to consider the best way to secure your home if you plan to…
You’ve created your ideal smart home with a collection of connected gadgets that save you energy, offer great conveniences, and keep your home safe and secure — but now you’re moving. What are you going…
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…
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…
Electric vehicles have some advantages over conventional gas or diesel cars. They are less expensive to run, cheaper to maintain and better for the environment. But there are differences, too, including how you store an…
Self-storage facility owners are keeping their eyes on a growing trend: full-service storage companies that pick up items at consumers’ homes, place them in storage, and return them upon request. “The first thing to understand…
The moving industry is changing before our eyes. It seems like almost every day we are hearing about new start-ups that offer easier, cheaper and more innovative ways to move your stuff. Similar to what…
It is a universally acknowledged truth that we all dread calling a customer service line. What usually starts as a simple problem or inquiry turns into a monstrous hour-long game of telephone hopscotch that involves…
Let’s face it. Despite the inherent sex appeal of each and every SpareFooter (see above), self-storage can be a decidedly non-sexy industry. Just look at Darrell on Storage Wars. So how does SpareFoot get our…
If you’re a software developer, you probably can write your own ticket at any number of employers in Austin, TX. Why? Because the demand greatly exceeds the supply.
