Protecting Valuables in a Secure Location SITREP What really sucks about not being around 100% of the time - or even having friendly neighbors looking in on the property over a spell of months while my uncle, cousins and I are away - is that the property and it's fixtures are exposed to vandalism and outright theft & break-ins. THE SETUP This last time was the straw that broke the camels back for my uncle since the truck in the side driveway and the windows over the kitchen area of the small home were all shot up with buck shot. STORAGE A secure storage unit seemed to be in order and quite a bit less expensive than going through an building a new shed that wouldn't really be a secure option to what we had already. But in this way, the remaining undamaged china, valuables and other family heirlooms that remained undamaged, could be secured away which would be a necessity in any event since at some point they would have to be moved as the old little home was demolished to make way for the larger home that would be built there instead. Problem solved.... PAYMENT We can actually make credit card payments for those months we are not physically present in St. Maries, and that's a big plus. THE LOWDOWN A decent local secure storage alternative for the remaining valuables we wanted to protect. read more