Second Floor Storage Doesn’t Mean Second Class

A lot of the time you will find that customers are not that willing to store in a storage unit that is anywhere else but the first floor. What they want to do is they want to be able to drive right up to their storage unit and unload their belongings. That will make it easiest and most convenient for them. The do not realize that if the Saint Lambert self storage space has a second floor then they can take advantage of that. It is not like the storage facility is going to make you walk up the stairs to your storage unit.

The common misconception is that the second floor or higher at a Saint Lambert self storage facility is very inconvenient to get to. That is not true. In some areas of Quebec the storage facility had to build up in order to achieve more square footage of storage. What this means is that they cannot build out like some facilities can. So in order to get more people to rent there, they build up. What they do in order make storing there more attractive, they make the prices on the upper units cost less money. So customers actually begin to think about it a little harder because of that.

What customers also do not realize is that the facility has an elevator in order to get you to a higher floor. You have the opportunity to use hand carts and dollies free of charge from the facility. This will help you to maneuver your belongings up to the upper levels. If you have a little bit of help you will have no problem getting your belongings up there. Now of course if you are the kind of person that will not need to get to your unit, you will not have worry about moving your belongings back and forth. That is the only part that can be tedious. If you are going to take your belongings in and leave it, then you are good to go.

Managers will always offer the first floor or drive up unit in order to get more money out of their storage units. Now a smart Saint Lambert self storage manager will try to get their upper units full first and then have everyone else come in on the main level. What ends up happening is that the customers will not want to go upstairs because the managers made the lower levels sound so great. They can end up hurting their selves by doing that. A manager should always give the customer an option whether to store upstairs or downstairs. In order to get the customer to go upstairs, the manager needs to make the price difference worth the customer’s while. Depending on which Saint Lambert self storage they might be able to get away with just a ten dollar difference or have to push it to over that point.

When marketing the store and the units it would make more sense to tell the customers that you have many units, drive up, first floor and upper levels. When you get the customers to come down to the facility, you can show them how easy it is to get to the upper levels. The facility will have very wide hallways in order to get their furniture all the way down the row.

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