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Self storage rate increase calculator
Estimate what an existing customer rate increase actually nets after the tenants it pushes out and the weeks their units sit empty.
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Free calculators for independent self storage owners
Two small tools that answer the two questions a 100 to 600 unit facility keeps asking: what a rate increase is really worth, and what the manual gate work is costing.
Storage math is not complicated, but it is easy to skip. Most owners can quote their occupancy to the percent and could not tell you within a hundred dollars what a nine percent increase across long tenured tenants will net after the move outs it causes. These calculators exist because those two numbers change decisions, and because both are quick to estimate once you write the inputs down.
Use your own figures rather than the defaults. The defaults describe a common shape of property, roughly 220 occupied units at a rate under the current street rate, with a handful of past due tenants in any given month. Your billed rates, your vacancy fill time, and your delinquency count are the parts worth being honest about, because everything downstream moves with them.
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Gate code and lockout workload calculator
Add up the hours your office spends issuing codes, clearing codes, and locking out past due units, then see what that quiet work costs across a year.
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The self storage delinquency ladder worksheet
A fill in worksheet that turns your rental agreement and your state statute into a dated ladder your property can actually run every single month.
Why the storage calculators sit open with no sign up
Both numbers on this page are arithmetic a facility owner is already doing by hand, usually in the truck with a rent roll printout on the passenger seat. Two hundred and twenty occupied units, a billed rate that has not moved since the tenant signed, nine percent on top, then a guess at how many of those long tenured tenants walk and how many months a 10 by 15 sits before it re-rents. The gate side is worse, because nobody has ever timed it: seven minutes to type a code into the panel after a move in, seven more to clear it after a move out, and a dozen minutes per past due unit to kill access, hang the overlock and write down when you did it. That math should not cost anybody an email address.
So neither calculator asks for an account and nothing is saved anywhere. The answers are worth having whether or not you ever pay us a dollar. A year one net figure on a rate increase is something to put in front of a partner, a lender, or your own hesitation before the notices go in the mail. An annual cost for manual gate work is something to weigh against a part time office shift, or against the Saturday rental you lost because nobody was there to hand out a code. Both stand on their own at a property that never buys storage software at all.
Both of those figures point at the same office
The rate increase number tells you what the rent roll is leaving on the table, and the workload number tells you what the keypad panel is quietly costing to keep in sync with it. A demo shows the version where the two stop being separate jobs: the lease issues the code, the ladder revokes it on the day you picked, and a payment turns it back on without anyone opening the office. Bring the inputs you just used and we will work from your property, not a sample one.