About John Fayard

Self Storage

- Climate-Controlled Units

- Free Quotes - Satisfaction Guaranteed

Gulfport, MS: (228) 896-7470

Santa Rosa Beach, FL: (850) 622-1748

Our Mission Statement

First in Service - "The pledge upon which our company was founded. As employees, we realize that only we can make that pledge live. We will give our talents and our energies to ensure the highest quality of service is afforded to each customer with whom we come in contact.

Because pride in what we do is our common bond, we will work each day to improve ourselves as people and to improve our network as a company. By doing so, our pledge will remain alive and our industry will be improved by our existence. We have set our sights on the future and will be guided by the lessons of yesterday. We commit ourselves to each other, to our community, and to our Industry. We commit ourselves to being First in Service."

A True Family-Owned Business

The Fayard name has been associated with moving, transportation and storage on the Mississippi Gulf Coast for well over a century. The first Fayard business, OK Transfer & Storage, was founded in the early 1900s as a local moving and storage business.

In the 1960s, they became Fayard Moving & Transportation. John Fayard Jr. started his own business, John Fayard Fast Freight, in 1982. That business evolved into John Fayard Moving & Warehousing and includes John Fayard Self Storage.

John Fayard Jr. grew up in the family business alongside his father, John Fayard Sr., who sadly passed away in 2010. John Jr.'s wife and three sisters are part of the team. Additionally, a new generation of Fayard children, including his son Tripp (John III), daughter (Tory), and other members of the third generation are carrying on the family, with a fourth generation that's up and coming!

"A lot of people ask what the difference is between our company and other companies. There isn't one thing that differentiates us. It's a lot of the little things. It may be one to five percent here, three percent there and a half percent over there that makes the difference. We are constantly looking for ways to improve, not by yards, but by inches. And some of those are hard-fought inches."

- John Fayard Jr. as told to South Mississippi Living