Join Our Team

We are hiring for a part-time customer service associate at our loation at 1001 Cornhusker in Bellevue. If interested, please send your resume to dino1@dinosstorage.com. You can also view our ad on Craigilst at: http://omaha.craigslist.org/csr/2781605546.html.

New and Improved

Dino's Storage's NEW climate controlled building in Elkhorn, NE, is almost completed! We are only days away. We are very excited to once again serve our clients in Western Douglas and Sarpy Counties with climate control storage units as we did in years past. We have sizes ranging from 5x5 to 10x30 in this state of the art, 4-story building. Elevators of course; we'd never ask our customers to climb a flight of stairs with their arms full. This site will continue to offer non-climate drive-up units and parking spaces. The gate and fence are up and operating, the new DVR camera system is recording, and the carts are assembled ready for their first use. Here are a few pictures of what to expect of the new building after the hard work of construction is done and Certificate of Occupancy is in hand. Please come check it out, we guarantee you will be as pleased with the end product as we are!

Feasibility Study

A new service Dino’s Storage is providing is conducting Feasibility Studies for current self-storage owners, potential owners, investors, or banks. A feasibility study for self-storage evaluates about a dozen factors that help determine if a potential or existing site is ideal for storage. We do about one per month for ourselves, just looking at potential future Dino’s locations.

As owners and managers of 13 active facilities, we believe we know the specifics to what makes a self storage facility successful - details ranging from traffic counts to the pay structure of the manager. We only choose the sites that we think are a “home run,” as Dave likes to call it. We will soon be adding details to the Dino’s and Landmark websites about this great new service we are offering to anyone nationwide.

Elevators Are Not the Enemy

I was out in Elkhorn this morning looking at our new climate control building that is progressing nicely. What is great from a customer-service perspective is we are going to be able to offer our customers drive-up access to non-climate units and climate control units accessed by elevator. Although we’ve seen it done by other companies, we have never, and will never, ask our customer to climb up or down a flight of stairs to move items.

For a puzzling reason, we encounter a lot of people who want to rent on the first floor to avoid elevators, regardless of distance. Think about this: If you can rent a unit on the first floor and it is 150 feet of hallways from the door, or you can rent on the 3rd floor and walk 80 feet- which is closest? People say the elevator takes too long, but does it really?

Our building doesn’t house apartments or shopping areas, so our elevators are used minimally. If you are moving during the first weekend of a summer month, you may have a minute or two wait for the elevator, or share it with someone else. But storage facilities are not highly trafficked places, you can tell that by the number of parking spaces or bathrooms required by the city. Interesting thought, eh?

So if you don’t have to wait for the elevator, it makes sense to rent up or down, not straight across. Especially if the facility charges a premium fee for the most highly sought-after units. No stairs and closer walking distance with a possibility of saving money. In these times of extreme couponing and foreclosures, you may save money by asking: "Do you discount any less-than-ideally located units?" or "Is the price effected by what floor I am on?"

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