Bill Gibbs at Longview Climate Storage Discusses Storable Easy Platform

Introduce your business and tell us your story! How did you get started? Where are you located?

I resigned from my long-term corporate job in 2013. A friend of mine had told me about self storage years before and I always kept it in the back of my mind. I investigated and purchased my first facility in 2013. I subsequently sold that facility (at a good profit) and purchased a smaller climate controlled facility in Longview, Texas.

What were some of your facility’s struggles in managing the day to day business tasks prior to Easy Storage Solutions?

I live about 4 hours away from Longview and the facility is too small to justify a full-time manager, so I needed to develop a plan to operate the facility remotely. I have all calls forwarded to my cell phone and hired a part-time college student (10 hrs. per week) to clean the facility/units and occasionally show units to customers. I needed storage management software that would enable me to show unit prices and current inventory on my website so that people could easily rent or reserve units online. I needed to be able to use the software on my smartphone as well. After investigating the various options I decided to transition to Easy Storage Solutions as it was the best fit for what I needed and was very economical as well.