Learn how to
STAND STRONG IN THE FACE OF CHANGE
at TSSA's 2019 Big Ideas in Storage annual conference. Join us for three days of education, networking and a trade show chock-full of experts at the premier event for the self-storage industry in Texas.
TSSA’s annual conference gives you the opportunity to not only learn, but also make new connections, see old friends and learn from other attendees in a variety of unique, entertaining and meaningful ways.
We have some new experiences planned this year.
You won't want to miss it!
THE WOODLANDS WATERWAY MARRIOTT
1601 Lake Robbins Dr, The Woodlands, TX 77380
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by Connie N. Heyer, TSSA Legal Counsel
The lease contract. The single most important transaction between a landlord and tenant.
For the protection of both the landlord and the tenant, a written lease needs to be in place to outline exactly what “the deal” is.
For this “Back to Basics” look, we focus on the single most important part of doing business.
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Published in the current issue of
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Cultivating Leadership in Sales
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by Cody Reynolds
Fundamentally speaking, we are in business to rent self-storage units and collect money for those rented units.
When it comes to standard operating procedures, there are dangers looming...
the solution is for the information to move from knowledge into action! Sounds simple, but hearing is not necessarily doing and knowledge is not exactly the same as putting that knowledge to use.
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ASK THE EXPERTS
If you are a TSSA member, you have access to our exclusive "Ask the Experts" database, with answers available 24/7 through the Members-Only part of
txssa.org
. With more than 400 self-storage questions and answers from our team of industry experts, the database is searchable by both category and keyword.
Question:
After sending a late notice to a tenant, he notified us that he had moved out of the unit and left the lock on. When we cut the lock, we saw that he had left some of his things in the unit. Since he wrote to us that he had moved out, is this a case for foreclosure or abandonment?
Answer:
This may be a case for abandonment if you meet the requisites of "abandonment" under Paragraph 26 of the TSSA lease. One way that a unit can be considered abandoned under Paragraph 26 is if 1) the tenant hasn’t paid rent, 2) the lock has been removed by someone other than the Lessor or has been removed by the Lessor when exercising a seizure of the unit’s contents, AND 3) the tenant’s space contains nothing of value to the ordinary person.
If the tenant is delinquent, and you have a signed TSSA lease, you could overlock the unit and remove the tenant’s lock. Then, if the space contains nothing of value to the ordinary person, you have satisfied one of the definitions of "abandonment" in Paragraph 26 and may enter, remove, and dispose of all of the contents.
For added security, you should send the tenant a Notice of Abandonment form which can be found on the
Goldbook
© CD Appendix or in the Members Only part of txssa.org as Form MISC-3. You will check the second box (certifying that the tenant is delinquent in rent, the facility removed the tenant’s lock when exercising a statutory seizure, and the space contained nothing of value to the ordinary person). In this notice, you tell the tenant that if the tenant has not notified you by a certain date indicating the contents are not abandoned, the contents will be considered to be abandoned, and the facility will dispose of them.
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Matt Janes of Rosewood Property Company will lead the TSSA Board as president in the coming year, along with J.D. Blacklock of Blacklock Storage as vice president, Jeanne Dube of Solid Ground Storage as treasurer and JoLea Pingelton of All*Star Storage as secretary.
We want to extend a warm welcome to our newly elected and re-elected directors helping govern on the TSSA Board of Directors. Dube and Dave Morgan of SBS Construction were re-elected while new directors are Bobby Grover of Big Tex Storage and John McAfee of MARJAX/The Storage Place.
Click here to see the full board.
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Jeanne Dube
Solid Ground Storage, LLC
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Bobby Grover
Big Tex Storage, LLC
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Dave Morgan
SBS Construction
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Our members are standouts!
Storageunits.com
has named the top self-storage facilities in the Austin, Dallas and Houston areas. In order to make their top picks they looked at all of the facilities in each area, including an in-depth review of each facility’s amenities, features, and customer reviews.
In Austin, 14 of 18 facilities named are TSSA members. In Dallas, 25 of 29 facilities named are members, while in Houston, 28 of 36 facilities named are members.
Congratulations to our members who made it on the list of Best Storage Units in Austin, Dallas and Houston! We are extremely proud of these statistics! Click on the city badges below to check out the top picks.
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Fundraising efforts continue this year at TSSA's Big Ideas in Storage annual conference in
The Woodlands on October 13-15.
Support our efforts by making an in-kind donation or purchasing an item off our Amazon wish list.
Contact
Mallory Scott
at the TSSA office with any questions or for more information on how you can get involved.
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THANK YOU to the following donors
Alamo Drafthouse Austin, Capco Steel, Inc. Capital Grill, Children's Museum of Houston, Chuck Richey and Rebecca Noelke-Richey, Corienne La Bay, Corpus Christi Hooks, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Easy Storage Solutions, Four Points Family Chiropractic, Frisco RoughRiders, Galveston CVB, Hilton Anatole, Hilton Austin Airport, Hixon Properties Incorporated, Hotel Galvez & Spa, Moody Gardens, Irving CVB, Kathy Coffey, Lone Star Flight Museum, Messina Hof Estate Winery & Resort, Metal Dynamics, Noah's Ark Development, Omni Austin Hotel Downtown, PTI Security Systems, Quik# Door Numbers, San Antonio Riverwalk Association, Scarborough Renaissance Festival, Schlitterbahn Galveston, Sea World San Antonio, Six Flags Over Texas, Sleep with Eagles, Superior Metal Services, Texas Rangers, The Parham Group, Top Golf – Spring, Total Wine & More, Twelve Rivers Realty, Vivid IP Solutions, Woodlands Waterway Marriott, X-15 Enterprises, LLC.
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TSSA is working with Charity Storage to bring our members another simple way to support
Shriners Hospitals for Children—Galveston.
It is a win-win for you, your customers and your community. Your customers can donate unwanted items and you can raise money for Shriners kids! And, a program like this could bring in new customers & raise public awareness about your facility.
HOW IT WORKS:
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Storage facility designates an empty unit as the Charity Storage Donation Drop-Off Point. (You can dictate what kind of items are acceptable for the donation unit.)
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Tenants and the community (residents and businesses) donate items to the unit in exchange for a charitable donation receipt.
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Charity Storage Unit is auctioned either onsite or through an online auction.
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Funds are disbursed from Charity Storage and 60% of auction proceeds are given to the facility's
CHOSEN CHARITY,*
20% to Kure It Cancer Research, 10% to the SSA Foundation Scholarship Program and 10% is retained by Charity Storage to help underwrite administrative costs.
*TSSA requests that members select Shriners Hospitals for Children—Galveston as your charity of choice.
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