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GUARDIAN Q1 2017

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OUR PEOPLE

Employee Spotlight New Hires Birthdays Work Anniversarys

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HIGH FIVES

2016 Annual Award Winners Promotions

Monthly Contests Stellar Reviews

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DEVELOPMENT & ACQUISITION

Pennsylvania Build or Buy

11-14

STORE NEWS

Renovations Sales Training Technology Green Initiatives Survey Q&A

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COMMUNITY SUPPORT

Free Shredding Events

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FUN STUFF

30th Anniversary Who Am I? Whose Am I?

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Employee Spotlight

Here's a chance to learn something new about a few current team members.

Years at Guardian Properties Worked

Anita Husman

Property Manager, Washington

10+ Years

Monroeville and Washington

Where did you grow up? Family

TEXAN from north, south, east and west Texas. You can take the girl out of Texas, but you can't take the Texan out of the girl.

My boys are grown and married with three children

First Job

Selling Girl Scout cookies

Favorite Food Favorite Holiday

Enchiladas

Fourth of July and enjoying summertime

Super Power You'd Choose Empathic mimicry

Hope McAlister Frank Certo

Associate Manager, Director of Property

Washington

Management

4 Years

11 Years

Bridgeville, Cranberry, Ross All Locations Township and Washington

Moon Township

Penn Hills

Brittany Wetzel

Property Manager, Strip District 7 years Shadyside and Strip District

Morningside in Pittsburgh

Two married sons

Restaurant Anything sweet Christmas Power to heal

Wife, Nicole, and dog, Paddy

Where do I start? Mom, dad, stepmom, step-dad, two brothers, sister, adopted brother, adopted sister, two step brothers and a million cats!

Lifeguard WCBP (New Jersey)

Selling Dippin' Dots at the Pittsburgh Zoo

Mum's pumpkin pie

Chipotle

Any day I can hit 18 and hang by the fire Halloween with my team, beers and some FGL

Humor, wit and/or unlimited access to Heal animals or talk to animals the right movie line at the right time

Favorite Thing to Do

Most Binge-Worthy Show

Where do you want to live when you retire?

Hang out with my kids and family I don't watch much TV Paradise with family

Read and/or walk

Game of Thrones

Close to my kids and grandkids

What is something your I won Mrs. Washington County

coworkers may not know at 37 years old even though an

about you?

explosion burned my eyes that

same year

I've parasailed

Be in the woods with my wife and dog Sleep and eat

MASH

This is Us and Monsters Inside Me

In the woods

Preferably somewhere near the water but wherever my family is will be home to me

My Dad has been my biggest inspiration I volunteer at an animal clinic

and I'm a better person since I rescued every Sunday. I rescued, trained

that pointer from the pound

and fostered over 70 cats in

2016 alone.

New Hires

It's an exciting time as we add new properties and team members. Here's a little cheat sheet to help you get to know your new colleagues. If you haven't already, please offer them a warm welcome!

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Matt Figurski,

Roving Associate Manager

Where did you grow up? That's a tough one. I grew up moving constantly, but I consider Dormont and Robinson home.

Family

First Job Favorite Food

Favorite Music Genre

My two pugs, Otis and Brutus; brother and two sisters; mom, dad and step-dad

Swing Line Windows

This list could get long! I love anything BBQ, but my favorite is probably manicotti.

Everything except heavy metal, unless it comes with Tylenol

Biggest Fear

Favorite Holiday Super Power You'd Choose Favorite Thing to Do

Most Binge-Worthy Show

Bucket List Item

Snakes! If Indiana Jones is allowed to be afraid, so am I. I love them all but definitely Easter because I'm a candy junkie Ability to read minds or invisibility

Traveling and playing baseball. I play a lot of ball in spring and summer.

It's a toss-up between Seinfeld and The Chappelle Show

Catch a touchdown from Big Ben

Nate Wilder

Associate Property Manager, Waterfront

Munhall

Brad Amos,

Information Technology Manager White Oak/North Huntingdon

Mom, sister and three brothers Bus boy at Eat'n Park Pizza

Indie Rock

Needles Christmas Telepathy Play video games

The Walking Dead

Write and direct a film

Mom and dad; brother, niece and nephew; engaged to Lydia and getting married May 2018

Fabricator at my dad's cabinet shop

Mexican everything. I would eat a Jansport backpack if it had cholula on it.

Metal mostly, but I'm down with everything except country and what's currently on the radio. Favorite bands include Pink Floyd, Katatonia, Gojira and Faith No More.

Failure and those centipedes in the shower

Cinco de Mayo. See above answer for favorite food. It's also going to be my wedding date in 2018. Teleportation. I would never sit in traffic again and could be anywhere at any time. Love hiking and backpacking. There's something about getting lost in the wilderness for a while that puts everything into perspective.

It varies. Most recently Game of Thrones and Stranger Things. Somehow I got sucked into 12 seasons of Grey's Anatomy ? still trying to figure out how that happened. Wingsuit BASE jumping

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Ray Jones,

Maintenance, Shadyside

Where did you grow up? Wilkinsburg

Family First Job

Engaged to Tameca; daughters, Taty, Rae Rae and Tori; son, Damon

Army

Favorite Food

Favorite Music Genre

Biggest Fear

Favorite Holiday

Super Power You'd Choose Favorite Thing to Do

Most Binge-Worthy Show Bucket List Item

Cheeseburgers

Everything but country Failure My kids' birthdays Teleportation Working None

Make sure my kids are taken care of

Tierra Corklin,

Associate Manager, Bloomfield Titusville Mom and twin brother

Worked at a pizza and ice cream shop Chicken quesadilla

Hip-Hop That I will always be poor Thanksgiving Shape shifter Spending time outdoors The Walking Dead

Go to Greece

Michael Dunn,

Roving Associate Manager

Spring Hill in Pittsburgh Parents, Jim and Fannie, and younger brother, David Assistant bindery operator at Three Rivers Bindery Pizza

Classic Rock Failure Christmas Control electricity Read and/or watch TV Curb Your Enthusiasm

Travel to Italy

Adam Gray,

Maintenance, Ross Township and Hampton Pittsburgh Wife and two kids

Lifeguard

Pizza Any Nothing I can think of Halloween Immortality Play video games I don't watch TV

I don't have one

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Birthdays

Matt Newmeyer Amanda Detling Tierra Corklin Cindy Herd Michael Murphy Brittan Wetzel Kelsey Gaiser John Martinez Bonnie Tresco Glenn Spohn Hope McAlister Jeff Penfold Melissa Cupek Patricia (Trish) Van Sickle Frank Renn Jason Zielinski

April 10 April 10 April 16 April 23 April 24 April 25 May 1 May 2 May 7 May 7 May 10 May 12 May 17 May 19 May 22 May 30

Work Anniversaries

Marsha Kaczor

15 Years

Kevin Cohen

10 Years

Deb Pilszak

5 Years

Congratulations

Congratulations to our 2016 Annual Awards winners. We're so glad you're all on our team!

? Players' Player Award ? Bonnie Tresco ? Property Manager of the Year ? Brittany Wetzel ? Associate Manager of the Year ? Hope McAlister ? Property of the Year ? Ross Township

(John Helms, Tim Webb, Denny Kichi, and Mike Lachenmeyer)

? Ken McMillen Memorial Award ? Mike Ferrence

Promotions

Matt Russell was promoted from Associate Manager to Property Manager.

Greg Plumb was promoted from Associate Manager to Property Manager. Greg is also joining the Store Audit Team.

Monthly Contests

To help keep our property teams sharp and focused, our Ops team created monthly contests related to improving our business. The stores are grouped into teams to compete. Here are the 4th quarter's contests and winners!

? JANUARY Past Due and Pre-Paid Rent Collection Winning Team: Shady Strip Foxes (Fox Chapel, Shadyside and Strip District)

? FEBRUARY Square Feet Rented Winning Team: One Team, One Mission (Washington, Waterfront and Westminster)

? MARCH March Madness Winning Team: Boulder Self-Storage

Notable News

The early leaders for 2017 Property of the Year are: ? Brush Creek ? Ross Township ? Guardian Storage Boulder

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