Self storage

A rental warehouse, also self storage center, tenancy Box Self Storage is a service or a place for storage not constantly required furniture and other things, which was first offered in the 1960s than Self Storage in North America. The English term Self Storage means something like " store itself." It is not about living spaces. Is According to the Association of German Self Storage Company Self Storage eV " self - warehousing of goods by private individuals or firms in sealed, secure, and easily accessible overview protected individual rental units of various sizes at very flexible rental periods " understood. The construction of self storage centers receives its meaning especially against the background that, particularly in large cities residents are often not sufficient space for the storage of currently unusable apartment inventory is available. For example, one in five households has the essential German cities on only defective storage options.

History

In the late 1960s began landowners in the western U.S. to build small shed to them locally to offer the residents of apartments as storage and warehouse space. Only in 1984 was followed by a similar project in Europe, where the Englishman Carl Hanauer rebuilt a stall in London and rented as storage space. About France, Belgium and the Netherlands "Storage" eventually found its way to Germany and has also come to Austria, Switzerland, Spain and Portugal reached. Also found in Scandinavia now first provider of warehouses. The customer is his own storekeeper here.

In 2007 there were in the United States approximately 47 000 rental warehouse and in 2010 in Germany around 60 plants.

Bearing types

Swell

• Self Storages: growth rates of 50 percent per year. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of 2 October 2009
• The rental box as extended living room. In Swabian newspaper from 1 August 2008