In addition, ISSA will be initiating legislation to re-write parts of the Self-Service Storage Facility Act. Changes will include lien notification, vehicle removal and late fees. All of this work takes time and money. Our partnership with the national Self Storage Association is helping to bring about the needed financial resources to accomplish these legislative tasks, but we need your help. SSA is matching dollar-for-dollar to help us meet our lobby expenses, so now we need your help again.Please click on the voluntary assessment form and make a contribution to our effort to streamline the lien notification requirements and other actions and at the same time save you money. Thank you.

Click here for Legislative Voluntary Assessment Form


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ISSA Affiliates With SSA

The Illinois Self Storage Association (ISSA) is pleased to announce its affiliation with the national Self Storage Association (SSA).

The Illinois Self Storage Association (ISSA) board of directors voted to join SSA’s formal affiliation program at its October 27, 2010 meeting. The SSA’s affiliation program was created as a structure for all self storage associations to jointly pursue common goals and communicate regularly throughout the year.

According to ISSA President Mike Metzger, “This affiliation brings added member value through registration discounts for SSA sponsored events; member subscription to the Globe magazine; free webinars; and increased political capital.”

With the support of this affiliation, ISSA will be introducing legislation in January to amend the Illinois Self-Service Storage Facility Act. Included in this modernization project are changes to lien notification (1st Class v Certified Mail), electronic delivery of public notice of lien sales, late fees and vehicle removal. In addition, ISSA with SSA’s help will continue to wage its fight to keep sales tax on self storage out of Illinois.

“We welcome the Illinois SSA into the family of associations affiliated with the national SSA,” said SSA President & CEO Michael T. Scanlon, Jr. “The SSA affiliation program is all about working together, one for all and all for a better industry with less government intrusion and taxes. With 31 state and national associations already formally working with the SSA, together we have improved more than two dozen laws during the past three years. We expect great success as we pursue legislative goals in the Land of Lincoln.”

About the Illinois SSA The Illinois Self Storage Association is a not-for-profit trade association focused on the business development of the self storage industry in Illinois through legislative advocacy, leadership development and professional education. For more information please go to: www.ilministorage.org/

About the SSA Founded in 1975, the Self Storage Association (SSA) is the official national not-for-profit trade association for the industry and its registered lobbying organization before the U.S. Congress and federal agencies. The SSA serves the $22 billion (annual revenues) self storage industry including thousands companies, owner-operators, investors, facility managers and vendors. The SSA represents some 3,000 direct member companies and another 3,000 indirect member firms via twenty-nine (31) affiliated state and international associations. Together, SSA members own and operate a total of some 22,000 facilities in the US. Members are from the U.S., Canada and 29 other nations around the globe. SSA direct members range from individual facility owner-operators to multiple-facility operations, to the industry’s largest publicly traded Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). For more information please go to: www.selfstorage.org.

Service Tax on Self Storage

Use the attached letter to send to your State Senator and Legislator. Click here

Print off the language for a postcard that your tenants can use to mail to their Senators and Representatives. We encourage you to assist them in determining who their legislators are and then mail the postcard for them. To find out a tenant's legislator Click here

www.elections.il.gov/districtlocator/SelectSearchType.aspx.

Click here for the postcard language.


NEW Legal Information Services

The Illinois Self Storage Association now has in place a new legal information service. Noted industry attorney Jeff Greenberger has offered his expertise in self storage law through a member benefit program.

Members can now subscribe to a legal information service that provides you two 10 minute live converstations per month with Jeff Greenberger on legal issues impacting your operation. This $900.00 value service is available for a annual member subscriptin of $150.00. Call the ISSA office for more details.




Did you know that according to the US Census Bureau, Illinois is among the top 7 states in the nation for number of self storage establishments?








Our association continues to grow and develop due to the generous support of leading industry suppliers. This association asks that you support these suppliers as they continue to support us. Click here to a list of supplier members.






The ISSA office on the advise of legal counsel no longer offers a "standard" lease agreement. Because of changes in local laws, state legislation and court rulings, it is the recommendation of ISSA that any lease agreement be drafted by an attorney experienced in self storage law.



Click on icon to read a legal overview of the Illinois Self-Service Storage Facility Act written by Robert Steere AAL, former ISSA Legal Counsel.



FBI



The FBI has assembled a list of "Potential Indicators of Terrorist Activities Related to Storage Facilities"Click here to read the FBI statement here. As more FBI alerts become available, the FBI has asked ISSA to a conduit to the industry in disseminating this material.








ISSA Members go to the MEMBERS ONLY section to retrieve the new Federal Wage & Hour Guidelines. They may impact you regarding treating managers as exempt employees.



ISSA members you can read the entire new City of Chicago ordinance on the prohibition of storage of regulated material in self storage facilities. Click on legislation in the members section.


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