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The California Self-Service Storage Agent license

Self-Service Storage Agent

Lets a self-service storage facility or its franchisee sell hazard cover to renters on the goods they are storing, and only with and incidental to the rental agreement. The facility holds the license and its endorsees sell under it.

Course

None

This license has no pre-licensing course route.

Ways in

1

There is no state exam for this license.

Exam

n/a

Not required on any of the routes below.

Every way to qualify

  1. Route 1 Apply as the facility and endorse your trained staff

    No state exam for this license

    • Training for the authorized endorsees, whose required elements the Department sets out in form LIC SSA 3, an Outline of Required Training Elements, rather than in hours or subjects fixed by rule

    California Insurance Code section 1758.75: "A licensed Self-Service Storage facility or it's franchisee may act as a Self-Service Storage agent authorized to offer or sell hazard insurance coverage to renters for the loss of, or damage to, tangible personal property in storage or in transit during the rental period. This coverage may be offered only with, and incidental to, self-service-storage rental agreements."The three forms the Department names are the license in practice: LIC SSA 1 for authorized endorsees, LIC SSA 2 for the notice of appointment and LIC SSA 3 for the outline of required training elements. $323 to file and $323 to renew.

    Read at the Department on 2026-08-20

The training belongs to the licensee to give its own people, with no hours and no syllabus set by the Department beyond an outline of required elements, and California gives no examination for this license. No school can sell it.