I moved out of my house in July 2020, so I needed somewhere to keep my things before I found my next apartment because, due to COVID, I had been laid off and staying with my family in Greensboro to save some money. Ample Storage Center is SUPER close to my old house and by I-40 so it was SUPER convenient having to go back and forth moving everything in.
My boyfriend took care of all of the paperwork and setting up the storage unit but I helped move the things in. The cost of the unit was $35 a month which is reasonable but for some reason, we got charged $55 for our last month. Mind you, we had one of (if not the) smallest A/C units available on an upper level.
The property itself seemed pretty new, clean, and well taken care of. There is a gate with a #### passcode, security cameras all around, and the facility (inside and outside) is well lit. They have hand trucks and hand carts inside the facility which helped speed up the moving process a lot and the elevator is really large so moving big things is a breeze.
Fast forward a couple of months later, and I got a new job. The time finally came to house-hunt and retrieve my items from the storage unit. As we emptied our unit, and to our dismay, we noticed that several (!!) of our belongings had sustained some sort of water damage while they were stored here. Including a one-of-a-kind poster, some documents, a mattress, pillows, etc. I wish I had itemized all of the items that had been damaged because this was definitely upsetting to me.
We cancelled our account with Ample Storage in September 2020 because we had no use for it anymore. One downside is that our unit's rent for the following month came out the day before we needed to take everything out so we paid for an extra month to store nothing - but that was no one's fault.
Overall, this isn't a terrible option and I did feel safe going to, and leaving from the facility. I am pretty upset about the damaged items, though, since we had to throw some things away. I probably wouldn't recommend this business because of that reason. Who would want to store their things somewhere where they'll become damaged?! read more