In a Seeking Alpha article Hoya Capital Research explained that “roughly one in ten Americans currently rent space in a self-storage facility” and I suppose that makes me of the “30 million Americans” that “park their possessions in one of 50,000 self-storage facilities throughout the country”.
My self storage experience is going to be short-lived however, as my daughter needed a place to store her couch this summer, as she prepares for her senior year in college. When I asked the leasing agent whether there was room available, she said that there was just one