Public Storage

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While Public Storage will be friendly and seem accommodating in the beginning, after you are a customer and have left your belongings in their custody, they will take advantage of that circumstance and consistently raise your storage costs an average of 11% every six months. I have been a customer for 8 years and they are very consistent with their rent increases. Allegedly, they price your rent at market prices (what the market will bear), but they have never offered to lower the rent, even if other storage spaces of the same size in the same facility with the same features (climate control) are being advertised at substantially lower rates. Keep in mind that the rent you pay is not standardized by the space, but is determined by what Public Storage can get for the price. If you have a 5x5 or 10x10 storage space, you may pay between 100 - 200 difference for the same space in the same exact facility, even if the spaces are next to one another. In other words, if you pay $190 per month for your space, the person next to you may be paying $105 for the same identical space. Again, Public Storage determines the prices based on what they can get first through the market, and then through consistent rent increases. The idea presumably, is to gouge the customer - afterall, there will always be another sucker out there to replace you should you move out. Of course, when you do move, Public Storage may drop the price of the unit that you were in by as much as $80 to $100 to lure in a new mark, and then play the same game with them. You should be advised that this is their corporate strategy that they perform around the U.S. It is not unique to Miller Place or Long Island. The people who work in the local facility have no say or authority in the pricing of the units. They just work there. Just beware that this consistent rental price jacking is a conscious strategy that the corporation (which is exempt from U.S. Federal taxes by the way, because it is a REIT) plays. The front office will not advise you of the size of the rent increases ahead of time, so beware of where you tread and who you are playing with. Good luck and may the Force be with you.