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By Marc Goodin We just had our quarterly development seminar for Storage authority Franchise owners. Dozens of great ideas on how to...

By Marc Goodin A self storage owner has an incredible amount of things to do in the 6 months prior to opening to have a very successful...

By Marc Goodin. Not too long ago the answer was clearly, near home. Running a business near home is typical, more convenient, more fun,...

By Marc Goodin. Design-build can reduce your construction cost by 5 - 10 percent. Construction costs have been on an unsustainable rise...

Over the last year, we have written hundreds of articles. Some for publications like Inside Self Storage, and Radius Plus others on...

by Marc Goodin Making a plan, working hard to make it happen and making a multi million dollar profit may not sound sexy to some but it...

By Marc Goodin There are many advantages to getting a zone change for your self-storage. The top three are: 1) The location will...

by Marc Goodin, No cliffs for me, please. Many new self storage developers are planning on using an SBA loan to cut their required...

by Marc Goodin 1) You need to make money today, tomorrow, or even next year. It takes 2- 3 years to find land, design and obtain...

Virginia - Designed - Regulatory Review In Progress. Georgia 1 - Approved - Bids next Florida 1 Slated for a Feb Construction Start...

by Marc Goodin 1 Fewer people are looking for and buying commercial land. The number of hotels, restaurants, strip plazas, apartments,...

by Josh Parker I used to think that if I could just make a million dollars, I'd be set for life. That I'd be able to retire early and sit...

by Marc Godin Obviously, they all work for someone because they all exist. But which one works for you? The Good = $160+/month rent -...

by: Josh Parker I know, I know- that’s a lot of numbers. But here are the facts- self-storage construction has dropped from 824 new...

By Marc Goodin Eighty percent of the time you must work hard and twenty percent of the time you must work smart. One without the other...

By Ed Clement Are you tired of the stock market volatility? And having little control over the market's crazy swings up and down. Maybe...

by Marc Goodin Too often land buyers are overpaying for land because they do not understand the difference between the parcel acreage and...

by Marc Goodin Storage Authority Site Plan Designs and Regulatory Reviews often go much faster than the typical reviews because we make...

By Marc Goodin Here is a very efficient Storage Authority franchise facility under design in FL. It consists of 5 buildings with 103,000...

By Marc Goodin, Storage Authority just had a video training class on Profit and loss projections/ statements. The presentation...