#gratitude Excellent excellent excellent customer service from Young Millennials (I know, right?!). All these wonderful reports on Lisa and Eboni are VALID. They are knowledgeable, observant, solution-oriented, and incredibly courteous. They possess the soft-skills smart employers desire but can not train into someone. #hometraining Then add Lisa's 20-years experience in the Storage industry, she already knows the emotional questions a transitioning customer is likely to be facing. So this location's setting right next to a military base is fortuitous. I hope she owns stock in the company, John.
The facility, itself, is wonderfully clean. The baseboards, crevices, and ceiling rafters showed no caked-in dirt nor even a cobweb. There are three floors with a tin roof. No water stains indicating leaks were visible, though, being a recent change in ownership, there were no available records of how many hurricanes the building had handled. It was this fact that made me hesitate on securing my rental and return home for a Google dive. Not everyone has this additional time when in the life-event of securing a storage unit. It would be my suggestion to the owners to have this information more readily available. While insurance is provided (and required), the reality is once something irreplaceable is gone, it's gone.
Accessibility is the only partial fault I found with this facility. If there were the option to drop half a star to 4.5, I would, and solely for this reason. The serpentine hallways immediately surrounding the elevator egress are a problem. In fact, the free, readily-available carts can not even roll around them without much maneuvering and scraping walls. I have concerns for our more fine furniture pieces fitting through here. This was frustrating because it appears to be an easy resolve to remove four end units. So, Capitalism reigns! Consumers beware; you'll definitely need three people for items like sleeper sofas or entertainment units.
Ladies, there is a LOT of security visible here! the parking lot is open with no hidden nooks. FYI, there are also no trees for long moving days.Each door has an overhang but only one vehicle fits in the space at a time. If you arrive seconds after a large moving truck, you're screwed for shade.
I saw multi-cameras everywhere. The HD monitors at the reception desk showed faces and details of activity on the multiple hallways. Each door AND the elevator require a personalized code. The hallways are brightly lit, not that weird yellow fluorescent so common in storage facilities. There are even some rays of natural light peaking around the Maintenance storage units. An aesthetic game-changer for this facility could be achieved by lowering the walls of these window-blocking units. Or to utilizing fencing instead of the walls. This access to natural light would improve the perception of safety.
The contract was easy to read and your basic "we get your stuff if your rent's late" wording. What I appreciated was that it was well laid-out and sans threatening-sounding legal speak. The desk is set-up with a large HD monitor facing the customer during the signing process. I did not feel like line items were being hidden from me or attempted legalease glossed over. A copy of the contract could be printed or emailed to me.
There is an option to receive payment reminders via text or to sign up for auto-withdrawal. They are _not set-up for Apple/Google Pay so bring your wallet.
There is an option to call or use email to communicate with Lisa and Eboni. As I will be outside the country and in different time zones, I appreciated this additional access-point should there be any issues. read more