Owners who have one to five self storage properties often say they don’t need professional management, that they’re smart business people and they can manage their self storage properties quite profitably themselves and save a lot of fees in the process.

Here are a few reasons why an owner might want to rethink that do-it-yourself approach.

• A good management company can generally deliver more net income than an owner because the good companies have a lot of experience and they specialize in doing just one thing – managing self storage properties.

• An owner probably has better things to do with his or her time than to be actively involved in day to day operations – better things like, for example, acquiring more storage properties.

• A management company can minimize an owner’s exposure to major risks such as wrongful sale and disposal lawsuits where in a recent case a renter was awarded a $3.65 million settlement because the owner’s employee made a mistake.

• There are many more reasons.  Let’s talk about them.

• We have lots of experience – almost 30 years exclusively in self storage management.

• We have some very unique management techniques such as our rate management system. This system will maximize revenues because of its timely adjustments to rental rates based on conversion rates. It’s a very interesting approach. Be sure to ask me about it!

• Other unique management techniques also include our ability to generate more rental inquiries than most and to convert about 75% of those inquiries into rental contracts. (This excludes Internet inquiries) Ask me how we do it. Also click on this link solutions for more information on how we solve problems for our clients.

• There are more reasons such as on site staff selection, training and supervision, low ratio of properties to site supervisor and an excellent track record.  Let’s talk about them.