Divio42

I work at a storage facility in the same company as you in a different MCO. A few years ago they found a dead grandma in a storage unit about 7 miles north of here. She had been in there embalmed and everything for a good 10+ years I believe. Close enough that it could have easily happened at this facility.

I work for the same company as him in a different area of the country.

I don't know how they handle things in his state but in our state the lien laws require personal items like photos and documents to be set aside by the buyer. We have to keep them for 6 months before we're allow to toss them out. Most of the time people don't come back from them.

Also as he said we always get an emergency contact on units and we are often not quick to auction compared to other storage companies. If you're in contact with us, if you're willing to work with us, if you're polite, we're usually more than happy to cut you a reasonable deal to vacate instead of auctioning the unit.

90% of the time when we auction a unit it's because the person didn't even try and refuses to return our phone calls or even talk to us.

My bosses used to manage a facility with another company in a really bad area.

When they first took over they did some house cleaning. There are a number of sleeper stories they have but one that stands out the most came from a customer complaining about a horrible smell in his unit.

After some investigation they found that the guy in the unit next to them had a set up where he could close his unit from the inside, pull a string attached to a lock, and it would make it look like the unit was locked and sealed. Inside was a 10x30 unit. 10 feet back there was a partition built to make it look like a real wall. The remaining 20 feet was built into an apartment. Beds, electricity attached to the light socket, all that jazz.

The smell? There were trash bags full of human shit, trash, piss, etc. A lot of them. Bad enough to where they had to actually get a hazmat team in there to dispose of everything in the unit.

There were plenty of other stories of sleepers. People prostituting women out of units, people fucking in units. They found a crackhead sleeping in a 5x5x5 unit in the middle of the night and nearly tazed him in the ass when he went to reach for razor blades when they found him.

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heh. We've got a good area here. Lots of people moving to the county so storage is a booming industry. Most companies are at really high occupancy right now. Our location specifically hit one of the top 100 for our company in the country this year.

So many stories to tell. I'm sure we can both relate.