This is shaping up to be a busy travel year for me. I’ll be spreading a lot of self-storage legal information all over the county. There’s so much to share and so many new developments, which cause me to constantly update my presentations. Along the way, I hope to meet many of you, communicate my [...]
In late December Governor Kasich signed into law revisions to the Ohio Self-Service Storage Facility Act (ORC 5321.01 et seq.). As a facility Owner or Manager in Ohio you need to be aware of these changes in addition to what hasn’t changed. The law becomes effective approximately 90 days after the Governor’s signature, for this [...]
Late2Lien combines automation and compliance for default notices in the self-storage industry based upon state requirements. Learn more about this exiting new venture.
One of the biggest risks to a self-storage operator is a claim for wrongful sale arising out of an allegation by the (now former) tenant that the required statutory lien-sale notices were not served to him at the right (often referred to as “last known”) address. The tenant alleges he put the operator on notice [...]
On May 23, the First District Court of Appeals in Ohio released its decision in the case of Lotspeich v. R.A. Hermes, Inc. It’s a nice case that combats some of those wacky West Coast cases in which it was held that when a self-storage operator places his lock on a unit after a tenant’s default, [...]