Divorce or Separation? Consider How Self-Storage Can Help

A divorce, separation or break-up is a big life change.

Usually, it also means you’re changing the space you live in, and you might be considering moving to an in-between home, before choosing something more permanent.

Self storage during a divorce can give you a bit of a breather. It’s helpful because:

• You gain temporary space to move belongings to while you shift to your new lifestyle and regain your footing again.
• You can keep personal and important files safe and secure.
• You can keep your memories in a special place.
• You gain some time to determine what you might want to keep, donate or move with.

This space – both literally and figuratively – lets you make less emotional decisions when dealing with divorce or coping with divorce or separation.

Divorce Storage

As you start your process of unwinding from your previous relationship, there are critical things to keep in mind:

• What are you taking with you? It’s best to get consensus on what you will take and what your ex-partner will take. This avoids or minimizes fights later or, at worst, lawsuits for the return of belongings.
• Where are you putting your things? Obviously, you’ll want to find a new place to live, but you might want to keep certain items in self-storage, particularly if you are concerned with their security. You may be most comfortable keeping certain items at a different location from where you live, with more security and specific access.
• What do you need? Once you figure out what’s going with you and where your things are going, you might be missing some things. Things like kitchen supplies, furniture pieces, linen, even cleaning supplies, etc. Start and maintain a list of what you need moving forward.
• How will you move? Do you have some strong friends who can help you move? Movers? Will you move yourself over time or on one day? Whatever you are doing, you’ll want to get organized and communicate with as many helpful people as you can to make this process easier for you. Here are some tips for renting a moving truck and hiring a professional moving company.

Renting a Storage Unit for Divorce or Separation

At Storage Solutions, our customers are going through a life change. Sometimes the life changes are moving, or renovations, or someone has passed away, or their kids have gone to university, and sometimes it’s a double change – a partnership change and a move. Our rental agreements are month-to-month to allow for maximum flexibility for your life changes.

In addition, security is top of mind for us. We do in person unit checks, we walk around our facilities at randomized times, keep gate access logs, and have working video cameras over our entire facility. As a policy, we never give out information on our customers, even the information of whether they are our customer. We want our customers to also take security seriously too:

• Do not disclose your unit number.
• Put a good lock on your unit and keep the key safe. Here's some expert advice for choosing a lock for your storage unit.
• Most important, if there are specific people you are concerned about, make sure to alert our staff.

Storage Solutions has a fast, easy, and secure online rental process. You can rent a storage unit in minutes online from our website and get immediate access. Our customers are busy people, and usually they determine they need self storage outside of our office hours. We don’t want to hold our customers up, so our online rentals work 24/7, just like our gate access. For added convenience you even pay your rent online, or sign up for automatic payments.

Feel free to virtually tour our self storage facilities and the various storage unit sizes available for rent online. Our team is always here for assistance, so if you need safe and secure storage for a divorce or separate storage, or you have questions about  our Milton Self-Storage, Woodstock self-storage or Ary self-storage locations, contact us!

When you’re going through a divorce, break-up or separation, we know you have a lot on your mind. We strive to make your self storage experience simple, friendly, and private. 

Your friend in self storage,

Storage Solutions