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Warhol Paintings Sold by Extra Space Management
Self storage. You choose the right facility to keep you property safe and secure. You can sleep easy knowing that you’re stuff is guarded from thrives and vandals. What happens, though, when you property is sold out from under you from the people you pay to protect it?
That’s what one tenant of a self storage facility managed by Extra Space Management claims happened to her. ESM claims she didn’t pay her rent.
Certainly a tough spot to be in by either party. Self storage facilities make there money from loyal tenants, that’s the structure anyway. Selling a tenants belongings is usually a last resort to compensate for losses accrued over a usually long spam of time.
Read the full story here. By ADAM KLASFELD
Starting the year off with a sonic boom
What a way to start the year, we are completely slammed!
After my eyes get back above water I’ll post some shots of some recent projects. I have been lucky enough to have detailed some projects within driving distance, so I have had more field trips lately. Normally we detail work across the country and as soon as we turn the project over to our customer e never hear about it again, so this is a much welcomes change of pace.
A few of my customers have really stepped up there game, which has led me to step up mine. Doing some exciting stuff, can’t wait to share some things with everyone.
The first picture is a metal building we food the shop drawings for all the way through, we are seeing the main frames.
metal building frames
The second picture is a local storage project we detailed.
unit opposite lobby
~ River City Design is a full service drafting and design company specializing in the self storage industry. Visit us on the web at our website .
The New Year
Well, it’s been a while since I have had the time to sit down and write a few things, so here it goes.
Lobby Framing
Last year was definitely a much better year than 2010 but with an election year coming up I am curious how 2012 will compare to last years. Of course there is only one way we are going to know for certain, I can’t help but wonder.
Things are off to a bit of a promising start as they were last year, maybe even a little better in fact. We have 3 jobs that we have been given all a verbal on, and we have bid a few more respectable sized to take off in the 2nd quarter.
Sidewall canopy framing
Self Storage new construction seems to be down overall in comparison to the larger brands buying up distressed facilities for pennies on the dollar when compared to new construction. Also by judging the Messenger magazine, major cities seemed to be oversupplied or saturated with self storage sq.ft.
No matter, happy new year, and lets hope self storage construction will see a rise again.
You can see more pictures of the project pictured here and more at our facebook page here.
Super busy
We have been super busy lately. It seems that all the work we have bid is finally starting to then loose . We detailed a nice two story close by and they have just poured the slab on it so we should get some pictures rolling in soon. Also detailed a nice three story close by and they are not to far from breaking ground on it as well. Stay tuned for some good updates.
Federal Website Lending Self Storage a Helping Hand
(Holly Robinson) There is one thing that is really frustrating about the law. Even though it is in place to protect us from others and in some cases protect us from ourselves it can be a pain in the neck to understand. Too often, especially for small business owners like those in the self storage industry, we don’t know we did something wrong until it is too late and we have to pay for it (literally and metaphorically).
Maybe the federal government, more specifically the Department of Labor, is tired of fielding so many phone calls just asking questions or they actually want to keep people out of court. Whatever the reason for it, they have launched a series of online advisers to help answer whatever questions people may have about federal employment laws.
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