Worst Nightmare! After renting a storage unit from this Company for nearly a year and a half and paying over $1,400 in rent/insurance/fees, on September 12, this location confiscated my storage contents, and sold all of my priceless possessions at auction for pennies!
Recent job loss, Homelessness, and greif following death of my father, resulted in me falling onto some of the most difficult times of my life!
I recieved surgery this past July, and was recovering at the time my unit fell in default.
All throughout the year, I have been experiencing extreme hardship and explained this to both managers, Angelo Nici , and Jimmy Lewis, as well as the District Manager Sue Koch, and asked to make a partial payment of just my past due balance to bring me in good standing, but I was denied and told that my only option was to pay both pastdue and current due in order to keep my unit from being sold!
This company took everything else that I owned! My families clothing/shoes, Confidential Gov't Doc, cherished family photos, memorabilia, Medical Records, work that I produced and accumilated over the years, priceless memories and property that can not be replaced, all sold at auction for 2 months worth of rent!
I am absolutely devastated!! I called the location on September 10th to inform them that I was arranging to come in to pay the rent, made calls into the store through out the week to pay but was unable to reach anyone, and was finally able to reach Angelo (manager) the following Monday 9/17, who infomed me that My unit had already been sold to a buyer, and all my contents had already been removed from the property Without any notice to me what so ever!! I asked if any/ all of my confidential/personal items could be retuned to me and he advised me that everything In my unit that was unprofitable to them/ or buyer was likely destroyed and thrown into the trash!!
I cried out in disbelif and pleaded with him! He scoffed at me, and basically told me to toss it up as a loss and get over it!
This has left me sick! This company has a terrible business model, and their policies/ and stretagy is unethical!! They prey on the customer's inabilty to pay their storge because they profit more at auction! This should be illegal. Please, save yourself the pain and disappointment. DO NOT RENT FROM THIS CubeSmart ! read more