Moving From a House to an Apartment: What to Expect, How to Downsize & How Self Storage Helps
For some, moving from a house to an apartment is a financial decision. For others, it’s about simplifying life. Maybe the kids have moved out and half the house sits empty, or you’re approaching retirement and no longer want to spend weekends on repairs. Or perhaps you’ve been weighing the cost of buying a home and wondering whether renting simply makes more sense right now.
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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.
Top 5 Markets for New Self-Storage Construction
The self-storage industry has become one of real estate’s hotspots, mostly thanks to the growing job market and heightened demand that keeps investors busy. Whether people are buying more, or, on the contrary, are downsizing their home, they need storage facilities to keep things in order. According to the National Self-Storage Report conducted by Yardi Matrix in August 2019, the development activity intensified in about 40% of the top markets, compared to the previous month, with the number of self-storage projects under construction or in the planning stages being equivalent to 9.5% of the total current inventory. Drawn from Yardi Matrix’s national database of more than 27,000 stores, here are the top 5 hottest markets for new self-storage construction:
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!
Self-Storage for Digital Nomads
Exploring foreign countries, living near the beach, meeting new people, working when you want to—being a digital nomad could certainly be an attractive lifestyle! If you want to try it, your first challenges will include thinking about what to do with all your stuff and how to keep traveling light. That’s where self-storage can help out.
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.
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