Section 5 • Renting To Business Customers


What And Why? Paper-based records clearly represent the item most often stored by business customers, as seen in Table 5.3. With 43.4


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Office furniture Office supplies


Office equipment (excluding computers)


Computers 4.6%


25.0% 24.7%


26.7% 18.6%


Inventory/Stock 26.6% Books/Magazines Vehicles


12.4% 7.0%


Paper-based business records


Computer-based business records


Valuable items 43.4%


18.2% 13.6%


Source: 2017 Self Storage Demand Study (SSA)


percent storing paper-based records, some facilities have opted to specialize in records storage and provide specialized services such as pickup and deliv- ery or document retrieval. More traditional facilities may offer the rental of racks or shelving to organize records while in storage.


Office equipment (excluding computers) is stored by 26.7 percent of


business customers, with 18.6 percent storing computers and 18.2 percent storing computer-based business records. Inventory and stock is stored by 26.6 percent of business customers.


With 43.4 percent storing paper-based records,


some facilities have opted to specialize in records storage and provide specialized services such as pickup and delivery or document retrieval. More traditional facilities may offer the rental of racks or shelving to organize records while in storage.


Office furniture is stored by business customers 25 percent of the time,


and office supplies are stored 24.7 percent of the time, according to the SSA Demand Study. See Chart 5.9 on the opposite page.


Business customers utilize self-storage units for a va-


riety of reasons, as shown in Chart 5.9. More often than not they are storing business records to conform with le- gal or government requirements (32.6 percent). The next biggest reason is to store inventory (30.2 percent); 28.7 percent store office supplies, furniture, or equipment that they do not have room for at their office. Storing business records for reasons other than to meet legal requirements accounts for the reason to store 24.5 percent of the time.


Storing items temporarily is another reason for using


self-storage (16.4 percent), followed by storing items that the business no longer needs or wants until they find a buyer or another way to dispose of them (14.5 percent).


Some business customers (10.3 percent) use a storage


unit as a distribution center for their products. Conve- nience store snack distributors or bread companies are among those who will utilize storage in this way, having big rigs deliver the supplies to the facility so that the indi- vidual drivers can pick them up there.


Other reasons for business customers storing includes


temporary storage while moving their business location (10.9 percent); temporary storage due to a natural disas- ter such as the recent hurricanes in Texas, a flood, or other natural disaster (8.2 percent); or storage for extra office space during busy times (8.7 percent).


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