Montreal Self Storage Units For Students

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If you are among the many students in Montreal, you might be wondering what to do with your school things when you move home for the holidays. If this is the case, you may want to check out your local Montreal self storage facilities. But, you are worried that storing your things in a place like this costs money. That is very true, but you can actually rent a unit at a price a college student can afford using some of the following ideas.

Be A Minimalist

First of all, do not take more space than you absolutely need. In any self service storage , you will want to stack everything up as high as you can get it, and you will want to pack as much stuff as you can into the smallest space possible. This will not only be an interesting adventure in planning, but it will also be an excellent way to save money.

If you have any big pieces of furniture, like bookshelves or dressers, which you need to store, you will want to put them into your unit first and fill them up with other odds and ends. A bookshelf, for example, is a great place to store the books you do not want to take home with you. You can also stack tons of boxes on top of that bookshelf, especially if you place it against a wall.

Check For Discounts

 Secondly, ask around to see if any of the self service storage facilities have student discounts. Many places may carry discounts like these, especially on their smaller units, which is what most students are after in the first place. If you cannot get a discount just because you are in school, you can always ask about first-month discounts, which are plentiful in this industry, or ask if you can pay for the whole summer at once and earn a discount that way.

Beware, though, of getting sucked into a more expensive self service storage facility just because it offers half off the first month or what not. In order to really make sure you are saving money, you need to figure out how many months you will be renting the unit and what your total cost will be over that amount of time. At the start of your holidays, you are probably sick of math, but this one small calculation could save you 20-50CAD over the summer.

Lastly, a great way to save money is to split the square footage and the cost of a unit with some friends from school. This is especially true if you only need enough room for a few random boxes. Getting a larger unit and splitting it three or four ways is likely to be cheaper than renting the smallest possible unit on your own.

One caution here, though. If you decide to split a unit with friends, make sure that you are either all using the same amount of space and contributing the same amount of money or divide it up in another way that is fair. If one friend has a couch and TV stand and everyone else only has a few boxes, make sure the person with the furniture is paying more per month to rent the unit.

So you see that even as a poor college student, you can afford to rent a unit at a Montreal self storage facility with these easy suggestions.

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