Fitz Storage Solutions

Fitz Storage Solutions Managing a self-storage facility can be demanding, but it doesnโ€™t have to be overwhelming. Fitz Storage Solutions is here to take the burden off your shoulders.

08/27/2026

๐—ฆ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜†๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜-๐—ฑ๐˜‚๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฎ ๐—™๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฎ๐˜† ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜'๐˜€ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ.

At most facilities that lock comes off whenever a staff member can get out there. Monday, usually. The money's in, the tenant's current, and they still can't reach their own things.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐˜‚๐—ป ๐—ฎ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ธ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ. The code can be reset, so once a tenant pays they can be given a working code and take the lock off themselves. Nobody makes the trip.

There's a step past this too. Bluetooth smart locks tie into the software, so the overlock comes off the moment the account clears, without anybody touching it.

Whatever you run, the question underneath is the same. How much of that release still needs a person in it?

What's on your delinquent units, and how much of it runs on its own?

5 dashboards and you still can't tell what needs your attention.That's when more reporting starts creating more work.Occ...
08/25/2026

5 dashboards and you still can't tell what needs your attention.

That's when more reporting starts creating more work.

Occupancy is over here.
Revenue is over there.
Delinquency has another report.
Pricing needs its own context.
Marketing tells another piece of the story.

So yes, you can see the numbers.

But can you see the operation?

An owner shouldn't have to spend the first part of every review piecing together what happened before deciding what to do about it.

Good reporting should make it easier to answer:

What changed?
Why?
Where do we need to look?
What happens next?

That's how we think about reporting at Fitz Storage Solutions.

Our systems bring the operating picture together so owners can spend less time decoding reports and more time evaluating the decision in front of them.

If your reports are giving you information without giving you clarity, contact us today, let's talk.

08/22/2026

The advice most independent owners get is to wait. Run it yourself until you've got three or four locations, then bring in a management company.

It holds up at four. It falls apart at one.

At four facilities you have a bench. Somebody covers when somebody's out. Problems get caught because more than one person is looking at them.

At one facility you are the bench. You're the after-hours line, the vendor scheduler, the delinquency follow-up, and the person who notices the light out on C row. All of it queues behind whatever else you do for a living.

The owner with four locations can absorb a week where nobody worked the delinquency list. The owner with one can't. Same missed week, very different dent in the rent roll.

So the advice has it exactly the wrong way round. The single-facility owner isn't too small for management. They're the one with no margin for going without it.

We manage facilities for owners in that spot. One building, no bench, every exception landing on the same phone.

If you want to see what that produces month to month, message us and ask for a sample MOIP. It's the report we hand owners, redacted. You'll know inside five minutes whether it's the visibility you've been missing.

08/19/2026

From the doorway it looks like water came in under the door.

Get down close and it isn't water at all. It's plastic, set into the concrete by whoever rented the unit before. So it's a sanding job, not a leak. Cobwebs in the corners, which is about a minute of work.

Unit six was already marked ready to rent when we found it.

That's the whole finding. Small, boring, and it decides whether the next person who opens that door signs or keeps driving.

We film these walkthroughs for one reason. It's your asset, so you should get to watch the call being made instead of reading a summary of it four weeks later.

Send us a DM and we'll get you a sample MOIP so you can see what the monthly version of this looks like.

08/17/2026

Your tenant is not a roof alarm. Right now, at a lot of facilities, that is the job they are doing.

Nothing gets flagged until someone opens a unit and finds a wet box. That is not early. That is the last possible moment.

The building says it sooner, and quieter. Rust on the inside of a door track. One ceiling tile a shade off from its neighbors. A patch of aisle that stays clean while the rest collects dust. White powder low on a block wall. One unit that always smells different from the rest of the row.

Every one of those shows up before a complaint does.

Walk the aisles looking up instead of down, once a month. That is the whole change.

We build this into the walk on every facility we run. Message us if you want ours.

08/12/2026

Self-storage underwriting has one weak point, and it is not the math.

It is that you are the one holding the standard.

You set a 1.25 DSCR floor in January. In March a deal comes in at 1.08 and you have already spent six weeks on it, so you look again at the insurance line, and the payroll, and suddenly it is 1.26.

Fitz Underwriting OS takes that decision off you. Enter the offer price and the cards return what they return. In this example, we walked through, a hypothetical at the seller's price came back at 73% expense ratio, negative cash on cash and a 0.19 DSCR.

No debate. No second look at the insurance line.

If your last three deals each got underwritten a slightly different way, that is the problem, not the deals.

Book a walkthrough and run one of your own deals through it.

https://fitzstoragesolutions.com/underwriting-os

The paving crew finished in April. Their code still works.Most owners learn this the same way. Something happens on site...
08/11/2026

The paving crew finished in April. Their code still works.

Most owners learn this the same way. Something happens on site, they pull the access log, and the log cannot tell them who was there.

Run five questions on your own facility.

Can you name every active code right now?

Does each one belong to a person, not a company?

Does any of them have an end date?

What happens to that code when the crew changes?

Who removed the last vendor, and when?

If two of those answers are a shrug, that is not a security problem yet. It is a record problem. Record problems turn into security problems on the worst possible night.

You do not have to hand the facility over to fix it. We will sit with your access list and show you what to tighten. Message us and we will set it up.

08/06/2026

Self-storage underperformance usually starts while the facility still looks fine.

Occupancy may be holding. Rentals may still be coming in. Nothing feels urgent yet.

But the operation is already leaving clues.

Physical occupancy stays steady while economic occupancy begins slipping.

Leads keep coming in, but fewer become move-ins.

Past-due balances slowly climb.

Discounts start becoming the easiest way to close a rental.

Current tenant rates fall further behind the market.

The same small problems keep returning. Missed calls. Gate issues. Delayed maintenance. Follow-ups that never happen.

One of these by itself may not mean much.

Several moving in the wrong direction at the same time is a pattern.

At Fitz Storage Solutions, we compare what is happening across pricing, collections, lead conversion, tenant experience, and daily operations. We do not wait for one bad monthly report to tell us the facility has been slipping for months.

Catching the pattern early gives the owner more options and a much smaller problem to correct.

Share this with a self-storage owner who is still watching occupancy alone.

08/03/2026

Most facility problems do not announce themselves as emergencies.

They show up as one door that has been difficult to open for three weeks.

One vacant unit that is still waiting on a repair.

One tenant who keeps calling because the gate works sometimes, but not every time.

One corner of the property where water collects whenever it rains.

Individually, these things are easy to postpone. Together, they tell us how the facility is actually being operated.

That is why a walkthrough matters.

It gives us the context behind the report. We can see which problems are isolated, which ones are becoming patterns, and which ones are already affecting the tenant experience or the facilityโ€™s ability to produce revenue.

A property does not need to look neglected to be losing money.

Sometimes it looks perfectly fine from the road.

The real question is whether everything behind the gate is working the way the numbers assume it is.

Need a second set of eyes on your facility? Send us a DM and let's talk.

07/31/2026

Most buyers would have walked away from the deal in this video.

First pass, it does not pencil. The debt coverage comes back under 1.2, which is where SBA lenders want it, so on paper it is a no.

Watch what happens when the terms move instead of the building.

Buy at 280K with vacancy down to 10 percent, and the DSCR lands at 1.41.

The seller will not carry, wants 300K, SBA only. Interest-only for the first 24 months takes it to 1.36. A 30-year amortization takes it to 1.14.

Same facility. Only the levers changed: price, occupancy, interest-only, amortization, seller terms.

That is the whole point. The workable ones rarely land in your lap already working, so you build them by moving the terms, and the buyer who walks hands that return to someone else.

Everything in this video runs on our Facility Deal Analyzer, and it is free. Enter a deal and get NOI, cap rate, cash-on-cash, DSCR, true market value, and your max offer price in under an hour.

You get one free run. No credit card, no sales call.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Do not walk from another deal until you have run it. Claim your free analysis (link in the comments)

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