Fitz Storage Solutions
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05/25/2026
Rate management is where Fitz Storage Solutions starts every facility review. Occupancy matters, but rate comes first. Most independent owners we work with are sitting at 85 to 93 percent full when we come in, and that number looks stable until you pull the actual data.
The real NOI problem usually hides in the occupied units. The 10x10 that hasn't had a rate change since 2021. The gap between the website rate and what the tenant actually paid to move in. One full COMPASS pricing audit in the first 30 days finds it, and most owners see their first rate correction by week three before a single marketing dollar moves.
The facility doesn't need more tenants. It needs better numbers on the ones already there.
If you've ever audited your occupied unit rates, what surprised you most about what you found?
Same facility. Two different diagnoses. Two completely different fixes.
When a self-storage facility is underperforming, the first job is figuring out whether the market is the problem or the management is the problem.
Both will tank revenue.
Only one of them can be fixed by changing how the facility is run.
Four quick checks tell the market side of the story.
1️⃣ Saturation. If the square footage per capita is high and getting higher, pricing power is already gone.
2️⃣ REIT proximity. Public Storage, Extra Space, and CubeSmart inside a 3 to 5 mile ring change what an independent can charge.
3️⃣ Median income. The tenant base matters. A Section 8 or Social Security heavy area runs on different economics than a 75K+ household market.
4️⃣ Population trajectory. Declining population is the quiet one. The facility looks fine on paper for years before the floor falls out.
If those four answer yes, no operator on earth fixes that with better pricing software.
If those four answer no, the problem is inside the building. That is where we start.
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Opening Hours
| Monday | 9am - 5pm |
| Tuesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Wednesday | 9am - 5pm |
| Thursday | 9am - 5pm |
| Friday | 9am - 5pm |
| Saturday | 10am - 1pm |
