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Six Tips for Getting Your Apartment Security Deposit Back

According to Rent.com, 26% of apartment renters have lost their security deposit...

The Ultimate Summer RV Packing List

The official first day of summer is June 21st, but if you’re like most RV owners, you’re probably eager to take your home on ...

10 Questions to Ask Before Renting a Storage Unit

If you’re sick of keeping your sweaters in your oven and your Christmas decorati...

Seven Pawsome Tips for Moving with Cats

Moving is stressful for humans; it can be even more stressful for cats. If you think that you don’t do well with change, try ...

Six Tips for Selling Clutter on Craigslist

Sometimes you open up your storage unit and think I don’t even know what most of this stuff is. The message is clear: it’s ti...

Five Steps to Working Remotely as a Full-Time RVer

Often exclusively (and incorrectly) associated with retirees, RVing has become i...

Moving to a Neighborhood with an HOA

Depending on who you talk to, living in an HOA is either a nightmare in which some vague authority figure constantly yells at...

10 Things That Happen When You Move From the City to the Suburbs

New restaurants around every corner. Bars that stay open until sunrise. The poss...

Five Tips for Storing Barware

Whether you’re a professional mixologist or just someone who enjoys a nice bottle of wine every now and then, having your own...

Moving Without a Job

Is moving without a job lined up a terrible idea? Most people say yes, but maybe you’re not most people. Maybe you’re the kin...

10 Signs There’s Something Sketchy Going On at Your Storage Facility

We’re big fans of storage facilities, but even we have to admit that they can se...

How to Store a Kayak

As partial as we are to the idea of using a kayak as a seating area instead of a couch, not everyone enjoys having a seaworth...

Everything You Wanted to Know About Renting a Storage Unit (But Were Afraid to Ask)

The Top 5 Most Romantic US Cities to Move To

Do you communicate exclusively with conversation hearts? Are you on a first name basis with every florist in town? Have you r...

How to Spot a Bad Apartment Before You Move In

Apartment shopping is a lot like dating. You’re looking for the one, but along the way you’re going to encounter a lot of dud...

The Definitive List of Items That Need Climate Controlled Storage

Let’s talk about climate controlled self storage. Do you need it? Ultimately, wh...

Be More Organized This Year With a Bullet Journal

What is a bullet journal? Is it a diary where you write your observations? Is it...

How to Store Fake Plants

There’s no shame in opting for fake plants over living ones. The right fake plants look just as beautiful as the real thing—s...

Nine Genius Ways to Organize Your Makeup

If you love makeup, you don’t want to just store your products; you want to show them off. That being said, sometimes your Pi...

10 More Storage Mistakes You’re Probably Making

We thought we’d covered it all last time, but it turns out there are more mistak...

Six New Year’s Resolutions for a More Organized 2018

Are you dreaming of a clutter-free 2018? If your organizational habits involve p...

Five Ways to Master the Art of Packing Light

Whether you’re packing for a cross country move, an epic road trip or a flight, there comes a time when you’re forced to cont...

The Top 10 Things to Know About Your Storage Lease

Are you the kind of person who barely scans important legal documents? According...

Stranger Danger? Five Things to Remember When Moving in With Someone You Don’t Know

How to Store Your Window AC Unit in 10 Steps

You know it’s officially winter when you finally turn off your AC. If you’ve been using a window AC unit to keep your home co...

16 Things You Should Know if You’re Moving to New England

Most people can’t even name all six states that make up New England. “Is New Yor...

How Much Does a Storage Unit Really Cost?

Thinking of renting a storage unit for the first time? If you’ve never had a storage unit before, you’re probably wondering h...

8 Tips for Hosting Thanksgiving at a Small Apartment

News flash, Norman Rockwell, not all of us live in suburban homes with big dinin...

One Way Ticket: Six Tips for Moving Via Plane

Leaving on a jet plane and not sure when you’ll be back again? Moving somewhere new via plane is an exciting adventure, but t...

Off Belay: How to Store Rock Climbing Gear

If you store your rock climbing gear correctly, it can literally take you to great heights for years to come. Yes, your hard ...

Four Things to Look For When Choosing a Storage Unit for Your Piano

If we had to rank the hardest items to move and store, pianos would probably be ...

How to Store a Lawn Mower

Cool autumn days will be turning into frosty winter months before you know it, and that means it’s time to store your lawn mo...

Six Haunted Towns to Move to This Halloween

Do you believe in ghosts? Do you prefer graveyard strolls to long walks on the beach? Is the sound of things that go bump in ...

12 Items Your Moving Company Won’t Move

Have you ever heard the term “non-allowables”? Unless you work for a moving company, you probably haven’t. But if you’re plan...

30 Things to Store This Fall

Cooler days and falling leaves don’t just signal the end of summer. The autumn season is also a time to visit your storage un...

How to Store a Mattress

Mattresses are essential and expensive, and yet they end up discarded in the strangest places. You see them slumped against d...

The Five Best Small Towns to Move to if You Love Fall

Is your wardrobe made up of mostly flannel? Do you start your day with a Pumpkin...

How to Store Patio Furniture

The leaves are turning crimson and there’s a sudden crispness in the air. Fall has arrived, and with it the promise of harves...

Six Cities to Move to If You Love Nightlife

You’ve got a closet full of sparkly clothes. You have your neighborhood happy hours memorized. You calendar is full of concer...

Eight Weird Things That Happen When You Move to a Higher Altitude

In the winter of 2013, I moved from 190 feet below sea level to an elevation of ...

Six Signs It’s Time to Move

If you’ve been spending a lot of time looking at apartments in another city, your desire to be unfaithful to your hometown mi...

Five Apps That Making Living with Roommate Easier

On a good day, living with roommates is like being part of a family. In the morn...

The 9 Best Kitchen Storage Solutions

Whether your kitchen is a tiny room that you share with housemates or the bright, airy space of your Cooking Channel dreams, ...

How to Complete a Move in Less Than 24 Hours

In a perfect world, you’d have months to prepare for a move. During this time you’d be able to leisurely sort through your be...

A Beginner’s Guide to Full Time RVing

Full time RVing can be a magical thing. You get to call the world your backyard, living life on the road with a new view ever...

5 Things You Should Know Before Renting a Storage Unit With Your Significant Other

Is Automated Self Storage Right for You?

You check in at the airport with a kiosk. You check out at the grocery store with a kiosk. You withdraw money at the bank fro...

Top 10 Moving Mistakes

No one in the history of storage facilities and moving trucks has ever uttered the phrase, “Hooray! It’s moving day! I love p...

How to Store Vintage Clothing

The nice thing about vintage clothing is that it rarely goes out of style—and even if it does, it comes back around again. Th...

How to Store a Mirror

If you store a broken mirror the wrong way and break it, will you really end up with seven years of bad luck? Legends about b...

13 Things to Expect When You Move From a Small Town to a Big City

If you’re tired of being a big fish in a small pond and are longing for the brig...

Adulting: 10 Things to Get Rid of When You Rent Your First Grown-Up Apartment

Moving from your college dorm room or apartment to your first grown-up living si...

How to Store Fine China

Fine china may be a necessary fixture in many homes, but it doesn’t actually get much use. You might take it out for Thanksgi...

5 Steps to Choosing Your First Apartment

You’ll never forget your first apartment. If you rent the right one, that can be a good thing. You’ll fondly look back on the...

How to Survive a Move on a Hot Day

On July 10, 1913, the hottest temperature in the world—a sizzling 134 degrees—was measured in Death Valley, CA. While you hop...

Top 5 Summer Self Storage Tips

June 20th marked the first day of summer. If rising temperatures mean going on vacation or just going home after a semester o...

The 6 Best Cities for Recent College Grads

The city you move to after graduating college might not be the place where you spend the rest of your life, but it will be th...

Off The Record: How to Store Vinyl

A vinyl record collection is a special thing. Unlike the music you download or stream, which is often background noise for yo...

8 Things You Must Do When You Take Your RV Out of Storage

Summer camping season is upon us, and if you’re itching to hit the road in your ...

12 Ways to Give Your Dad the Gift of Organization This Father’s Day

Father’s Day is right around the corner. Are you still scrambling for a gi...

Top 12 Items That Don’t Belong in Your Storage Unit

Your storage unit might be a dumping ground for your stuff, but that doesn’t nec...

How to Store Jewelry

Unless you’re pulling a Mr. T and wearing all of your necklaces all the time, you probably need a place to store your jewelry...

20 Tips for Moving Cross Country

Moving is stressful. Moving 2,000 miles? Now that’s stressful multiplied by, well, 2,000. Packing up your stuff and hauling i...

How to Use Online Reviews to Find Self Storage

According to the Self Storage Association, there are more than 52,000 storage facilities across the US. That’s approximately ...

15 Ways to Feel Safe When Living Alone

Is there anything more grown-up than renting your very own apartment? You can decorate however you want, you can dance around...

The Most Common Study Abroad Packing Mistakes (And What to Do Instead)

Somewhere in between getting accepted into a study abroad program and actually s...

8 Items You’re Probably Storing Wrong

Not to storage shame you, but there’s a good chance you could be storing some of your stuff incorrectly. Renting a storage un...

4 Essential Road Trip Lessons For First Time RV Owners

You can already imagine the open road, the map spread out on the dashboard, the ...

How to Store Tequila

Despite what you’ve heard, Cinco de Mayo is not actually Mexican Independence Day (that actually happened long before the eve...

8 Things You Must Discuss Before Moving in With Your Best Friend

Living with your best friend can feel like a sitcom. Your shared apartment is th...

Landlord Approved Apartment Modifications

Making changes to a temporary space is a gamble. On one hand, you want to live in an apartment that feels comfortable and per...

8 Unexpected Ways Your Home’s Color Scheme Affects You

What’s your favorite color? As a kid, you probably had a ready answer to that qu...

How to Store a Microwave

It’s hard to imagine a world without popcorn, Easy Mac and other microwavable delights, let alone other small miracles like f...

Zen on Wheels: 15 Ways to Organize Your Car

Is your car a traveling garbage bag? Do you find yourself uttering the phrase, “Sorry, it’s a little messy,” every time a fri...

Attending an Auction in Your Underwear: Your Guide to Online Storage Auctions

If you’ve ever seen Storage Wars and said, “I want to go to one of those auction...

7 Places to Move to if You’re a Foodie

Is the main drag in your hometown a strip mall? Does going out to eat mean choosing between fast food and a chain restaurant?...

What You Need to Know Before Breaking an Apartment Lease

An apartment lease is a temporary document, yet it feels so ironclad. If you’re ...

How to Store Shoes

Do you believe in only owning essential footwear or are you a total shoe addict? Either way, at some point you’re going to ha...

6 Tips for Using Self Storage When You’re Studying Abroad

Packing light may be overrated, but that doesn’t mean you can bring everything w...

50 Things to Get Rid of if You Want to Declutter This Spring

Spring cleaning starts with decluttering. After all, there’s no point in dusting...

5 Ways to Store Your Dog’s Stuff

The furriest member of your household has a surprising amount of stuff. All of those treats, toys, brushes and other dog acce...

4 Self Storage Features You Think You Need (But Can Live Without)

If you’re as obsessed with best self storage practices as we are, you know how i...

10 Tips for Renting an Apartment Sight Unseen

If you ask just about anyone how to rent an apartment sight unseen, you can expect the following advice: Don’t. But “don’t” i...

5 Places to Move to If You Want to Work in Tech (That Aren’t the Silicon Valley)

How Exactly Do You Recycle Hard to Recycle Materials?

It’s in the name. Hard to recycle materials often seem like they’re impossible t...

How to Store a Flat Screen TV

Tube TVs—or CRT televisions—are obsolete, which is good news because they were impossible to lift, let alone store. But could...

3 Steps to Making Money off of That Junk in Your Storage Unit

Imagine what your storage unit would look like if you got rid of all the junk yo...

The 5 Craziest Stories of Real Things That Happened Inside Storage Units

You might not think too much about what’s in the storage unit next to yours. Aft...

So You’ve Decided to Find a Roommate on Craigslist

Despite its popularity, Craigslist (aka the land of casual encounters and missed...

6 Things Your Storage Facility Wishes You Knew

You can learn a lot about self storage if you ask the experts. The problem is, most of us never do. Instead, we rent storage ...

Spring Cleaning Tips for Real People

Punxsutawney Phil may have predicted six more weeks of winter, but that doesn’t mean you should put off spring cleaning. If y...

20 Reasons Why Getting a Storage Unit is the Most Romantic Thing You Can Do This Valentine’s Day

Do You Need Self Storage Insurance?

So you’re filling out the lease on your new storage unit when the facility manager asks if you’re interested in self storage ...

How to Store Exercise Equipment

A home gym sounds pretty cool until you realize that you live in a one bedroom apartment. Realistically, there’s only so much...

7 Cities to Move to if You’re Single and Ready to Mingle

Feeling unlucky in love? It might be time for you and your current hometown to s...

10 Ways to Create Space in a Tiny Bathroom

We’ve all seen the version of the perfect bathroom that interior design magazines show us. The images of marble finishing, st...

6 Unexpected Ways Self Storage Makes Your Life Better

You’ve tried all the #lifehacks in the world, but at the end of the day how much...

The Best Storage Advice for Every Region of the US

You put your stuff into a storage unit months ago, locked it up and now that it’...

How to Store Designer Handbags

Imagine an investment that’s literally more valuable than gold. It’s not stocks, it’s not real estate. In fact, it’s somethin...

So You Want to Attend a Storage Auction

On a good day, attending a storage auction is like opening your presents on Christmas morning. On a bad day, it’s like gambli...

10 Places to Move to If You Hate Winter

Feel like winter is never going to end? Solution: Move to a place where it never shows up in the first place. If you think th...

Which Self Storage Feature is Right for Your Personality?

In today’s world, a storage unit is soooo much more than a 5×5 space with a...

10 Signs It’s Time for a Storage Unit

Your closet is so full that going into it requires a headlamp and spelunking equipment. You’re living in an apartment that ...

The Military Family’s Guide to Surviving Relocation

Moving—and in some cases moving often—is a part of military life. In a lot of wa...

5 Puptacular Cities for Dog Lovers

What makes a city dog friendly? Is it a plethora of dog parks, restaurants that let you dine alongside Fido, or a neighborhoo...

Organizing Your Fridge For a Healthier Life

After subsisting on a diet of pie, cookies and mashed potatoes for the entire month of December (and if we’re being honest, p...

Last Minute DIY Holiday Gifts You Can Make Using Items from Your Storage Unit

You may not have realized this yet, but your holiday shopping list and the conte...

How to Survive Christmas Alone If You’ve Recently Moved Somewhere New

So you just moved to a new city. You haven’t found any friends yet—in fact, you ...

Important Things to Remember If You’re Renting a Storage Unit This Winter

When temperatures plummet, nothing feels better than staying inside, lighting a ...

How to Store Ski Gear Like a Pro

Unless you’re an olympic skier with an endorsement deal, all of that gear that you rely on to get you down the mountain doesn...

6 Unusual Places to Celebrate Christmas This Year

If the idea of another Christmas at Grandma’s fills you with boredom rather than...

5 Reasons Why You Should Keep Your Christmas Gifts in a Storage Unit

Whether you start your Christmas shopping months in advance or wait until Black ...

How to Set up a Space for Overnight Guests If You Don’t Have a Spare Bedroom

Amazing Fall Centerpieces You Can Make Using Things You Already Have

Before we get too deep into the holiday season, we’d like to point out one unfor...

A Long Winter’s Nap: Preparing Your RV for Off-Season Storage

The leaves are turning, the days are growing shorter and soon enough snow will b...

How to Store Halloween Costumes

If you’ve ever dropped more than 50 bucks on a polyester vampire costume, you know the dilemma. Halloween costumes are often ...

15 Totally Random Home Organization Hacks

Life hacks should be simple, affordable and effective. Why exert a lot of effort on something that’s meant to be easy? If you...

Terror in a 10×10: Storage Facilities in Horror Movies

The sun has just sunk from the sky and it’s dusk at your storage facility. You’r...

5 Signs You’ve Found the Storage Unit of Your Dreams

Thanks to the glory of the Internet, finding a storage unit is now easier than e...

The 10 Worst Things You Can Do When Sharing an Apartment With Your Significant Other

Avoid an Awful Roommate by Asking These Five Questions

The worst roommate in the world almost never starts off that way. At the initial...

8 Things You Should Look For When Choosing a New City

Searching for the right city to call home is a lot searching for love. In both c...

Get Into Gear: How to Store Your Bike

You and your bike have had some pretty wonderful adventures together. From speeding into the city to get to work on time, cru...

Five Problems You’ll Have When You Move (And How to Solve Them)

The average person moves at least 10 times in a lifetime, so why aren’t we getti...

10 Storage Mistakes You’re Probably Making

All you have to do is put your stuff into your storage unit, lock it up and driv...

How to Create Extra Space in Your Tiny Dorm Room

If your first glimpse into a dorm room was through the lens of Instagram, a Pint...

The 10 Best Under the Radar Cities For Millennials

It goes like this: You decide to move to Portland, Brooklyn, Austin, San Francis...

10 Tech Inspired Ways to Turn Your Bathroom into a Spa

Remember your last spa day? The scent of eucalyptus, the soft bathrobe, a glass ...

The 10 Commandments of Self Storage

Whether you’re religious or not, you can probably learn something from the Bible. Some lessons, like the whole being a good p...

How to Use Storage to Make Major Life Changes Easier

They say the only constant thing in life is change. Like most cliches, it’s one ...

Drew Barrymore’s #oldstorageunitday Is a Treat for Us All

What did you find the last time you cleaned out your storage unit? If you’re lik...

10 Tips for Storing Makeup

There’s nothing pretty about storing makeup incorrectly. Whether you’re a total makeup junkie with the Sephora Rouge card to ...

Decorating Apps for the Tech-Savvy Homeowner

Want to take your home decorating game to the next level? You don’t have to hire an interior designer; you’ve actually alread...

Six Signs It’s Time to Break up with Your Storage Facility

Unfortunately, not all storage units are created equal. If something about your ...

Why You Should Never, Ever Try to Live in Your Storage Unit

Here’s a funny joke: Studies show that you should spend less than 30% of your in...

What Happens When You Don’t Pay for Your Storage Unit

Let’s travel down the road of worst-case scenarios for a moment. You’ve rented a...

Six Ways to Afford a Storage Unit (Even if You’re Broke)

In a perfect world, we’d all be able to afford a storage unit, a spacious apartm...

Garage Band

It may be the end of Marc Gaudet’s work day, but on the third floor of the storage facility he manages, the night is just beg...

Big Dreams, Small Wallet: How to Decorate on a Budget

Your new home is perfect. Floor to ceiling windows, a big master bedroom, walk-i...

Till Death Do Us Part: Store Your Wedding Stuff Forever

You’ve said your vows, danced your first dance, cut the cake and polished off th...

Four Things We Learned at the Inside Self-Storage World Expo

Here at StorageFront, we live and breathe self-storage. We could spend hours ta...

The Five Most Common Outdoor Gear Storage Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)

Whether you want to thru-hike the whole Appalachian Trail or simply turn that hu...

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Six Tips for Getting Your Apartment Security Deposit Back

The Ultimate Summer RV Packing List

10 Questions to Ask Before Renting a Storage Unit

Seven Pawsome Tips for Moving with Cats

Six Tips for Selling Clutter on Craigslist

Five Steps to Working Remotely as a Full-Time RVer

Moving to a Neighborhood with an HOA

10 Things That Happen When You Move From the City to the Suburbs

Five Tips for Storing Barware

Moving Without a Job

10 Signs There’s Something Sketchy Going On at Your Storage Facility

How to Store a Kayak

Everything You Wanted to Know About Renting a Storage Unit (But Were Afraid to Ask)

The Top 5 Most Romantic US Cities to Move To

How to Spot a Bad Apartment Before You Move In

The Definitive List of Items That Need Climate Controlled Storage

Be More Organized This Year With a Bullet Journal