We operate in an area that has a few over 100 degree days in the summertime, and can be down around freezing a couple of times in the winter. It is VERY easy for me to entice customers to our facility because we have wood frame, insulated construction.

I can easily explain that the metal buildings will heat up significantly in the summer and cool down more in the winter than my facility. I use their experience with their own garage as an example, I explain that the temperature fluctuations will be less than their own garage in my facility, due to ours being insulated, unlike their garage. I have never had a tenant move their belongings into a storage unit because wherever the stuff is currently is either too hot or too cold for it. They get wrapped up in a competitor trying to push their top-dollar climate controlled units and think that it is necessary.

I can't address the value per se, but from a manager's point of view I've found wood construction to be more "valuable". It also feels more permanent, metal buildings look and feel less substantial. A few tenants have mentioned that.