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Renting a storage space in a facility means you have to drive everything you want to store to and from the place. Every time you want to get something out you need to decide if it’s worth driving over to get it. Sometimes, you have to drive there just to figure out if that’s where you put something and half the time its not. You wind up not putting anything in it that you need on a regular basis.

One step up would be a portable storage unit which you rent by the month. They cost between $130 and $200 a month, but you don’t have to worry about delivery or pick up, in fact many rental outfits encourage customers to use these units when moving. Simply fill it with stuff and have it delivered to your new destination.

A more cost effective alternative over the long term is to buy your own portable storage container. Seriously, it’s not as hard as you think. While new containers can run between $2,000 and $4,000, uncustomized, you can get quality refurbished units for half that. Some units run under $1,000, leaving you plenty of money to paint it to match your house or whatever.

Some rental outfits do charge for pick up and delivery on top of the $200 a month so buying a used unit pays for itself in as little as four months. You can contract with shipping companies to deliver your container to anywhere in the US, or the world really, just like you would a rental unit so you can still use it to move.

By having the unit at your house you have easy access to store items you use seasonally. Go ahead and stick your mother-in-law’s dining set in the back half and convert the front to store you gardening equipment, or your tractor for that matter. They make the perfect instant garage for storing ATV’s and bikes that you don’t want stolen.

The value of used cargo containers fluctuate very little. If you need to move to a situation where you can’t have the container anymore, just sell it for what you paid for it plus or minus a hundred bucks. It’s a great investment. In my opinion you are more likely to buy a second container than you are to get rid of the first.