The Self Storage Association (SSA) is the recognized global leader in, and authority on, the worldwide self storage industry while properly representing domestic U.S. members, affiliated state associations, and maintaining formal affiliations with national associations from all countries. \\The SSA is the registered lobbying entity representing the U.S. industry's more than 49,000 facilities before the U.S. Congress and federal departments and agencies. The SSA has spent more than $4 million in the last five years modernizing more than 25 state lien laws, as well as adding specialty licenses for the offering of tenant insurance, and authorizing reasonable late fees, dealing with abandoned records and vehicles, and fighting the imposition of sales taxes on self storage rents in a dozen other states. \\The Association headquarters is located in Alexandria, VA, just across the river from Washington, DC. For more information visit our website at www.selfstorage.org or call 703-575-8000.