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Three Benefits Of Buying And Using Used Pallet Racking In Your Storage Facility
Offering up storage space for rent to the public is a good way to make decent money without much effort. It is almost a turnkey business, with the exception that you have to advertise space for rent and find new renters when other renters leave or need to be evicted and cleared out of their storage spaces. That aside, you may also find it beneficial to purchase, offer, and use used pallet racking in your storage facility. Here are three benefits to doing so.
Your Renters Can More Readily Organize Their Belongings in Their Storage Units
The biggest hassle with putting personal property in a storage unit is the organization. It is often more haphazard and tossed into a unit in a discombobulated way. Renters may want their units to be more organized and less of a hassle when they need to enter and retrieve or drop things off from their units, and pallet racking can make this possible. If and when these renters vacate their units, moving everything out becomes a more seamless process too, because they can just take everything off of pallet racking shelves in their units and load it onto a hand truck before putting it on a moving truck.
Leaving Racking in a Unit Works for the Next Renter
Unless you charge for the racking to be used in a unit, and the next renter of a unit does not want to pay for the racking rental, you can leave the racking in place. You do not have to charge the previous renter to remove it because the racking belongs to your storage facility. The racking is very helpful to the next renter that moves his/her belongings into the unit and wants to keep things organized.
You Can Make a Lot More Money Having the Racking Available
Storage unit renters like the idea of having racking available for their things. Knowing that it will not be a mess trying to wade through and sift through boxes and totes everywhere in their units because it is all shelved and they can label it is a very desirable feature for a storage space. You will get a bigger customer draw because of the racking, which equals more, and more consistent, profits for you. If you also charge a small monthly fee for the use of the racking in each storage unit, you can make back all the money you spent on used racking in just one to three months, easy.