The first years of young adulthood can be exciting times – studying in a new town, enjoying the pleasures of the world far away from the family nest – but are also a dawning of great responsibilities. Feeding yourself, paying rent and eking out a social life without much money from one day to the next […more]
The self storage industry is really building up momentum in some parts of the world with stores popping up everywhere, not just in your usual retail park areas and beside motorways, but even in built-up urban areas as pretty much any abandoned large building is snapped up and converted into storage units. It’s certainly a […more]
Keeping your self storage payments is an important commitment – you will need to make sure that you have sufficient monthly funds to cover it. The alternative, as we have seen many times on this site, is that your storage outlet will take ownership of your items and sell them off, hopefully not with the […more]
The self storage industry took a while to make an impact in the United Kingdom, but now that it has, it is blossoming at quite a considerable rate. Any resident of this country could tell you why it has proven such a success with a very succinct explanation – the amount of space for the […more]
It sounds like something from the future, but may be coming to a self storage facility near you…an electronic kiosk system to replace the manned front desk. Indeed this exists from place to place, but is it something that is going to end up being the norm? Industry is very much dependent on using the […more]
If your business is taking off, then that’s great news that ought to be congratulated, but the celebrations can be somewhat tamed down by increased responsibility and demands. One of these unsolvable problems is business location – being visible and attractive to clients of course means putting yourself in the thick of where it is […more]
In today’s lifestyle, we have learnt to pack in as much as possible to our decreasingly sized homes. Extra storage is on the wishlist of pretty much anybody concerning their property, and solutions abound to store particular types of household item in the most efficient way. Even more so, opinions are everywhere on this matter, from those […more]
Having your house redecorated can be an exciting occasion to get your property feeling more like your own home, with all the features you would love to enjoy. Alternatively it can be a difficult time where you need to calculatedly strip away the character and develop a more neutral ambience for when your property goes […more]
Back when we wrote about the alternatives out there to traditional self storage, mention was made about schemes where either side of the arrangement could advertise their storage wants or capabilities on the web and negotiate a plan together. For example, somebody requiring storage space for items could go on the lookout for a notice […more]
One of the staple items involved in storing or moving pretty much anything is the box. Being able to pack items within a confined unit that can be easily moved and stacked is such a fundamental concept, and without them you are not going to be able to keep your storage area tidy and easy to […more]