No problem setting up rental of a unit. My mother gave the staffer on duty the (valid) credit card information needed for automatic recurring billing and we headed home.
We came back a few days later with our 1st set of shelves, a new padlock, and a couple of boxes. There was someone in the office who explained that they leave rented units locked until the renter has a lock of their own & he let us in. We set up the shelves and made sure everything was locked. We then had to leave via the "emergency" stairs because the elevator had stopped working (stranding a group of other customers who were still trying to unload a large SUV).
We could not return due to family circumstances until today, when we had multiple boxes plus a new 2nd set of shelves. We arrived just after 3pm only to find the office empty and locked with "back at 4" on the door. I grabbed a cart, loaded on all the boxes & new shelves, and when we got to our unit our lock was gone and it once again had a company lock on it. We went back downstairs with all our stuff and waited for staff to return and reopen the office just before 4pm.
While we were waiting, a man parked out front & tried to get into the office, waited a few minutes, and left. Shortly afterwards, a young woman did the same, then left after speaking with my mother for a few minutes. Both had the same information we did stating that the office was supposed to be open.
The young woman checked in the computer and it showed our unit -- the one we had put shelves in and locked with our own lock -- was vacant, and then she said "there is a note" showing we had "moved out" sometime earlier (no date given). She also stated "we do not move people out unless the unit is empty." We went back upstairs with her, she unlocked our unit, and it was totally empty -- our lock, our shelves, and the 2 boxes we had left were gone.
We went back downstairs and she made a phone call to someone and looked through more computer records (which we could not see) and suddenly found a handwritten note on a piece of paper that said *she* had called my mother a few weeks earlier -- again, no date given -- and my mother had told her we were moving out. (I absolutely guarantee this conversation never occurred.) We left, after the staffer was unable to in any way describe who she spoke with, why "I called the number we have on record for you" was a call that my mother never received, or why our lock, shelves, and belongings had vanished when they "only move people out when the unit is empty."
AVOID, AVOID, AVOID. We repacked the car and will NOT do business with this outfit again. read more