Throughout your adult life, you may come across many scenarios that necessitate more storage space than you may have readily available. Moving to a new home can be one of these scenarios, especially if you're downsizing during the move.
Here are three scenarios in which self storage can facilitate a downsizing move.
1. Moving Into a Tiny Home or RV
Whether you're just briefly trying out the mobile life or whether you just want to simplify your life and move to a tiny home, the process can be a lot more involved than it at first appears. You'll definitely need a storage unit if you're planning to live in an RV for just a few months or years; the unit will hold your other belongings until you move back into a house or apartment.
But even if you plan to live in a tiny home permanently or semi-permanently, a storage unit can help make the transition easier. For instance, when you're downsizing, you'll likely have to sell off a lot of your larger possessions. Anything that takes a while to sell can stay in the storage unit until you get the asking price for it.
2. Moving Into a Retirement Community
If you're downsizing from your family home into a retirement community, you may have additional complications to deal with. For instance, you may have decades of mementos built up. And you may be selling your home, which means you may need to clear out a lot of your belongings in order to stage the home attractively for buyers.
Since many of your belongings may have sentimental value, you likely don't want to simply get rid of them. And some may be valuable items that you'll want to pass on to relatives as well, but you may not have time to arrange that while you move and sell your home at the same time. This can be especially tricky if some of your relatives don't live nearby.
A storage unit can reduce the tension in this situation. The extra space will allow you to store your valuable and sentimental items until you have the time and mental energy to deal with them. You can take all the time you need to weed out the nonessentials, digitize any photos, distribute family heirlooms to relatives, and decide which items you'll bring to your new home.
3. Moving Into a Dorm Room
A dorm room move can be tricky, especially if your university is several states away from your family home. Renting a storage unit can solve all kinds of difficulties in this scenario.
Not only does a storage unit provide extra space to store out-of-season clothes outside of your dorm room, but it can hold your belongings over the summer as well. Summer can be a critical time if you're assigned new rooms each year. You don't want to load all your belongings into the car when you return home for summer break, yet they can't stay where they are.
As you can see, no matter what the reason for your downsizing endeavor, a storage unit can fill many useful roles in the process. The unit can hold excess items while you sell your home, or it can store seasonal items if you don't have enough storage in your new, smaller living quarters.
For more information on the storage units we offer, give
Tysons Self Storage
a call today. Our facilities provide secure, user-friendly self storage units in a variety of sizes and a variety of prices. Whether you need a unit for your individual belongings, for your small business inventory, or for office storage, we can help.
