Did You Hear?

State Land Board in self storage business.
In November of 2010 the national Self Storage Association (including the ISSA) wrote a letter to George Bacon, Executive Director of the State Land board calling for a stop to the acquisitions of Idaho self storage facilities. Please read

In June of 2011, Governor Otter, and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna, both members of the board, recently stated that support of the decision to invest in the private retail storage business was a mistake, and that the board should investigate selling the property. Please read

Crackdown on illegal RV storage - (October, 2011)
With the ever increasing problem of individuals renting outside spaces for RV's and cars without proper industrial zoning, the ISSA has focused on reporting and requesting investigation to authorities. The counties and cities have been very cooperative in this endeavor as they wish to stop this practice also. We feel that as legal self storage businesses, we have legally applied and gained proper zoning, and these illegal practices take business away from our members.