There are many types of storage units .  Before determining what type of unit a potential rental customer needs you should always qualify the customers.  Qualifying the customer means insuring the location is convenient, the time frame the unit is needed, and determining what the customer needs to store in the unit.

The other day, I think it was last Friday, a young man called to get prices on a self storage unit .  I told the young man that I would need to get some information from him in order to give him a quote on a unit that would meet his needs.  The first question I asked, concerned when he would need the unit, but the answer is not relevant to this story.  The second question is relevant.  I asked him what he would be storing with us.  Comic books, he replied.

Recently I spoke with a woman that needed storage for her dress making business.  She had started her business as a way to make a little money on the side, but her business had increased to the point that she had quit her day job and was employing three other seamstresses.  At the start of her business she had needed very little space to store her sewing machines and supplies.  To be continued.