STORAGE SITES!!!

[gway]

just a question to ask all you people regarding where and how much do you pay for your storage facilities? we are based out of the western chicagoland suburbs and are having trouble locating a good safe storage site. our main concerns are it must have water and electric and indoor storage to work out of. if anyone out there has any suggestions on property or feedback i will thank you deerly...where do all the landscapers and lawn care people store thier junk and work out of is my question?? what is the cost of your storage site as well.

sorry...i gotta run to go make some $$$

[lawnMaster5000]

I pay about $175 for a 10x15ft locker. I am in St. Louis and this locker space comes with no utilities. All i get is an empty garage type storage space.

Good luck on your search - it sucks.

[lawnboy11]

That's a good question. I currently rent the garage of friends of mine and do their yard for free, but if that ends I don't know what I'll do. I need to store a trailer and a truck also and if I expand in the future will need more room. That's a good question. I hope it gets a lot of replies.

[Fine Lines Lawn]

Did the "self storage" thing for 2 years. They come with no utilities, and you aren't allowed to work on anything there. Those are usually storage only. Now I have 1500 square feet of office / restroom / shop area in an office park. $660.00 / month.

[Eric ELM]

lawnboy11, I do the same thing. I use the brick garage across the street and I do their lawn in exchange.

I checked into storage space around here too, it was expensive and I had to drain fuel out of any equipment I stored there. That sucked. :mad:

Glad I got something so close. :D

[TLS]

When I was looking for my house, I wanted some type of garage. My house has a seperate 20x24 , 2 (small) car garage that my 16' trailer fits real snug into. No room for any other vehicles, but at least its under lock and key and weather tite. Next project is a 30x50 garage in place of this one! It'll probably be too small as soon as its built! Oh well. I know of a lot of guys in the biz with their equipment at home. Makes it easier to work out there on stuff pretty late and just walk in to shower and sleep.

[lawnboy82]

i keep my trailer at an estate that i work at. i keep that there, dump stuff there, store equipment, etc. can work on stuff but would rather just bring it home. get paid for the lawn. i eat side work. they have a side road with a cable across it. good deal, 150 acre estate, somebody is usually around.

[gogetter]

If you pay for storage for your equipment, would I be right in assuming that this would be included as a biz expense and can be written off at the end of the year?

Thanks.

[Keith]

After having stuff stolen so many times and working on vehicles and mowers in the dirt for a long time I finally got a decent building a couple of years back in a newer complex. We pay $285 for a 20X40' with 14' ceiling. It has 10' wide doors on both ends. Electric is included as is water, and there are restrooms right next to my building. People down here seem to think this is high, but buildings this large are hard to come by around here. The manager lives on site and we have not had any problems from them working on stuff, even at 3 in the morning.

Only thing is, no welding! That is why it is a newer building. Someone burned the old building down while welding.

[Edited by Keith on 04-06-2001 at 08:07 PM]

[lakegastonla]

How much is "too high", Keith?

[gway]

see kieth that is the direction were trying to go up here in chicago. ive been doing this along time and i want the security of a place i can rely on and an enviornment that i like. its just that up here i cant touch anything for less 2500 per month. i need a place like a old building profess build or a comm place where other landscapers keep thier stuff, but kieth what is the cost for your property down there?

[Fantasy Lawns]

we lease a site in a commercial district which has a 2 bed 2 bath house

the garage is rather large with a bathroom (old self station- tow yard) with a dual truck lift under a roof ...six ft' fence with wire ..compresser ....oil pit

nice set-up ....we split the cost with a live in mechanic ...which is nice as on weekends we have someone around & he likes the quiet on the weekends & nights

we started at the home deal ...but code didn't like it after a few years and we grew ....then the self storage ....and then lucked into this deal

[Keith]

Originally posted by lakegastonla
How much is "too high", Keith?

What do you mean? How much would I pay? Or am I reading the question wrong?

gway,
Property values vary greatly around here. It wouldn't shock me if they built more of these 2 miles up the road and charged triple this amount. You might call this "junk property", like junk bonds :D While not really worth this much people move in and drive the price up really for no reason. I live near one town that has several small businesses that were hit with a 500% increase in their rent. It was either pay or get out, and someone else would move in. Go figure, how a $1000 building is worth $5000 the next month, I don't know. But a couple of miles back, they can barely give the rent away. Really there is no difference in the two. Its not like one is a bad neighborhood and the other is not.

[accuratelawn]

$572 per year for 10 X 24 storage unit with electric. Cameras, lights and security gate.

[gogetter]

Originally posted by accuratelawn
$572 per year for 10 X 24 storage unit with electric. Cameras, lights and security gate.

Damn! That would get me about 2 months and a week for the same size storage unit around here! And no electric either!
Wish I could come across a deal like yours!

[accuratelawn]

I was on a waiting list for a few months. Several mower store equipment here.

[1MajorTom]

10X20 with electric for $763.20 for the year.
We also use part of my moms garage to store some of our other stuff too.

[David Gretzmier]

we pay 200 for an ex-small engine repair shop behind a lady's house. It has about 5000 sq. ft shop space, and some covered out door, and use of 2 acre field. we work off the 200 by tree work or mowing, etc. whadda deal! she's usually ther guading it. Drawbacks-no toilet, no indoor water, and iffy wiring. no earlier than 6am, no later than 10pm dave

[HOMER]

Mine is in my backyard. 30 x 40 shop with electricity, no toilet but the field behind the shop works well for this. House is a little over 2000 sq ft and does have toilets (even in Alabama) and electricity!

Went up on the rent, was 500.00 now 625.00 a month! Neigbors bother me sometimes when they moooooooooooo but other than that we tend to get along pretty good.

[OBRYANMAINT]

15x25 i pay 60 a month,its a pole barn in a ladys back yard, other scapers rent out other sections.dumping on site ,yard waste only...also have a 1 acre lot on a property i maintain.....for bulk materials, costs me mulch installed at owners house

looking for something more permanent but still expensive for land here