Little Known Storage Tips, Tricks and Perks

Many self storage tenant have a storage unit during a particular stage in life – marriage, divorce, temporarily relocating for a job, the kids are off to college, or sadly, the death of a loved one. Then there are the life-long storage tenants that enjoy the convenience of hiding away their lesser used items out of site (OCD de-clutterers). Even these avid self storage users probably only frequent their storage units on occasion to swap out summer and winter wardrobes and exchange Fourth of July American flags for Christmas lights. Then there are the self storage freaks, life myself, that know entirely too much about all things self storage.

So here are 7 things you should know about self storage (but probably don’t know):

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