If you want to find out how your experience renting a storage can be any worse than Public Storage, try 145 Aurora Storage in Shoreline, WA. The first interactions were somewhat good. Impressed by the reviews, I expected nothing but a good experience. Boy, was I wrong. Here is the staff I had interactions with : Mary Ellen and Spike. A faceless manager called Eric seemed to encourage the rudeness and lack of care of its staff. Here is in a nutshell , the chronological story of what happened.
On 4/15/15 - I got to the storage ( I've rented online on 04/10/15) to pay whatever taxes and fees I had to pay and get access to my rented unit. Did so, picked up my unit keys and proceeded to get a friend who helped me with the move , get the truck and get all the stuff I wanted to put in storage. Did so. All good. We get to the storage, looking forward to having the move done. Enter the code followed by *. Nothing. Long story short, the code didn't work. Neither first time or the 50th time. There is no emergency number or after hours on call staff. So we did call and left.messages, but they were listened to in the morning. We ended up having to go and unload my stuff where I live now. And where the space is very limited. So I put everything wherever I could, with solemn promises to my landlord that I will move everything today. After work.
This morning, the nice lady working the front desk called me. She told me, after listening for 2 minutes, that her boss used the code in the morning and it works. And that it doesn't show on the entry gate log that we entered the code at all. So. By tone and words, she said I'm either a stupid who doesn't understand how to use a keypad or that I'm a liar who never was there to entered the code at all. Yup. At this point, I disengaged and told her I don't want to talk with her any longer and that I wish to talk with the manager. When I repeatedly asked for the logs at the entry front gate, suddenly the story changed. You can see clearly my code entered and being labeled as the wrong code. No apologies followed. Official version of the incident was " glitch in the computer". I have copies of the logs and recorded conversations with the staff handling the whole incident.
All the interactions with staff were totally unprofessional. If I could , I would add the audio clip with few highlights of that lovely conversation. I was told I will have the manager call me in the morning, and schedule a time when we can sit down and talk and get to a solution to solve the entire incident. Needless to say, nobody followed up with any response. The issue of the cost of moving- truck and gas- was brushed off. the whole incident ended up costing me money, because I never got the money back or at least an explanation or willingness to be of service.
SO. IF YOU WANT TO SEE HOW UNPROFESSIONAL LOOKS LIKE AT A LOWER LEVEL THAN PUBLIC STORAGE - PLEASE FEEL FREE TO CONTACT THEM.
If you need a decent storage facility, go to the Extra Space Storage. on 130th. They are professional . And way better than these crooks read more