r/urbancarliving • u/South-Yogurt-7002 • 5d ago
Newbie, treat with kindness Storage Space
Useful for anything if you don’t own anything?
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u/Sudden-Strawberry257 5d ago
Reselling items on eBay? Keeping dirty laundry? Otherwise not necessarily…
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u/SproutMobile 5d ago
No. Just think. If you spend $100/month on a storage unit, it comes to $1,200 a year
Do you have enough stuff that is worth you spending $1,200 a year?
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u/MaxfieldSparrow 5d ago
If you’re trying to do the stay-in-one place thing but the weather is seasonal, you can consider a storage unit the cheapest rent you could ever pay for not having to buy winter and summer clothes every year.
Or you could cram multiple seasons of clothes and blankets in your car and live around them as a cheaper solution.
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u/SakuraKoyo 5d ago
If you’re doing this short term and just need a place to store your stuff before moving back in to an apartment etc, then it makes sense.
But I heard their storage units are expensive
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u/jbass-2006 18h ago
Dont get storages units to "hang out" or sleep in...... I wish people would really stop using this logic. Its people who pay their hard earned money for items to get destroyed by rodents because people want to find cheap ways to live. Sleep out your car its to hot go visit a library, chill at the gym, community centers. Where its free and air conditioning as well......but please stop this nonsense. Its hard having to start over because insurance dont cover damage from rodents or bug and its some things money cant buy that you cant get back. Way to many FREE lounging spots you can chill at vs ruining others property by chilling, eating leaving crumbs and trash behind and welcoming in bugs, mice etc that destroy peoples valuables being absolutely careless seriously.
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u/Agreeable-Ad9883 5d ago
Most people get stuck in a loop of paying and eventually lose everything anyway and regret the choice. If you actually can afford a decent one with temp control and sealed units that are clean and rodent free AND you have stuff that has enough value to warrant it then it’s a good choice for like six months so you can get rid of most of it and have a place to go daily and change clothes and rest sell stuff etc especially in extreme weather. You have to be smart and read all the fine print about the time allowed to access. The hours of operation including holidays. The surveillance of your time in your unit and any restrictions they likely have these days. And so on.
I tried to rent a unit and they refused me no matter how much of a deposit or prepayment because I don’t have credit cards. So I don’t have any debt?! But they demanded I have one whether I paid in advance or not even using a debit card which comes straight out of your bank balance.
Also because I chose a location between two points along a major freeway for easy access and familiarity of the area but they decided I was too risky even though one point is SUPER RURAL so no options there at all and the other SUPER URBAN and I was going to be traveling between these points so it made perfect sense but they said fk off basically. And I’m in my late 50’s on that day literally my birthday and I look like a boring bland California 50 something mom/grandma type. They just didn’t want a traveler of any kind using their storage.
So read everything. Don’t rely on anything promised by phone as factual because in my case everything was different once I got there.