Thread: ISS Security & Tech Report Coming. Please Help By Taking This Survey.

If you're an owner or manager who frequents this part of forum, you'll be happy to know I'm working on a report on this topic for InsideSelfStorage.com. But I need your help.

Help me collect data for the 2012 ISS Security & Technology Report, which will be available for download on InsideSelfStorage.com on July 18. Please answer all five questions. Responses will be kept anonymous. You do not need to enter your name or e-mail (even if you are prompted to do so) for the survey to be counted.

Survey here: http://www.vpico.com/survey/TakeSurv...=lLL67lL26840L

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Responses rolling in. If you've got a burning opinion on the topic that you'd like me to dig into for my report, post them here.

Please stress the importance of a manager who lives on site. The main reason for no break ins here is that I live here. The facility has very little in the way of technological security and therfore relies on my presence to deter would be criminals. I have had to call the local police at least twenty times in the last six years to assist with suspicious characters in the parking lots adjacent to the facility, and countless times my late night wanderings have encouraged many more to leave.

Originally Posted by FHARumRunner

Please stress the importance of a manager who lives on site. The main reason for no break ins here is that I live here. The facility has very little in the way of technological security and therfore relies on my presence to deter would be criminals. I have had to call the local police at least twenty times in the last six years to assist with suspicious characters in the parking lots adjacent to the facility, and countless times my late night wanderings have encouraged many more to leave.

Thank you for your opinion! I knew that would come up in the discussion, so I'm glad I put that question in the survey.

Whether managers should live on-site anymore in this industry is a very hot topic with a lot of layers and implications, and security is certainly one of them.

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Thanks for your help, everyone. This report is live.

http://www.insideselfstorage.com/rep...echnology.aspx

Originally Posted by FHARumRunner

Please stress the importance of a manager who lives on site. The main reason for no break ins here is that I live here. The facility has very little in the way of technological security and therfore relies on my presence to deter would be criminals. I have had to call the local police at least twenty times in the last six years to assist with suspicious characters in the parking lots adjacent to the facility, and countless times my late night wanderings have encouraged many more to leave.

I agree with you if the technological security is minimal or absent. We don't live at our facility, have never had to call the local police for suspicious characters, and haven't had a break-in during the 4 1/2 years the facility has been open. But we also have infra-red security cameras all over the property and you can count someone's moustache hairs at 2 am on these cameras. We make sure everyone who comes in the office knows about the surveillance cameras, and I tell them not to be doing anything in the facility after dark that they wouldn't want to be shown on the 6 o'clock news.....and so far they haven't.

We have had 3 incidents where someone hit a building or hit another parked vehicles at night, and were easily able to identify the guilty culprit the next morning and all took responsibility for the repairs.

We lived on site in Florida, and had several break-ins, mostly delinquent tenants tailgating in the facility and cutting the late lock and moving out quickly and quietly. We had individual door alarms there, that weren't worth a penny. They would go off in the slightest wind, and my commercial customers were always setting them off as different employees entered and left the facility leaving another employee inside who would set the alarm off as soon as the first employee left through the gate. The alarm only lasted 5 seconds, and we learned to sleep through them at night. I couldn't call the police everytime the alarm went off after dark, and I wasn't about to go down there and confront a burglar at 2 am.