Do not rent a unit from Public Storage. Mike Mulvey, District Manager, has been perfectly useless and ineffective.
The past several months have been one of the most frustratingly disappointing interactions that I've ever had with a business.
At the beginning of 2023 a block of units were broken into. The intruders proceeded to break through the sheetrock between units and get into every unit. Thankfully nothing was taken or damaged in my unit. The same cannot be said for other units. I've confirmed with other storage unit tenants they suffered major loss through theft.
Public Storage didn't bother to make me aware of the intrusion. I had to discover it on my own. Once I made the discovery, I made the office aware and they assured me that they would get the walls fixed. A month passes. Finally the walls between storage unit spaces are fixed. The issue is this: the crew that made the repairs ransacked the unit. They left it in substantially worse condition than the intruders had!
It then takes about another month to finally get Mike Mulvey, District Manager, to meet me at the unit to review the disarray, damage, and come up with a game plan to move forward. This is after he stood me up for one of our agreed upon meetings.
We meet and he tells me that I will need to file an insurance claim. I ask him if the insurance company will think it's odd that his vendor was the one that caused the damage that the claim is being filed for. He tells me that I should tell the insurance company that the intruders caused the damage. I informed him that I would not be lying to the insurance company and/or be committing insurance fraud to protect him or his vendors.
We agree that he will have items that I want kept moved to a smaller unit at Public Storage's cost. Then I'll have the rest of the items picked up by a consignment shop. Another month goes by. Starting to see a pattern here?
I'm then informed by Mike Mulvey, District Manager, that they will not be paying to have any items moved. At this point I've already secured the smaller unit to move the items I'm keeping into. Mike and his supervisor's solution is to give a credit of one month's rent for the smaller unit. This basically makes it a wash. The ineptitude, feet dragging, empty promises, and unprofessionalism are absolutely mind boggling.
So here we are, months into this mess. No good solution from Mike. Wasted months. Countless time spent calling and leaving voicemails to get calls back on holidays, weekend mornings, odd times in his hopes that I wouldn't answer the phone, all to find out that Mike Mulvey and Public Storage have basically decided: we will just continue to take your rent payments and you're flat out of luck getting any sympathy or help from us.
So I reiterate here how I started this review:
Do not rent a unit from Public Storage. Mike Mulvey, District Manager, has been perfectly useless and ineffective.
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