I had a TERRIBLE experience at this storage unit and would not recommend it to anyone if they want to actually get their belongings back after storing there.
I rented a storage unit at Storquest-Figueroa after graduating college. I was relocating temporarily the east coast. When I went back to retrieve my belongings with my husband, I noticed how dirty it looked since the last time I was there. Before moving anything, we noticed about three cockroaches crawling on my boxes. He killed them and we assumed it would be fine after that. However, after he took the first box out of the unit, we realized that there were many, MANY, more- not only were they crawling outside the boxes, but they were inside the boxes as well. We realized quickly, however, that the cockroaches were not confined to my unit when a cockroach fell from the ceiling and landed on my husband's neck. As we started to look around, we saw that the cockroaches were crawling on the walls, ceilings, and floors of the entire floor. We walked up & down every aisle on my floor and saw cockroaches skittering under and over the doors of other units, in addition to many dead cockroach bodies lying on the floor in front of units. Seeing this infestation of cockroaches, I knew that I would not be able to salvage my belongings since they were primarily bedroom furniture (bed, sheets, etc...) and kitchen materials (plates, cups, appliances). I could not risk bringing anything back into my car or house that had cockroach eggs in it. When I presented the issue to the manager, she got a cockroach bomb from Home Depot for us and set it off in the unit. She was friendly, but her quick suggestion to use a cockroach bomb made me think she had done this before. As I had insurance on my unit, she just advised us to come back in 24 hours, so that we could itemize everything in the unit and send to insurance. Now my belongings were also full of chemicals in addition to cockroach eggs. The next day when we came back we had to take everything out of the unit to make a list of all that I lost. Needless to say, I had to trash my belongings, which was over $4000.00 including the money that I spent in rent on the unit.
Of course we also weren't happy that we had to spend hours in a unit with terrible chemicals and dead cockroaches going through each item. However, if that was what we had to do for insurance, we had to do it. Later, we came to find that insurance does not cover insect damage--- which is something I would think the manager would know instead of suggesting us to waste our time. StorQuest themselves also denied having any responsibility in the damage of my belongings and the customer service was terrible.
I played phone tag-- and by phone tag I really me calling the district manager regularly-- to have a fair conversation about this circumstance. I paid on time every month and in return, I expected to be able to pick up my items in the relative condition that I left them. Otherwise, why have a storage unit? Why spend the money for a storage unit? Why not just throw everything out in the first place? When I couldn't reach the district manager, I tried to talk to someone higher through the customer service line, but I was constantly given the run around. No one wanted to help and even worse, no one cared that they had so terribly failed to deliver a service that I had PAID for.
Again, I would not recommend this place. They should be ashamed of themselves for such bad business. read more