What kind of business is located directly next to your facility?

Or maybe you have no neighbors. Or maybe you're plopped in the middle of a residential area and your neighbors are homes instead. How do they feel about having self-storage next door?

Please share, and let us know how you get along with them.

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John Carlisle
Community Manager, Self-Storage Talk
Online Content Editor, Business Solutions Network
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480-990-1101, x1214

I have a fast food joint in front of us....it's pretty bothersome, due to all the litter...and it's kinda stinky.

A hardware store next to us, which is FANTASTIC! Not only is this great for my hubby-err, I mean our maintenance man, but it brings a lot of contractors to us.

We also have the BIGGEST "Big Box Store" next to the hardware store.

We also have about 3 houses on the street including ours.

The big box store is a great tenant , and it is SUPER convenient when I need a salad, hot dog or rotisserie chicken!

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Shannon

We have a chicken fast food place next to us and two tire and automotive locations next to us on the other side. We also have two big box stores and a hotel across the street.

We have 2 medical supply warehouses/offices and a large.......storage facility right next door! They mostly have RV storage and the really large units, so we don't compete much. I wish I had food of some kind out here and a hardware store would be fantastic. Sure would save on gas!

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I've got a KFC, Church's Chicken, McDonalds, Sonic, Autozone, advance auto, Braums, Walmart, Walgreens, Taco Bell, a Chinese Takeout (that's terrible), a Flea Market that's open on weekends, and an abandoned trailer park (all trailers removed. The land is up for sale) You wanna talk about high visibility, we've got it. McD's stores here and is absolutely wonderful. Cleanest tenants EVER, which makes me feel good eating there. Taco bell gives us a lot of property damage. Their customers plow into our fence 2-3 times a year. The manager is a complete.>...>>. So I don't eat there anymore. SOB came into my office to chew me out over his customer hitting my fence....I don't know how I managed to keep from jumping over my counter to cold clock him! Worst of all, they're not corporate owned, so no complaint department. Irony is that 2 of his assistant managers store with me, and are wonderful.

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We have an Auto Repair shop to the north, Moose Lodge to the south and fields everywhere else!!!

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Wayne
Jamestown, ND


All arguments can be resolved ... with high explosives and Humor!!!

We have a Target, a Staples, and a small country restaurant as well as an auto parts store. The rest is somewhat residential and we have great neighbors. They have enjoyed having us here as much as we appreciate them. Small community and this works out great for us. Sometimes I hate not having more choices in Food but I also appreciate not having the headaches that can sometimes come with that.

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Lovin it.

Business park here, so lots of high end office spaces, some industrial etc. Next door is a manufacturing plant on one side, the other side is mostly office space. Across the street is a contract manufacturer, small shop but lots of space.

At our back wall, is another business park, Comcast call center, some more government contract shops, and a food processing plant. They cook up items for Costco, Trader Joe's and some restaurants. There are days the aromas wafting our way with the prevailing winds are to die for... other days... whatever they are cooking in the various vats don't blend well in the aroma department. They're new to the area, just moved in last Fall.

We also have the headquarters of Thomas Kinkade, but they've downsized so much and subleased most if not all of their space here now.

All of our neighbors used to go home by 6:00 pm each night, but now with the food processor behind us, a good night's sleep doesn't happen. Trucks in and out all night and the worst part is when they roll around and bang those drums they get supplies in all over the back parking lot at 3-4 a.m. Because of the acoustics of the 'sound walls' sound is amplified, so it sounds like a jet is rumbling and landing on top of us... and then comes the bang!! as someone tosses a barrel or plops it upright. I'm thinking of purchasing them a flatbed cart for those barrels as a "Welcome to the neighborhood gift."

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Gina 6k
CochraneStorage dot com
Morgan Hill, California
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You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough!
I am not an attorney, just an experienced manager who is willing to share what I have learned. Your thoughts, practices or opinions may vary and neither of us may be right.

To the north, a mortage company. To the south, a car wash and drive up coffee. To the east Costco, who rents here. To the west, the beautiful Columbia River and the city lights(at night).

We share our parking lot with a Chevron gas/Jack in the Box combo store. It used to be franchised, and the employees were awful to us. They just became corporate, and weeded out the riff-raff, so the new employees are much better. We have bollards rammed down 3-4 times a year by drunk drivers coming in for gas (they don't sell alcohol at this location, so it could be worse, I guess.) These are always hit and run, and even when we get the plate numbers it has gotten us nowhere!

North side is a couple of garment embroidery shops, both of them are good customers. They share a parking lot with an auto repair with good prices and good service, so that has been helpful in the past!

East of us is a Machining Trade School. They keep to themselves.

West of us is a Charlotte Russe corporate office. I have never spoken to them, as they have their own warehouse and don't need my services (bummer!).

This is a very industrial area, but up and down the road is a lot of vacant space. However, it is a busy street that serves as a freeway bypass, so we keep our truck parked up front whenever it's not in use because it's a large billboard that the city can't complain about!

I would like to add that I, too, am frequently kept up at night. My noise comes from the fuel tankers filling up the underground tanks that are literally located outside my bedroom window. Then there are the drunks that argue with each other while filling up at 2am when they leave the bars! And the truck drivers frequently get into shouting matches with each other, too.

Then I go to my house that is in the local mountains, and I can't sleep because it's way too quiet! I guess I can't win!

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