Storage Tips

Apartment living in the Lehigh Valley comes with a math problem nobody mentions on the tour. You get four real seasons here. That means a winter wardrobe and a summer wardrobe, snow gear and beach gear, a shovel and a grill. Your apartment was designed with one closet...

  "Climate controlled" shows up in nearly every storage ad in the Lehigh Valley, and almost nobody defines it. Some places mean the building is heated. Some mean heated and cooled. A few actually manage humidity. Nobody regulates the term, so it's worth knowing what...

  The rate on the sign is almost never the number on your first bill. That's true across this industry, and it's the main reason people end up feeling burned by storage. Usually it isn't anyone being sneaky. It's that a storage bill has five or six parts, and most...

  Most people rent one size larger than they need. It's an easy mistake to make, and an understandable one — nobody wants to drive a loaded truck across the valley and find out it won't fit. But over a year, that extra size costs real money. So here's a better...

Almost everyone packs a storage unit the same way. You've got a truck to return, it's hot, you're tired, and the goal becomes get it all inside and close the door. Completely understandable. We watch it happen every week. The trouble shows up four months later, when...