The Eye in the Sky

• Commercial property managers, listen up. You might want to have an extra eye watching over your property. Studies have shown that storage properties with video surveillance are less of a target for robbers and vandals. Video surveillance aid in crime prevention. Just the presence of video cameras introduces a tremendous deterrent factor even though they are not actively monitored 24 hours 7 days a week. If video cameras are hidden, then commercial property managers should display signs posted throughout the self storage property letting the public know that they are being watched. Lately, there has been a lot of crime in self storage properties throughout the country. The victims were properties where commercial property mangers failed to install video surveillance. Vandals and robbers not only saw the absence of cameras as a welcome mat, commercial property managers could not identify the people involved. Video camera could have caught the suspects in the act of the crime. Security cameras might have been helpful in giving police more information about a still unsolved, high profile homicide at a commercial property early this year. There are no clues leading to a murderer. If commercial property managers installed security cameras police would have been provided with more clues. A couple of weeks ago two men were found living in a self storage unit under commercial property managers eye. They were found out only when one of the men called 911 because a third man, his guest felt ill. When commercial property managers came to the self storage unit they found inside a full-size bed, a dresser, some shelving and clothes hanging from a beam in the locker. The tenant was using a propane stove to stay warm. The man living in the storage unit revealed to the commercial property managers that he knew of at least three others who were living in self storage units on the same property. This caused the commercial property management to alert all self storage properties about people living in self storage units. It goes without saying that video surveillance could have prevented people from living in self storage. It is illegal to live in a self storage unit, but some people find it cheaper than living in an apartment and safer than living in a homeless shelter. Commercial property managers admitted that it looked like these people were living in the storage unit for awhile and that video surveillance you have been hard to elude. Once the man confessed that other people were living in storage units on the same property, commercial property mangers strolled around the facility, which has 150 units in 5 buildings. They found an extension cord snaked under the door of one of the units that was attached to an outlet around the corner of the building. When commercial property managers knocked a man answered the door like it was his home. In all these cases crimes could have been prevented if video cameras were installed throughout the self storage property. Cameras do not just ward off criminals, they attract new customers as well. Self storage renters are more likely to rent a self storage unit from commercial property managers who have video surveillance. 

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