How to choose the right storage room - what to pay attention to?
Hollywood loves storage units! On television, wild dramas often take place in storerooms. But those who need a storeroom in real life can do without dramas!
Warehouses and self storage units are the high-flyers on television: You may know them from movies like "Monster" and "The Silence of the Lambs" or from series like "Breaking Bad", "Storage Wars", "Dexter" or "Homeland". While Dexter finds the evidence for the transfer in Walter Kenney's Selfstorage, in "Breaking Bad" Walter's wife Skyler accumulates the cash ceiling-high in a storeroom.
Hiding a secret, storing treasures or storing superfluous items: the storage unit is the ideal place. But what's exciting on television we don't want in real life.
So what do you pay attention to when choosing a storage room?
If you can answer the following questions with YES, drama-free storage is guaranteed!
- Availability: Is my desired storage unit available and at short notice?
- Condition: Is the storage room dry, safe, clean and protected from sight?
- Size: Can I choose the size of the storage cabin?
- Price: Will my desired size be offered at a fixed price and will it be charged exactly to the day?
- Location: Is there a storage room near me? Is it conveniently located?
- Security: Are the area and the corridors of the storage rooms under video surveillance?
- Access: Is it really self storage and do I have round-the-clock access to my storage box?
- Access: Can I simply deliver my items? Are there ramps, goods lifts and trolleys?
Are the doors and corridors wide enough and easily accessible? - Cancellation period: Can I cancel easily?
- Additional services: Are there free visitor parking spaces and are transport services and packaging materials offered?
- Service: Are my goods in good hands with the supplier and does he have time for me if he has questions or concerns?