Just a little history....I've have been with this location for 25+ years. The storage units were originally owned by a local family for many years. The rent was inexpensive, the people who ran the units were friendly and I was happy. I have one of the largest units available for rent. The rent for the unit started at $150 and, over the next 20 years, slowly increased to $240. Didn't have a problem with that as the increases came in small $10 or $15 increases over those 20+ years. Fast forward to 2021...
This corporate Monster (West Coast Self Storage) purchases what was called North Main Mini-Storage in October 2021. I was paying, at that point, $240 a month, still within our budget. In March 2022, the rent for the same unit went to $309.00, an increase of $69.00 a month! Then, about three months later, a letter was sent to us letting us know that if we didn't have insurance on our unit, West Coast Self Storage would charge us an additional $25.00 a month! (luckily, we had insurance through our homeowners policy). Fast forward, again...
Today, we received a letter from West Coast Self-Storage telling us that our storage unit rent would be increasing on March 1, 2023 to $384.00 a month, an increase of $75.00 a month!! That means, that in the space of a year, our unit rent went from $240.00 to $385.00, an increase of $145.00!!
We are retired and our income is fixed. This is a huge burden on us (Do the math...12 months times $145.00 more a month equals $1740.00 more a year!!)
What really bothers me is that I have been a loyal customer for over 25 years. To this corporate Monster, obviously, loyalty means nothing.
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