I thought this place is as bad as it can get. No, it isn't. It's not the employees, it's corporate. Their computer system programmed by infants bouncing up and down on keyboards just put in ANOTHER phantom bill for "fees and other charges, due immediately," of 79.15. When asked what it's about 1) they won't tell me; 2) they're incredibly rude as usual; 3) they further threaten me to FINE ME IF I DON'T PAY THE MYSTERY CHARGE.
Like me, a former civil trial attorney with 35,000 hours experience, I have NEVER seen this, and neither has the rep of my bank I spoke to. Since public storage REFUSES to give me anywhere I can have it out with them on writing, and go to war over their insanity, my bank agrees with me I should pay this unexplained COMPLETELY bogus phantom charge, wait til it posts, THEN dispute it with them and that way PS will be FORCED to put it in writing.
I have never seen in my life a billing system go this BERZERK with false charges, but they care about their renters not one whit, so I guess it makes sense.
If you rent from any public storage, even this one with nice employees, IMHO, you will have lost your mind, so please don't complain if they do, they gift you with soap on a rope, and then you act "surprised." It's as messed up as a business can get.
On the other hand, from former reviews, it seems like a MAGICAL place to have all your stuff stolen from with *cough* "picked locks" then have THEM not honor your insurance if you're insured elsewhere through legitimate insurance, unlike public storage (that L should be removed from their name, actually, but that's another story).
If they send you a Christmas thank you for your patronage, I assure you it will be soap on a rope for their next year "messing with you."
Sometimes you mess with the wrong person. Public Storage has found that person.
best,
C. Sterling Wolfe, Esq.
specialty / civil fraud, class action
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Edit: It can ALWAYS get worse with public storage. They're now double charging me bogus fines, threatening me that if I don't pay the fine IMMEDIATELY (they never give details what their "other charges is about") that they're going to fine me some more.
So I'm now in an endless cycle of every time I refuse to pay their false bills, I'm threatened with more bogus fines, in breach of our contract, if I don't pay those unspecified false bills immediately.
Rep 1 I talked to was incompetent in math. Claiming I was never double billed for anything. DEMONSTRABLY WRONG. Then I asked to be transferred to a supervisor, she hung up on me.
Rep 2 I talked to was patronizing, rude, so when I requested to be transferred to corporate (they don't have supes on the floor, how insane is that?!) she gave me WRONG information I repeated back to her about his contact information. Once again, what type of company let's the inmates run the show on customer service, with NO supervisor on the floor. Public storage is the obvious answer.
Last person I talked to at Corporate, Mike working for Ken Lassegard's words out of his mouth to me were "I didn't listen to your message," which means, by definition he arrogantly thinks his time is worth more than mine, $900 an hour. And WHY would you gratuitously announce that to a customer anyway? It reeks of TOTAL blowhard overcompensation for deep insecurity plus a total lack of recognition that if you say something incredibly rude in an arrogant tone of voice to ANY customer, that conversation is not going to work out well for either party.
Public Storage: Kings of creating lose-lose situations.
If you look up Orange Insurance class action lawsuits, basically, IMHO as a civil fraud attorney, my opinion is that it's simply not only a fraud, in terms of kickbacks, bouncing back this "independent" insurance company which is really just them, back to them. And on top of that, purported facts of the suits show they RARELY pay out on the most obvious signs of break-in.
I watched one video of a lady who's COMPLETE DOOR WAS REPLACED, AS WAS HER ORIGINAL LOCK, SHE FOUND HER ORIGINAL CUT LOCK INSIDE THE UNIT, AND THEY STILL REFUSED TO PAY HER HER INSURANCE MONEY AFTER EVERYTHING INCLUDING WASHER AND DRYER WAS STOLEN!
Don't use any public storage is the bottom line. Some things really are that simple. Ten years ago, they weren't this horrid. That was then, this is now, and NO amount of nice by the local employees in Harbor City is going to clear up their obvious attempt to self-destruct, and take their customers down with them. read more