If all goes well, Aaron Saunders is going to be a busy man in 2021 and beyond. As the recently appointed director of construction at Spartan Investment Group, Saunders, who previously spent nine years at Casey Industrial working in various top-level construction positions, will be overseeing a number of self-storage projects over the coming year,…
Everyone knows the pandemic has wreaked havoc with the U.S. and world economies, with massive layoffs and closed businesses. But the nation’s self-storage industry has thrived amidst the chaos, according to industry experts, with more growth to come. “Self-storage was the best-performing real estate asset class for the last 12 months,” said Cory Sylvester, principal…
Crescit Capital Strategies has closed on a $16.1 million self-storage financing deal in Philadelphia, its first transaction in what it hopes and expects will be a strong 2021 for self-storage lending in general. The financing was for Snapbox Self Storage’s acquisition of a 105,000-square-foot, 1,100-unit facility in northwest Philadelphia, in a high-traffic location with “strong…
Portable storage provider PODS has announced the appointment of Kathryn Marinello as president and CEO of the Clearwater, FL-based company. Marinello succeeds John B. Koch who held the role for eight years. Marinello comes to PODS with over 20 years of executive leadership experience, including roles as CEO of Hertz, Ceridian, and numerous divisions of…
Tax season is just around the corner and self-storage owners need to start working on properly filing for their business. Self-storage facilities have a lot of moving parts and can have different investors. This can make properly filing your taxes for your self-storage facility a complicated process. As a partner for a CPA Firm that…
As part of the sale of his multimillion truck part business RealTruck.com in 2015, entrepreneur and author Scott Bintz agreed to a non-compete clause. That meant he couldn’t launch any kind of e-commerce business for five years. So, he built a self-storage facility. “I’d sold RealTruck.com,” Bintz told the SpareFoot Storage Beat, “I built a…
The coronavirus pandemic has brought the economy to a halt and made it difficult for first-time business owners to find the financing they need to get started. The self-storage industry is not immune to the world’s economic woes, but that doesn’t mean that first-time self-storage investors can’t find the financing they need to enter into…
Self-storage broker Cameron Vale is helping a multibillion-dollar conglomerate gain ground in the storage industry. Vale recently joined the newly formed Berkshire Hathaway Storage Group as senior vice president. The Greenville, SC-based group is affiliated with Berkshire Hathaway Inc., the investment juggernaut led by billionaire Warren Buffett. The group represents Berkshire Hathaway’s entry into self-storage…
InSite Property Group is a multifaceted real estate investment group with 25 development deals in place across the country—22 of them are self-storage. It operates its storage facilities under the name SecureSpace. The firm has completed and opened three so far, the latest is a 75,000 net rentable square foot facility in Camarillo, CA with…
Since starting Red Dot Storage in 2013, I have been a vocal proponent of automated management solutions in the self-storage industry. For Red Dot, automation created a highly scalable management platform that facilitated rapid growth from a single property to over 180 locations, throughout 16 states. Red Dot’s ability to quickly integrate assets into the…
