Team
Meet the Team Behind Strat Property Management, Inc.
Strat Property Management’s team brings together decades of experience across property management, operations, and financial oversight. Every member plays a role in delivering consistent results, enhancing our customers’ experience, collaborating with their team members, and creating successful partnerships.
Leadership
Executive Leadership
Guided by decades of industry experience, our leadership team sets the standard for how SPMI operates, grows, and serves its communities.
Don Clauson
Owner | CEO
30+ years guiding financial strategy and operational growth across multifamily and self storage portfolios.
Don Clauson
Owner | CEO
30 years of Self Storage Experience
Don is among the most respected independent self storage operators in the Country. He is a hands-on leader with first-hand knowledge and experience gained by operating and growing his portfolio. This is coupled with on-going involvement in highest levels off industry leadership positions, where he helps operators across the United States navigate an industry that has seen unprecedented advancement and sophistication in recent years. His industry relationships and loyal associations with colleagues extend from REIT CEO’s, national association leaders and staff, other local and national operators and a long list of brokers, lenders, and industry vendors.
Industry Leadership
Past Chairman, LOC
Former Chair, NSSA
Founding Member, StoreLocal
Vision and Purpose
In 1999, Don, along with his partner Randy Strauss, formed Strat Property Management, Inc. a management company specializing in self storage and multi-family management. The platform has grown from initially managing 12 properties to managing and overseeing a large portfolio of storage, residential and commercial properties today.
In 1999, Don purchased his first self storage facility, and in 2000 completed his first ground up facility. Both are still owned and operated today. Don began aggressively purchasing operating self storage facilities, and land to develop self storage facilities, in Southern California, Texas and Colorado. Currently SPMI operates 42 self storage facilities – 14 in Texas, 23 in California and 5 in Colorado – and two portable storage facilities – 1 in Texas and 1 in California. The properties are operated as Lockaway Storage (Texas and Colorado) and StaxUP Storage (California). His acquisition strategy is to identify investments with upside potential and to seek a competitive advantage geographically. Acquisitions have included ground-up developments, conversions, properties with expansion potential, value-add from property renovation, and implementing superior management and economies of scale.
Randy Strauss
Owner | CFO
Leading Strat Property Management’s financial strategy with discipline, adaptability, and decades of operational insight.
Randy Strauss
Owner | CFO
Randy Strauss is a leader defined by balance: analytical yet modest and independent yet deeply committed to his team’s professional development. As Chief Financial Officer and Strat Property Management Inc.’s financial architect, his behind-the-scenes leadership has been central to the company’s success. He oversees both the accounting department and apartment operations, and while he often quips that he prefers ten digits to 26 letters, colleagues know him as a perceptive leader who always champions his team’s efforts.
A graduate of the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, Randy’s diverse professional background includes an early career as a concert promoter for Contemporary Productions and Bill Silva Presents. Outside the office, he channels that same energy into his personal passions, maintaining a deep knowledge of sports history and a vast collection of baseball and football cards built over the years.
At his core, Randy is first and foremost a devoted husband and father. While Strat’s ongoing growth, acquisitions, and milestones are a great source of pride, his highest priority remains the daily memories he creates with his family.
Our Team
Storage Team
Apartments Team
Home Office Team
