National Storage Affiliates Trust is an integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. The Company is focused on the ownership, operation and acquisition of self-storage properties located within various metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) across the United States. The Company's operating partnership subsidiary is NSA OP, LP. As of December 31, 2016, the Company held ownership interests in and operated a geographically diversified portfolio of 448 self storage properties, located in 23 states, comprising approximately 27.6 million rentable square feet, configured in approximately 220,000 storage units. The Company's self-storage properties are located in various states of the United States, such as California, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, Louisiana, Oregon, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Texas, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Georgia.