subject: Self Storage Liberates Space! [print this page] The luxury of space in an increasingly crowded world is one that many people choose to do without. Preferring a cluttered existence with little room to move, often our houses are so full of hoarded collections that we lack the physical room to move. Many people are inevitably driven to exasperation with their mess, and discard huge piles of valuable items.
Useful things that we all own are distributed around our homes haphazardly. The power of self storage units allows us to return our homes to living spaces, while preserving the valuable things that we so dearly hoard. The safety and privacy of a good storage unit is a huge draw card for many, and as rents increase, that spare room may become too valuable to have filled with excess furniture and knick knacks.
Homeowners are not the only people to utilise warehousing facilities to cope with overflows. Businesses are regular customers of these giant garage complexes. The ability to place ones excess stock into a safe and secure, dry location, that is accessible when needed, means that a business owner can devote their own store space to product display and distribution. Rather than choking up the back rooms with clothing, closets, coffee or collectibles, these can be put into a storage locker and the back rooms then become functional staff rooms, fitting rooms or more orderly merchandise storage.
Collectors of fine antiquities also enjoy the use of storage units, as it provides a discrete and often out of the way location, for them to store large amounts of valuable goods. Were it known that the collector had several rather precious paintings and furniture pieces in their house, they may potentially be at risk of losing their precious possessions. By having these valuable goods stored elsewhere, with little trace of their existence, except for perhaps an invoice and a memory in the head of the shrewd antiquarian, these priceless commodities are kept safe and out of harms way.
If you have ever explored a self storage yard, you would know that there can be an endless series of identical garage doors, all painted the same colour, with minimal signs of human activity. The doors stay shut for a long time. What lurks inside each shed is known only to those who fill it, and who remove stock from it.
One should take care however, for if they are too late in the payment of their storage bill, the owner of the storage yard will often have the right to dispose of the lockers contents through a liquidator, in order to recoup the value of the rent arrears. Often payment can be made in advance for storage that is going to used for a long period of time. This long term contracting ensures predictability for both parties, and often allows the space to be brokered at a significant discount from the advertised prices.
Always catalogue what you put into your storage unit, so that you have a written list of what is in there. While risk of damage is low, sometimes accidents do occur, and knowing what was lost in a fire is very useful for insurance claims. Good luck with your storage projects!
