Monthly Archives: March 2011

Residential Public Warehousing Mini Storage Long Island Provider

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Affordable Residential  Self Storage – New York

Long Island Mini Storage locations is one of the leading business and home mini self storage provider throughout Long Island. If you are looking for mini self storage on Long Island, we have one of the best storage facilities on Long Island located in Melville, and Centereach New York. We offer a FREE move in truck when you Reserve a Mini Storage unit from us. We have one of the lowest rates in the Island. For more info regarding Public ware housing  or Business Mini Self Storage.

Manhattan Top Household Self Storage Provider

aSpace Place Storage has Extra Garage  self-storage services for the New York at the lowest rates. Many New Yorkers find it convenient to get mini space for household or commercial goods – even children toys, bicycles and sports equipment. We give you full control in how and when you can use your mini storage, lock it up and you keep the key.
With our clean and safe mini self-storage, your goods are available around the clock since we offer 24/7 Mini Storage access. Our mini self-storage can be utilized for household or commercial goods, based on your needs. Mini Units are available in multiple sizes to accommodate your storage requirements.
We offer great indoor mini self-storage units which are perfect solution for customers who want 24/7 access.
Give us a call at 877-288-0454 to learn more about our indoor mini-storage options.

Follow the A Space Place Storage podcasts!!

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Thats right folks, A Space Place Storage launched their podcasts starting last week! The podcasts are currently an episodic series that is following a customer as they purchase their first unit. We go through the steps that you would experience at A Space Place such as: figuring out which size unit the customer will need, showing the unit, giving basic information, etc. Follow along our podcast feed at:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/LongIslandStorageProvider

We will soon be on iTunes so download our podcasts from the iTunes network as well!

Must Have Amenities When Renting a Public Warehousing Storage Unit Part 1

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If you are planning to rent a long island residential self storage unit for your home goods,  then be aware of a few things. Leaving your most important belongings under the surveillance of a household storage provider is not easy. Therefore,  checking safety and security has to be part of your checklist. If you storage your car or motorcycle, make sure that  it remains in a running condition. That is why you must consider these following factors before selecting the warehouse.

1. Find out a good location to rent public warehousing self storage space. Try to look for a residential storage that is  near your neighborhood which makes it easier to access the unit at your convenient time.  If you find a place that is far form home, try to find a storage provider your  commute path. This will cut down additional transportation cost for visiting the unit.

2. Security; we really stress this. Various Long Island Public Storage location like : A Space Place Storage, offers  good, reliable, safe local warehousing self storage who can  guarantee the protection of your belongings.

3. Arrangements of the storing place: Ask and see the  environment where you are storing your stuff to avoid damage to your items. Each unit and the one where you will be storing must be clean, dust free and humid free. The construction of the units should have  steel structures, to give your stuff  protection. A steel unit prohibits dust and humidity much better than a wooden or vinyl unit.

4. Check out the security arrangement:  Safety and Security, is one of the  most important aspects to consider. The storing unit must provide you with basic security amenities

  • burglar alarm
  • Good Light
  • Gate Code Access

Also, check that the units are pretty much secured against fire, especially, if the units are made of wood or vinyl.

5.  If you are  satisfied with the safety and price aspects of the residential storage provider, then you next step is to move in.  Compare the offered rate with the other locally available companies. Sometimes, these companies offer various types of deals and discounts.

Renting Your First Public Self Storage Unit

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If you are looking for the best Long Island Residential Self Storage location, be careful do not make the mistake of thinking that the rate your asked to pay is all that matters. For example, if your shopping for a certain type of  computer, comparing the prices are essential  because you are getting the same product either way. In the public warehousing storage industry, there is a big difference from one storage provider  to the next.

Most sites in Long island  have good storage security. Keep an eye of certain features like:

  1. Hours of Operation
  2. Security Cameras
  3. Carts
  4. Light

 

Do no be afraid to ask how long has that particular home storage provider has being on business. It is your choice whether you believe them or not.

Make sure that the storage location and particular mini storage your looking at should have the following:

  1. Gate
  2. Fence
  3. Video cameras
  4. Door alarms.

 

Make your decision based on the the quality of the features of the public storage location your will visiting or have visit.  The amount of quality of the features  along with security will be noticeable .  If you are impressed with the A Space Place Storage Long Island after the initial phone call, then your next step would be to visit the site so you can get a good idea of what they have to offer.

New York Businesses Needs Self Storage For Rent

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Is your office looking for more room space and and you are not in the position to rent or buy more. Start to consider Self Storage Business  services.  Storage all important files and record for future reference.

When To Look For Commercial  Storeroom Services

The fallowing are situations where business  should start to look for commercial warehouses or storing services:

  • Need of increased space due to expansion
  • Extra staff
  • Need to install new equipment
  • Seasonal fluctuations wherein the business might have to stock more than usual

 

How Does Home Business Self Storage Service Work?

Warehouse business storage provides a range of warehouse solutions for all sizes of businesses. Self Storage is a simple solutions designed to help a business extend their office space in the most cost effective manner. When storing, old files that are not daily used must go onto storage, only leaving the important files at the current location. Besides providing office extra space, check for a  storehouse solution that provides 24/7 hour access to your unit increase of an emergency.

If you company is renting for along period of times, do no be afraid to ask for special discounts and flexible rental periods with the storing business.

 

Advantages Of Storing Spaces

Other than providing Commercial Business extra space, the service also helps

  • Save  money if want to use another storage unit.
  • Provide special discounts if the services are utilized for extended periods.
  • De-clutters the entire existing office space.

 

New York Types Of Storing Solutions Available

Long Island and New York have two affordable options of storing options available for businesses. Our Storage Long Island and New York  storage container storing offers the cargo space. All of our Store rooms business offers a large variety of lockers. These lockers can be individual units or multiple units customized according to the company requirements.



58) Wine Self Storage In Long Island

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Wine is  sensitive drink, and in fact fact, wine needs proper storing if you  longer you store it for along period of time. This will keep the taste and value of the vine at a higher quality. Do not attempt  to store  stacks of wine at an apartments or home because there are way better options what wont ruin the taste of your wine. If wine lack a proper environment, the taste spoils .All wine lovers and consumer, must know how to properly storage wine.

In Long Island, there are not many place where you can affordable storage your wine. However, with A Space Place Storage, we offer clean and affordable warehouses that specialize in the warehousing of wine. We offer the specific conditions that wine needs to  remains at its best. Some of the essential elements of wine storage are as follows.

Temperature

If you plan on storing your wine at home or storage, be aware that wine need specific temperature to preserve taste.  Storing your wine at eleven degrees centigrade,or  nine and fifteen also is the best temperature to keep the taste and value of your wine.  When storage, make sure that  temperature do no  fluctuations between day and night. Also, take a look at the unit and check that there is no change in the  wine getting spoiled. A Space Place Storage advices you to  get a temperature controlled wine storage that shall suit your wine.

Humidity

Avoiding humidity is also important for wine storage. When storage, smell and see if there the unit doesn’t have signals of past humidity. Not all humidity is bad, just a little  little humidity is essential to prevent the end of the cork from drying out in the bottle. If the cork brake this  prevents the wine from oxidising as oxygen will enter in to the bottle. 70% humidity is essential level to storage wine. Anything lower than that can cause the cork to  dry out. If there is too much humidity, there is change in the increase of dampness. Thus humidity is also important so that your evening date is not spoiled.

Light

Exposure to direct light is not  good for wine. Exposing wine to  direct light that includes both sunlight as well as artificial lights in your unit, can damage the wine. It is better to keep wine stack in the dark. Wine exposed to light heats the wine and if  temperatures is  more than 25 degrees centigrade, wine has  a big change of spoiling  and it wont be fit for consumption.

Security

Besides the aspect of storage, you have to also think about the security of your wine storage. Wine is worth money as the years go by. Do not be like many Long Island wine storage where it is easy to access the wine cellars. There is much demand in market of some great wine, there for protecting your wine is a must . All places where wine is stored like A Space Place Storage,  should be gated in and codes accessed. There are many warehouses similar to aSpace Place Storage that offer  twenty four hours security and keep each wine cellar well secured.

57)Self Storage Auctions Sparks Change in Lien laws

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Within the past year, as mentioned in earlier posts, there has been an exponential increase in Self-Storage Auctions. These auctions have started to become swamped, which has driven states like Nevada, Florida and Tennessee to change their lien laws.

The Tennessee state legislation known as Senate Bill 1293 and House Bill 1265 will allow facilities to contact auctioned tenants by verified mail, which would include e-mail and hand delivery. The new advertising requirement would still require facilities to post clear auction information, such as time, date, place and manner of the sale. To be commercially reasonable an auction would require at least three bidders but no newspaper ad would be required.

For lien-sale notification, the new Tennessee law would allow for hand-delivered notices and verified mail which is far less costly than previously required Certified Mail. The bill also approved e-mail notification and does not specify an e-mail proof-of-receipt requirement. Based on a Tennessee Self-Storage Association survey with 350 respondents some interesting numbers arose:

• 80% said they do not subscribe to a local newspaper.
• 83% said they do not read the legal notices in a newspaper.
• 80% said they had regular e-mail and Internet access.
• When given four choices for preferred methods of receiving notifications if they default on their rent, 53% of respondents chose e-mail, and only 2% chose via a publication.

This new law hopes to increase communication between businesses and the customers to possibly decrease the amount of units that would go to auction, therefore, decrease the influx of novice storage auction attendees. Some of the bigger changes for the law to be modified and modernized are due to the change in technology. The laws have been in effect for over 31 years.

The changes in Nevada law will  include legal e-mail auction notifications with confirmation of tenant receipt, as well as newspaper-free advertising requirements and new procedures for handling delinquent tenants’ protected property. Introduced by Sen. Mike Schneider, the bill would allow self storage owners to notify tenants of an auction by “verified” means, including traditional mail or electronic communication with evidence of receipt.

As for Florida law, the Self Storage Association (SSA)  and the Florida Self Storage Association (FSSA) are trying to save self storage operators cost by changing the mail-notification and newspaper requirements of a lien sale. One bill, HB 459 revises the notice requirements relating to lien enforcement and addresses limitations on liability. SB 1772 also affects notice requirements by allowing postal notice by First Class Mail with a certificate of mailing as well as an e-mail notification.

56) Value of Climate Controlled Self Storage Part 1)

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How have you ever thought what happens to items that are locked within a steel and concrete building for safekeeping as the weather changes? Many people make the mistake of storing sensitive furniture and other valuable in a non heated or temperature room. A Space Place Storage would like to inform Long Island and New York City about climate controlled self storage.

New York  notorious  summers  is hot enough to fry an egg on the concrete. The air inside  building can become hot  and humid and potentially damaging for  furniture,sofas and boxes may not feel the heat as we humans would. However, suck items are affected by the extreme temperatures causing potential damage

If you are not using climate controlled self storage,  heat and humidity builds up within a typical unit and can damage sensitive items that are made of plastic and even some wood.

Rapid changes in temperature creates  humidity and mold and mildew can easily grown.  Check for dark corners, since that is where they grow. Non Climate storage unit under  stream heat  can ruin everything that you have placed within the room. Once the musty smell of mildew infiltrates a blanket, mattress or box spring, it lingers.

Party Two Tomorrow.

 

55) 3 Money saving tips

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In Long Island , Self storage prices vary from one company to another as you may know, is not it is ok becuase we are going to provide you secrets in how to save when it come store rental. Many people shop around and research before renting a unit to in Ling Island to store their belongings.

A Space Place Storage advices you to keep in mind the various factors that determine the cost of a unit. The self storage unit range of size is huge and most provider have limited to known space due to the large amount of space needs by New Yorkers.

There is one problem that A Space Place Storage mangers see when a person esquires for a unit. Since there are many different types of storage, people do not know the difference and do not know who to choose the correct type of storage. Each type of storage has it corresponding price. However, we will make it easier and tell  you what keep in mind before storing.

A Space Place Storage of New York has provide you the fallowing money saving secrets when choosing a storage unit and provider.

1) Check the  Amount Of Deposit:

No matter which type of store space  facility, about 50% your  charged a deposit fee. Therefore, note the deposit amount. Several New York Storage provider deposit’s is the cost of 4 week service. However, ask if by paying with credit card or debit , the amount of deposit is  reduced. You can save a substantial amount of money by asking  for this alternative.

2)Read Carefully the The Terms And Conditions For The Payment

Prior to signing  up with a  store space  facility, we recommend to check the payment terms. Most companies in NY require at least one month in advance of rent. Make sure that you wont discontinue the service in the middle of the month because mane provider wont refund you the money for the unused days, but other do refund the money. Make sure to ask about early termination fees and restrictions. Make sure to ask how many days in advanced you have to notified them if you want to move. This will prevent from you getting locked of your  unit and extra late fees.

3) Ask if  extra hours  access hours cost more

Do not assume that because you rent  a unit, accessing when ever you want is always free. Many New York Storage Provider charge  for every visit that you make to the facility. Some only allow entrance to the storage between set hours. In the other hand, only a few like A Space Place Storage offers 24/7 Hours access to your store unit. In fact, it will be much better to visit the building in advance. This will give you a good idea whether it provides you an easy and convenient access.

4) Is The Cost Based On The Use Of Floor Space

Depending in the size of the unit, will depend the price of your monthly rate. Therefore, an easy money saving deal is to use the full height of the room. Practice stacking in  proper way, your storing boxes one on top of another. You want to take up as much vertical space rather than horizontal space in your unit. So, do not forget to check the height of the room in advance so that you can plan accordingly.

A Space Place Storage warns  you to never try to cut down self storage prices at the cost of the safety and security of your belongings. Cheaper services often do not offer good security features.

 

54) Inside Self-Storage World Expo

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Inside Self-Storage World Expo

From March 14-16, the Inside Self-Storage World Expo will be occurring in Las Vegas, Nevada.

So what is this expo? “The expo features an extensive program tailored for the storage-industry professional.” The expo itself consists of 30 seminars, 4 work shops, and many events for networking and informational purposes. The expo itself is centered on the growth of your business, including training in industry-specific technology.

Some key speakers that will appear here are: Jason Allen, who is the co-founder of Performance Self Storage Group, Dan Dotson, who is the co-founder and adviser of American Auctioneers; he has been involved with auctions since the early 80′s and manages 3,000 auctions annually, and dozens of other Self-Storage professionals. Managers of aspaceplacestorage.com will appearing in the expo as well.

As you may have remembered in some of our earlier posts, ‘Storage Wars’ has been gaining some headway this past year and is moving up in the ranks for popularity. This has driven many treasure seekers to find their way to Las Vegas. Number of attendees has “exploded since the show premiered last fall.” We will have to see how the show will turn out this year!

Keep following us to get more details about the Inside Self-Storage World Expo 2011!!