Storage units are fairly cheap and common pretty much everywhere (At least where I live) - so what is the advantage of using this?
I think it's the same argument as Airbnb made when people said hotels are fairly cheap and common everywhere.
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#62Out of college I worked on the finance side of a self storage investment company (thank god I left after 4 years), so I know the ins and outs of the business. The number one deciding factor for customers is location. Coming in a close second is security . In a far distant third is price. Self storage employees can only access your unit in the event of an emergency, eviction, or a warrant from law enforcement. For sel…
> one of the top up-sells is insurance
That's because most storage facilities require insurance and no one is trying to buy it on their own, so they accept whatever the facility offers them.
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#66"Hey bro, we aren't storing my drug-lab at my place" "Don't worry man, I know a place." Good luck though. I'd much rather store some furniture for people than have them sleep in my house.
very good point, I will have to think of a way to prevent this
Bufferoverflow raises a good point with regards to stealing too. How can you prove you left diamonds at someone’s place and they took them or the other way around that they didn’t take them?
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#67Out of college I worked on the finance side of a self storage investment company (thank god I left after 4 years), so I know the ins and outs of the business. The number one deciding factor for customers is location. Coming in a close second is security . In a far distant third is price. Self storage employees can only access your unit in the event of an emergency, eviction, or a warrant from law enforcement. For sel…
> one of the top up-sells is insurance That's because most storage facilities require insurance and no one is trying to buy it on their own, so they accept whatever the facility offers them.
That might be the case now but it certainly was not back when I worked in the industry 2005-2009
PS if you are Anand, I love my Kurt leather whites :)
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> one of the top up-sells is insurance That's because most storage facilities require insurance and no one is trying to buy it on their own, so they accept whatever the facility offers them.
That might be the case now but it certainly was not back when I worked in the industry 2005-2009 PS if you are Anand, I love my Kurt leather whites :)
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