How to store belongings between moves with no parking for a pod
Apartment buildings often ban large portable storage containers from occupying parking spots during gaps between leases. This leaves people with no way to keep their belongings secure while relocating across state lines without a permanent address yet, forcing them to find alternative storage and transport solutions.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Using a moving company that offers monthly storage services
- 2Dropping items directly off at a holding facility
- 3Using storage-in-transit services to hold furniture and belongings until a permanent rental is secured.
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“My current apartment building would not let a 16 foot pod sit in parking spots for days or weeks until it gets picked up.”source ↗
“I’m relocating from one state to the adjacent state on the upcoming weeks, I have yet to finalize where I’m going next I just know the state I’m moving to.”source ↗
“I want to store my stuff until I get to the state and obtain a rental, get settled in, etc.”source ↗
Where this came up
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