Tuesday, December 3, 2024

How to prepare a new home for a child? Baby Proofing Checklist: Before B...


If you’ve recently moved to a new home with your baby, there’s something you must do even before your little one begins to crawl around the house – it’s called baby-proofing. Use our baby proofing checklist to secure your home and prepare for emergencies.

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Suisun City, CA 94585

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Saturday, November 30, 2024

Storage Auctions

In the United States, self-storage facilities may hold storage auctions or lien sales to vacate non-paying tenants according to their enforcement rights that are outlined within the lien law of each jurisdiction. In Canada, the process and legal requirements are outlined in the Repair and Storage Liens Act.

Facilities owners are generally required to first notify the tenant of the outstanding debt, commonly by certified or registered mail to the address on file with the facility. If the debt remains unpaid, the facility must then give public notice of the sale or auction, generally in a newspaper of general circulation in most states, though some states may allow public notice of sales to be done via the internet. The tenant has the right to pay their outstanding bill at any time until the moment the auction begins and thus reclaim rights to the unit and their items; those units would be removed from the auction (which, in some cases, may result in the entire auction being cancelled).

The auctions/sales are open to the general public, with most bidders buying for the purpose of reselling for profit. Once the auction for a unit starts, the door to the unit is opened and potential bidders are allowed to view the contents only by looking in from the doorway; they may not step inside, touch, or move any of the contents prior to the auction. Generally, the spaces and their contents are sold "as is, where is" with no warranties or guarantees implied or provided, and the terms of sale are cash-only upon conclusion of the auction. The purchaser of a unit takes possession of its entire contents and is responsible for removing them within a set period of time. In some cases, the facility may allow the purchaser to rent the unit and/or charge a refundable deposit for cleaning of the unit once it has been emptied.

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Suisun City, CA 94585

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Thursday, November 28, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving


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Suisun City, CA 94585

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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Moving your music studio. You will be shocked when you learn this fact! ...


Often packing and loading for concerts, tours, or music festivals, you guys must be doing the relocating jobs yet a bit less often than the professional movers do. Not so often though you have to relocate your recording studio. So, once you have to you may face one very important issue: is my new music studio all ready to settle in? How to make sure I don’t ruin my studio by moving it to a new place? The answer in this video.

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Railroad Avenue Self Storage
515 Railroad Avenue
Suisun City, CA 94585

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Self Storage Worldwide

Self-storage or variations on the business model are now found in many parts of the world. In 2014, FEDESSA, the Federation of European Self Storage Associations, published a report about the state of the self-storage industry in Europe. In this report, it was estimated that 975 facilities exist in the United Kingdom, 430 in France, 264 in The Netherlands, 210 in Spain, 131 in Germany, and 112 in Sweden. No other country in Europe has more than 100 facilities. Overall, the report estimates 2,391 total facilities in Europe, or about 75 million square feet of rentable storage space. This compares with over 52,000 facilities in the US (236 million square feet), and 1,100 facilities in Australia (39 million square feet). In the UK, charges are related to capacity in ft², transportation, hour/loading, with low-cost alternatives to traditional self-storage.

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Railroad Avenue Self Storage
515 Railroad Avenue
Suisun City, CA 94585

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Monday, November 18, 2024

Self Storage Today

At year-end 2019, there were 47,539 self-storage facilities in the United States on industrial and commercial land parcels. There is more than 1.9 billion square feet of available self-storage in space in U.S. The six largest publicly traded storage operators (four REITs, and U-Haul own or operate approximately 18% of self-storage facilities. The global industry was worth 48.02 billion U.S. dollars in 2020. More recently, in many metropolitan cities where competition among storage companies is fierce, better parcels of land near residential and commercial areas are being converted into self-storage once approved by zoning panels. Companies are becoming more adept at manufacturing these modular storage units, allowing operators to get up and running quickly. To support the need, businesses like PODS are expected to enter the modular construction effort as well.

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707.425.7300
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515 Railroad Avenue
Suisun City, CA 94585

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Friday, November 15, 2024

How to Pack Pictures and Mirrors for Moving


This video shows step-by-step instructions for packing a framed item using a U-Haul Mirror & Picture Box.

707.425.7300
Railroad Avenue Self Storage
515 Railroad Avenue
Suisun City, CA 94585

Office Hours
Monday thru Saturday
9:00am – 5:30pm