Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- U-Haul Offers 30 Days of Free Storage to Tea Fire Victims
- Extra Space Storage Inc. Comments on CEO’s Recent Stock Transactions
- State pulls All My Sons’ moving permit
- Lackland Self Storage Chooses Exigent Technologies as their …
- The Boss Employee Turned Employer
- U-Store-It Announces Key Executive Promotions

U-Haul Offers 30 Days of Free Storage to Tea Fire Victims
MarketWatch 
14, 2008

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. , Nov 14, 2008 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) –
The U-Haul Company of Van Nuys is offering 30 days of free storage to Tea Fire victims and families who need to move their belongings away from the areas affected by the recent fire. In addition to the 30-days-free self-storage assistance being offered, families needing boxes can take advantage of the U-Haul Take a Box, Leave a Box Program. The program enables customers to return their reusable boxes and allows others to take them as needed – FREE. U-Haul encourages anyone who has any type of reusable box to drop it off at the nearest U-Haul location and allow another family to reuse the box, free of charge, instead of throwing the reusable box into the recycling bin. Families needing more information about the 30-days-free self-storage assistance program should contact the following storage facility.
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Extra Space Storage Inc. Comments on CEO’s Recent Stock Transactions
MarketWatch 
The Company’s properties
comprise approximately 468,000 units and over 50 million square feet
of rentable space. For Information:
James Overturf
Extra Space Storage Inc. (801) 365-4501

Mark Collinson
CCG Investor Relations
(310) 477-9800

SOURCE: Extra Space Storage Inc. Copyright 2008 Market Wire, All rights reserved.

State pulls All My Sons’ moving permit
Seattle Post Intelligencer 
PT
State pulls All My Sons’ moving permit
By. , officials announced Thursday. An investigation revealed that the moving company “repeatedly overcharged customers” and “inaccurately estimated the costs of customers’ moves,” according to the state Utilities and Transportation Commission. The company also mishandled damage claims from customers, officials said. The cancellation means the company is no longer authorized to move residential property in the state.

Lackland Self Storage Chooses Exigent Technologies as their …
PRLog.Org (press release), Romania 
Beginning this month, Exigent will handle helpdesk and onsite support services for store locations, advanced IT infrastructure consultation and customized IT product procurement services. Established in 1997, Exigent Technologies is a full-service information technology company that implements and maintains high-performance IT systems for small and medium-sized organizations in a wide range of industries. Michael Lackland is president and CEO of Lackland Self Storage. A pioneer in the self storage industry, he was the first to introduce computerization and enhanced security. Now in its second generation of family management, Lackland Self Storage is one of the largest operations of its kind in New Jersey with 23 locations there and two in Pennsylvania. Discussing how Exigent was chosen, president and CEO of Lackland, Michael Lackland says ?After a thorough vetting process and several meetings with vendors we collectively felt that Exigent truly understood our needs and was in the best position to provide the high quality service we wanted.

The Boss Employee Turned Employer
New York Times, United States 
I did, and a few years later I became president of Y-Tex. After that I became a director and then chairman of Identronix, a start-up the Nielsons invested in, which pioneered radio-frequency identification devices for cattle, railroad cars and autos. I was also interested in self-storage. It was a new concept, and I believed there was a market for these properties. A California real estate developer I had known since high school was developing them, and I was intrigued. I told the Nielsons about them, but they hesitated about making an investment. In 1976, however, I convinced Bill that we should build a self-storage property ourselves, in Billings, Mont.

U-Store-It Announces Key Executive Promotions
MarketWatch 
He has been working closely with Chris
and me on all of our financial matters so his transition will be
seamless. ”

About U-Store-It Trust

U-Store-It Trust is a self-administered and self-managed real estate
investment trust focused on the ownership, operation, acquisition and
development of self-storage facilities in the United States. The
Company’s self-storage facilities are designed to offer affordable,
easily accessible and secure storage space for residential and
commercial customers. According to the 2008 Self-Storage Almanac,
U-Store-It Trust is one of the top four owners and operators of
self-storage facilities in the United States. Contact:
U-Store-It Trust
Timothy M. Martin
Chief Financial Officer
(610) 293-5700

SOURCE: U-Store-It Trust

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