Ask the Builder: Save Substantial Money on Self-Storage

Having your own storage unit could save you a fortune.
Ask the Builder: Save Substantial Money on Self-Storage
Tim Carter saved $50,000 in off-site storage fees since having a storage unit like this one. PQK/Shutterstock
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Are you surrounded by off-site storage businesses like I am? Within a 15-mile radius of my rural home in central New Hampshire, there are thousands of storage spaces in metal buildings one can rent for a king’s ransom.

Within the past few months, an enormous multi-million dollar national brand opened a three-story storage facility near me. It’s got three loading docks for renters to store or retrieve their belongings. Just 1,000 feet away, a more traditional single-story metal building with 50-plus units came online in the past month. Times must be really good for people to have so many possessions that they have to store them at one of these places.

Tim Carter
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Tim Carter is the founder of AsktheBuilder.com. He's an amateur radio operator and enjoys sending Morse code sitting at an actual telegrapher's desk. Carter lives in central New Hampshire with his wife, Kathy, and their dog, Willow. Subscribe to his FREE newsletter at AsktheBuilder.com. He now does livestreaming video M-F at 4 PM Eastern Time at youtube.com/askthebuilder. (C)2022 Tim Carter. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.