This review is in regard to Public Storage located at 3401 Avenue K, Plano, TX 75074. ¡DO NOT LEASE AT THIS LOCATION! Do yourself a favor and shop around. There is no on-site management any longer there and the same is true other locations in the area. Prior to Covid-19 most or all of the locations had an on-site manager. This location was one of them. Since Covid-19, the corporate office realized a new angle to maximize profits by reducing their on-site staff to next to nothing and save a ton of money on employee salaries while they disparage their customers and destroy their customers' personal property stored inside their units, due to ongoing neglect of property maintenance. Our belongings are stored in what we just discovered is a derelict unit with holes in the ceiling which we can see daylight through. With no onsite management since 2021, the property owner's ongoing negligence and failure to exercise a duty of care in maintaining the property directly caused thousands and thousands of dollars of damage to our contents inside the unit. In removing our belongings over the weekend, after being stored since July 6, 2021, we discovered along one wall from the roll-up door to the back wall, boxes filled with water, several of them had at least a gallon of water inside. As we went through the contents of these boxes, huge water bugs 2 + inches long ran out and took cover, scaring us half to death. The contents of one box with thousands of dollars of collectible dolls inside, American Girl and others, had thick layers (1/2" to 1" thick) of multicolored mold all over them. The outfits completely destroyed. This is when we noticed the holes in the ceiling with daylight shining through above our heads as we opened the boxes. There is no weather proofing on the roll-up door either. After filing a complaint with the district manager at my other location, where my unit took a direct hit from the 3/2/23 storm and the roll-up door was blown in or pummeled in by a heavy object, destroying most, if not all of the property inside, I learned this morning that the District Manager for this location is named Matt, if anyone reading this has experienced the issues I have experienced and needs this information. Toward the back wall, all of the bags and boxes we stored have huge teeth marks, shredded holes, and rat feces in, on, and around them. Most of the contents inside those boxes have been eaten and destroyed. The result of the corporate office's decision to maximize profits by downsizing to a bare bones property management staff, has devastating effects on consumers leasing units at this location (and other unmanaged locations in the area). The corporate office's decision to uphold its absence of on-site property management to save money and maximize profits, and the chosen negligence of District Manager Matt, clearly shows that Public Storage's Corporate HQ and executives couldn't care less about the condition of this property or any other property anywhere, or about their duty of care to protect the personal property of their customers stored inside their massively overpriced units. Public Storages' knowing and willful failure to provide a duty of care to maintain the property, injures its customers and their property. In my case, Public Storage's negligence, deception, and lies, has destroyed my property in two units in the same area in different locations. This is a massively wealthy company, that enjoys its wealth through sheer greed, callousness, and negligence while it disparages its customers and cares little to nothing about the damages they have caused to their customers. If Public Storage ever was a good company, it no longer is. It's just a bad, bad company, that trains its employees to lie, cheat, steal, harass, intimidate their customers, make matters worse by having no empathy, no sympathy, no social responsibility whatsoever. Public Storage is a hopeless trap for its customers, with the potential for inflicting devastating effects and injuries onto their customers and their customers' personal property stored inside Public Storage's derelict units. I have asked by my bank and District Manager Matt to provide a full refund of every penny I ever paid them since I leased the unit in July 2021 as an initial settlement. This week I intend to file suit in small claims court for $20,000 in additional damages to our property stored inside the unit. We've taken pictures of everything to show to the court. read more