Storage

Life Storage Corporate Office

Life Storage began in 1982 as Sovran Storage, a financial planning firm that invested in storage units.

By 1985, the company had built its own self-storage facility and within 3 years, it had accumulated about 30 facilities.

By 1995, the company had rebranded as Uncle Bob’s Self-Storage and expanded to 62 self-storage facilities.

In 2016, the company acquired Life Storage for $1.3 billion. Following this acquisition, the company rebranded all units to the Life Storage name.

Life Storage is listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol LSI.

In February 2023, Public Storage announced that it would make a bid for Life Storage at $11 billion. Public Storage had tried earlier to acquire Life Storage but was unsuccessful.

As of 2023, Life Storage had more than 1,100 facilities in 37 states.

Life Storage maintains a corporate office in Buffalo, New York.

Life Storage

Life Storage began in 1982 as Sovran Storage, a financial planning firm that invested in storage units.

By 1985, the company had built its own self-storage facility and within 3 years, it had accumulated about 30 facilities.

By 1995, the company had rebranded as Uncle Bob’s Self-Storage and expanded to 62 self-storage facilities.

History

In 2016, the company acquired Life Storage for $1.3 billion. Following this acquisition, the company rebranded all units to the Life Storage name.

Life Storage is listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol LSI.

In February 2023, Public Storage announced that it would make a bid for Life Storage at $11 billion. Public Storage had tried earlier to acquire Life Storage but was unsuccessful.

As of 2023, Life Storage had more than 1,100 facilities in 37 states.

Life Storage maintains a corporate office in Buffalo, New York.

Extra Space Storage Corporate Office

Founded by Kenneth Woolley in 1977, Extra Space Storage has evolved into a real estate investment trust that invests in self-storage units.

Extra Space rents a variety of storage spaces, including boat and RV storage, climate-controlled self-storage units, and spaces for commercial business storage needs.

As of September 2022, the company owned and/or operated 2,327 locations in 41 states, and Washington, D.C. comprising approximately 175.1 million square feet of net rentable space in 1.6 million storage units.

That makes Extra Space Storage the 2nd largest owner of self-storage units in the United States.

The company is listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol EXR. The stock increased nearly 5 percent the week of January 11th.

Some experts say that self-storage values are a good indicator of how the housing market is doing.

Extra Space Storage maintains a corporate office in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Extra Space Storage

Founded by Kenneth Woolley in 1977, Extra Space Storage has evolved into a real estate investment trust that invests in self-storage units.

Extra Space rents a variety of storage spaces, including boat and RV storage, climate-controlled self-storage units, and spaces for commercial business storage needs.

History

That makes Extra Space Storage the 2nd largest owner of self-storage units in the United States.

The company is listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol EXR. The stock increased nearly 5 percent the week of January 11th.

Some experts say that self-storage values are a good indicator of how the housing market is doing.

Extra Space Storage maintains a corporate office in Salt Lake City, Utah.

MakeSpace Corporate Office

In 2012, Sam Rosen had to help his girlfriend move from her flooded apartment. They stored her items in a self storage location, but when a winter storm hit just a week later, she needed to find her snow boots.

After spending hours going through box after box, Rosen thought that there had to be a better way. MakeSpace was founded in 2013, along with Rosen’s friend Rahul Gandhi.

MakeSpace is different from self-storage units in that clients make a call and MakeSpace will deliver a minimum of 4 storage containers, each with the ability to hold 100 pounds. Pack the bin and mark each one with a short label, such as Bob’s Shoes. Call MakeSpace when you are ready to have the boxes picked up. MakeSpace then takes pictures of all of your items and scans each bin’s bar code to create an online visual catalog of your items. You can order any of your items back for return within 48 hours for $29.

If you don’t need any of the items and you simply want to store them, those 4 boxes cost $25 a month to store.

In May 2014, the company raised $8 million in Series A funding. As of March 2020, the company operates in 24 cities and Canada.

In March 2020, MakeSpace created its new Seasonal Closet service, where clients can store seasonal items and have them delivered to their home twice a year for only $29 a month.

MakeSpace maintains a corporate office in New York, New York.

MakeSpace

After spending hours going through box after box, Rosen thought that there had to be a better way. MakeSpace was founded in 2013, along with Rosen’s friend Rahul Gandhi.

History

If you don’t need any of the items and you simply want to store them, those 4 boxes cost $25 a month to store.

In May 2014, the company raised $8 million in Series A funding. As of March 2020, the company operates in 24 cities and Canada.

In March 2020, MakeSpace created its new Seasonal Closet service, where clients can store seasonal items and have them delivered to their home twice a year for only $29 a month.

MakeSpace maintains a corporate office in New York, New York.

Neighbor.Com Corporate Office

Neighbor.com was founded in 2017 by three friends, Colton Gardner, Joseph Woodbury, and Preston Alder. Neighbor.com works similar to the way that Airbnb works: people who have extra space, whether it is a garage, an empty lot, attic, or basement, can rent it out to local people who need to store “stuff”.

Neighbor.com insures those with space for $2 million in case their property is somehow damaged by items that are stored or if someone should get hurt while moving the stuff onto their property. Property or homeowners also have the right to reject any client for nearly any reason and they have the right to inspect all boxes or other packages.

Renting through Neighbor.com generally costs half of what a regular storage unit would charge. On average, a typical 5X5 foot storage unit costs $50, but it is half that price on the company website.

Storing on private property is also safer, considering that one in every 5 storage units are broken into every year.

The company raised $10 million in January 2020, in addition to the $2.7 million in seed money raised in March 2018.

Neighbor.com operates in 48 states and the District of Columbia. Headquarters are located in American Fork, Utah.

Neighbor.com

Renting through Neighbor.com generally costs half of what a regular storage unit would charge. On average, a typical 5X5 foot storage unit costs $50, but it is half that price on the company website.

History

Storing on private property is also safer, considering that one in every 5 storage units are broken into every year.

The company raised $10 million in January 2020, in addition to the $2.7 million in seed money raised in March 2018.

Neighbor.com operates in 48 states and the District of Columbia. Headquarters are located in American Fork, Utah.

Pods Moving And Storage Corporate Office

PODS (Portable On Demand Storage) was founded in Florida by Peter Warhurst in 1998. His family owned a moving and storage company, but he wanted to take it a step further. He invented the mobile storage unit, more commonly referred to as a shipping container or pod.

In 2007, Pods was acquired by Arcapita for $451.4 million. In 2012, Pods sued U-Haul for using the name Pod when referring to their U-Box product. U-Haul ended up paying Pods $62 million for infringement of copyright.