This place is shady as heck, I would be very careful when renting a unit here, and whatever you do, read the fine print.
I was moving from out of state, and had signed up for a promotion they were running on their website for around $10 a month for the smallest unit for the first 6 months. After the initial purchase on the website for around $20 with fees, I got a call from their staff to set up a time to actually come in and sign paperwork, which I was going to do 5 days later after the move was completed.
Fast forward 5 days, I look at my bank account, and Simply Self Storage had charged me just over $90 in various fees. I was furious. I called the office on Andrews, where the lady was very rude. She explained all these ridiculous fees they tacked onto the account, like a lock fee (when I would have provided my own), insurance fees (when I already have renters insurance), and a bunch of other nonsense.
While I was upset, I had been nothing but courteous up until the point when I asked for a refund, at which point the lady became extremely rude, and refused to give a refund for anything. Mind you, while yes, one of their small storage units sat empty for 5 days, they never actually provided a service. Heck, at that point I hadn't even gone in to sign paperwork and agree to terms. What really pissed me off too is that she wouldn't even refund the $20 (ish) fee for the damn lock, when I literally hadn't even used a lock yet. At that point I just told the lady I would be disputing the charges with my bank and hung up, and dispute the charges I did, and obviously cancelled the storage unit.
Little did I know the nightmare was not over. Fast forward ANOTHER 6 months, and I get a letter in the mail stating that I have been sent to collections by this pathetic company, for a whopping $67. I was and still am absolutely speechless. In addition to the $90 dollars they charged when I first signed up, they charged me an ADDITONAL $67, money for which they never mailed a bill for, never texted me, never called me, never emailed me, when they had all of that information to be able to do so. I didn't even have a damn account with them on their website, so how was I even supposed to know they were charging me more money?
Of course, I called the storage place again to figure out why the heck they think I owe them even more money, and their excuse is that the storage unit was still 'used' for 5 days, even though I never even came in to do anything, let alone use the unit. Oh and naturally the lady is still rude, and refuses to even try to do anything to help. So now I had to call this bill collector, who according to the BBB website is notorious for being very rude and very persistent, and shell out an additional $67 to just get this nightmare handled once and for all. Thankfully the guy was actually very nice, and even made sure the issue didn't show up on my credit report, but the fact that this joke of a company thought they were owed even more money, a total of around $157, for renting their smallest unit for 5 days, is absolutely mind boggling. This whole ordeal was literally thievery. Honestly, how the hell do you justify charging that much money when someone had a unit for 5 days and then cancelled it? Particularly when the reason they cancelled it is because YOU didn't honor your own promotion.
Seriously, stay away from this place. read more