Project Overview

Smartlock Self Storage’s story began in 2018, when Jonah Hall was working as an asset manager for the owner of an empty Dollar General. There an idea was born: turn this vacant, underutilized land into a cash-generating asset via self storage. 

There was one big problem though, the future site of his, and his business partner's (David Hoover) self storage business was too far from where he lived, meaning that an onsite manager was going to be out of the question. 

However, the duo realized that with the right technology and automation, they could remotely manage their property, even from hundreds of miles away. 

They just needed a technology provider that could turn their vision into reality. 

“We used (or at least demoed) literally every software that was available as we were selecting our tech stack,” said Hall. “We decided that Tenant Inc. was the company to partner with.”

They found out about Tenant Inc.’s self storage software in February 2019 after attending that year’s Innovation Summit conference. Four months later they went live with Mariposa (our e-commerce website), and then with Hummingbird (our property management software) a few months later. 

Hall and Hoover quickly recognized the capabilities, experience, and potential our software showed. They also valued that we were going to give them full ownership of their data (something that is becoming much less common in the industry). 

But, at the root of it, the two appreciated that Tenant Inc. is a company that was founded and funded by self storage operators and they felt that we truly listened to their needs. That intuition paid off because in the years they’ve worked with us, they’ve seen features they’ve personally requested turn into live features available to them, and all our users.