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How Did StorageMart Begin

More than 30 years ago, a family from Missouri took a vacation to Texas with the hopes of enjoying a warm, sunny vacation before the end of the summer. You can imagine the disappointment when Mother Nature gave them nothing but rain.

What is the natural thing to do when your vacation is rained out? Drive around and look for new business opportunities, of course. After the kids piled into the back seat, the family drove around and found themselves circling the same self storage facility a few times.

Becoming very curious, they entered the self storage gates and struck up a conversation with the property owner. In no time at all, the family had purchased the leasing rights to the property for no more than 10 dollars.

A pocket-change investment soon turned into a thriving self storage industry as the family began finding their own self storage funding and buying more storage properties and real estate properties to develop.

History of StorageMart

The senior management of StorageMart previously ran a privately owned self storage real estate company which would later be purchased by another self storage group and ran as a publicly traded company in 1999.

Upon the sale of that company, the management team formed what is now StorageMart. Today, StorageMart is a private real estate operation company. The team of StorageMart executives has over 110 years of combined experience and is one of the most esteemed group of self storage executive in the industry.

StorageMart Today

StorageMart currently owns and operates over 130 properties in Canada and the United States.

The company began operating self storage properties in Canada about 4 years ago. As time passed, StorageMart saw the need for more local self storage communities. To answer the demand for storage, the company acquired over 60 more facilities across Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Quebec.

The mission of StorageMart is to develop, acquire, operate and sell storage properties at their fullest capacity, at maximum value.

The interests of the company include developing new facilities where suitable acquisitions are not available. However, StorageMart has a long history of converting existing commercial real estate buildings into state-of-the-art storage properties.

This makes the environmental footprint of StorageMart incredibly small, and conversions are completed quicker than building from the ground up. It is a win-win situation for everyone.

Additionally, the company acquires existing self storage facilities and completes upgrades that bring the property up to the high standards of StorageMart security.

Who Is PhoneSmart

PhoneSmart is headquartered in Columbia, Missouri and serves clients across North America, including Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Additionally, PhoneSmart has been invited speakers in the Spain and United Kingdom self storage association meetings.

What Does PhoneSmart Do

PhoneSmart is an off site sales force to the self storage industry. The call center answers missed calls and after-hour calls for self storage operators in North America. The call center is centered around a sales culture and is able to increase the occupancy rate of any one of the 800 or more storage facilities the sales force answers for.

Because of their strong sales background, PhoneSmart specialized in quality assurance and sales training courses and seminars. These services are not only offered to the self storage industry, but the hotel and hospitality industry, senior living and health care industries and virtually any sales industry.

PhoneSmart is a highly recommended property management and consluting firm for any business or industry looking to increase sales and create more efficiencies in daily procedures, especially concerning customer service and sales.

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