I had been renting a climate controlled 5'x15' storage unit with this Public Storage facility since 04/2018 and I started with my rent being $90.03 (after taxes and insurance). I loved the customer service at this place when I first started, the people at the lobby were always friendly when I came in to visit my storage unit, flatbed carts were always available to use without having to contact anyone, parking spaces were always available, the place wasnt too busy with alot of other customers trying to use the facility at the same time, my stuff felt safe and secure being on the second floor with access codes needed to open the gate and take the elevator to the second floor, and the rent was reasonable for the size of the unit that I was renting.
Over time however the service has started to get worse, on the second floor where I was paying for my climate controlled 5'x15' unit you cant feel any A/C at all when your in there which caused me to sweat every time I would start moving alot of boxes around in my unit and start to organize things to try to make the most out of the space that I was paying for with my unit. The flatbed carts that were once readily available every time that I came to visit were taken away and now you have to see the facility operator and give them your drivers license to keep until you return the flatbed cart, they claim it was because people were taking the flatbed carts and not returning them. The rent had also gone up little by little on my unit, heres a breakdown of the price increases that I got while I was renting with Public Storage
04/02/2018 = $90.03 for a 5'x15' (when I started)
05/02/2019 = $109.16 for a 5'x15' (first price increase)
08/02/2020 = $118.57 for a 5'x15' (second price increase)
08/02/2021 = $137.74 for a 5'x15' (im starting to notice a pattern here)
08/01/2022 = $187.79 for a 5'x15' (agian another price increase in Aug)
08/02/2023 = $211.22 for a 5'x15' (by this time I left for a competitor)
By the time that I left I was paying more than double the price that I started with for the same amount of space and benefits that I once had like access to flatbed carts had been taken away, a/c in my climate controlled unit felt like it was never on, customer traffic had increased so sometimes it was hard finding parking spaces when I came to visit my unit, and my rent kept going up.
I ended up leaving for a nearby competitor named Extra Space Storage and now instead of having a 5'x15' storage unit for $211.22 like I did with Public Storage now I have a 10'x15' storage unit (double the space) for $200.47. The A/C actually works at Extra Space Storage too and the flatbed carts are freely available like they once were at Public Storage. read more