Don’t bring your stuff to the storage locker - bring a locker to your stuff.
That’s the thinking behind the latest iteration of the self-storage industry that is giving traditional moving and storage companies a run for their money.
Company names say it all: The Mobile Attic, Door to Door Storage and Smartbox, the newest franchise to hit Colorado. Their business models are similar.
Sturdy steel, or wood and aluminum containers with between 280 and 1,024 cubic feet of storage space are delivered by truck to your home or business. Small-sized units will hold the contents of one or two rooms, while the biggest ones can handle four rooms of furniture.
After the boxes are loaded, they are trucked to a secure, climate-controlled warehouse or to your new home.
Mobile-storage companies are a subset of the rapidly growing self-storage industry. They’re especially popular among homebuyers and sellers who find themselves with time between the closing dates on their old and new homes, and no place to store their belongings.
They’re also useful for all the reasons people turn to self-storage. A death in the family, a temporary work assignment or an overseas deployment can create the need for short-term storage, said Bob Rohrig, vice president of sales for Johnson-United Storage & Moving, a locally based competitor in mobile storage.
“People sometimes want to de-clutter their homes before they put them on the market,” he says.
Johnson-United recently opened a secure, state-of-the-art storage facility near its Centennial office.
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