Newly Launched Storage Customer App

Have you ever needed to quickly find the phone number or address of your storage property when you’re out and about? Or have you ever wanted to create a photo inventory of your storage unit? How nice would it be to use your smart phone to find out about recent payments, change your billing information or sign-up for auto-pay? Extra Space Storage is pleased to announce the launch of a new app that allows our customers to do all these things and more from a mobile device! Today we all need information when we’re the move – that means access to information at any time and from … [More]

Best of Extra Space Storage: 900 Nationwide Facilities, Budget Truck Rental Partnership and Our Spanish Mobile Site

The summer of 2012 has definitely been newsworthy, one might even say eventful! The much anticipated London Summer Olympics are truly exciting, but here in the US there have been many other hot topics this summer. Wildfires in the western US, a deepening drought in the mid-west, the supreme court decision on healthcare and upcoming US presidential elections are some of the most newsworthy items that that have kept things interesting. Extra Space Storage has also had an exciting newsworthy summer. Here are our highlights: 900 Nationwide Locations Extra Space Storage nationwide locations continue to expand. Over the last month Extra Space Storage took over management of … [More]

Less Energy Destroyed – LED Lighting

Last month I talked about the different things Extra Space Storage is doing to reduce its consumption of electricity. This week I want to highlight a kind of lighting that we use at our facilities to reduce energy consumption – LED lighting. Even though LED doesn’t stand for Less Energy Destroyed, it might as well. LED lighting is at the cutting edge of lighting technology. Only until recently has this type of lighting become more widely used and recognized. LED lights outperform incandescent light bulbs and compact fluorescents (CFLs) in the following areas: Life Span Environmental Impact Light Output And when I say outperform, I mean SIGNIFICANTLY outperform the … [More]

Saving Energy One Retrofit at a Time

Did you know in December of 2011, our country used over 54 million tons of coal to generate electricity? That’s more than 108 BILLION pounds of coal. That’s right, I said BILLION!!!! That’s insane!!!!! And this is only one source of many that generates electricity for our country. At Extra Space Storage we understand the importance of energy conservation. This is why we take a focused approach to decrease our energy consumption and to shrink the size of our carbon footprint. One of the many ways we try to reduce our energy consumption is through lighting retrofits at our properties. T8 Light BulbsOur first area of focus with … [More]

The Extra Space Storage Genesis

The global behemoth that is Extra Space Storage auto-magically appeared in 1977. However, the story of how Extra Space Storage got started back in the late 60’s. The credit is all due to the vision and entrepreneurial spirit of former CEO and current board member Ken Woolley. As a doctoral student at Stanford University (yeah, he’s sorta smart), Ken was hired as a consultant to do analysis on real-estate and came across a new concept called mini (self) storage. Intrigued by the concept, Ken convinced several investors to build the first Extra Space facility in Billings, Montana. Why Billings, Montana? Well, Ken did what every Stanford doctorate in … [More]

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