06/07/2022

Ray McRae

Vice President

Ray started in self-storage with U-Haul in 1983, where his 15-year career included many positions: Store Manager, Area Field Manager, AFM Program Manager, and Marketing Company President of Chicago Metroplex. At U-Haul, Ray assisted in land purchases, self-storage acquisitions, due diligence, entitlements, coordination with contractors, and facility operations of company owned moving centers or 3rd party managed dealerships. Ray is the Vice President and Designated Broker of record for Arizona Mini Storage Management Company / Storage Solutions, which he joined in 1998. Since then, the company doubled in size through various joint ventures, 3rd party property management and branding affiliations. In April of 2015, Storage Solutions became a PRO (Professional Regional Operator) for the NSA (National Storage Affiliates Trust), a self-storage Real Estate Investment Trust, which went public through an IPO (Initial Public Offering) in April 2015 on the New York Stock Exchange.