{"id":4292,"date":"2024-10-25T10:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T10:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2024-10-28T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T13:33:19","slug":"featured-vendor-garrett-byrd-franchise-director-storage-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/featured-vendor-garrett-byrd-franchise-director-storage-authority\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Vendor: Storage Authority Franchise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7299 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Featured-Vendor-Garrett-Byrd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"297\" \/>With more than 20 years of experience in real estate and self-storage management, Garrett is driven by his belief that nothing is impossible. His style is to break complex challenges into manageable tasks, then to handle the tasks carefully and completely one at a time.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This solution-oriented approach enabled Garrett to repeatedly score significant gains in occupancy, revenue, and profits at self-storage properties he managed. For example, before joining to Storage Authority, while guiding a firm with 14 storage facilities, he grew occupancy at one underperforming location from 63% to 89% in just nine months, enabling the owners to sell this location at a substantial profit.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">On behalf of the same company, he rented approximately 60 units per month during the first six months of operation at a new three-floor facility to achieve 62% occupancy which represented more than $45,000 in monthly income.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Clearly, for Garrett, doing what\u2019s \u201ceasy\u201d is not as important as doing what\u2019s \u201cright.\u201d His goal is to score small victories every day that will add up to big success.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">He earned his degree in communication at the State College of Florida, Manatee \/ Sarasota, and then he sharpened his professional skills in the school of hard knocks, notably becoming a self-storage expert in marketing, sales, managing, team building, and customer satisfaction\/retention.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Now Garrett\u2019s high-energy approach of intelligent, innovative, and industry-leading initiatives is helping Storage Authority franchisees like you to build their businesses.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">To discuss operations, sales, marketing, and more:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:garrett@storageauthority.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>garrett@storageauthority.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Direct: 941-928-1354<br \/>\nCompany Website: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.storageauthorityfranchise.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.storageauthorityfranchise.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1691137200754000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2L5oLKD_CZ9mzFuluUw1bU\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">www.<wbr \/>storageauthorityfranchise.com<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 20 years of experience in real estate and self-storage management, Garrett is driven by his belief that nothing is impossible. His style is to break complex challenges into manageable tasks, then to handle the tasks carefully and completely one at a time. This solution-oriented approach enabled Garrett to repeatedly score significant gains in occupancy, revenue, and profits at self-storage properties he managed. For example, before joining to Storage Authority, while guiding a firm with 14 storage facilities, he grew occupancy at one underperforming location from 63% to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7299,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7300,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions\/7300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}