4/12/12 Are you sure your covered if something happened?

Hey Blog Readers,

This is a re-posting of one of my former blog posts. I believe that this of all my postings is the most important i have written.

On  Friday, February 10, 2012 our sister property, Hudson Self Storage, in Stockbridge GA had a major fire on property. As you can see from the picture, many units were destroyed. Damages are in the thousands of dollars.

As it turns out the Clayton County Convention and Visitor's Bureau had a 12x20 unit that was storing “highly, highly collectible” Gone With the Wind memorabilia from the Road to Tara museum, said  Frenda Turner, a vice president with the Convention and Visitors Bureau, who came to the fire scene Friday to survey the damage.

Turner said that items not currently on display at the Jonesboro museum were stored at the facility.

“We had an awful lot of items that were from the Herb Bridges collection,” Turner told the AJC. Bridges is a noted collector of memorabilia from the book and movie.“One thing that comes to mind, there were large circular poster-type boards that were used at the 1939 premier,” she said. Turner said she feared that most of the items, which she called "irreplaceable,"  were destroyed, “if not by fire, by water.”

Ok, I don't want to scare you by what happened at that facility but I want to put into perspective of what could happen here. I know from looking at the reports that many of our customers don't have insurance on file with us. Our lease does require that all the tenants have a form of insurance on file.

Some Homeowners policys cover a Storage Facility but some do not. In this case, we ask that you check your policy or call your agent. For businesses storing here, most companies business insurance policy cover Storage Facilities but if they don't we have a policy just for them.

As for our insurance, our policies are through Storsmart Insurance. Prices of the policies are very affordable. They range from $8 a month, covering $2,00, to $20 a month for $5,000 coverage. We also have a business policy that can cover more if needed.

I urge our current customers and our new to get insurance. Not just for the affordable price but for the peace of mind to know that if anything were to happen to the facility that their belongings are covered.