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Wednesday Will Never be the same

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Storage Station

Was playing on the radio as I pulled up to the security gate here at Storage Station in Wayne NJ.  I guess the DJ on the oldies station thought it would be appropriate since it was Wednesday.  I put in my pass code, the gate opened and I made a slow tour of the facility.  We had a couple of tenants busily doing things in their units.  Of course I stopped to talk, as my wife might say that is one of the things I do.

Actually when I am with her, I try to listen but that is another story.
There was a small meeting going on in front of two open units.  One tenant, who has a home repair business, was loading tools and supplies onto his truck with his helper.  Another was putting an order together for Dunkin Doughnuts and asked if I wanted a cup?  I said thanks but I was fine.  Dunkin Doughnuts is just across the street from us, but Hamburg Turnpike is a pretty busy, so I reminded him to look both ways when crossing, none of us are as young as we think we are.  That reminds me that I need to pick up some things from the CVS that is down the block from us when I leave this evening.

When I did my tour of the Climate Controlled portion of the facility one our Pharmaceutical Reps that’s renting with us stopped to talk with me.  He told me about a vacation that he would be taking in a week.  He is pretty excited about the cruise that he has scheduled.  He was hoping that the weather will be nice because like me he sometimes suffers from Sea Sickness.  I wonder if his company has a pill for that?

Actually today is a beautiful day.  It is in the mid 60s with just a touch of breeze in the air.  Just 2 days ago it almost reached 90 degrees.  Seems like the weather does not know what it wants to do.  So far this year we have had very little rain.  I remember all the units that we rented to people that suffered flood damage from the 2 floods we had last year.  I sure hope that does not happen again this year.  I would much prefer to rent garage units to tenants that need them for their motor cycles, wave runners and classic cars.  You would be surprised how often people have to choose between storing their summertime toys in their garages, or store them with us here at Storage Station.

The great thing about storing with us here in Wayne is that all of our tenants have access to their belonging 24/7.  That is important when something unexpected comes up or you decide to have summer time party, and you remember that you will need the extra chairs and tables that you stored in your unit.  I was talking to a tenant last week and they pointed out something that I had not really considered.   He said that he was going to put up a shed in his back yard and wanted to do it the right way.  So he stopped by the town hall to see if he needed a permit, and if there were any limitations that he would have to deal with.  He said that the town started to throw so many restrictions at him that he decided it would be less aggravation and less costly to rent a unit and move things in and out as the seasons changed.

Well it is time for me to move on to do some of my chores here at Storage Station.  Enjoy your weekend.

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Tenants and People Working Together

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Storage Station

Well here it is Monday morning is here and it is time to go through the golden gates at the Storage Station Store in South Toms River. The weather is really nice. Can not believe it is spring. As I check the units and also the Cars and Trailers and Boats store here at Storage Station. What we do is check to make sure all tires have air and that the covers that are on are not loose or ripping apart.

As I drive around the grounds I had a chance to talk to a few Tenants that rent here . We talk how already we have set the clock ahead one hour and now the day light hours are getting longer. Instead of dark by 5pm it gets dark by 7pm and growing each day.

Today I had to stay a little longer in the Storage Store in South Toms River NJ.  I have an appointment with someone that is getting foreclose on this morning and have to get every thing out of the house. The person called me on the company phone early this morning around 6.30am. A tenant  that rent from us at Storage Station gave the person my cell phone number and told them that I could help them .As always I told the person that is been Foreclose on not to worry. The person was upset and did not know what he was going to do with there personal belonging. They were going to need a big unit to store there thing. I told them not to worry about that and to come in to the Storage station Store in South Tome River NJ and that we will work with them no matter what the cost may be and I have a unit for them. I also told the person not to worry about anything but gat done and when they come in we will work with what they have. I have seen a lot of foreclose people come in or call looking for a place to rent a unit  quickly and fast.

As a manager at the Storage Station Stores on 29 Flint road in South Toms River in NJ and on 25 James St in Toms river Nj I I am sad to hear about the people been foreclose on but am proud to hear them say that other people that has rented or is renting from us that to give us a call  at either Storage Station Stores in South Toms River and Toms Rivers in NJ and they will help you with what ever your needs is to store and they also say that the people running the Storage Station Stores do think about the people first and  are friendly and are always smiling and ready to help.

I myself as an manager of both places in the Toms River and South Toms in Nj   to have the pleasure to help some in needs of this  kind of help an able to insure the people that their thing are safe here.

They the people have also had to find a place to store their cars and boat or rv trailer and we have been able to help them with that problem also. By been able to help them with all their needs of this type make me proud to be a manager at Storage Station.

This part does not solve all their problems but I feel it is a good start for the people  and I am proud to have been able to help as much as I can at this point. It is very sad and sometime hard to hear and see what the people that are foreclose on have to go through.

Until the next time I hope every one will have a safe and good spring.

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Conundrum

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Storage Station

1.-a riddle, especially one whose answer makes a play on words
2-a puzzling question or problem

Yes, I had a conundrum. However, mine was the puzzling question on what to blog about today. So I drifted thru the web, and popped on over to the Storage Station home page to see if I can gain some ideas. And indeed I did, I looked at our train in the upper left hand corner and wondered why we have a train, then I read the quote underneath the Storage Station logo “The one stop for all your self storage needs” and pop there was my idea!  We do have a wide variety of stuff for all your storage needs, we of course have different sized units for whatever it is you may need to store with us here at Storage Station. At looking around the office, even though I am on the small side here in the Middletown facility located at 1021 Dolsontown Road, I noticed all the good as to make a move easy and as effortless as possible. I have to say it is really a two stop kind of thing when renting a storage unit, first you come in and figure out what size unit you may need, then what materials you will need as well to pack up for your move or just gaining some space in your garage. Then you drive up, unload and off you go to whatever task is next on your to do list. I say two stops because I have been on the train many times, and well, you get on and have to get off somewhere, and Storage station is a great stop for all your storage needs.

We have all sorts of materials for moving and storage, three different size boxes, Small (16×13) Medium (18×16) and Large (24×18), packing tape and even labels that adhere to the boxes organizing them for there intended rooms, like the bathroom or bedroom, what I got a kick out of is the ease of the stickers, I can be a bit over the top when it comes to organizing for a move which my family seems to find amusing, I have no idea why they find this so, it is so much easier to label so I know what is a priority to unpack first and all the rest can wait until I have the proper motivation. Why dig thru boxes looking for something in particular when it is clearly labeled on the outside. To each his own as they say :) .

We even have mattress bags in twin, full, queen and king to keep it from getting dusty. Our box tape has a handy plastic holder which has teeth on the edge for easy cutting instead of trying to hold a pair of scissors and a role of tape at the same time, it is truly a trying experience, I use a box cutter which I find really easy, but since I worked in retail for many years I am a pro, my sister however is not, so I did let here know about the handy handle with teeth, I just got a look and a nod, to which I responded with a very knowledgeable  cat like smile,  yes it is fun being sister’s.  Of course we have locks too; they are great simply because they have two keys!

TTYS :)

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Organized Storage

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Storage Station

Organizing your self storage unit is a task that can actually save you time, energy and possible even some money depending on how you utilize your unit and for what purpose. I have to be quite honest that most self storage units that I have seen into are not exactly organized for efficiency and sometimes they do not need to be extensively organized but in certain situations having a well organized self storage unit can be quit beneficial to the tenants needs.

Take for instance a tenant who owns a thrift shop or for that matter any tenant who utilizes a self storage unit for their business keeping overstocked or seasonal items or anything of the like within their unit. Now, common sense would tell these business owners that having an organized self storage unit would help to keep their product/items in check and readily accessible for their needs when the time comes to access them. In most cases all it takes to organize these units are a few racks with shelves, a few labels for the shelves to separate the products/items and a person willing to keep the contents of the unit organized.

Now, most business owners do have well organized units but let’s reverse the role for a second and assume that they were not organized at all. Imagine the frustration a thrift shop owner would have digging through the various different products they carry trying to decipher what seasonal items they need and where they put them in a unit that items have just been stacked up into corners and anywhere else they can get items to fit. One could waste a mammoth amount of time looking through the unorganized mess seeing what products they have or think they might have on hand but who really knows what they have when everything is a mess. So instead of having everything organized ready to grab and place in your shop for sale, one could have potentially lost a sale while they were wasting time looking for products that could have already been placed on the shelves in their store possibly turning profit.

Honestly the above mentioned situation/scenario could happen to anyone business related or not that has a self storage unit. Not having organization within your storage unit especially if you are a business owner could potentially be an epic waste of time. Not only could it be a waste of time you could potentially waste money as well depending on the situation. For instance, Say you’re that thrift shop owner I mentioned earlier and you send one of your employees to your self storage unit to retrieve a certain product for a customer and that product is so buried within the unit it takes the employee an hour or more to look for the item and hopefully they can even find it. Well anyway, not only did you just pay your employee an hourly wage to retrieve an item, there is a chance the item is not even there so you may have possibly lost a sale in the middle of all the other chaos.

Ultimately, having an organized self storage unit could benefit you substantially depending on the scenario at hand. All the above referenced situations are all hypothetical but are very possible and probably occur more often than we might think. So before just stacking your items, products, possessions or things of the like just anywhere, think about how you could organize the unit to save yourself time and money for the future.

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February Flew By

Posted on February 29, 2012 by Storage Station

Look at the calendar, February certainly flew by.  I did my normal this morning, walked the grounds picking up anything that didn’t belong.  Then went through the interior of the facility, checking all the units to make sure they are locked, and swept up as I went along.   We here in Wayne do this every day in the morning.  Later in the day, we again check all the units to see if any tenants might have moved out or left a unit open by mistake.  I am sure I don’t need to tell you, but if you have a system and keep at it, your choirs will go by quickly.

There were a few phone calls I needed to return, and did.  Looks like I will be playing phone tag today.  Actually this month has been a little quiet.  Everybody seems to have settled in to their routines, and not much is going on.  Maybe it is the lull before the storm.  Let’s hope not.  We have had enough of them to last for awhile.
I had two of our tenants stop by to get some things out of their units.   We chatted for awhile, and one of them shared a joke.  It is best that I keep it to myself.

It is funny how some things are more popular than others. Right now we have no 10 x 15 sized units available.  But I have more 5 x 10’s available than I should.  One month, everyone is looking for a 10 x 10 unit, and in the next we will have a rush on 10 x 20 sized units.

Actually they are popular with folks that need to store a vehicle, and also with folks that need to store their summer time big toys.
I expect that in a few weeks we will be getting inquiries from people that are planning renovations in their homes.  Actually I had 2 this week, doing some preliminary checking.  One is renovating their kitchen and that starts next month.   I had a couple come in 2 days ago that are moving into a condo on March 15th.  They said that the condo is a bit smaller than their last residence, and they wanted to make sure that we will have a unit available for them a few days before the move starts.  I reserved a unit for them.  Right now it looks like they only need a 5 x 10 unit, but you never know.  We will see when they have finalized what they want to store and what they want to take to their new condo.

BTW, for those of you that are following my War with the Squirrels

Squirrel Update

Here is the latest from the front lines of the battle of “Squirrels and Men”.

As you might imagine the battle is pitched.  The squirrels for awhile had the upper hand.  This battle is running in cycles.  I should have thought of this, but with the increase in the bird activity in my yard, a new force has joined the battle for supremacy.  It seems that a couple of neighbor’s cats have joined the fray.  They came to make guerrilla attacks on the birds, but have not been successful.  What they have found though is that squirrels are much more fun to chase.  I have not seen a squirrel in 2 days.

So it looks like the old saying runs true.

‘The enemy of my enemy is my friend’.

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