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How Self-Storage Actually Helps Protect the Environment
With climate change looming and pollution becoming a huge issue all over the world, most of us are giving serious thought to how our actions are affecting the environment. How about self-storage?
How to Prepare Your Home for Paying Guests
The sharing economy has grown enormously in the last few years, whether it’s sharing cars, houses, workspaces or other assets. Sharing your home with tourists has become a popular way to make some extra cash, and there are plenty of websites that facilitate this type of activity. If you’re lucky enough to be living near a tourist hotspot, you could give it a try.
How to Deal with Your Children’s Clutter
Whether you are raising one child or several, whether they are toddlers, teenagers or anything in between, and whether you are living in a small apartment in a large house, there is one constant every parent has to deal with: the dreaded clutter.
Boston’s Self-Storage Sector Shows Signs of Strength, Despite Negative Y-O-Y Performance
Boston’s self-storage market is historically under-supplied, featuring a net market penetration of 4.5 rentable square feet per capita, lower than both the national average of 6.3 square feet per capita and the traditional benchmark of 7 square feet per capita.
The Portland Paradox: Self-Storage Construction Still Active, Despite Drop in Street Rates
The self-storage industry in the Portland metro area is following a trend that, at first sight, seems rather contradictory. While street rates for self-storage are declining, the proportion of planned and under- construction projects remains one of the highest in the nation.
5 Things You Absolutely Need to Know about Chicago Before Committing to an Autumn Move
Chicago is famous for its long and brutal winters. However, if you’re planning to move to the city in the coming weeks, don’t worry! Chicago is nicer in the autumn than in the summer or winter, so you’re in luck!
An Easy 8-Step Guide that Will Help you Prepare your Garden for a Midwestern Winter
There are still a few good weather days until the winter truly sets in, but diligent gardeners in Midwest know that preparations for the cold season should already be underway. Whether you’re growing veggies, herbs, flowers, or all of the above, here are the main operations that should be happening in your garden this fall.
Las Vegas Emerges as the Hottest Self Storage Market in the U.S. in Terms of Rent Growth
Self-storage street rates fell quite steeply this summer in most of the major metros in the US, with one glaring exception – Las Vegas. Not only did self-storage rent not decrease in Las Vegas area, but it actually saw double-digit growth in some cases.
Practical and Affordable Toy Storage Ideas
If you’re a parent, you’re all too familiar with this problem: toys are taking over your entire house. Going into your child’s room is a veritable obstacle course. You’re trying to avoid walking on Lego(opens in new tab), only to end up stepping on a toy car that takes you on a wild ride, straight into the nearest wall.
7 Easy Steps to Downsizing
Reasons for downsizing vary, from empty nesters deciding to move into smaller, easier to maintain homes, to young people pursuing job opportunities in cities where housing is a hot commodity. Whatever your motives, downsizing is definitely a handful.
The Best 12 Online Tools to Help You Move
Moving is often associated with chaos and unpredictability, and for good reason. Now, there’s an easy fix, with technology providing solutions even for less well-organized people. Many tasks can be done online—from hiring moving companies and managing your budget to finding people for the odd jobs, getting to know your new neighbors, and more!
8 Moving Tips to Make Your Life Easier
Everyone dreads moving – it’s a chaotic, exhausting event. The list of things you need to accomplish in just one day is, frankly, intimidating, so here are some cool tricks that will give you a head start.