INDUSTRY NEWS Q2 2024
several other new features to help self-storage operators significantly streamline their business processes and gain valuable data insights, including targeted and filtered tabs on landing pages, Google Analytics 4 Advanced Setup and Looker Studio dashboards, unified communications, rent management, tenant warehouse, and promotions management. Details are available at
www.tenantinc.com.
the all-new, hardwired smart locking solution, the Nokē Smart Entry platform also offers a high-tech, battery-powered, external smart lock known as Nokē ONE. These two smart locking technologies, paired with a full suite of smart entry point products and mobile technology, offer a solution for all self-storage smart access applications. Visit
www.janusintl.com/noke-ion for more details.
MSM Opens Archives Modern Storage Media (MSM) has unlocked its vault of archives, granting website visitors free access to 43 years’ worth of storage-specific con- tent—the equivalent of 40,000-plus pages. Users can search the archives by keyword (topic, person, facility, company, market, etc.) on MSM’s web- site and view or download issues as high-resolution PDFs. Since 1979, Messenger (formerly
Mini-Storage Messenger) has been providing the self-storage industry with invaluable information about the latest trends, news, advancements, data, and more. To browse the archives for free, visit
www.modernstoragemedia.com/ msm-magazine-archives.
Janus Unveils Nokē Ion Janus International Group, Inc., recently announced the addition of Nokē Ion, an inside the door, mag- netic, hardwired smart locking system into its award-winning line of Nokē Smart Entry products. In addition to
42 Self-Storage NOW!
Storage Drug Bust On March 4, 855 pounds of methamphetamine, known as crystal meth, was seized from a unit at a Public Storage facility in Norcross, Ga., by the Clayton County Police Department. Officials estimated that the meth, which was prepack- aged for distribution and stored in numerous Tupperware containers, had a street value of $1.5 million. Officials believe the meth was intended to be sold all over metro Atlanta and up and down the East Coast. DEA agents said they were given a tip, used some good police work to put the clues together, and it led them to the storage facility in Norcross.
MSM Publishes Legal Newsletter After more than 20 years, the Legal Monthly Minute, published by Scott Zucker, a partner in the law firm of Weissmann Zucker Euster + Katz P.C. in Atlanta, Ga., will now be published by Modern Storage Media (MSM). MSM’s partnership with the Legal Monthly Minute will enable Zucker’s pertinent, industry-focused legal information to be disseminated to self-storage owner-operators throughout the United States on a larger scale. Zucker’s Legal Monthly Minute articles have been reprinted in numerous trade association newsletters and magazines, including MSM’s Messenger. They’ve also been used to create his “Legal Topics in Self Storage” books (First and Second Editions). To subscribe, visit
www.modernstoragemedia.com/legal-minute.
Stolen Guitars Recovered A musician in Cobb County, Ga., is grateful to the local police department for recovering the 20 heirloom guitars that were stolen from his storage unit. The man notified police upon finding a different lock securing the unit he was renting at a Compass Self Storage facility. David Cahill, a thief responsible for multiple break- ins at the facility, was arrested and charged after police secured a search warrant and uncovered 19 stolen guitars in Cahill’s house. The remaining guitar was in New York, but the police seized it and delivered all 20 guitars to the victim’s home.
SECOND QUARTER 2024
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46
