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On March 19, 2012, moving container granddaddy Portable On Demand Storage (PODS) became part of a bankruptcy protection plan filed by Arcapita Bank, a $7.4 billion Bahraini investment firm in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. In the news release announcing their court filing, Arcapita said it had more [...]

This following information was gleaned from a thread in Defense Personal Property Program (DP3) section of the RELO Roundtable Forums.  Initially it was left as a discussion comment in response to the recent article entitled USMC concerned about summer PCS moves.  The article delves into a recent MARADMIN memo that the United States Marine Corp [...]

  I've been a lurker at Self Storage Talk (SST) for some time. SST is a three year old experiment hosted by magazine publisher Virgo Publishing, LLC, that's developed into a very, VERY active and vibrant online community that caters to the needs of self-storage professionals everywhere – regardless of brand affiliation, job responsibility, industry [...]

  Over 1,800 mortgage bankers and lenders attended the Mortgage Bankers Association CREF Convention and Expo this week in Las Vegas. While discussion at the conference focused mostly on financing of multifamily dwellings, lenders also discussed the business climate for other types of commercial lending. Most commercial lenders were looking for stable, fully-leased properties from [...]

  Yesterday I wrote about Jon MooAllem’s recent New York Times article The Self-Storage Self – Storing All the Stuff We Accumulate, that provides an excellent in-depth look at the birth and relatively short history of the self storage industry in the U.S.    I learned about this new piece from a reference that I [...]

  It’s long … it’s thorough … and it’s vintage Moo!  Jon MooAllem’s well researched article, The Self-Storage Self – Storing All the Stuff We Accumulate, provides an in-depth look at the birth and relatively short history of the self storage industry.  As usual, the off-beat freelancer does an excellent job spotlighting how America’s penchant for [...]

    Two powerhouses in the local and long distance relocation business announced a marriage of sorts yesterday. The union is probably more out of necessity than due to true love. Mobile container leader PODS Enterprises, Inc. (PODS) is teaming up with moving and storage giant Unigroup, Inc  to produce a new type of ‘hybrid’ move. [...]

  Despite what the name implies in their well placed advertising, ABF Freight System, Inc. isn’t really a licensed household goods motor carrier. That said, the company’s U-Pack Moving service has tested the stability of the traditional full-service business model used by established movers, storage operators, and national van lines since it was first introduced almost [...]