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Important Members Meeting January 21 |
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This is a Not-to-Miss, Information-Packed Meeting! The Maine Self Storage Association (MeSSA) will be having its next meeting January 21, 2010 at 5:30 pm at the Muddy Rudder Restaurant in Yarmouth, Maine. This fun and informative meeting includes our untraditional Yankee Swap: “Get Rid of Your Worst Gift”. Bring that unwanted, wrapped gift that was not on your list to Santa and be prepared for a fun time! Read on to see why you don’t want to miss this meeting. Have you wanted to try a new marketing strategy in 2010? Our guest speaker for the evening, Patti Fousek of Creative Mind Search Marketing, will tell us everything about Social Media Marketing from having a plan, branding ourselves with our profiles, making connections, and managing our time wisely. Check out her website http://www.cmsearchmarketing.com. We will be updated on the status of our Legislative activities with regard to our new bill LD1499. This bill will become a law later this year! Will you be ready? Also, we will be hearing from Jon Burbank, Maine Emergency Management Agency, a Division of Homeland Security and Pam Flick, FBI Special Agent. This meeting is packed with information that we all need to know. Please RSVP to
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New Tax on Self Storage Rent-Update! |
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To All Maine Self Storage Facilities: Update: Enough signatures were gathered on the petitions that were circulated, and after much waiting, the signatures were finally verified and approved. The question re: rejecting the new tax law will be on the ballot in June 2010. Contact Still Fed Up With Taxes to find out how you can help. Self Storage facilities were unfairly included in this “tax on services” law and we were the only real property rental classification to be included in the new sales tax law. Just as important to note, this law was called a “tax reform” law when in effect it has taken taxes from one place and put the burden somewhere else. It may temporarily lower the income taxes for some people, but it will increase the sales taxes forever. These changes will hit our customers hard at a time when they are already struggling by taxing many of the services and amusements that they partake of. It will affect all of us, too. Thank you to our many members who participated in this effort thus far. It is more important than ever to become united as a group and be heard in Augusta. We can make a difference. Contact
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if you have any questions. To further help with this effort to protect our businesses, please consider making a donation to: Still Fed Up with Taxes, PO Box 24, Augusta, ME 04330. |
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LD1499 – Confidential Consumer Records |
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An Act to Protect Confidential Consumer Records in Self Storage Facilities was voted ought not to pass back in March this year. Passage of this bill would have required extensive administrative procedures for all self storage facilities. Facilities would have had to pull all contents out of a unit and search through everything looking for personal records such as: personal records, mortgage papers, medical records, accounting records, etc. before the unit could be auctioned off. MeSSA was present and opposed the bill and agreed to work on a new bill that would better work for the Self Storage Industry , the State of Maine, and consumers whose records are stored by a third party. MeSSA surveyed its members for insight on how members are handling personal records now and how records should be handled in the future. MeSSA's new bill, LD 1499, will be presented in the second session of the 124th legislature very soon. The newly written bill willprotect consumer or third party personal records without placing undo burden on the self storage industry. Stay tuned-this will move very quickly! Check the website for updates. Members will receive email notifications. IF YOU ARE NOT A MEMBER AND WANT TO BE KEPT INFORMED ON OUR PENDING NEW LAW, DOWNLOAD A MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION BY CLICKING ON "JOIN US" AND YOU WILL BE UPDATED. WE WILL HAVE A NEW LAW TO FOLLOW VERY SOON! OUR NEXT MEETING FOR MEMBERS ONLY WILL BE JANUARY 21, 5:30 PM AT THE MUDDY RUDDER RESTAURANT IN YARMOUTH. CLICK "CONTACT US" FOR MORE INFORMATION. |
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MAINE SELF STORAGE ASSOCIATION SELECTS MINICO PUBLICATIONS AS MEMBER BENEFIT |
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PHOENIX, ARIZ. – MiniCo Publishing has announced an agreement with the Maine Self Storage Association (MeSSA) to provide the company’s Mini-Storage Messenger and Self‑Storage Now! magazines as member benefits beginning in January 2009. MeSSA members will receive the digital version of the monthly Mini-Storage Messenger with an option to purchase print subscriptions at a members-only discounted rate. Association members also will receive the quarterly Self-Storage Now! magazine and be eligible for discounts on other MiniCo publications to include the annual Self-Storage Almanac and Self-Storage Development Handbook. MeSSA Treasurer Rhonda Hallett Pope commented, “Offering MiniCo’s publications to our members will provide them with valuable information and resources to help them build their businesses. We are pleased to be working with MiniCo Publishing to make this possible.” MiniCo Co-Publisher Poppy Behrens stated, “The Maine Self Storage Association is actively seeking to grow its membership and provide tools to help these business owners succeed. MiniCo Publishing is excited to have the opportunity to work with the association’s leadership to assist them in reaching their goals.” MiniCo Publishing, a division of MiniCo, Inc., publishes the Mini-Storage Messenger, the leading monthly trade magazine covering the global self-storage industry. Other publications include Self-Storage Now!, Mobile Self-Storage Magazine, RV & Boat Storage Today, Self-Storage Canada, the Self-Storage Almanac, the Self-Storage Development Handbook, and the Self‑Storage Buyer’s Guide. Since 1974, Phoenix-based MiniCo, Inc. has been a self-storage leader providing superior specialty insurance programs, informative publications and valuable products and services created expressly for the self‑storage industry. |
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