Storage Speak - Teri Lanza

Lien-Sale Notification Requirements: Old School vs. New School

Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:42:01 PDT

The issue of lien-sale notifications came to the fore in Arizona this week as the legislature passed HB2435, which will save the state’s self-storage operators money by changing the requirement for expensive Certified Mail notices and newspaper advertisements prior to sale. It's an issue that affects operators worldwide, however: How do you notify a tenant of the sale? At what ...

What a Great Country We Live In

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:08:16 PDT

Gina Six Kudo is the general manager for Cochrane Road Self Storage in Morgan Hill, Calif. She is one of four recipients of the Inside Self-Storage 2009 Humanitarian Service Award.Over the past few weeks watching the thousands of people taking to the streets in Iran and around the world in protest over the disputed election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made me think about life in America. ...

Annoying a Self-Storage Manager

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:22:11 PDT

A few weeks ago I came across a funny article about ways to annoy a flight attendant. Animals and screaming kids, of course, made the list. I posted a thread that day on Self-Storage Talk asking forum users to rattle off some of their customer pet peeves. Wow, did we get an amazing response. Among the top offensive tenant moves: ...