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Onsite or Offsite Self Storage Options: What Works Best for Your Needs

Posted on June 14, 2018

Self Storage Options

Moving? See what onsite and offsite self storage options are available to you

We at Self Centre Storage are often asked about our self storage options, and which are the best for those who are moving or need long-term storage.

While we offer a number of options to our customers, the main difference is whether you require onsite or offsite storage. In other words, would you prefer a portable storage container delivered to your home or place of work, or would you rather have a storage space in a warehouse facility?

Here we weight the different options available:

 

Consider your Time

When you rent storage containers such as a MI-BOX®, you have the control. You can have them delivered to your door, and then load them at your leisure. This can be weeks or months. It all depends on you.

While you can control the date you want to load your belongings into a self-storage locker at a self storage or warehouse facility, you will need to consider your time, as you won't have the convenience of having storage units right outside your door.

Also consider the cost of gas. With a container kept at your home or workplace, there's no need to drive down to the local commercial and public storage location to either store or remove items.

 

The Time and Space Continuum

When you rent a storage container, you'll obviously need a place to keep it. Most units fit into a standard size parking lot, so you can have your container delivered to your home's driveway, your condo parking space, or even your work site.

While this parking space size self storage option is convenient and portable, a locker or warehouse obviously works for those who cannot, for any reason, keep a mobile storage unit on their property.

 

Another option to consider

In some cases, people who will be out of town and are in need of long-term storage want the convenience of a mobile storage unit, but the security of a storage rental facility.

You can actually have both.

Space Centre Storage is not only an authorized dealer of Kelowna MI-BOX® units, they also offer a public storage facility for them.

After you've filled your unit, SCS will pick it up and store it in its on-site climate-controlled indoor facility until you need it.  You still have the control and convenience, with the added security of knowing where you're unit is located while you're away.

 

Moving from job to job? Read our Storage Tip: Space Age: Why Working Project to Project is Easier with a MI-BOX®.

 

As an authorized Kelowna MI-BOX® dealer, Space Centre Storage delivers storage containers in Kelowna and around the Central Okanagan. We also offer a number of options at our safe and secure Kelowna self storage facility.

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