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| - Public Storage is obviously a place for you to store your stuff between home moves, relocations, or simple overcrowding.
Let me help you navigate this:
1. As soon as you know you will need this location, contact them about rental rates, available units, etc. If you can, plan a separate trip to see a unit and getting any info on special promotions before committing your money. They may tell you there is only one ground floor unit left or something similar to make you rush into making a payment. If you take a day to think about it or compare other places, you should be fine.
2. They do have no contract options where you can leave at most any time. This does require a couple of weeks notice generally. They can tell you when you commit.
3. They have units located on higher floors. If you have large or heavy items, you will want to have a ground floor unit.
4. The staff are helpful, yet can get testy very quickly if questioned too directly about anything. This is obviously a business like used car sales where the flow of connivery is a two way street. Everyone wants a discount or has a complaint on one side, while the experience with and defences against those things are always high on the other.
5. There is a personalized code access to a gate that you can access until 10:30 each night. The office itself closes around 5:30 or so.
6. You can provide your own lock or they have a cheap one they will sell you. They also sell boxes, tape, moving blankets, etc.
7. In my experience of moving items both early in the morning and late at night, I encountered people who appeared to live here. Not sure if they rented units or just used the long empty corridors. They never bothered me, yet it seemed obvious that they were using the units/property for more than storing their junk. The place is not all that well-lit after dark outside, yet the timer-activated corridor lights are bright. You may be best served to have someone else with you.
8. The process of signing contracts and accessing a unit is fairly straightforward. You can get that done in under a half-hour if need be.
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