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  • Wednesday, May 25, 2011 2:55 PM | CSSSA Admin (Administrator)

    AMY SOBISKI PROMOTED TO CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

    INDIANAPOLIS IN, May 25, 2011 – Bader Company is pleased to announce that Maureen Lee has been promoted to President effective immediately. Maureen's capability, experience, and dedication as Chief Operating Officer position her well to lead the company in its continued growth. Her analytic, organizational and interpersonal skills are the elements needed to take Bader to the next level.

    Additionally, Bader Company announces the promotion of Amy Sobiski to Chief Operating Officer. Amy's experience as Manager in both the Claims and Administration departments, along with her proven leadership skills well qualify her to assume this new position. As an innovator and team builder Amy will be able to easily step into the Chief Operating Officer role.

    As an employee owned entity, we are especially proud to be able to promote both Maureen and Amy from within the company. Ray Sakowski will continue as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board.

    "Continuing Bader's tradition of excellence, both Maureen and Amy were logical choices. Both are seasoned veterans with our organization, and are driven to make our offerings the best in the industries we serve.”

    About Bader
    Bader Company is a national leader in point-of-lease insurance solutions for self-storage, multifamily, and ATM markets. The company partners with clients to manage a portion of their operating risk by transferring that risk through east-to-get, low-cost, mass-marketed insurance coverage.

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    CONTACT:

    Molly Laut – Marketing Director

    mlaut@BADERco.com

    888-223-3726 ext 7016


  • Monday, May 23, 2011 2:55 PM | CSSSA Admin (Administrator)

    Extra Space Storage will manage the four A-American Self Storage properties in Hawaii recently purchased by W.P. Carey & Co., a N.Y. investment firm.

    A-American was founded by Edmund C. Olson 35 years ago. The family-owned business has more than 100 facilities in five states. Olson also owns large tracts of land in Hawaii.

    In February, Olson entered into a voluntary conservation easement agreement with the newly formed Hawaiian Islands Land Trust to protect 1,276 acres of land on the slopes of Oahu's Waianae mountains. The agreement also covers 907 acres in the Big Island's Kau district. No development, including homes, commercial, roads or power lines will be permitted. Most of the acreage is currently used by three small ranchers, who will continue to lease the land.

    Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Extra Space owns or operates 820 self-storage properties in 34 states and Washington, D.C. The company's properties comprise approximately 550,000 units and more than 59 million square feet of rentable space.

    Sources:


  • Thursday, May 12, 2011 2:55 PM | CSSSA Admin (Administrator)

    PRESS RELEASE

    Tustin, CA May 12, 2011

    Global Marketing Resources (GMR) joined the CSSA in March 2011 and is a new web marketing resource for CSSA members.

    GMR has recently created a division of the business dedicated to serving the Self Storage industry. Warren Willard, a career entrepreneur with considerable sales and marketing experience will lead the division as Vice President.

    GMR is offering CSSA Members a free copy of their industry specific Local Search Marketing report, just click on the following link to receive your copy today. Free Search Marketing Report

    GMR is dedicated to providing affordably priced Local Search Results to the Self Storage industry. Extensive research has been conducted examining the search marketing needs of the self industry and their approach to Local Search Marketing has been designed to insure "page one results” at prices that will insure the ROI that owner/operators seek.

    Contact:

    Warren Willard

    VP - Self Storage Division

    Global Marketing Resources

    2512 Chambers Road, Suite 206

    Tustin CA 92780

    My Direct line: 949-369-9053

    GMR Corporate Office: 714-731-9000

    Email: Warren@gmrwebteam.com

    Web: http://www.gmrwebteam.com/


  • Thursday, May 05, 2011 2:56 PM | CSSSA Admin (Administrator)

    MAY 4, 2011 - Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed House Bill 1265 into law on April 29, amending the current self-storage lien law to allow operators to deliver delinquency notices by hand, e-mail or other "verified" mail means. The law will go into effect July 1.

    "Verified mails" refers to the U.S. Postal Service's certificate of mailing. At a base rate of $1.15, the certificate of mailing is far less costly than Certified Mail, which starts at $5.54.

    Another change to Section 66-31-102 of Tennessee Code Annotated includes the lien-sale newspaper-advertisement requirement. The statute now mandates one-time publishing in a newspaper or publication of local readership. In the past, two published notices were required.

    Other changes:

    • Maximum monthly late fee is $20 or 20 percent of the rent
    • Operators can auction or have a tenant's vehicle removed at 60 days of delinquency, instead of the previous 90.

    The Tennessee Self Storage Association (TNSSA), with support from the national Self Storage Association, spearheaded to effort to make the legislative change.

    "I truly believe the changes will allow self-storage facility owners in Tennessee to more effectively communicate with their customers." said Sherry Cole, self-storage owner and chair of the TNSSA legislative committee. "It's good for business but it's also good for the consumer to bring the law into the 21st century.

    "Our members were so responsive when asked them to call and e-mail their legislators. It was really the entire association who pulled together and made it happen, and I'm very proud of them," Cole said.

    TNSSA President Dee Wiseman Sharp said, "As an insurance agent in the self-storage industry, I'm very excited to see more legal protection for self-storage owners." She added the association will host a May 17 meeting in Knoxville, where lobbyists will be on-hand to explain the changes in the statute. She strongly encourages Tennessee facility owners to attend.

    To follow the progress of the law through the legislature and to read the original bill and its amendments, visit http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1293.

     

    Reposted from: http://www.insideselfstorage.com/news/2011/05/tennessee-gov-signs-selfstorage-lien-law-oks-email-hand-delivered-delinquency-notices.aspx


  • Friday, March 25, 2011 2:56 PM | CSSSA Admin (Administrator)

    Westwood, KS – March 7, 2011 – The National Self Storage Alliance was founded to allow independent self storage operators the ability to market at a level to compete with the largest operators in the industry under a unified brand. With a new partnership, the not-for-profit self storage marketing cooperative has taken a step in leveling the playing field with the self storage industry's giants.

    National Self Storage launched a new website this week, one of the first sites designed and operated by WebWorks, a new self storage marketing service.

    Red Nova Labs, the company that created StorageFront and Self Storage Marketing Ahead, created WebWorks to assist self storage companies with website design, sophisticated development, content management tools, SEO services and web marketing consulting on an ongoing basis.

    "The new battleground is the Internet, and the publically-traded companies and larger operators have the dollars and resources available to them to really dominate that market,” said Travis Morrow, National Self Storage Alliance President/CEO. "So our goal was to get a website that technologically was able to compete with them. We want to allow independent operators the ability to have a website that's just as powerful as the giant down the street from them, but they don't have to spend the millions of dollars.”

    What has made WebWorks so enticing to companies like the National Self Storage Alliance is the affordability of the service. Red Nova Labs does not charge for the design of the site and also provides several features for free, such as its self storage space calculator.

    "We need to perform and earn our keep beyond good web design, which means delivering leads,” said Dan Miller, CEO at Red Nova Labs. "That's what sets us apart—that and two solid years of singular focus on the storage industry.”

    In order to deliver leads, one of the main WebWorks' initiatives is to improve its customer's search engine optimization (SEO). Morrow said improved SEO will be the best benefit to his company.

    "The old site was constructed poorly from an SEO standpoint and needed to be redone,” Morrow said. "We had a lot of features we liked on that site, but from SEO standpoint, it just wasn't up to par where it needed to be to capture the local search terms that Google is looking for now.”

    The new website is built not just with SEO in mind, but it is also geared to be user-friendly. Along with the popular storage calculator, the redesign also included Google Maps of the National Self Storage facilities with the company's shield as each land marker, site slideshows on the facility pages, and a list of storage tips.

    From a backend standpoint, WebWorks has created a site that is easy to use and allows the user to create new content, such as the ability to upload video tours.

    "What we provide the client is complete control over their own site, no more long waits for simple content changes or hourly fees from designers to make changes,” said Tom Cox, WebWorks' Web Visibility Manager. "Owners can edit and change the content on their website as easy as they can a word document, along with the ability to add, remove and change facilities in an instant.”

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  • Friday, March 18, 2011 2:56 PM | CSSSA Admin (Administrator)

    The California Self Storage Association will be relocating on April 15th 2011. Our new office will be located at 4000 MacArthur Blvd., Suite 900 Newport Beach, CA 92660 and our new telephone number and fax will be as follows -  Office - (949) 783.4130  Fax - (949) 861-9425.

    All correspondences after April 15th, 2011 should be mailed to our new address. Please update your records to reflect this change. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us directly.


    About the California Self Storage Association

    Founded in 2002, the California Self Storage Association (CSSA) is the state not-for-profit trade organization dedicated to serving the California self storage industry including owner-operators, facility managers and vendors in the industry. The CSSA represents some 380 direct member companies that own and operate over 800 facilities in California. CSSA direct members range from individual facility owner-operators to multiple-facility operations, to the industry's largest publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).

    Contact (Prior to April 15th):

    Erin King

    Email: Erin.King@cssaweb.com

    Phone (562) 304-2864

    Fax (562) 304-2865 


  • Wednesday, February 23, 2011 1:56 PM | CSSSA Admin (Administrator)

    Some lawmakers in Idaho are unhappy with the state’s purchase of a self-storage facility last summer, and aim to pass legislation to end similar transactions.

    A state-managed endowment trust overseen by the Department of Land paid $2.7 million in August to buy the 400-plus-unit Affordable Self Storage in a Boise suburb. The controversial purchase has been under fire by local business owners and self-storage professionals who questioned if a state-run commercial business could operate fairly.

    Republican Rep. John Vander Woude told the House State Affairs Committee this week that the purchase was an inappropriate expansion of government into the private sector. Vander Woude’s proposal would require state-owned businesses using non-agricultural land be sold to private persons.

    Shortly after the transaction, the national Self Storage Association (SSA) sent a letter to the Idaho Department of Lands (IDL) and Idaho Department of Land Commissioners expressing concerns about the state competing with the private business sector. In the letter, SSA President and CEO Michael T. Scanlon Jr. stated that the purchase of the facility by the state creates an unfair competitive advantage over other local self-storage operators and requested that Idaho divest itself of the property.

    The SSA received a response in November from George B. Bacon, director of the IDL. Bacon who said the state’s practice of purchasing and managing properties including office buildings and parking lots helps mitigate taxes for Idaho citizens and supports public schools and other institutions. He further said the states followed "a traditional investor path” in purchasing the self-storage facility and local citizens enjoy certain ancillary benefits generated by the trust, such as "hunting, fishing, hiking, berry picking,” and "limited camping and motorized activities."

    Sources:


  • Monday, February 21, 2011 1:57 PM | CSSSA Admin (Administrator)

    INDIANAPOLIS IN, February 18, 2011 – In a move that supports the company’s best-in-class service, and focus on insurance-based solutions for the self-storage industry, Jon Vogel was promoted to the position of National Sales Manager.

    2010 was a year focused on partnership at Bader. At the center was Vogel pushing for change; challenging everyone to find a better solution - one that protects owners and their tenants, resulting in happier clients and increased revenue. Vogel is an innovator who is advancing the mission of the company.

    "I want to understand your business and I want you to understand mine. It’s really that simple.” Vogel states, "I’ve got the best in the industry advising me, and an experienced team to make our products easier to offer, and better for your customers. This is about protecting your storage business with insurance, so that you can concentrate on your core business.”

    The focus is on educating, integrating and making Bader programs better than ever. The company has been listening to industry leaders about licensing and the importance of the right program to protect owners and tenants

    Having completed his fourth year with the company, Vogel has a proven track record in Bader’s storage division showing leadership and dedication to both the company and the clients. Vogel, a true rising star, has a background in financial services and property management consulting.

    About Bader
    Bader Company is a national leader in insurance-based solutions for self-storage, and a fully licensed provider of Tenant Insurance.

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    CONTACT:

    Molly Laut – Marketing Director

    mlaut@BADERco.com

    888-223-3726 ext 7016


  • Wednesday, January 19, 2011 1:57 PM | CSSSA Admin (Administrator)

    NEWS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    Bancap Self Storage Group

    Sells Two Trophy Los Angeles County properties sell for $26 million

    January 18, 2011: Bancap Self Storage Group, Inc., the "#1 Self Storage Broker in California,” recently announced that the firm had successfully brokered the sale of two trophy self storage properties located in Los Angeles County. The two properties were 405 Self Storage in the Hawthorne area of Los Angeles County and El Dorado Park Self Storage in Long Beach, California. Dean Keller, the firm's president, was the sole broker in the transaction. The seller was a local private party and the buyer was an affiliate of a real estate investment trust (REIT) specializing in self storage properties.

    "This was a very rare opportunity to purchase two trophy quality properties in high density coastal L.A. County locations,” Keller said, "These are the types of properties that every self storage investor would love to own – great infill locations, strong markets, good occupancy and first class construction.”

    The properties sold for a total price of $26,000,000 which represented an attractive capitalization rate on the current net operating income. The all cash transaction equaled nearly $150 per net rentable square foot.

    405 Self Storage in Hawthorne contains just over 87,000 net rentable square feet of self storage space demised into approximately 770 units. El Dorado Park Self Storage in east Long Beach contains over 87,000 net rentable square feet demised into approximately 825 units.

    "Other than a couple of portfolio transactions, there have been very few non-distressed self storage properties that have sold in Southern California this past year,” Keller explained, "Most owners think they cannot obtain a good price in today's market, but that just is not the case. We have several motivated buyers that are aggressively looking for stabilized facilities in good markets. The key for the seller is to hire a self storage broker with a proven track record of getting the highest and best price possible. Self storage is such a unique property type and it takes a very specific expertise with decades of experience to maximize value for sellers in this unique property niche.”

    Bancap Self Storage Group is the "#1 Self Storage Broker in California” with over $900 million in completed self storage sales, including many lender-owned REO properties, numerous portfolio sales, and a record setting single property sale at over $31 million. For more information contact Bancap Self Storage Group at (949) 888-5355 or visit the company web site at https://cssaweb.site-ym.com/global_inc/editor_v5_1_0/2007/www.bancapselfstorage.com

    Contact:

    Dean Keller

    Email: DKeller@BancapSelfStorage.com

    Phone (949) 888-5355

    Fax (949) 203-6105 


  • Tuesday, January 04, 2011 1:58 PM | CSSSA Admin (Administrator)

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

    (Temple, GA – January 4, 2011) Janus International has acquired the rolling steel manufacturing line from Windsor Republic Doors of Little Rock, Arkansas. The acquisition will allow Janus to now manufacture their Challenger medium duty rolling steel door (the Janus MD door) in Surprise, Arizona in addition to the headquarters location in Temple, Georgia. Certain guide configurations will also be offered that are similar in design to those of Windsor Republic Doors. "This acquisition further illustrates our strong standing in the rolling steel community,” states Janus President David Curtis. "Expanding our manufacturing locations and capabilities offers us greater range and service to our customers.”

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    Janus International is a leading manufacturer of rolling doors for the self storage, commercial and industrial markets. Headquartered in Temple, GA, Janus has four U.S. facilities and joint ventures in the U.K. and Mexico. For more information on our products, visit http://www.janusintl.com/.

    Contact:

    Amy Fuhlman

    Director of Marketing

    J A N U S I N T E R N A T I O N A L

    p. 770.562.2850

    f. 770.562.1991

    m. 404.787.8444

    http://www.janusintl.com/

    amyf@janusintl.com

    Visit Janus on Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter


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