
Self Storage. More and more people today are finding it hard to manage the space they rent, own or lease and are turning to self-storage as a solution to cluttered personal and business lives.
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Self Storage offers both personal and business users a storage solution that they can fundamentally control themselves. As with more traditional storage methods, self storage allows you to rent storage space where you can keep goods and belongings in specialist and standard facilities depending on your desire.
In the past, we have had to rely upon removal companies and large storage organizations to store on our behalf and have had to play by their rules with limited access, no flexibility, long-term contracts and high charges. With the advent of self-storage, we've been given a lot more choice. It's 'Do It Yourself' storage.
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Self storage equipment from Storing.com (Click to enlarge)
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Self Storage is the term applied to facilities that offer do-it-yourself, month-to-month storage space rental. They are also sometimes referred to as "Mini Storage," or, incorrectly as "Mini Warehouses". Self Storage differs greatly from warehousing because it is a landlord/tenant relationship. Forty-seven states, thanks to the efforts of the Self Storage Association, have established laws defining this relationship.
An example of the growing trend in Self Storage in the UK. Ten years ago there were thirty self storage warehouses in Britain. Today there are three hundred, giving tens of thousands of us a spare room to house all the stuff we cant fit in our homes.