They had me by the balls... the baseballs, basketballs and footballs that I had stored in one of their lockers, along with all my other stuff, like bedroom furniture, kitchen ware, rugs, pictures and chairs. It's storage, it's climate controlled and they just can't help but raise their rates as soon as all your stuff is there.
I signed up online about 20 months ago, they have increased my rent four times now and I'm paying more than double what I signed up for originally. At this rate, it would have been cheaper for me to burn the stuff I had stored and canceled the locker. To add insult to injury, the rolling carts they had once provided when I originally joined were previously left out and available during all hours the facility was open and now they keep them locked and only available during their office hours. One time I went to use a cart, they had lost the key and told me that they were just there as a courtesy anyway and not an amenity of the property, lately, I have not been able to find a cart at all. It seems that unless you own your own rolling cart, you will be hauling all your boxes by hand if you show up after office hours, if they *lost the key again, or if they have no cart at all, which is fairly likely.
I knew going into this that a storage locker wouldn't be a glamorous experience, but seriously, how can a company sleep at night pulling such shady tactics as rate increases as often as I've had here and crummy customer service? If you're going to rake us over the coals with rent increases every four months at least do it with a smile and give us some dang rolling carts to move our stuff around as needed. I started out paying about $75 per month (taxes and insurance included) and last month, also the LAST month I'll ever be paying, my bill totaled close to $160. Every time they increased, I got the same dang response, you are month to month, we don't have lease contracts with guaranteed rates, real estate value increased so or rent is also increasing, blah, blah, etc., etc., all a load of BS to stick it to anyone who decided not to throw or give their stuff away until such a time they were ready to move it to a new home.
I once vowed to never do a storage rental a long time ago, this experience, being my first storage rental experience ever in my life, has reminded me of why I will never rent a storage space again - such a waste of dollars. I honestly could have replaced over half the stuff in here with new for the rent I paid in the past year and a half. I did the math going in and was more than happy to accept the aggregate cost of rent over an 18-24 month period, I didn't know they were going to f**k me in the process without providing any lube to ease the pain. Two stars because *they're storage*, they're relatively clean, they're conveniently located and they're climate controlled, but I can't believe how shady they were with their practice of upping the monthly rent as often as they did and such limited quality customer service and nonchalant attitude with the friggin push carts. I mean, who owns their own dang cart? read more