I got a locker with Advanced Storage Centres' Richmond location just over three years, and while I am extremely happy to finally have my stuff out of there, I'm also grateful that at a desperate time I actually made the right selection.
I was having to get out of a house that had turned out to be something other than it had first appeared, and Advanced was the only facility that I could find at the time that did not require a credit card, and where I could simply pay by the month without a term agreement.
The staff have always been courteous, if they haven't been able to offer at least a smile it has been because either they are tired or they are having to help me with something when their office shift should be finished.
It is a huge facility, so I can't speak for all of the units, but mine was dry, clean, and I never saw signs of rodents or insect infestation. 3 years in and my totes of paperbacks look as though they had been in a humidity controlled archival system.
About the only complaints that I could offer would be that their online payment system used to be almost a ritualistic gaunlet to navigate (I believe that they have fixed that), and their automated warning software will send payment due prompts when arrangements have already been made between human beings.
Oh, yeah, and as a pedestrian pushing or pulling a cart, the "One Way" entrance/exit gates are somewhat irritating, massively so if it is after office hours and you realize that the only open washroom is a minimum of a ten minute walk away.
At least I felt safe walking away from my stuff for a while the times that particular issue came up. That's sort of the point, right?
PS I'm from Vancouver, not San Fran, that's just Yelp being weird. read more