Moving to Hackney - Do you Need Storage E8?
Posted on 07/08/2014
When moving, you will sometimes find that the new house is a little smaller, or just a different shape, than the previous place, in which case you may be tempted to rent storage for those items which will not go in to the new place. There are pros and cons to using storage, which we will look at now, to try and discern as to whether using storage is a good idea or not. Many people use storage in Hackney, so what could possibly be the issue with it?
First off though, let’s have a look at the pro side of Hackney storage. The need to store things at a moment’s notice crops up quite often unfortunately and E8 self storage places are a great way to avoid getting stuck in a bit of a pickle if you should be surprised by the dimensions of a new place. It is safe, convenient, and guarded by staff, so you can relax, knowing that your items are tucked away nicely, and out of harms way. many people put things in to storage while they find a new place, or if they are perhaps moving to their parent’s house for a while, with the intention that they will at some point in the near future, move in to a new place, and need everything that they had in their old place again. It would of course be a disaster if you threw everything from your previous Hackney removal away, just because you had nowhere that it would fit in your temporary lodgings, only to realize that you needed it all again in a couple of months at the new place, so putting things in to storage in such a situation is a perfect example of when such a facility is an extremely useful thing.
However, there is a dark side to storage that many will not recognize when they first start using it, which stems from the fact that you are paying to carry on owning something. With storage, you pay rent monthly or yearly, just like you would a flat. If the items in storage are not worth a huge amount, then you need to think very carefully about how much you are about to spend on simply keeping these items in your possession. The main issue lies in the fact that after you have had a storage locker rented out for a few months, you will have spent a couple of hundred pounds on owning these items, which is getting towards what they may have been worth in the first place, so at what point is it more cost effective to sell everything and buy new stuff when you get a new place?
Of course, you can never really know until the time comes as to whether you are going to be put in a position where you need storage for longer than you would have liked, but if you think it is likely, then do work out how much you will be spending as opposed to how much you actually need to hold on to the items. In many cases there is a little bit of emotional attachment to the kinds of items that you will be storing, which is natural, but also something that needs to be broken if you are going to be sensible with your money and not waste costs on holding on to useless items!