One of the first jobs I got out of school was working in the Justice Court in Reno. All manner of crimes went through our building. One that really impressed me at the time was a young man, maybe 18-22 years old, who had looted some self storage facilities. Over a few months, he had broken into perhaps dozens of storage units, nobody was really sure how many, and trucked away other people’s possessions. He drove off with people’s property past gates and cameras and on-site managers and he did it over and over again. How did this young master mind defeat all the storage security systems? He rented a unit!
Don’t let this happen to you . ..
A few years ago I needed to store a dozen big steel filing cabinets south of Los Angeles. I rented a 10’ x 10’ space in a building owned by a group that had about a dozen self storage facilities around the West Coast. The first year was great – all I did was send a check. They cashed it. End of story. The second year, they raised my rent three times!
