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When it comes to finding somewhere to rent at a Kansas City storage facility, we believe we can help any customer decide to store. We honestly think if the customer is really ready to rent, we can get them to come into our facility or decide to reserve over the phone. It is true that if the customer is not really ready to store their belongings are reserve a space they are not going to do it. We are confident in our ability to see the needs of the customer and take care of them.
There are times in which we see there is not a reason for the customer not to store with us. We found that there are times in which the customer will give us an excuse but we inform them that this is their best option. They then, usually, decide to reserve a space with us. When people are looking to rent a Kansas City storage space, they tend to look us up.
Naturally we do not pressure anyone into doing something they are not ready for. If they want to rent, we simply just guide them in the right direction. Sometimes we have people who say they want to rent but then they tell us no or give an excuse on why they are not ready. We had one gentleman who said we had everything they needed, but he did not want to reserve because he was driving. Naturally we wanted to ensure his safety, but he was not able to come into the facility until the next day. So he wanted the space and needed the space so bad, he decided to pull over and give us the reservation information.
Josh was so sneaky when it came to Christmas presents it drove his wife Sasha crazy. It was impossible to keep him from snooping around, and if he did not find it he looked at their bank account to see where she had been. He could usually guess from what stores she spent money in.
This year she had a plan to completely throw him off track. She had bought him a jet ski. Him and his friends always go down to the lake and rent them. This way he would have his own. To hide what she was doing, she rented a Kansas City Car Storage unit. He would never guess what was actually in it. He was probably thinking that she had actually bought the car that he had been saying he wanted all year.
On Christmas day Sasha left the jet ski in the Kansas City Car Storage unit. After they are breakfast together she told Josh that she had a surprise for him, but he would have to come in the car with her. He smiled like he knew just where they were going, and he did a terrible job of covering up the fact that he knew where his present was hidden. He was so sure he had it all figured out.
He could not however hide his surprise when she opened the door and it was a jet ski and not a car like he thought it was. He was completely shocked and Sasha loved every minute of it.
Bill and Betty were remodeling their house. They had moved in three years ago and have been saving up the money they would need. They had a plan for each room, and a design already drawn up for the how it should look in the end. They decided that since they had to live in the house while they remodeled that they would do one room at a time.
They rented a portable Kansas City Moving Storage container. They bring it to your home and you fill it up with whatever you have to store. They come and take it away when you are done, but they did not need that service. They were going to keep the Kansas City Moving Storage unit in the back yard.
They morning that they were beginning was the happiest day for Betty. She was excited to finally get their house with modern things, and to have it look like them. They were starting with the kitchen first because it needed the least work. They took out the old appliances and took down the cabinets. They were solid wood so they just stripped them down and stained them so they were a better color. Some new tile flooring and they were done.
It took them a little over eight months to do each room. They went a two weeks over their projected time line, but they were within their budgeted amount for renovations. They were excited to have their house completed, and enjoyed that first night knowing that they were done.
It is not something that you ever want to have to deal with. A fire is so scary because there is nothing that you can do but stand back and watch your house burn. Seeing the firemen do all that they can to try to save your house is so surreal that it is hard to describe afterwards.
This is where we find Bryan and Anna sitting on the back of an ambulance watching the firefighters work so hard to save their house. They had woken up to the fire alarms going off and smoke rolling along the ceiling. They got out of the house and their neighbors came out to say they had already called nine-one-one and that help was on the way.
The sun was coming up when the fire fighters were wrapping up their hoses and sweeping the water off of their driveway. They were not allowed to go in until the firefighters released the house back to them, so they went to a hotel to try to get some rest.
When the house was returned to them they were able to go in and see if anything could be saved. Everything on the second floor was gone, but they were able to save a few pieces of furniture from the living room and some pictures from downstairs. They loaded what they could save into a truck and took it down to a Kansas City Furniture Storage unit that was not far away.
At the end of the day they were back at the hotel for the night. Anna was having a hard time with the fact that everything they had left fit into one small Kansas City Furniture Storage unit. They were starting over.
Heather was not very good at painting. She did not have the creative gene of their family. That honor was left to her sister Kate. Kate could look at a color and tell you exactly what color would go with it or accent it. So when Heather decided that before she moved into her house she wanted to paint it she called her sister for help.
Heather had bought her first house over the summer and was moving in at the end of the month. She wanted to get the painting done before she moved in all of the furniture and had to move it around to paint. She found a Kansas City Local Storage unit for the week that she was going to be working on painting. She could have left her things in her apartment, but she would have to pay for the entire month. So she moved out of the apartment and into the Kansas City Local Storage unit.
Her sister arrived the next day and they went down to the paint store. Heather described how she wanted each room to look. She wanted her bedroom to be relaxing and calming. Katie picked out a beautiful shade of blue with gold accents. Her library was going to be oranges and reds to encourage the adventure of reading. She also had a sofa to add in there that had a pull out bed for guests. The kitchen was going to be white and blue to accent the huge windows that was in dinning room. Lastly the living room was going to be a beautiful white color that had green accents. With Kates help they were able to get all of the painting done in a week, and Heather was able to move in to her first house.
It is such a great day to rent for us. We believe that every day is a good day in order to rent some units. We are very happy when a customer decides to come through our doors and see us for their storage needs. We think that they made the best decision.
As the street we are located on, Grand, is how we perceive ourselves. The customers we come in contact with often agree with us and that is why they decide to become a tenant here. Our facility cannot be match by any in the area and we are feel our service and value is top notch.
We proved that idea when a customer needing, Kansas City car storage, graced us with his presence one cold afternoon. It was not a surprise when the first thing out of his mouth was what our price on Kansas City car storage was and if we had something available. Typically in this situation we would show them around and then let them choose which space will work for them. When looking into his eyes it did not look like he was one who wanted to beat around the bush. We simply told him the price and he was happy with it. He said the reason he decided to store with us was because we were upfront and honest. He did not like the people that tried to sell him on things he did not particularly care about. He appreciated how we could read him as a customer and takes care of his needs.
The winter time is a great time to think about others. With Thanksgiving starting us out it gives us the opportunity to think about all that we have to be thankful for. Appreciate our friends and family, and for most of us eat too much turkey.
As soon as Thanksgiving is almost over the world gears up for Christmas. The lights and glittering decorations in all the store windows. Seeing the lights as you drive down the road at night. The smell of hot cocoa when it is late at night and you can sit on the couch with some one special.
During the Christmas time it is a time to think of others who have less than we do. It is the time that people need help the most. Families need help to get presents for their children when they can not afford it. Some people need help to be able to afford a nice family dinner.
One of the best ways to help families in need is to make donations to local charities. There are charities that collect money, but there are also places to donate new or gently used toys. Food shelters are always looking for donations or volunteers.
Use this time to look around at your house and Kansas City Storage unit to see if there are things that you can donate. Those clothes that your children have grown out of can go to shelters. The toys that your children have out grown and you have in the back of your Kansas City Storage unit can make a child in need have a great Christmas morning. During these hard financial times lets all try to make a great holiday for everyone.
As a manager of a storage unit we see many people who are looking for a Kansas City Household Storage unit. Some people are new renters to storage unit, and some people have rented units before. Either way we do all we can to help them get a space that will work for them, and answer any questions that they have about storage.
For some people it is a matter of needing more storage for the home that they already have. Perhaps they have inherited more furniture from a relative and have no place for all of it. In this case we can find them a great storage unit to hold their family history.
Perhaps they are buying new furniture but want to save their older furniture for their daughter who is getting married at the end of the summer. We try to find a space for them to hold the furniture until after the wedding.
We had a couple who had a span of two months between their leases. They needed a Kansas City Household Storage unit to hold all of their belongings in while they stayed at a long term hotel. We were able to get them in a great unit that was very close to the house they were moving into. They were so happy to be able to find a unit so close to their new house and not have to move everything across town.
No matter if you need your storage unit for months or years we do our best every day to accommodate our customers.
When looking to Store over here on Grand Blvd people are storing for all kinds of different reasons. We had a customer recently stored here that was trying to clean out house in order to do a remodel. This is a situation that happens quite often. So the caller would call around looking for Kansas City storage facilities that could help them out.
Charlie was the kind of guy who wanted to do many things on his own. He found many times that he would get off pace or not make the project deadline that he was working on. It sometimes came down to him calling in to work in order to get the project done. He of course under estimated how long it would take in order to get his whole house remodel done. He decides to get some help with this project because he knew that he could not get it all done himself. He was very determined though. He had to first find out where to store all of his belongings. He called many different Kansas City storage facilities in order to find the right situation.
We were happy to accommodate him and his needs. Since he did not know how long it would take to do the remodel, he liked the option that we did store month to month. He could take out his belongings when he was ready to.
When Betty moved to Kansas City it was the first time that she had lived on her own. She was getting her own apartment and it was the first time in her life that she lived on her own. She lived with her parents until she went away to college, and in the dorms she was never alone. Betty found a job in downtown Kansas City and she was excited about starting her life as an adult.
The only apartment that she found that she could afford was a small one bed room apartment. She had a hard time getting everything that she had into her apartment. Betty looked online at Kansas City storage facilities to help her with her storage needs.
Betty found that the StorageMart location on Grand Boulevard was offering a ninety-nine percent deal off of your first month of storage. It was a great deal for Betty because with the deal she would be able to get a little bit of money put into savings.
So Betty moved her extra belongings into the Kansas City storage facilities there. When all of her extra belongings were moved in she got everything set up in her apartment just the way that she wanted them. She had her first apartment, and a full time job.
Her life was headed in a great direction and she was excited about her future.
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