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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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12 Tips To Make A Living Room Super-Cozy

When people think about their most relaxing time of the day, they often think about being home, maybe unwinding with family. The place in the home that most commonly has all of this going on is in the living room.

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Urban Living Upstages Suburbia Even In Pandemic Year: LA, NYC Stand Out As Top Cities For Renter Interest

The rental market experienced significant disruptions last year, mostly due to the global health crisis, which caused changes in both lifestyle and housing preferences. Amid health, affordability, and employment concerns, 18% more renters changed residences in 2020 compared to 2019. According to our recent analysis of approx. 1.7 million renter applications, 69% of renters looked for housing in the same state, with the remaining 31% eyeing a different state for their new home.

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10 Effective Tips And Tricks that Will Help You Successfully Move Your 4-bedroom House Into Self Storage

Whether you’ve been using self storage for a while or you’re a first-time user, packing up your 4-bedroom while selling your home might feel like an overwhelming task. However, you can simplify this process if you plan everything in advance. Here are some steps you can take to successfully move the contents of your 4-bedroom house in self storage:

Top 10 Most Popular US States For Gardening

Among other things, 2020 was a year of discovery. The shelter-in-place orders, combined with the social distancing measures put in place in every state, pushed people to find new ways to spend their time. One such activity is gardening, a hobby that became more popular at the beginning of the pandemic, and it looks like it will continue to be.

The Sharing Economy At Its Best – Top 10 Things To Enjoy Without Owning

The development and expansion of the sharing economy has created a new way to enjoy life, often more flexible and less burdened by long-term financial commitments. Tech has only helped promote and facilitate collaborative consumption and bring it up to unprecedented levels. From transportation to consumer goods, services and property — everything can now be rented and used without owning.

Top 10 Multi-Purpose Kitchen Appliances And Utensils Perfect For Small Spaces

Cooking in a small kitchen can be a challenge — however, you can save a lot of space and streamline the cooking process by choosing multi-purpose kitchen appliances and utensils. One of the main reasons why storage space in our kitchen cabinets and our countertops never seems to be enough is we often feel compelled to purchase new and shiny appliances and utensils that we end up hardly ever using.