Storage Legal, LLC

Storage Legal, LLC's storage law practice represents owners, landlords and property managers in structuring, drafting and negotiating a variety of leases, subleases and amendments. We have advised clients on the basic clauses and terms to be included in leases and what to avoid to lessen liability. We tailor lease terms to the specific type of self-storage business operation. Storage Legal, LLC is able to:

• Draft lease provisions consistent with self-storage facility rules
• Alert lessees of lien rights and insurance requirements
• Include liability releases for property loss and personal injury
• Negotiate exclusions and rate change notifications
• Provide termination information and terms of the move-out process
• Include at-risk storage notifications and define lessee use and access of the unit.  

Storage Legal, LLC is hands-on from the moment a tenant breaches the lease, providing a life-line to navigate the lien process from rescinding tenant access to the premises to preparing the 'default notice' through the inventory process to the auction or lien sale. Storage Legal, LLC is able to:

• Advise owners on the lease language necessary to support a lien sale procedure.  
• Provide support to evict a lessee should an eviction be necessary.
• Assist in the proper inventory process and documentation associated with the advertising process to properly sell a self-storage unit.
• Prepare and send the lessee the default notice.
• Assist in any lessee redemption payments until the lien sale.
• Search for and secure payments to proper outstanding secured lienholders. 

Running a self-storage facility requires specialized insurance coverages which cover physical damage to business property, protection from liability, and interruptions to the self-storage business from fire, weather or vandalism. Our counsel has extensive experience in advising client owners and operators on selecting the appropriate insurance coverages for the type of self-storage business and location.

Self-storage lessees have an obligation to procure their own insurance policies to cover the value of their stored possessions should a destructive event occur. 

Self-storage owners and operators may sell a lease compliant insurance plan as an added service benefit to lessees. Insurance services can be offered as part of a bundled program to build protection into the lease on every unit. Our range of experience in these insurance matters makes us particularly suited to offer both legal counsel and strategic insurance advice to your business.

Storage Legal, LLC is here to assist your self-storage entity when disaster strikes by preparing an action plan outlining the framework for emergency response; including the chain of command, evacuation protocol, lockdown plan, and communication between owners, lessees and response teams. Emergencies often create chaos, which is mitigated with a well-executed response plan and proper training. Our ability to prepare these plans to protect your self-storage facility works to avoid unnecessary risk and liability when the inevitable occurs.    

Storage Legal, LLC optimizes self-storage facility operational efficiency by providing educational training and tools to employees. Employees must be able to effectively present and relay their knowledge and familiarity with the business to prospective and existing tenants. They should be able to communicate rent terms, hours of access, insurance requirements, required move-out notices, prohibited stored items, monetary limits of stored items and an overview of the lien process.  We are able to offer on-site employee training to your business.  

Disputes can arise in an infinite number of contexts. Issues that frequently arise include property damage or liability claims, theft claims, negligence claims, loss claims and claims for wrongful lien sales. We have experience regularly representing clients in court litigation and arbitration of contract disputes and other liability matters. We have handled breach-of-contract cases for consumer goods industry clients, and cases involving property damage and destruction. We have also represented consumers in arbitrations and before the Better Business Bureau in disputes over warranty and liability claims.