328. Future-Proof Your Facility: What I Learned from Top Storage Facilities Abroad w/Alec Peeples
Self Storage Income
AJ Osborne
4.9 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Imagine walking up to a self storage facility and renting a unit from your phone. Next month, you need to upgrade, and you can do it immediately, again from your phone. When you move out, you schedule a date from your phone and walk away. This is what automated self storage looks like, and if your facility doesn’t sound like this example, you could be in for a big wake-up call.
Alec Peeples from Storeganise saw this in real-time. After living abroad in Asia for 10 years, he saw what true “manless” self storage automation looks like. No full-time managers, just simple move-ins and move-outs for customers. Now, Storeganise works with over 1,500 facilities in more than 50 countries, and Alec gets to see what the future looks like before it gets to the U.S.
In this episode, Alec is breaking down the two things you need to implement to increase your revenue and lower your expenses, how Asian self storage facilities are years ahead of their American counterparts, and the exact tech stack you can start using today to automate your self storage facility, do less, and make more.
What you’ll learn in today’s show:
- How to automate your self storage facility, even if you’re in a small town or have a small facility
- How to increase your profits even when rent raises are getting harder and harder to pull off
- What Asian self storage facilities are doing to make it unbelievably easy for customers to move in
- No more reserving units? Why many of Alec’s facilities are doing away with reservations altogether
- The exact tech stack Alec recommends for self storage operators
—
Connect with Alec on LinkedIn! - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alec-peeples/
Storeganise - https://storeganise.com/
Check out this episode on self storage in Brazil! Self Storage Income 263 - The Man Who Taught an Entire Country to Start Using Self Storage - https://www.selfstorageincome.com/podcasts/self-storage-income-2/episodes/2148876376
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | What are you seeing in the changes in technology, in storage? |
| 0:06.0 | Where are things moving? |
| 0:08.0 | Those are the two things. Those are going to save the time and equate to a little bit more, you know, revenue as we get a little bit further away from being able to do rent increases in the same way we used to. |
| 0:18.0 | What do you guys see outside of these new assets being developed with technology? |
| 0:22.6 | There's no old habits to break in those markets, so to speak. |
| 0:25.6 | What else do you guys see those people doing that maybe we're not doing here in the United |
| 0:30.6 | States? |
| 0:31.6 | So having the foresight to know how to approach that and know how to account for all of that |
| 0:35.6 | upfront is just going to allow that growth |
| 0:38.3 | to happen a little faster and address any headaches before they happen, hopefully. |
| 0:42.3 | Let's walk in the future. With everything that's coming in, the amount of vendors and technology |
| 0:47.7 | and the tech stack and options operating systems, what does the future in five years look like for that operator? |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome everybody to self-storage income and technology has changed the landscape of storage over the last five years, especially rapidly growing. |
| 1:15.1 | Today, we have a guest that has a very interesting background, including background and |
| 1:21.7 | things that he learned outside the United States and what he's seeing currently in the self-storage |
| 1:27.3 | world and landscape and what he's seeing currently in the self-storage world and landscape and what he's doing, |
| 1:30.5 | which we are excited to dive into with Alec. |
| 1:35.7 | Let's do it, man. |
| 1:36.6 | I'm excited to jump in and learn about, you know, what he's seeing here in the United States, |
| 1:40.3 | what he's seen abroad, and, you know, how we can draw those things to our facilities |
| 1:45.2 | and utilize those things and grow. |
| 1:47.2 | Alec, welcome on, man. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from AJ Osborne, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of AJ Osborne and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.