Posts by Alden Chang

To better understand how self-storage operators managed their pricing during the onset of the Covid pandemic, Veritec Solutions analyzed self-storage website pricing of approximately 10,000 stores from January through mid-June 2020. Slightly less than 1,000 companies operated all these stores. We collected data daily from facilities in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon,…

As of this blog, 96.7 million people in the U.S. have been fully vaccinated, or over 29% of the population. 141.8 million people have had at least one dose, and 67.9% of all seniors are fully vaccinated. We can be optimistic in seeing such high vaccination rates in so short period of time. Now may…

Psych and price often don’t mix. Consider, for a moment, the following example: Mark is a hands-on, operationally minded person in the U.S. with a keen interest in real estate. In fact, he has joined a local real estate investment club. The club researches and “games out” which properties to buy, especially commercial properties. Which…