The S&W Group of companies, which provides property-management, development and financial services, and BETCO Inc., a full-service building manufacturer, are hosting free seminars for self-storage developers and owners in 2006. In addition to their past offering, Building Your Future in Self-Storage, they have put together a new full-day seminar titled What Every Self-Storage Owner Should Know, which focuses on key operational issues:
The growing danger of criminal activity at self-storage sites
Legal issues and ways to avoid litigation
Facility valuation
Tapping trapped equity
Calculating and improving cash-on-cash return
Increasing market share in a competitive environment
Facility marketing
The developers seminar will kick-off on May 3 at the Embassy Suites in Nashville, Tenn. The first owners seminar takes place on May 4 in the same location. The events move to Denver in June and Orlando, Fla., in October. For more information, contact Margaret Fox at 888.817.9422, ext. 401; visit www.sandwgroup.com.
