Maine Storage Topics

A Place for the Snow Blower

Living in Maine, it's definitely a must to have a snow blower. Those winter snows can hit like nothing, and all the sudden, you have to clear your driveway in fifteen minutes so you can get to work on time. Well, getting a snow blower in Maine is no problem, but finding a place to put all that wintertime gear in the summer can be annoying.

In my garage for the past few years, there's been this war of the seasons. In the summer, I'll try to pull out all the stuff I'm using for lawn and garden care and to shove the stuff I use just in the winter – like the snow blower and even my winter boots – back somewhere out of the way. But it never works. Somehow, I always end up having this mixture of random stuff taking up valuable garage space. All I really want is an organized garage in the summers! I don't really care about the winter because I don't spend much time in the garage in the winter. But in the summer, I just want that winter stuff and the snow blower out of the way so I can have more space.

That's why this year I'm using a Brunswick Self Storage unit where I can store many of the wintertime lawn care pieces of equipment that I don't need throughout the summer months. I figure that I'll rent a Brunswick Self Storage unit for about half of the year, and during the winter, I'll just shove everything in the garage and deal with it for the other half of the year.

The main reason I'm not getting a year-round storage unit is that I'm cheap. I don't want to have to pay for the whole year if I don't really need to! So this is something I was looking for when it came to shopping around for Brunswick Self Storage. I wanted to go with a place that wouldn't penalize me for only using their facility for half the year.

That's what I found with US Storage Centers Brunswick Self Storage location. This location offers month to month contracts. I could have signed up for just two months of use if I had wanted to! With the month to month lease, I can terminate whenever I feel like it, as long as the current month of storage is paid. If I move everything out at the very end of the month, I get the most bang for my buck and don't have to worry about any contract fees or anything like that which would make moving out more expensive.

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Clearing Out My Garden Shed

My new little Westbrook home has an adorable garden shed in the back lawn. As soon as I moved, I envisioned it covered with vines and with a little container garden out front. It would be the perfect place to relax with a book when I needed some shade or to start a flat of seeds for the spring garden.

The problem is that as soon as I moved in, that little shed became a catch-all. I've been here for six months now, and I'm ready for that catch-all to get cleared out so that I can use it as I've been dreaming about this summer.

Last month, I went through the garden shed to see what I could get rid of. The truth was that there aren't a whole lot of things stored in there I'm willing to just toss! In fact, that shed has become a spot where I store lots of things with sentimental or financial value. So just getting rid of most of the stuff in there was out of the question. Moving those boxes of things back into the house is out of the question, too, since we don't have room at all for all those boxes and such – not even in the tops of the already-packed closets!

So, I started looking at Westbrook Self Storage options. I figure that other people use self storage for a long-term solution when they need to store things for quite a while, so why not us? Well, I looked and looked and finally found US Storage Centers Westbrook Self Storage. The location is perfect, and they have a lot going for them that made me choose this particular self storage location over others that I might have chosen within a decent drive of our place.

For one thing, the Westbrook Self Storage location has great prices. This was definitely a factor for me since I would be using this storage for who knows how long. Besides already great prices, they offer some good first time rental discounts as well as possible discounts for long-term renters. Count me in for that! Also, the units at the US Storage Centers Westbrook Self Storage came in the side of a walk-in closet, which was exactly the amount of space I was thinking that I would need. I didn't really need a whole extra garage – just a space about the size of my garden shed where I could transfer all that stuff over.

The customer service at the US Storage Centers Westbrook Self Storage location also helped win me over. The manager was very helpful and helped me right away to get into a unit that was perfect for what I actually needed – not just what he wanted to sell me. When we first got to our unit, the door was sticking a little bit, and the manager came right out and fixed that problem without any questions asked. That was great!

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Self Storage for My Accounting Clients

As a freelance business accountant, I deal with plenty of clients who have difficulties organizing their business financial paperwork. It's not uncommon at all, in fact. Many entrepreneurs and small business owners, particularly, are more creative-minded than business and organization minded, which can make it unnatural for them to think through ways to be better organized in general. I'll often take the time with new clients who are struggling in the area of organization to help them figure out better ways to keep their paperwork more organized, and one of the best options for many clients is Brunswick Self Storage.

The problem that many business owners have with organizing financial and accounting paperwork is that they simply don't have space in which to do it. It's not uncommon to find a business owner trying to stuff tons and tons of financial documentation into a ludicrously small closet in their office complex. So instead of trying to make this situation work, I always suggest that clients check out US Storage Centers Brunswick Self Storage for a place to store some of their paperwork.

Storing at least some of the lesser used paperwork off site is a great way to make sure that the business maximizes its use of space effectively and gets the most bang for its buck when it comes to office space and storage space. Space is always at a premium for small businesses operating out of small-ish rented areas, so a small storage unit added on can seriously help remedy the problem of where to put all the paperwork.

What paperwork to store

I don't normally recommend that my clients move all their paperwork over to a Brunswick Self Storage unit. For most businesses, this is just too radical of a step and doesn't make sense with the way the business operates. While business owners need a place to put some of their paperwork, they have space for the things that they work with every day. After all, no one wants to have to go to a storage unit once or twice a day to dig out client files and other important business documents that are used on a regular basis.

I do recommend, though, that my clients use a Brunswick Self Storage unit to keep paperwork that needs to be in long-term storage and that they don't necessarily use on a regular basis. For instance, old tax return documents need to be kept for seven years or more, but businesses rarely need access to these files. They're perfect candidates for storing in a Brunswick Self Storage unit rather than in their actual business facility.

Other files that will do well in a Brunswick Self Storage unit include old notebooks, legal documents for the business's incorporation, old employee records, and things like that which need to be kept for long periods of time.

Where to store it

While many businesses benefit from a self storage unit, some of them don't get one simply because they aren't sure where to go. For these clients, I always recommend US Storage Centers Brunswick Self Storage. The US Storage Centers facility offers great value for my clients' money because they have flexible unit sizes, good prices, and excellent customer service.

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Self Storage for My Business Documents

Running a home business has always been a fun endeavor for me, and I really love what I do. What I do not love, however, is dealing with all the paperwork that's involved with running a home business. This is especially true when it comes to dealing with documents that I don't need to have on hand all the time. There are just so many of them, and they take up a lot of my valuable space. That's why I started looking into off site storage solutions for my business documents a few months ago, when I finally came across US Storage Centers Westbrook Self Storage.

I was looking at different Westbrook Self Storage options because I figured a storage unit would probably be the most affordable way to deal with business documents that I needed to get out of my home office. I looked at several different options before I settled on US Storage Centers Westbrook Self Storage, and there are several reasons I decided to choose this particular facility. Here are just a few of them:

Location

While I wasn't going to choose a self storage location based on where it was located solely, it was important to me that I find someplace within a short drive of my home. I don't want to have to drive thirty minutes to access my self storage unit, especially when it's packed with potentially important business files that I may need to access at a moment's notice once in a while. The US Storage Centers Westbrook Self Storage location is convenient to my home office, which is really nice.

Unit Sizes

Another thing I like about the US Storage Centers Westbrook Self Storage location is that they have relatively small unit sizes. One unit is just the size of your average reach in closet, and it's the perfect option for storing a file cabinet full of a few files that my business doesn't need all the time. Other places only had larger units, where I would end up paying extra for space I didn't really need in the long run. The small unit was definitely one factor that drew me to this particular Westbrook Self Storage location.

Prices

Besides the size of the unit, the price was also great. Plus, the US Storage Centers Westbrook Self Storage location offers some great deals for first time renters and for business renters who want long term storage options. Right now, I just have a month to month lease to see how keeping these business files off site works for me, but eventually, I'll probably set up a long term lease if it continues to work out like I think it's going to.

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