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How Self Storage Can Help Event Planners

When you attend a great event, you rarely think about the choreography happening behind the curtain or after the last guest leaves. Unless, of course, you’re an event planner — an industry that has grown 8.6% per year on average over the five years between 2020 and 2025. It shows no signs of slowing down either, as small businesses and event planners continue to carve out their place across America.

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Over the last decade, few real estate sectors have skyrocketed like the self-storage market. The growth in this industry can be explained by increased urbanization and an improved economic outlook.

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.

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Houston Self-Storage: Does Space City Need Any More of It?

Houston is famous for space, not just NASA’s center for human spaceflight, but also the way it has tended to expand to accommodate a growing population. The same might be said for the self-storage industry in the city, which has 68.4 million square feet of space, and its self-storage footage per person ratio of more than 9.5 is one of the highest in the country, according to Yardi Matrix in July 2019. But the data also reveals that street rates on a range of self-storage unit sizes in Space City have dropped significantly on a year-over-year basis.

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, only to end up stepping on a toy car that takes you on a wild ride, straight into the nearest wall.

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Self-Storage Regional Differences

Self-storage is a growing industry and it is used by people across the US for a variety of reasons. But are the storage services on offer different depending on where in the US you live? And do the conditions in different regions of the country make some features provided by self-storage facilities more desirable than others?

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.