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Tips For Dealing With Contractors
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| This week we discuss how to find a capable building contractor to build out the location. And as this series has been thus far, this segment is based on my personal experience and offered to you warts and all. As with all of my columns only the names have been changed to protect the innocent, the ignorant, and the overly litigious. |
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Aire Master is Sweeping the Franchise Industry
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| If you are looking for a franchise business opportunity that is unique, look no further than
Aire-Master of America. |
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Storage Business Opportunities For The Organized Franchisee
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| For the left-brained, super-organized business professional, the idea of clutter around the workplace or the home is a grim thought indeed, so a welcome idea for a new business opportunity may be a storage business. Storage franchises are much more than just storage rental facilities, there are franchises available for everything from closet systems to garage organization, and for the right entrepreneur with a knack for organization, these franchises can really help you clean up. |
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Recession Proof Real Estate
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| They’re often called recession-proof – steady investments that are inexpensive and easy to maintain with consistent profit margins.
Not to mention, they’re one area of real estate that seems mostly unaffected, if not helped, by current rough market conditions.
They’re storage units and people always need them. And all across the country, with a growing population that provides a constant supply of people in transit and in need of storage, they’re shooting up everywhere. Storage facilities require relatively low building and management costs.
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Introduction to Self Storage Development
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| Self storage has seen some dramatic changes over the last few decades it has been in existence, especially in the last 15 years. In 1993, there were approximately 21,300 self storage facilities in the United States. Today, that number has more than doubled, with industry experts reporting roughly 60,000 facilities. Those facilities comprise more than 1.7 billion rentable square feet of storage space. |
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Looming Commercial Real Estate Crisis offers Huge Opportunities in Self Storage.
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| With the looming commercial real estate crisis due to distressed debt investors, self storage facilities and other properties that can be converted over to climate controlled self storage are going to be a hot investment in the coming years. |
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Technology is So Passé … It’s All About Fashion
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| We looked at the stuff at CES...at CTIA...at NAB...at all the shows and media
coverage. There was an epiphany (gotta love that word). The PC/CE/communications/content
industry isn't about technology...it's fashion! It's what's hot...what's not.
Notebooks...no netbooks...no smartphones...no ebooks...no tablets. Local storage...centralized
storage...personal storage...cloud storage. Your next product, service can be
hot, cold, dead in a month. We flip faster than skirts rise and fall. There are
no bold , ah ha predictions here but at least you'll know why you change phones,
computers (whatever) more often than you change cars. What's it gonna be tomorrow?
Don't ask the buying public(s)..invent it!!!! -- borrowed from John Doerr (come
on what do you think fashion is? Right creative borrowing!).
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Building a Self Storage Facility
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| All Across the United States, entrepreneurs are talking about the self storage business. The word is out that investing in the mini storage business can be very profitable. And it’s not just the experienced investors that have their eye on the Self Storage Business prize. With lower building and management costs than virtually all other real estate investments and a failure rate of around 7 percent, the self storage industry is drawing first-time business owners and investors alike. |
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Self Storage Feasibility Studies
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| So you’ve decided to get into the self-storage business by developing your own Self Storage Facility. Well the first step should be to locate a viable parcel of ground to develop. However, many investors find that determining an adequate site is a little more difficult than they imagined, and perhaps, should be done with the aid of an independent third party. Why? Because a feasibility study, conducted by a professional, will provide an in-depth analysis of the location to determine if it is viable for Self-Storage. |
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Content … Keeping the Old Gals Around for a Few More Years
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| It was great to see all the new capture, production toys at NAB. The camera, production board, software had the content people -- Katzenberger, Moonves (CBS), Carey (News Corp), other major/minor players -- huddling around all their new high def and 3D stuff every minute the show floor was open. When the lights went out and all that content was sent back to the lowly under appreciated storage systems. The same was true of the consumer/prosumer capture/production products that were displayed. The only difference is the storage devices were smaller. In addition to 1-5GB solutions lots of people use the more compact 500GB-1TB storage units that incorporated advanced security technology. Cameras, software, people get their names in lights but when was the last time you saw a 5TB storage unit listed on the film's credits. |
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Storage -- Worry About It the Day After Tomorrow
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| We finished this analysis on storage types/applications over the weekend and Apple decided to finally talk about all their new devices and everyone (we mean everyone) jumped on the tablet bandwagon. We'll look at the area shortly but right now we can only say every bit of storage folks can make/ship is being used...then some! Right now let's look at the leading storage offerings -- flash, hard drive, clould (don't let em kid you the cloud is still hard drive). But only you can determine which storage option is best for you in each of your applications -- work in progress, valuable, super valuable, irreplaceable. Weigh the costs/risks and store accordingly. Don't wait till the Day After Tomorrow.
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Self Storage Investing Webinars Can Hold Valuable Tips
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| Self storage investing can be a difficult industry to get into. As with any real estate investing, it can be overwhelming at first to even begin to learn about all the rules, laws, and regulations that come with owning a self storage property. However, there are several great resources online that can help individuals learn about buying their first self storage property. Besides e-books and white papers about self storage investing, there are also webinars that can be great resources. |
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