Thank you

very glad u made the name change. More fitting and less doomer this way.

I’m

Honestly, I'm shocked by how poorly researched this video is, which is making me question the previous videos from your channel that I've enjoyed. In addition to this major statistic error, there's also the fact that the US census considers any territory with a population greater than 5000 and more than 2000 homes to be urban, which includes almost all suburbs. Also, home size overall has dramatically increased up until the 1950s. Overall, it sounds like you're heavily basing this off of your own bubble.

Not really, if your wrong number of 64% is wrong simply because at that time many aras in any given town wasn't yet developed... Lot's of what has become city was actually farm land in my town this was true 20 years ago yet development did exsist in the 1950's!

Same. I've been there too

Keep your chin up and keep up the hard work. We all have chapters of our lives, and every good book has several chapters where the hero faces challenges. Hopefully those chapters are behind you. Good luck and thanks for sharing!

I would live in my storage unit.

Ended up losing my stuff due needing to default on my account during hard times. Thankfully I’ve recovered but man was I depressed about it.

I too have lost everything and I only had a storage unit in my name to have us any semblance of anything and then that couldn’t be possible to afford because I just didn’t even have enough money for that per month, everything dwindle down to a friends place for some possessions, but truthfully everything just basically fit into the trunk of a car with what I had left

Yah, its people working against themselves. PEOPLE CONSUME TOO MUCH. That is why inflation is high. If you cant afford a house, buy a different appreciable asset. Like Stock and Bonds. The run up the stock market from 2008 to Covid... you can trade those massive gains for a house. Now that we are in a lower business cycle, people can do the same. For the next 5 to 8 years. BUT as can be seen by this video... people buy too much useless stuff.

WDYM by "their own land"? Land should be used at the highest use, not necessarily for residence. Certainly not poor people residence. The problem is that what makes land valuable is people in proximity. The solution is to have land USERS PAY everyone else (making the land valuable) for that value, in a sort of "property tax" auction in which the proceeds go to everyone. We get this backward and anti-capitalist in our system, in which people "own" (exclude others from) land, and just get richer. The owner of the land doesn't make the land valuable, the neighbors do. So the owner is just extracting that value in rents. Literally "rent-seeking" behavior. Purely anti-capitalist. Making us all poorer. Making land get used nowhere near its highest uses.

@@weksauce it is not anti capitalist. Capitalism’s end goal is the pursuit of the divinity of profit. This might be effective in the early stages of a developing country, where improving things would lead to profit. However, companies have figured out to increase profits, they can implement regressive measures to extract more profit instead of innovating, as can be seen by Apple’s business practices. Rent seeking behaviour is undoubtably a result of capitalism coming to fruition since it is the most efficient way to increase profits in the end

@@maganashaker167 Correct. Profit, not rent. You're describing rent-seeking behavior, not profit-seeking behavior. That rents are also marked as "profits" on companies' p&l is irrelevant. Extraction is rent, never profit. You don't extract profits, you extract rents. Rent-seeking is anti-capitalist. Profit-seeking is capitalist. Rent-seeking is not a "result of capitalism". Rent-seeking is only the most "efficient" (I would argue effective) way to increase "profits" (rents aren't profits) because we choose anti-capitalist, anti-competitive laws and regulations to govern our systems. It's up to us what kinds of economies we want. I don't want capitalist markets for everything (healthcare, housing), but for many things, they're the least-bad way to determine what to produce and distribute that production. And most of the problems people identify in specific markets (education, housing, healthcare) are failures to be capitalist enough. People mistake our (America's) current system for capitalism just because it has some capitalist features. It's not capitalism. It has too many oligopolistic, anti-competitive features. In a capitalist economy, everyone makes the same risk-adjusted profit everywhere, all the time, by definition. That's not the case, which means we are nowhere near capitalist. You can't extract rents in capitalist markets/economies, because competition eats you alive.

@@Gebri3l "Land I'd there" is nonsense. Humans can't morally claim land because humans don't make land, and the people who own (claim) land aren't the ones who make it valuable. The productive neighbors are the ones who make the land valuable, not the owner.

100% agree. These units are a rip off

As a life long "collector" and someone who definitely enjoys her stuff, it's funny to see this comment repeated on this video. I manage a storage facility too, been working for one of the big ones for almost 10 years and it's definitely impacted how I view possessions and my relation to them. Stuff I would have hung onto in the past, I'm getting better about getting rid of it for the reason you just stated. One category they didn't mention was hoarders , who like it or not, are definitely part of our industry. When you have someone renting 6 , 7, 8 , 9 large units and they haven't even opened the door in years....hoarding. Then you just pray they don't die while you're running the place since you'll take the bad debt loss! LOL! Two things driving the industry : the Baby Boomers retiring, downsizing into smaller homes and hanging onto to stuff and homes being built with smaller closets to maximize sellable square footage. I get people who just bought a new home, but the closets are tiny.

@@catherinesanchez1185 yes! One of my tenants has 3 large units. Paying almost 500 a month for them. It's crazy. I don't want my kid or members of my family to have to go through all my crap. Working in this industry has definitely made me more mindful of what I keep and throw out.

Fellow manager here! I printed a tenant that has been here since 1986 their entire payment history. They started with one unit and then got another one in 2003. Just over $68,000 of collected rent for both units combined. Blew my mind.

@@philgillies4258 holy moly!! That's outrageous!

Just like Cable Companies raise the price make it look like u need it or threaten their fico score.

Therapist 😂

Multiple hats

I had the complete different experience while working at one. I loved it. I worked at one in Manhattan for 2 years. I was able to do all my college homework while sitting there.

@@Sammydx1 To reach success in life is about luck as much it is skill unfortunately

But if you had a living space, you wouldn't need the storage.

@@121intheshade but other people do though, that's my point. It makes sense for me now, it doesn't make sense when you actually have a place to keep things.

@@121intheshade great comment. I was not sure if Jeff S was just making or joke or he was serious. It the case is the latter, it shows that people do not make good decisions in life.

Why not in your home?

@@121intheshade He doesn't need a permanent living space when the guy is living in his truck going over the road, it's actually quite common for long haul trucker to have just a storage unit since paying rent on an apartment for instance is a waste when they're almost never living in it

So what do you do with Christmas decorations? And 7 years of tax records?

Tax records should be digital. Christmas Decorations shouldn't take much space unless you over bought.

Exactly. I’ll never own a storage unit either. Though I think it could be a decent business to own

Agree. I live in 2 bedroom and have only one wardrobe and chest drawer. Still have space left there and in a kitchen. Have too much stuff

Wtf, you really pay a monthly fee for your Christmas stuff and a folder full of papers? Americans 😂

Yeah, just your ashes. Lol

@@mikekent6635 😂 I was going to say, that she can burn.

Swedish death cleaning

@@mikekent6635 that could very well be try. Nothing wrong with that.

I try to explain this to my I’m who is a hoarder she won’t dispose of things she’s had for 40+ years in the box never used just a burden in my home and for me when she’s no longer here

Unlike what is kept in these storages😅😅😅

He paid $12020 for a Christmas tree. If this is his only irresponsible spend then maybe he has an anxiety about getting rid of possessions he doesn’t really have space for. This is pretty common. After the Great Depression you had generations that considered it frugal not to throw things out. Your Grandpa shows that these days getting rid of something can be the frugal step.

That's true ! most people storage things for Nostalgic memories only , storage items has no values , people doesn't want to throw away cuz of those things just like family members

Well in his day items were much better quality, not junk from China

@@mukainoda9453 And memories.

​@@tomorrow4evaindeed😊

Some storage units have electrical outlets.

This is a respectable use of cash monies. Not too many respectable reasons to rent one of these places for years on end.

I, too, practiced in storage units. When a lot was found that allowed bands, word spread fast.

That is dope!

What city?

Lol

How much did she end up paying all together after 12 years?

Ofc

​@@codysmith98132 much should just have sold it and bought newxstuff instead

Rotten? Did you keep fruits and vegetables in the storage unit?

There you go!

hi it's me your daughter

Greetings Mother and or Father, I'm also your daughter. I have decided I now wish to claim the items. Thank you.

unless you are wealthy, no one wants your stuff when you die, cmon you think your widowed wife is gonna have stuff or pics of you when shes got a steady stream of guys coming over to plow her, sometimes 2 or 3 guys at a time? cmon😂

Thanks for sharing.

Maybe a few more decades. But if things continue as they are, the boomers’ grandkids are going to be faced with trying to utilize or just throwing away a bunch of old, outdated crap. Meanwhile, they won’t be able to afford enough new stuff to store.

There's several large storage co. opened near me last couple of years. And my daughter's new neighbor out in the country built a gorgeous mansion next to her, apparently the money all from their storage company; they did well. Talking about boomer's stuff; there's constantly new Thrift stores opening, and existing ones expanding; as well as online selling is thriving. We just have TOO much stuff. Manufacturing has just steadily been producing all these years since the industrial revolution and where will it all go...

“plenty of space to expand“ 😂

​@rzella8022 it'll go to land fills

Probably not that many actual houses built in the last five years, I'd guess

How do you know *you* are not in a storage facility... 😝

@@niksutliff Nah, probably just plenty of apartment buildings. 😋

@@niksutliff storage units are way more profitable

I have that many plus three new ones being built...also car washes are popping up everywhere now.

Probably going to have a boom again with the new housing bubble. So many ppl Like me can’t afford to live on their own and had to move in with relative who don’t have room for a lot of my things and I want to believe I’ll find my own place soon and my stuff is my life, it’s hard to throw that away

Housing crisis makes it cheaper to build storage facilities

This video didn't really explore how much it was pretty obvious there was going to be a boom in business with so many foreclosures and layoffs. While average Americans were scared of the real estate market big real estate corporations were snapping up homes to rent or develop. It didn't take a genius to see that homeownership was going to be a problem for America in the near future. My first job was selling foreclosed homes. There was so many in my small metro that alone provided many people full time work for years. They were all foreclosed. It was terrible. And it was well into 2009-2010 that ALL our business could come from foreclosures. And I often saw people left everything they owned. I imagine alot of people who actually did move things out could only afford to do so because of storage units.

Yes it was a conspiracy you are right lol maybe they pay attention to the market and investing

Yup

It shouldn't have been disheartening, it should have been inspiring! You could do it too! Those schmucks could be paying for your fine homes, your Bentley, your boats

i heard a story where an unhoused female was harrassed by management of a Public Storage and told her she could not come in more than (I believe she said) 30 minutes per day. I think she might have been staying there several hours per day to just have escape from the chaos of living in a tent on the street or away from all the noise on the street..etc.

sell it if you cannot afford a place to stay the price on the storage unit rent can stop you eating then you die and they sell your stuff anyways they make their money not on the rent but selling the stuff when people not making the payments which can be increase so just having enough money in an account not going to work

@@manp1039 It sounds harsh, but the bottom line is that the buildings are zoned for storage only and not for human habitation. Bad things have happened from people living in units or trying to "hang out" on the property . usually, these are people with very unstable lives and it attracts crime and potential liability issues where someone can end up hurt or dead. The building I run is in downtown Baltimore and our access hours are limited to office hours only for this reason. I lose some customers this way, but the ones who can dot he hours like it cuz they feel the building is more secure and they're safer when they're on the property because I'm there monitoring whats going on (which I am) . Evicting a tenant is complicated and a big bother so the Public Storage you mentioned was probably trying to get her to move out without them having to go through that.

@@catherinesanchez1185 making a blanket statement like that is false. Not interested in any other comments if you are just wanted to spread misinformation.

Dang it man, living in self storage center was going to be my backup plan. This is dystopian. I just want access to the water fountain and a plug..

This is the case for many people now. many of our parents are or were hoarders. We are tired of growing up like that and want to go in the opposite direction. I wouldn't consider myself a full minimalist but I still have that mentality of just having what you need and not keeping unnecessary crap in the house.

My mom was a hoarder. When she died suddenly going through her stuff was awful. My sister helped with the initial sorting but all the delayed stuff like photos got dumped on me. Now my previously low clutter home has two extra bins I have to deal with.

That’s fascinating. Please share a good blog/article/video that talks about this 😃

Just like anything else, Trucking is what you make of it.

@@AusWash Lol, wtf? ITS NOT lol

Oh yeah starting out in trucking is like being in a prison cell on wheels. It does not and has not paid as well as people think it does in decades. Then you add in the fact that you can't have a life... At best it's a career choice a younger person could make just save money in a short amount of time provided they were willing to make the appropriate sacrifices. No girlfriend, no housing our utilities costs, no frivolous spending, no kids, no pets, just grind. Start that settled down family life you're essentially paying for other people to exist and not getting to enjoy any of it. The best thing you can do is start trucking early and have a plan on how to get out of it.

@@richardspillers6282 there's literally a trucker a couple of comments above this one writing about his trucking life. it's pretty sad tbh to be confined to your truck and nothing else if that's all you plan on to do for the rest of your life.

I think that has a lot to do with killing off Home Economics classes and a generational experience of eating out many times a week. People literally don't know how to properly cook.

@@500dollarjapanesetoaster8 this is true, especially going through the experience of college, theres an incentive to have pre-made meals

​@@500dollarjapanesetoaster8Also both parents are working and probably no longer have time to even if they know how.

@@pennezita4095 I don't live in a dorm, but been there, and while delivery happens, students DO cook. Delivery is just far more expensive than a simple meal. And given how poor students are, many just can't throw money around like this.

Does anyone actually do those?

I can understand for those who are transitioning or plan to transition between living situations (prepping for a larger house or downsizing), who maybe rent for a short period. I don't understand those who choose to rent for a very extended period though

People r dum

Tax for the stupid

@@iampetz that's how they are used in my country. I've never met anyone that has used these for more than a couple of months at a time.

@@TheSuperBoyProject I’m American, growing up my parents always had a storage unit for their extra crap. I never understood it

That's over $6/ft^2 for storage! That seems like the same cost per square foot of an apartment!

It is honestly sad. I wish more people thought like this james. I had no idea the price was so high. You can't even live in them anymore.

Smart. He can save money for his new home

Smart 😊

Hopefully he doesn't rat on himself.

That should be illegal

I've known several people who lived in storage units, and to the guy who says it should be illegal, it is. Some places just turned a blind eye to it, because they helped keep the place up.

@@anthonybha4510 Love the priority and lack of humanity here. Your gut response to finding out a family is forced to live out of a STORAGE UNIT isn't "damn, we should have better conditions in society to prevent this" or "that sucks I can't imagine having to do that". Instead its a heartless "we should further criminalize the lives of people suffering." Absolute evil.

​@@anthonybha4510You are a monster

@@kyj6283you put it better than I could have. 👌

You are able to articulate your experience through writing very well. I hope that your able to use this ability in the career of your choice, if not now surely in the near future. What I'm saying is hope your not just settling on hucking cardboard boxes and bed frames for hours in exchange for $ for to long. You is smart🤓

It's human nature, it's in our DNA to look at something and attach arbitrary value. It's why people keep the dirty couch that was their grandpa's.

Since when is any furniture in America under $100? Give me a break

And is business expense.

Agree. If your storage facility is making you money it's perfectly fine to have.

Yours is a little different situation. That storage unit is basically your "warehouse". Not only that, but you can also deduct it on your taxes as a business expense.

Yes. I have a home business and rent 2 storage units for supplies and inventory. Storage rental at this stage of my business is a much better option than renting a commercial warehouse.

@@chri8067 If you have two units then it would definitely be warehouse time where I live. In this town storage units are $2 per square foot, per month. Warehouse units are $1 per square foot, per month. Plus you can potentially fit a lot more in a warehouse per square foot because the ceilings are 2x to 4x higher. You also have 24/7 access with a warehouse.

It just blows my mind how few of the houses in my neighborhood store cars in their garages.

I know a few people who have entire two-car garages, but they can't fit a single car in them, since they are full of junk. My mom worked with a man who was into old cars, but he has to leave them outside since his garage is full. Such a shame.

Yea but advertising can trick people into believing something is more useful and necessary than it is. Advertising is a big factor

@@Default78334 Many lower class housing developments I drive around have 4-6 vehicles parked in the driveway in front of their garage and sometimes even on the street. Whenever I see them with the garage open it's cluttered. At least half the houses are like this.

Those people are no better off than apartment dwellers who have go from the car to their residence in inclement weather. If you can’t fit your car in your garage, you’re missing out on the main advantage of having a garage. Car is somewhat protected from the elements, vandalism and theft.

marketing not good cheap crap from china getting people to buy more than they need then it breaks in 6 months or less getting them to buy another one to replace it

@drphosferrous, There will be a service for just about anything. Really!

@@pennycaldwell8141 its almost as if production and consumption have to increase forever, but instead of cyclical revolutions,we just have higher demand for storage and landfills

@@drphosferrous I am not an advocate for the greed this not so brave new world has been evolving into. Reversing these "trends" starts with healthy individual choices.

@@pennycaldwell8141 how would that work?

Some of us live so minimally that I don’t even have space for all necessities where I live

@@X11CHASE i dont think that's "living minimally" i think that's poverty...

What you consider "clutter" is the same thing that makes me happy as a maximalist. More is more, and less is a bore.

@@lovelydolltime8006 okay i dont care

@@lovelydolltime8006 have never heard that term before. It is excellent, I love it! Also the cute saying "....less is a bore". LOL. Gotta use that one. Thanks

And most give you 1st month free ,I’ve had to do the same and basically paid nothing ,and that saved money is then used to py for a uhaul truck

Very true. Once I was relocating and was in temporary housing for a bit. A month and a half of so of self storage let me take my time to find a good place to live.

The biggest shock I got when downsizing was how little my grandmother's Hummels were worth. Collectibles are only worth keeping if YOU like them.

Garage sale,ebay/amazon and farmers market type places all allow you to sell your old stuff anything cannot sell giveaway for free or put in bin.

@@maryeckel9682 also to have something actually selll for a good amount you need to spend a lot of money over the years to keep it, cause when collectors say “pristine condition” they really mean it, like something made 40 years ago looking like it was bought at the store fairly recently.

Over the last 9 years my sister and I lost our mom, her brother, our grand-aunt, and dad. All living in their own place. Most of the stuff is gone but there's a small amount of stuff we can't part with but have decided it's time. We use it or it's gone. I have a set of 1920's depression era glassware which has been in cardboard boxes since 1972 since our great-grandmother died. It's been in cardboard boxes longer than half its lifespan. I had to get a small unit closer to me because my apart is so small, it only has one small closet for storage. I had to get a place to store old tax paperwork. Starting last year I started scanning everything. So soon, all that paperwork will be history, but until then I have no choice.

I had to move back in with family and I couldn’t bring a lot with me when I did or prepare cause it was so sudden, and I didn’t know how long. I imagine with the housing crisis a lot are like me and can’t afford rent to live on their own but want to keep the stuff that makes up their life in hopes that eventually you’ll find a place

Van life would be my reason

@@andhemills works too

It's definitely a cultural difference. There is a large percentage of Americans who have no hobbies, and if they do, they are "functional hobbies." Something they can do that is productive, not just fun. (ei cooking)

Banks.....they "exist" but Many are Failing; be Aware.😂❤

Actually, it makes loads of sense to store cash outside of banks what with this CBDC nonsense coming out. In a way, having cash reserves is miles better than silver, and marginally better than gold, because during times when the digital payment systems (ATMs, plastic money transactions, ePay services) are down due to natural disasters or outages, *cash is king.* Pawnshops in my locality do not accept .999 silver, they only take gold and only at or below spot price. A typhoon decimated the power grid for more than a month, and cash was the only accepted form of payment for most establishments that had their telecom service or Internet compromised. And now there’s talks of the central banks potentially getting people to switch from their bank accounts to CBDC bull turd where they gain the ability to monitor and control what people buy or can’t buy. They can’t do so with cash. *FIGHT THE POWER*

I mean a self-storage unit is literally just that... storage Idk why people hate it if they're paying for it and they want somewhere to save their items, people really like to hate things it seems (and minimalism to be honest is pretty bland)

If you want to sell it then do. Why pay for storage?

@@zuzanazuscinova5209 things aren’t always that simple; if they were, people who run a business that utilizes a lot of material and a lot of space wouldn’t need storages at all. There the frequently used supplies, the not so frequently used, and the once in a blue moon usage items that aren’t needed often enough, but when needed, they’re on hand and ready to be brought out and used, instead of having to purchase another one when no one sells it locally, or worse yet, having to dig it out of a room full of things in the house, which is also why people use storages - so as to reduce, minimize or eliminate clutter in their homes, especially if said clutter is literally their livelihood and ways to make their living expenses and more.

I use mine as a garage so I’m at mine nearly every weekend working on projects because I’m a renter and have hobbies that I just can’t do at the apartment. If I need power I have a power inverter in my car.

I met a guy who worked at a storage unit company. He said a lady would come every month and sit on the one sofa she had in storage. He begged her to sell the sofa and leave someone to contact in case something happened to her. We'll she died, and after a few months, they auctioned the sofa. They buyer found $32, 000 stuffed in the sofa. The lady was stuffing her monthly check in the sofa. Very sad.

This is what I'd call a 'deliberate' use of a storage unit, that also gives you a measurable benefit. You have a purpose (which the storage unit fulfills perfectly) and at only $70 a month, it's a fraction of what most people seem to pay for an average unit. (Seems like ~$150 - $250 a month is what most are paying.)

In Australia they don't just 'reposses' your items, unless there's no other choice. I can see the US model can be very harsh.

Yes indeed

This is because the government doesn't have a demographic classification of "suburban"; all land is either "urban" or "rural" so the suburbs get rolled into the former because they obviously aren't the latter.

Discipline helps even more. Don't need, don't buy.

Get rid of stuff you havent touched in a year. Get rid of stuff that doesnt portray or directly represent your family Keep art, tools, guns, maybe a bauble or two. Furniture is extra as hell, Im a fan of church swapmeets/ yard sales personally

Start selling things around the house on ebay. Save up to move out in a few years . I was in the situation you're in a few years back

@@Bodangers Sell to who? And good luck convincing my mom to let go of a bunch of the crap

I have a similar problem, though not quite so severe. Both me and my mom keep telling my dad that he has accumulated way too much stuff that simply isn't worth the space it occupies. Stuff he never touches, and would be fairly cheap to replace if he were to ever need it again. Yet he has this strange phobia of throwing away anything which isn't technically broken. For example: Some low quality guitars that are physically painful to play. A large fibreglass mould from a boat project he finished over 20 years ago. Multiple piles of lumber left from past renovation projects, (actually useful, just too much of it). A spare car when there's only one person in that house who ever actually drives. An old outboard motor which he said he would repair 25 years ago, still standing in the same corner untouched. An old desktop computer which he keeps next to his current desktop computer, on his cramped desk. It has sat like that for 7 years, I haven't seen him use it for 5 years. In isolation such things may posses some modest utility or sentimental value, but there's just too much of it, and it's too bulky, and free space has a utility of its own.

You have sense. ❤❤

Yep. All those storage unit reality TV shows made me reslise how much peoole will spend on storing things that are worth very little.

Yes indeed😊

Cities are a result of the j elites constant propaganda for over 8 decades. Cities of more than a million people don't need to exist as they are extremely inconvenient and expensive for people but they do because they generate immense capital from the dense population. They sell the idea of opportunity very well and hide the vast disadvantages that come with it

The issuing power is the hands of a non profit, non partisan entity. The chair of the Fed is nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate. Funny enough the people elect their senators and president. Even more funny. Nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate is how judges and dozens of other powerful appointees are put into government. Do you really want congress to vote on everything or would you rather they delegate it to an agency full of experts in economics and finance? The Feds agenda and data is public and released regularly. The chair goes before congress regularly as well. I honestly don’t understand what about the current arrangement isnt what you are arguing it should be.

Karma for stealing native people land?

​@@youknowkbbabyNatives "stole" land of other natives all the time before the white men came. So the "karma" served them well.

If you didn't notices, the inflation is caused by the state and the state cobtrols the currency.

That sucks, hope you guys can find a better long term solution. But I wouldn’t be hard on myself in your shows, LA housing market is absolutely predatory so even the minimalist folks find difficult to earn enough to have a place with proper storage without paying for custom made cabinets and other expensive solutions like self storage.

It is a tremendous business. If I could start over, I would jump on the chance to own some of these facilities. I know several people who have and they are all millionaires. The tax benefits are incredible.

@@dreamfire5210 Yes. The renters don’t call at midnight. You never have to fix stuff and if they don’t pay just sell their stuff off to the cockroaches. Welcome to America.

@@dreamfire5210 nice cash flow for sure but unless you cash out early you don’t develop millions till years in

Data storage isn't a one and done thing. It corrupts over time. That same as how physical pictures and documents degrade and rot. If you just chuck your files onto a usb drive (or hard drive, ssd, dvd, ect.), when you open in 5-15 years (depending on storage medium) it's going to be an unreadable mess. Make sure to rewrite the data to a new drive every few years, and keep duplicates of the most important ones.

or for those very sentimental items, restrict yourself to 1 or 2 boxes. Items cannot exceed those 2 boxes.

@M selfish entitlement, that's quite the stretch. I'm entitled to do what I want in the space I pay for. I'm entitled to be left alone while I'm there. I didn't say live there, or stay a whole night, so you can walk back your assumptions. If I want to go into a storage unit, look at photos of people who've been taken from me too soon, cry myself to sleep for two hours then roll out, then that's my fucking prerogative.

ok,those things are not vented

You taking a nap and a person LIVING there all day are not the same a lot of people take a nap in the storage areas but then they leave its at the most a few hours not all day for years and your not female either so homeless woman was a lawsuit waiting to happen if someone opened her storage unit up which would be not lockable on the inside being a cheap one and they would get into trouble if the state found out people were living inside the storage units and living in them and taking naps is not even the same you can take a nap anywhere even on train tracks on the road just need to leave before a train or car comes.

@M Not to mention , he signed a lease agreeing to their terms , so he's breaking the lease and can be evicted immediately. I personally, would never rent at a 24 hour afacility. Theyh tend to have the most issues with drugs, homeless especially at night. No thanks

America is much better life compare to where I am from however, the term "dream" means it is just a dream, not reality

American dream is akin to Sales commission based jobs. You are spinning , talking , convincing people to buy a product, i.e. cars , life insurance policies or single family homes. Sales folks, who get good at their technique, have more of a chance of increasing their own income. American dream is that pitch that is used to fill commission-based sales jobs. " All you have to do is sell x number of widgets a week . . ." Unfortunately, if you can't read people's body language / speak unpleasant version of English / are poor at percentage math sales is not for you.

It's called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it

The government and banks made that narrative up to get people into loans

​@@deanchur The late, great George Carlin, no?

Wow

I don't allow my tenants to bid on their units at auction , for various reasons. I'm sure some of them have either a family member or pay someone to do this.

Been through that, actually happened to me June 2022. Stay strong and be kind to yourself. Remain positive and work towards progress daily. Don’t give up and don’t loose hope I promise bad times don’t last forever

@@beautifulmermaid718 thank you for your kind words. Im surprisingly in good spirits, as I see this as an opportunity to lower overhead and use my existing cash flow to bring down debts & increase liquidity, hoping to invest money not spent on rent.

you'll get through it bud, I promise. I literally went through the same thing the past year. I was crashing at friends' houses, sleeping on the couch at my fam's, and airbnb (when necessary). There were many nights when I would feel exhausted and nearly broke down in tears, wanting to give it all up. I just signed a lease for a 2BR in NJ (near NYC) in November and I couldn't be happier. Now it's time to save up for a home edit: I was technically homeless and crashing around for just over a year (Sept 21 - Nov 22)

You should watch the video of the guy who turned a storage unit into a hush hush apartment...

Yea, thought it was pretty funny to hear this video repeat "American over-consumption" over and over when in reality a lot of these units are used by people who are homeless or renting places that are much too small, or homeless, or they need temp storage while moving, or they got divorced and one of the two people needs to find a new home.

So if you have these terrible problems with housing and affordability, I'm 99% sure it's a city run by far-left liberals. You voted for it, you got it.

@@johnadkins1650 Housing affordability and low wages are an issue across the country, so I am not really sure where you get the idea that it only happens in "far-left" controlled areas. I live in a state that has had a GOP governor for like a decade, and fully half our politicians are right wing, yet we have a major issue with housing availability and affordability and have had it for decades. They don't want to raise the minimum wage and they favor single family homes which are expensive and low density. We're running out of places for people to live, the state is losing employees because workers can't move to or stay in the state, and the NIMBYs don't want to allow more housing to be built. I don't see the right doing anything about it. If anything, it's the right leaning people complaining about how building housing will "ruin the state" as if the average working class citizen is some kind of dirty lazy criminal. Maybe what we need is more compassion and respect for our citizens instead of assuming people are terrible based on one thing you know about them?

@@DimaRakesah Forget about the governor, do you live in a city run by the far left - yes or no.

@@johnadkins1650 No, I do not. Where I live is so politically diverse that our elected representatives flip flop with each election. Why do you so badly want that to be true? Maybe that seems like a simple answer, an easy way to be angry at people you already dislike for whatever reason. But I fail to see how blaming "the left" is going to do anything to fix such a complex and deeply rooted issue in our housing system.

@@DimaRakesah You complain about NIMBYs but put yourself in their shoes, you worked hard to finally be able to put down a downpayment for a house and are working hard to pay your mortgage and you are happy with the way your life is going, but suddenly an affordable housing project that will cripple your home's value is proposed, making you lose thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars in property value, wouldn't you react just like them?

This is why you don’t move into her place and sell your stuff. Had you did that you’d be on the street with literally nothing

@@brianwaller7383 Exactly! But you know...I can't help but think maybe in the back of my mind I had doubts

Nah you knew subconsciously

@@clydedoris5002 I guess so......😭

This is a brilliant topic idea!

"This is true. No one wants to pay movers what they're worth until they move an entire house by themselves. Then, they get it! I'll never move my stuff again. Used movers last time and was very happy to pay them!!

I'm sorry to hear that KeithSharka :(

Ive got some old college textbooks that I will prolly end up donating to a library cuz I dont care about them nor do I need them

I was thinking the same thing. In fact, if this industry is so "fragmented", why are the monthly storage fees still so high?

How did you get away with that?

How did you use a bathroom?

@@jmalone7311 just act casual, show up late before the building closes the gates, typically all the employees leave around 5pm and the gates stay shut after 10pm. Once you’re inside, and you are sure that nobody saw you, close yourself in with the lock closed on the outside to make it appear that it is secure.

@@juliannehannes11 well, you tried to use it as best as you can before closing yourself in for the night, keep a spare bottle in case you need to do #1, which I did quite often.

It is completely wasteful, when garage sales and eBay are omnipresent. I sell or donate crap I know I won't need.

Americans love to buy stuff and have no where to put it. It is like a disease.

Surely a funeral home has stricter entry conditions

My goal is not to buy land near a city because it will be city in 20 years and the land will be worthlesss to me

in Los Angeles.. i think some movie productions and musicians use storage facilities to store their gear.. I once saw one unit that was vacated.. and they left reals and reals of movie film.. in the storage boxes.. and i heard about a famous mucisian whom lived in another city in another state that rented a unit in that facility.. it was climate controlled and secure(they provided the electricity for lights and for heat and cooling to keep the temp within a certain range?). I am supposing that person kept things they might need when they came to town for business? and it was cheaper than keeping an apartment or house and paying all the costs involved with that?

Totally.

The higher population density actually helps! From living in Europe to moving to the US, Europe has more communal space, and its much easier to get access to that space and other services *because* we're much more densely populated. There's no expectation of suburban living so hobby communities take that into account. For example the Glasgow Kayaking Club has yearly storage available for about $40. And for hobbies that take up a lot of space - woodworking for example - there's a lot of community spaces. I've definitely seen community workshops in the US but they aren't as many or as varied, and I've found they lean towards the focus on productivity rather than socializing. GalGael for example has traditional open workshop nights with traditional woodwork but also runs traditional wooden boat building projects haha. And here's blurb off their website to communicate the culture. "Thursdays are open format - they very much depend on who shows up and what they bring. But we can promise workshop space, a basic meal and some banter. Occasionally people get the guitars out and there's a bit of a jam or a sing-song. Other times there's short talks, spontaneous poetry happenings or whatever else people want to share." What if the community space is on the other side of the city? Well you're never more that 15 minutes from somewhere with the public transport of subways and buses. And you have your monthly transport pass anyway for college/work so it's not extra cost. When I went to college my parents were a 30 minute drive/train ride away. Where I grew up is considered a small city. But your never more than an hour from a big urban environment; its a two hour train or car journey to make it from the East to West coast. So you can always 'lease' space from your family for bribe of a crate of beer or a box of chocolates. Americans definitely have more stuff. But I think the answer is more nuanced that only over-consumption.

Hoard less? Most men in my family are gamers and have so much equipment, anime waifu figurines, posters, Pokémon cards , marvel DC comics, manga memorabilia for a lifetime 😂😂😂 come on now.

Younger people have less money

@@donttalktomeyoureannoying8736 Have an ex like that, with that type of lifetime collection of stuff in all of those categories. After we finally split, he stopped by one afternoon to visit me and my cat and dog. He noticed there was light shining under the door of "his old room". I looked and laughed, telling him that was sunlight shining through the window. He was surprised. When he used that room, all walls and the large window were walled off again in boxes floor to ceiling, extending 3 feet into the room. That room never saw daylight or sunlight.