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Panel approves bill letting storage facilities use online ads instead of two-week newspaper notices
Summary
House Bill 131 would modernize advertising rules for self-storage auctions by allowing "commercially reasonable" online or other advertising methods instead of the statute—s current two-week newspaper requirement; industry testimony cited low recovery rates and newspaper publication delays as burdens on small owners.
Representative Reeves introduced House Bill 131 to the Judiciary Committee as a modernization of state law governing self-storage delinquency auctions. "Georgia has around 1,500 or more self storage facilities literally in every corner of the state," Reeves said, describing the bill as an update to a statute drafted before the internet and current industry practice.
Industry representatives and small operators told the committee the existing statute requires two weeks of newspaper advertising and that the marketplace for bidders has moved online. Joe Doherty of the Self Storage Association said, "Storage…
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