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So Americans love renting storage facilities and it's something that the whole rest of the

world shakes its heads at because we have average square footage per person in residential

space that is the largest in the world.

The average size of a house has gone up so much over the last two generations even though

the number of people per household has gone way down.

But at the same time, in addition to our places we live, we have all these self-storage

facilities.

And there are any of a number of reasons why we would have them.

The industry historically has rented to people who are going through some kind of life

change, a relocation.

Somebody's passed away, could be a family splitting apart.

There are a number of reasons why people might rent a storage facility in addition to just

having too much stuff and they store it.

Well, one of my kids recently was considering renting a storage facility for six months

and shopped around and found such differences from one location to another.

It was a stunner.

And then the places would not leave her alone.

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