Living in an air-conditioned storage locker. FWIW

[Boyntonstu]

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I found it interesting.

 

[John61CT]

Wow, must be a huge facility with clueless staff.

Every on I've used could not get away with this, people do try but get kicked right out no refund.

Only exception I know of the manager had "girlfriends" stay, but then he got busted for drug dealing.

 

[sometimesido]

In the comments, it says staff knew but he was helping out other customers and vouching for the place so they were cool with him. They charged him $5 for electricity. He moved out after building out his van in 2 months, I think.

 

[Ballenxj]

I found it interesting.

I too found it interesting.
 You might add a bit of a description to posts like this one because not everybody here has bandwidth enough for youtube.

 

[John61CT]

Title describes it.

If the owner were smart he'd make sure not to allow. Can you imagine the legal/liability risks?

So yes interesting but I think not generally available as an option.

 

[Ballenxj]

Title describes it.

True, the title says storage locker, but that could be anything from a foot locker to a conex.
I hate to think of the repercussions of getting caught. It seems he's in an apartment now, so moot issue.

 

[TrainChaser]

A friend of mine knew a woman whose son was living in a storage locker. Management discovered it, slapped a lock on the outside of the door (with him inside) and called the cops. When you try to get something for nothing, sometimes you get more than you expected.

 

[Boyntonstu]

A friend of mine knew a woman whose son was living in a storage locker.  Management discovered it, slapped a lock on the outside of the door (with him inside) and called the cops.  When you try to get something for nothing, sometimes you get more than you expected.

Did the son pay the rent?

If he rented the unit, I wonder what the charges would be?

It may backfire on the owner and he possibly could be charged for illegal entrapment.

Imagine if a person did not pay rent and the landlord locked him/her in the apartment.

 

[Every Road Leads Home]

My mom's good friend lived in one for about six months.....she didn't tell anyone and as soon as my Mom found out she made her come live with her until she could get back on her feet. I was impressed she was able to pull it off where she did....a national chain in a populated (60k people) suburb city of Boston. She bought one of those plug adapters that screws in with the lightbulb so she could plug in and charge her cell phone and laptop. Even got free wi fi!

Where I'm living now, I think it would probably be rather easy......lots of rural storage places with no on site staff and several others with minimal office hours. I was renting from one that was only on site from 10-2 Mon thru Thurs. So it would be easy to avoid him if you needed to live there.

 

[John61CT]

With my current one, every entry/exit code is unique, so timestamps, very easy to see anomalous patterns, you would need someone to escort you in and out every time.

But also has lots of cameras. . .

 

[sephson]

A friend of mine knew a woman whose son was living in a storage locker.  Management discovered it, slapped a lock on the outside of the door (with him inside) and called the cops.  When you try to get something for nothing, sometimes you get more than you expected.

I'm surprised the manager who put the lock on didn't end up in jail over this.

 

[TrainChaser]

"I'm surprised the manager who put the lock on didn't end up in jail over this."

Well, the guy was a junkie, and was so high and aggressive that it took half a dozen cops to take him down.

What do you think would have happened to the owner of the place if the guy had overdosed in there with no one knowing, and they didn't find him until the rent was overdue and they smelled him rotting? Which situation would have been the owner's fault? Either? Both?

American Trash has been allowed to get away with far too much, for far too long.