ISSUE: Sep/Oct 2008

Garage Sale Gold

Think garage sales are the enemy? Think again! Mesquite Self Storage in Mesquite, Nev. recently hosted an extremely successful garage sale and open house, allowing customers to sell items directly from their units. The garage sale quickly turned into a large community event. Word of the sale spread fast, and people lined up outside facility gates an hour before the sale was scheduled to start. A local restaurant decided toset up a booth to sellfood to hungry garage sale goers and one of the facility’s customers ran a face painting stand.

Along with the garage sale, the facility opened several freshly cleaned units for attendees to check out while on the site. Several people took a moment to talk to the facility’s staff and go through the spaces. Many liked what they saw and, by day’s end, the facility signed four new tenants.

“All of the feedback from both customers and consumers alike was very positive,” says Brian Ramage, the facility’s manager. “All in all, it was a big success.”