I had my stuff in storage as I was traveling for over 4 years..and things were great until it was broken into in July. My experience with Public Storage was fine until then because I never had to deal with them except to pay my monthly rent. I was not notified by the owner of the break in, but my friend who just happened to check on it. She had to buy a new lock (dont understand why I was paying insurance on this unit, what for?) Of course the insurance company is supposedly a separate entity, but for customer service sake they could have offered and gotten reimbursed by insurance. It just would have been nice. It was detrimental enough to me as it was that this happened and I am in another state! When I called the manager there to inquire about that breakin, he seemed to be irritated with me asking for info..and was very short with me. Which makes me wonder..HMMM??? But fishy events and fishy personalities me no likey. Especially when this storage unit DOES NOT HAVE SECURITY CAMERAS ONSITE. Remember that! But they have a gate and give you a code to get in..easy to get into that but whatever.
Then dealing with closing the unit off since I was planning to move everything out was hell too. I was willing to give a 30 day notice, but told by manager I could a 2 day. I expected a prorated amount since I pay online up to the 30thand left the storage on the 10th. I cleared this on the phone with the manager when we talked about the notice! So a few weeks later, no check in the mail, I called and manager told me I would get NO money back. That I didnt have a sufficient NOTICE! That cracks me up. Thank God this all happened in the end, because if I was not planning on moving everything out yet, I would sure been worried about my things WAY MORE..since PUBLIC STORAGE wasn't. I dont know if I will get anything from their insurance company, as two voicemails later have yet to get a return call. I'm not counting on them however, considering the way I've been handled so far.
So my advice: PUBLIC STORAGE? NEVER AGAIN. Customer service is not a high priority..and I WOULD NEVER TRUST THEM WITH MY PERSONAL BELONGINGS EVER EVER AGAIN. read more