If you look at the amount of, well, for lack of a better word, “stuff” we have, it is not a stretch to say that we have a storage crisis in America. Storage units across the country are so full, that new ones are being built all the time. Not only that, but many of the full ones are being  emptied unceremoniously because of storage unit foreclosures.

The sad part of  this is that it is preventable! Renting a storage unit from a public storage for long periods of time is throwing money away, and if you fall on hard times, and can no longer afford to pay, you could end up with strangers sorting through your private articles and hocking them to the highest bidder!

We want to offer a storage solution for the American storage crisis. Buying a storage shed will cost you much less than renting in the long run.

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Cheap Storage Buildings

There are a lot of people looking for cheap storage buildings these days. With the economy stumbling around like a drunk man on a rope bridge, and uncertainty in many sectors, coupled with mortgage crisis, and soaring unemployment, a lot of folks are having to downsize until the recovery sets in. In the mean time, we have to deal with the issue of what to do with all our stuff.

So, cheap storage buildings seem to be the order of the day, but what is cheap? If you are asking about prices, I can’t really give you an answer, since those vary quite a bit from region to region, and from state to state. I can however, tell you what is not cheap. A building that is poorly made may seem cheap at the time, but will not be such a bargain when it falls apart and lets the weather ruin your families prized possessions. If you lose $2,000.00 worth of stored electronics to the rain because you bought a $500.00 building, your savings on the building have turned into a deficit.

The same is true in reverse if you are renting space in a public storage, or self storage facility. It may be cheap to get into, but the cost of storing those $2000.00 worth of electronics can quickly get beyond their value in monthly rental fees.

It just makes more sense to buy, and to buy a quality product. Most storage building, and storage shed dealers offer “rent to own”, and the payments for a building will be similar to what you would be paying in a self storage or public storage facility. With a national credit crisis causing lending problems, and often bad credit, rent to own offers a nice alternative to borrowing from a bank, and in most cases, there is no penalty for early payoff, and no hit to your credit if you have to allow the building to be returned.

Whichever means of financing you use, don’t get caught in the public storage trap, and don’t buy a poorly built building. It is much cheaper in the long run to buy instead of leasing, and to buy quality instead of… well, you know. If you need to find storage sheds or storage buildings near you, call or email us in Texas, or email us in other parts of the country. You can also use the form to the right.

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Storing Memories Storing At Home

There are just some things you have trouble letting go of. Maybe it is Grandma’s grandfather clock, or perhaps Grandpa’s collection of antique tools. You know that you may not ever use them, but you keep them for their sentimental value, and with the hope that sometime in the future, you might come up with a pleasant way to display them, or pass them on to the next generation. You are storing memories of childhood, memories that connect you to your past, and past experiences, and you just can’t see selling those memories at a garage sale. In the meantime though, they clash with the decor of your home.

The closets and garage are full to the brim already, and you have been storing these sentimental reminders in public storage, and frankly, storing memories, and sentimental connections just shouldn’t cost so much!

We are almost all in the same boat at some point in our lives. We have a few things that we want to keep, but the cost of keeping them seems to be a black hole for our money long into the foreseeable future. What can we do? Well, since we are committed to keeping these pieces of our ancestral past until our conditions change, we might consider buying a storage building.

If you buy a storage building, you will be able to store your unique and personal things without the problems associated with public storage, like rental fees, and traveling back and forth between the self storage facility and your home. Even if you find a way to use the grandfather clock, and a place to display the tools, without having to store your memories, you will still have the building for other purposes, like cleaning out the garage so your wife can park inside on those cold, windy, and rainy days. Oh, and about the garage, if you have more cars and boats than you have garage, we can help you with that too!

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Storage Tips Rent to Own

There are a lot of ways to finance a storage building , and there is one perfect for your situation. One of the best ways for many people is Rent to own. A lot of people have questions about just how that works. I had someone call me the other day about rent to own. The person on the line had heard that rent to own was, well, she couldn’t make herself put it bluntly, so I finished the statement for her: “You are wanting to know if it is a scam?” I asked politely. “Yes!” She said, in a way that showed an element of embarrassment and surprise!

Wrong information

There is apparently some bad information floating around on the subject, so I thought I would address that here. No. Rent to own is not some kind of scam. It is a perfectly viable way of renting or buying. I can’t speak for everyone, but the programs with which I am familiar are good programs.

Rent to own and interest

First of all, there is no interest on rent to own. you are paying rent for a building, and part of that rent, usually about half of it, goes toward the purchase of the building. Rent to own payments are very similar to what you would be paying for renting an equivalent amount of storage space from one of those self storage, or mini storage public storage facilities. The major difference is, that when you complete your contract on rent to own, you actually own the building, and it is setting on your property!

Early pay off

Many people choose to pay off the building early with income tax return money, or some windfall. This will save quite a bit on rental payments, since you would be paying for the building and not the rent if you pay it off. There is no penalty for early pay off. There is no credit check, and no credit damage for default. Since you are renting the building, you can call the company and have them pick it up, and your credit will not be hurt.

Public Storage East Texas

Public storage is usually a last resort. Something has to be moved out of one place, and moved into another quickly.

Sometimes people use self storage, or mini storage for short term storage, thinking that they don’t have any other option. There are other options!

If you are looking for public storage or self storage in the East Texas, before you run out and rent, check out the rest of this blog. You can buy a storage building for less than what you would pay for mini storage rental!

Why rent when you can own? Why rent a closet size public storage stall at $100.00 a month for 5 years to store your $500.00 merchandise? It makes no sense! Buy a building makes more sense. You can have it placed in your back yard and not have to go on a trip across town when you need something from storage,which will save you both time and money!

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Read these related posts for more information:

• Public Storage or Private Storage?
• Mini Storage Maxi Cost | The Large Cost of Small Storage
• Storage Buildings For Home and Apartment Renters
• Thinking Outside the Box | The Self Storage Rental Box
• Self Storage East Texas | Why You Should Buy

Public Storage or Private Storage? Beating the high cost of public storage.

Storage and financial crisis

In the wake of our recent financial disasters, an already enormous public storage industry has grown beyond imagination. Much of the overflow from down sizing after the mortgage fiasco ends up packed away somewhere inside a small mini storage facility, awaiting the time when the financial situation avails the public of new opportunities. the beneficiaries of this economic decline are those who have the capacity to provide space for self storage.

Boomers

Adding to the growing mini storage boom, are the original “boomers” themselves, “baby boomers” that is. Those of us who were born during that age of extreme population growth, are reaching an age where retirement is available, and to many of us, the thought of spending our new found free time and energy maintaining large homes and properties after our children are all moved out is not all that appealing. We were already a mobile generation, and being tied down was never one of our favorite pastimes. Lookout kids, grandma and grandpa will be hitting the streets! The content of all those large homes will have to be put somewhere, and much of it will end up in a storage building.

Our Stuff

There are a lot of other reasons why storage business is booming these days. A decade or so of relatively strong economic growth has caused and allowed for strong production. We have more stuff! We have so much stuff in fact, that we don’t have a place to put it all! Last years gadgets are outdated, heck, last months gadgets are outdated, and we don’t always want to let go of them.

We are spending more yearly on storage than many countries produce in a year! The problem is, that outside of preserving the things we store, we are not gaining anything in the process, and all of those products that we store are losing value the longer they are stored. It is pretty easy to store a thousand dollars worth of goods in a place that will end up costing us a thousand dollars every year.

The answer

What then is the answer? well, for one thing, we could stop renting and start buying our storage space. At least when it is paid for, we will still have something to show for the money spent. Buying your own building as opposed to renting self storage or mini storage from a public storage facility is a much more rational choice. Most storage building suppliers offer financing through lending agencies and banks, as well as rent to own programs which will give you as much, or more space for storage as the public storage units, at about the same monthly cost, and in the end, you own your own private storage, and will not have to pay for storage space again!

If you rent your home, or apartment, there are still better options than the perpetual self storage offered by the public storage industry. You can read about them on this site.

If you are considering renting storage space, or the purchase of a storage building in East Texas, email us at james@storagebuildingblog.com.

Read these related posts for more information:

• Public Storage or Private Storage?
• Mini Storage Maxi Cost | The Large Cost of Small Storage
• Storage Buildings For Home and Apartment Renters
• Thinking Outside the Box | The Self Storage Rental Box
• Self Storage East Texas | Why You Should Buy

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Mini Storage Maxi Cost | The Large Cost of Small Storage

Mini storage, self storage or public storage, whatever you choose to call it, it is a huge and growing industry. Americans now spend billions annually on storage for the extra things that can’t live with us, but that we can’t live without. There are a lot of reasons for this. More home based businesses, down sizing our homes due to retirement, foreclosure or family size, are just a few of the reasons for the trend, and we expect to see even more movement in this area.

What concerns us is the practical side of this issue. The cost to the consumer. Money paid for rent on storage, is lost. It is gone for good. It often happens that the cost in storage fees, exceeds the actual value of the products being stored, and with mini storage, self storage or other forms of rented public storage, there is no dividend at the end. Consumers are spending billions, with nothing to look forward to but spending billions more! the expense doesn’t stop there! No, there are millions more spent on fuel driving back and forth to self storage facilities, and untold thousands of hours spent doing so! What a colossal  waste of money time and energy!

Public storage: how to stop throwing money down a rent hole!

Public storage, or mini storage as it is sometimes called, is, you know,  so mini, and so, well, so public! We think that storage should be private. Private, as in in the privacy of your own back yard, where you can get to it easily when you need to. And mini storage, well, why would you want to pay someone such a high price for what amounts to some inconvenient closet size space?

This situation is not the best option for consumers needing space. There is an option that will provide the consumer with high quality storage, at a reasonable price, and with an actual gain for the consumer. This is the purchase of a portable storage building or storage shed. You can buy a building more inexpensively than you can rent storage space. Most rent to own programs are set up with payments equal to or less than the cost of renting space. The major difference being, that you will own the building!

Other advantages include, but are not limited to:

Location. Most mini storage, or public storage facilities are not located in your back yard. Your portable storage building will be.
Time. You will not have to waste time driving across town to get to your public storage.
Economy. You will not have to waste fuel on trips to the self storage facility.

Even if you live in an apartment, you probably know someone who would let you buy a storage building and put it on their property. If you rent a house, your landlord would most likely allow you to have one placed on the property. You may need to have a waiver signed, but that is pretty easy to do as well.

Read these related posts for more information:

• Public Storage or Private Storage?
• Mini Storage Maxi Cost | The Large Cost of Small Storage
• Storage Buildings For Home and Apartment Renters
• Thinking Outside the Box | The Self Storage Rental Box
• Self Storage East Texas | Why You Should Buy

6 Reasons To Buy A Storage Building Instead of Renting Space:

• It’s the green thing to do. In these days of environmental consciousness, it makes more sense to store your items closer to your home to avoid wasting energy and adding pollution to the atmosphere. What better way of reducing your carbon footprint than to avoid extra trips?

• Fuel cost. You have to pay rent to someone else, to get them to allow you to put your stuff in their building. Fuel prices are in a state of flux, but wasting money on fuel is always out of style. All those extra trips to get boxes from some “self storage” place 10 miles away cost you money.

• Rent cost. If you buy a building, you are paying for something that is yours, so instead of perpetual rent, you have something to show for your money, and it can be used in many other ways.

• Your safety. Any time you drive, you take risks. That is a normal part of everyday life, but why take mare risks than you have to? Most storage places are somewhat remote, and while there are usually security systems in place, the very layout of the buildings present safety issues.

• Your convenience. The ability to grab what you want from your own building at any time of the day or night, without having to leave your premises, waste any time, or fight any traffic will prevent a lot of stress.

• Your time is important. Time is our greatest asset, wasting it is a shame. You have soccer, and baseball, and piano, and school activities, and shopping and….! It is much faster to step into your back yard than to make a trip across town.
• Public Storage or Private Storage?
• Mini Storage Maxi Cost | The Large Cost of Small Storage
• Storage Buildings For Home and Apartment Renters
• Thinking Outside the Box | The Self Storage Rental Box
• Self Storage East Texas | Why You Should Buy

Public Storage buildings or Private Storage Buildings?

Is public storage or private storage better for you? Well, you will have to be the judge of that, but before you decide, you should read this page.
If you need storage space, you can always stuff your stuff in your garage, but that can really get in the way of other things a garage is intended for like, well, you know, parking your car.

Of course, you can always rent one of those public storage places and pay those outrageous prices forever. Public storage can be problem because you have to drive to get to it, then get through the security gates, and get whatever you need to get, or do whatever you need to do, go back through the security gate, and then drive back home. You waste drive time and fuel as well. Then when you get home, you find that you picked up the wrong box, or need to return for something else! Public storage buildings can be a hassle.

Wouldn’t it be much safer, easier, and in the long run, more economical to simply buy a portable storage building and have it delivered to your home? That way, you can sort through your things at your leisure, rearrange items at your convenience, and you don’t have to drive anywhere, or sacrifice the safety and comfort of your home’s surroundings to do it!

Besides, your own private storage building will always be there for your future storage needs, and, if, or when you no longer need the space for storage, you can put it to work as a work shop, or for tools and equipment needed around the home.

Public storage buildings can waste your money, and your time. Your own portable storage building will save you money and time. It is just that simple!

• Public Storage or Private Storage?
• Mini Storage Maxi Cost | The Large Cost of Small Storage
• Storage Buildings For Home and Apartment Renters
• Thinking Outside the Box | The Self Storage Rental Box
• Self Storage East Texas | Why You Should Buy