I read with amazement the only other review of Big Yellow Self Storage. Frankly I think it must be written by the marketing department of BYSS. Read it carefully and it is so wonderful that it just does not seem realistic. And well, unfortunately it is not. But let's start with the positive aspects. The place is clean, very new and has electronic entry gadgets which probably provide a quite good security. Access and availability is good. It is probably a good place if you need to go in and out of your self storage on a regular basis. But realistically in most cases a self storage is visited very rarely, and the ...  Read the complete review

It's sometimes difficult to imagine that you would need to use storage facilities. The need to have them tends to just spring up on you and it can be quite a surprise to learn about the good ones and the bad ones. I've got a couple of properties that I let out to private tenants and something I learnt a long time ago is the need to be flexible when it comes to furniture. Some people have their own, some people don't and if you want to get a tenant in quickly you need to be ultra-flexible. Both my let properties started life fully furnished, but both are currently furnished by the tenant, leaving me with two sets of apartment furniture. The nature of the market is such ...  Read the complete review