Back in 2000, Pine Hill Trailers was a home-based business run by founder Dan Petersheim and one employee who helped build the earliest products, a skid-steer trailer and dump trailer. But after a local shed hauler asked Petersheim to do some service work on his trailers, a new direction into[Read More…]
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It’s All About Location
Many shed builders offer both stock buildings and onsite custom builds in order to meet the needs of all potential customers—those customers cruising by your lot looking for an instant purchase, as well as those with specific needs and site constraints. However similar the end result might be, there certainly[Read More…]
Navigating Shed Transportation Hurdles
Building a topnotch shed is one thing—getting it to the project site is another challenge altogether. And what about those shed builders who do such a fantastic job with the end product that the homeowners want to take it with them when they move? For these on-the-go professionals, it takes[Read More…]
Rent-To-Own (Part 2)
It might seem the business of rent-to-own (RTO) sheds would be straightforward, especially since credit checks of renters are not performed nor is there any collateral involved to secure the transaction. But, just like so many things in life, the business of RTO is complex and is impacted by many[Read More…]
Faithful Customer Service
Here at Stoltzfus Structures, we value customer service very highly and realize that if it were not for our customers this company would not have happened and would not be sustainable. Customers are the lifeblood here. So often we hear from our customers that great customer service is not the[Read More…]
Reliable and Trustworthy
When Barton Choate began moving portable buildings a decade ago, he was one of only a handful of people in the region around Abbeville, Louisiana, who recognized the potential to make a living serving this niche. Today the owner/operator of Barts Portable Building Movers LLC works hard to support a[Read More…]
Sheds vs. Self Storage
John Barry is chairman of the national Self Storage Association (SSA), which represents more than 50,000 self-storage operators nationwide. He’s also the president of All-Time Self Storage based in the heart of shed-building country in Lancaster County, in southeastern Pennsylvania. Barry says he does not know any Shed Builders, and[Read More…]
Rent-To-Own (Part 1)
“Storage of property is a big business. We are a society that accumulates our possessions and typically need some place to store that property during different phases of our lives (renovations, military, job relocation, death, etc.). Whether it’s renting a portable storage unit or a self-storage unit, the need for[Read More…]
True Green
There are lots of ways in which shed builders can claim their products promote green properties: the use of local labor and locally sourced materials; stains and paints that are free of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), those solvents that are released into the air as coatings dry; and reduced waste[Read More…]
Calculated Risk and Hard Work
They may not have realized it at the time, but in 1983 when Sanford and Barb Lapp moved from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to Himrod, New York, to found a shed building business, they were setting a vision for the company that would last more than 30 years. Son Kent Lapp,[Read More…]
