Moving and Storage Business News

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- Your records for sale to the highest bidder
- U-Haul ffers 30 Days of Free Storage to Burncliff Apartment Fire …
- Reaping the fruits of his labor
- Strategic Storage Trust Inc. Closes on Purchase of 500-Unit …

Your records for sale to the highest bidder
MaineToday.com ME 
com for more information. Earlier this month the Mini Self Storage company in Scarborough was prepared to auction off the contents of a unit rented to a mortgage brokerage that hadn’t paid its bill: 60 boxes of financial records including loan applications with personal financial information such as Social Security and bank account numbers. The situation represents one of at least three recent cases in Maine when self-storage facilities ended up with private financial documents amid property they intended to sell. In the wrong hands sensitive information such as this can be used for identity theft. But the sale of such documents is legal. Nothing in Maine law prevents storage facilities from selling sensitive financial personal or medical records to the highest bidder when their original owners do not pay their storage bills.

U-Haul ffers 30 Days of Free Storage to Burncliff Apartment Fire …
MSNBC 
23 2008 (GLBE NEWSWIRE) — The U-Haul Company of Minnesota is offering 30 days of free storage to families who have been displaced by the recent apartment fire in the Burncliff Apartment Complex. Families needing more information about the 30-day free self-storage assistance program should contact the following storage facility.

Reaping the fruits of his labor
Daily Press VA 
Saville & Sons an established supplier of potatoes tomatoes lettuce onions and other fresh produce for Peninsula restaurants and corner markets. ver the years competition became increasingly fierce in the fresh foods business. But Saville outlasted them all in part by adhering to a simple principal: “We are in the moving business and not the storage business” said Norman Saville the company’s third-generation owner who took over for his father in 1978. “The produce business” Saville 52 joked “is in a constant state of decay. ” Mastering the art of logistics has helped the company grow to become the largest independent supplier of fresh produce in the state bringing in revenues of more than $100 million a year and employing about 230 people in. “How did we get here?” Saville asked.
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Strategic Storage Trust Inc. Closes on Purchase of 500-Unit …
MSNBC 
Michael Schwartz SSTI’s Chairman and CE. “It’s an investment with good cash flows and great opportunity for us toadd value through customer service and operational savvy coupled with thelatest technology in the industry. The center with five two-level storage buildings located on 2. 3 acres nearthe major traffic intersection of State Highways 28 and 234 was built in1996 and expanded in 2000.