Press Release - Acquisitions of eight facilities

California, Florida, New JerseyThursday, June 21, 2007
For Immediate Release

June 21, 2007, – ORLANDO, Fla. – OB Companies/Simply Self Storage, the largest privately held developer and operator of self storage facilities in the United States and Puerto Rico, announces that it has acquired eight facilities in California, Florida, and New Jersey.
Upon the completion of these acquisitions, Simply Self Storage is proud to announce that it has exceeded an unprecedented 200-site acquisition milestone within the last two years.
Simply Self Storage purchased six of the eight stores in California. They are; Ceres and Riverbank, located in Stanislaus County, Escalon and Stockton, located in San Joaquin County, Sonora, located in Tuolumne County and a new lease up, Elk Grove, located in Sacramento County.

Combined, the California portfolio has 3,805 units and 518,665 total rentable square feet. This will be the first acquisition in California for Simply Self Storage. “Seeing the great opportunities that California has, we felt Simply Self Storage needed to be in this market to continue its strong growth,” stated Kurt O’Brien, CEO of OB Companies/Simply Self Storage.

The seventh store acquired is situated in West Palm Beach, Florida, located in Palm Beach County. This store has 833 units and 81,482 total rentable square feet.

The eighth store acquired is in Barnegat, New Jersey, located in Ocean County. This store has 634 units and 102,375 total rentable square feet.
In addition to the acquisitions of over 200 fully operational self storage sites, earlier this month OB Companies/Simply Self Storage acquired an additional development site to add to its new development portfolio. The site is located within the Little Italy district of San Diego, California.
Simply Self Storage, based in Orlando, Florida has offices, developments and self storage facilities in California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, Rhode Island and Puerto Rico. Simply Self Storage has over 14.3 million square feet of storage space with 200 operating self storage facilities.

For further information, please contact Jessica Wolf at OB Companies/Simply Self Storage, JWolf@obcompanies.com.

Kurt O’Brien
Chief Executive Officer
OB Companies/Simply Self Storage
7932 W. Sand Lake Rd., Suite 108, Orlando, FL 32819