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Self Storage Employment Opportunities for Extra Income in Rural Areas
from:If there is one thing that people in rural areas share it is a relatively limited economy within the conventional workforce and plenty of space. As such, if you live in a rural area, a very common way of making anything from a few extra bucks to quite a comfortable income are self storage employment opportunities.
Generally these fall into a few general categories. Firstly, you may find yourself working for an established company as an on-site caretaker. Often companies will hire couples to actually live on the premises and maintain as well as guard the lockers. Such self storage employment opportunities usually are very much like taking a part time job as an apartment manager, and the lodgings are usually in mobile homes or trailers.
Other types of self storage employment opportunities are those you make for yourself. This may involve the purchase of an existing self storage facility. In such cases it is a good idea to find out just why the people who built or leased the facility are getting out of the business. It is not generally a good idea to leap into a business venture that you are not already familiar with and just assume you'll be able to do better than the previous owners.
In these cases, you'll very often be working for or with a larger chain or corporation that sets the rates and requires a regular tithe to the corporate gods. This doesn't always sit well with independent rural folks who want to really make a go at self storage employment opportunities of their own, but can involve the often lucrative income involved with cross country rental trucks, too.
Of course, there's nothing about self storage employment opportunities that says you can't start it up yourself and do a very good business, indeed. It does require a certain amount of startup capital, but since self storage is something that nearly every community requires, if there's a need in your area, even starting out small, you have a very good chance of expanding into a larger enterprise soon by reinvesting your initial profits into expansion.
In most communities, the major concern with self storage employment opportunities is the cost of initial start up as well as the cost of security. However, with good design and some initial thought given to the physical plant of the storage units, you can rest a bit easier. People also often locate these facilitates near their homes so they can keep an eye on things, with or without canine help.
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