EVERYONE READ BEFORE RENTING A UNIT THROUGH THEM!!!!!
Let me start by saying that I was with these guys for close to four years. Calabasas is a very safe area with little to no crime. The people that I rented from told me there wasn't ever a single bit of theft in their entire history..... So I figured I would be safe leaving my personal belongings there until I upgraded from my apartment in Calabasas to a house.
I had a 5x5 storage unit that I rented out for $96/month.... Keep that number in mind. It was $96 per month...
A few months before I vacated my stuff, I went to my storage unit to vacate my things and everything was there...
In December of 2014 I went in with my moving truck to empty the unit... Only to find that my lock had been tampered with. When I opened the unit, 75% of my things were gone... STOLEN... Rare, one-of-kind items, my wife and I had our childhood things stolen, Christmas decoration (no Christmas decor for us that holiday season).
The only things left behind, and not stolen, were heavy furniture items. Everything that was easy access and light was gone.
You could even see where the bolt on the door looked like it had an attempt to cut with bolt cutters. The lock (I purchased FROM this Public Storage) was tampered... In such a way to make it look like nothing was wrong.
When I went to the employees and they didn't seem to care. All they asked was, "Did you purchase insurance through us?" No.. because the guy told me it wasn't necessary there, and because I had my own renter's insurance. She didn't care one bit. I called the police department to put in a report. They came by and said that they would submit everything, but basically there was nothing that could be done.
I tried thinking of any way we could catch who did this (ultimately they didn't care and didn't even try looking into who did it), BUT when I had an idea I found their phone number to call them on their website only to see....
THEY WERE RENTING THE 5X5 UNIT FOR HALF THE PRICE I WAS PAYING!!!
HALF!!!! HALF THE PRICE!!!!
Every year they sent me papers saying they were raising my rates, when in reality their rates were on a decline. I'm not referring to the "move-in" special. I'm talking about the listed REGULAR PRICE... HALF!
When I called them out on it they said it was based on the current market..... YEAH RIGHT! Calabasas is a well-to-do upper class area... Property value doesn't crash in half here!
So essentially for the last hand full of years, they were charging me near double for my unit... UNBELIEVABLE!!!
They told me all I had to do was to check out the new rates online and call them to have the price dropped...
FIRST OFF!!! WHY in God's name would I check out a website for the new rates when I'm getting letters from them assuring me that the rates are in fact increasing???
Since my unit was ROBBED and I had no need for one anymore, understandably, I already closed my account. So they said they wouldn't give me the difference of the discretion because my account was already closed... WHY WOULD I KEEP AN ACCOUNT WITH YOU WHEN MY PLACE WAS ROBBED??? And especially NOW after I found out that I was being ROBBED on my pricing???
This is flat out disturbing and disgusting... I'll never rent through these people again. I'll spend the rest of my life telling everyone I know looking for a storage unit of how I was criminally mistreated by Public Storage.
At this point, the only way to make this remotely right is to refund me the difference of what I was paying versus what the actual price/value was.
How ironic is it to spend about $4,000+ over a period of 4 years to hold onto cherished items, only to have it all robbed from you a couple of months before you were emptying it out? Then to find out you should of been paying half that much to be robbed... smh.... read more