Legal and Insurance

Get an overview of four critical legal concerns related to daily self-storage operation, including the most important lawsuits to avoid, tenant bankruptcy, late-fee charges and employee overtime.

Learn how a self-storage tenant-insurance or tenant-protection program can be a valuable source of additional revenue. Get tips on choosing a program, training staff, and marketing and selling to customers.

This session will increase your familiarity with today’s employment laws, including legal restrictions that affect you as a self-storage operator and common human-resources errors to avoid.

Learn how the key terms and conditions in a self-storage rental agreement—limitation of value, non-bailment, insurance, lien-sale rights and tenant termination—impact your legal relationship with customers.

Technologies used by self-storage operators are subject to privacy and data breaches that could be costly to business. Learn about the potential for exposures and how you can manage and mitigate risks.

Learn the right way to protect self-storage property and revenue with this overview of insurance policies, industry-specific endorsements, the underwriting process, limits, deductible options and more.

Are you prepared to act in the event of a disaster? Learn what crises can impact a self-storage business, what first-response actions should be made, and how to minimize injury to tenants, staff and property.

Find out why self-storage facilities should be taxed differently than other types of commercial real estate and learn how you can lower your taxes through an appeals process with your local assessor.