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[Alfamale]

After several enquiries into storage for a car of mine, it looks as if reasonable priced storage is in the area is very hard to come by. There are no reasonably priced garages on gumtree and the council has nothing available, apart from in areas it has twinned with Bogotá.

 

There is a Local storage facilitiy that can accommodate cars in dehumidified, heated and pampered conditions where they get cleaned daily and read a bedtime story for the equivalent cost of putting your parents in a luxury nursing home.

 

So, always keen to spot a gap in the market, is discount car storage something that would appeal to the average shitter? Around £60 per month for a space in an alarmed, fire monitored, dry and watertight unit with possibly the option of a plug for a trickle charger? I probably wouldn’t allow work in the unit like the communities on the Blue forum but maybe at a later date add a two post lift that can be hired out by the hour.

 

Thoughts of the esteemed members of this community as to whether this could be a go-er would be appreciated.

[Station]

It's not worth it in experience. If you're the one collecting the money, you will always get one who doesn't pay and you have to foot the bill.

[DodgyBastard]

£60 seems steep for shite car storage... Try pistonheads..

[cort16]

Caravan storage places will normally take your car they're around 30 a month. I think the only way it would work us if you could find or build a load of lockup so people could come And go as they please . With shared spaces someone always gets pissed off .

[Mr Lobster]

For storage alone its probably a bit steep if what you are storing is worth £500. If you can store a car and work on it then its better at that price but pricey just for shite old car storage.

[New POD]

£60 seems steep for shite car storage... Try pistonheads..

Really ? A bloke I work with in Hemel Hempstead pays Dacorum Council £11.04 a week for a damp musty barely safe garage in a block. That's £574 a year. http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/home/housing/council-tenants-leaseholders/garages.

 

For £60 a month, I'd want electricity, and space to work on my shite car in the dry.

[Alfamale]

Cheers people. To be honest its probably best that someone who's business acumen once predicted that Pay As You Go mobile phones wouldn't catch stays well away from high finance.

[Pillock]

I'm paying £24 for three walls, a roof and two badly fitting doors. I'd pay more for better, but nothing is available.

 

If I look at the row of garages I'm in, privately rented, there's a chap with two classic tractors, there's a Sherpa Coupe, and what appears to be an old XR3i. Makes me think that if it was well advertised, even in my little village people would find decent storage useful.

 

I'd love electric. Really would.

[DS20]

I'd like storage (not more than £50 per month per car here in cheapo Grimsby, please!), but I'd not like to be the one arranging the practicalities - having been the front man for the utility bills for a house-share, I'm something of a sceptic about some people's ability to pay what they owe when they owe it.

[Jazoli]

Really ? A bloke I work with in Hemel Hempstead pays Dacorum Council £11.04 a week for a damp musty barely safe garage in a block. That's £574 a year. http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/home/housing/council-tenants-leaseholders/garages.

 

For £60 a month, I'd want electricity, and space to work on my shite car in the dry.

Yup, I paid similar to my local council for a not very secure , leaking damp garage to keep my bikes and stuff in, it was that bad all my leathers went mouldy, I solved the problem by moving house, £60 isn't that excessive really.

[New POD]

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-29354820.html

 

I'm interested in this as a buy to let / second home as I'm going to be working within walking distance, and rather than spunk money on rent, I could buy it with my savings, and when my contract is over rent it out having done it up.

 

Now if you look on google maps, you'll see that at some point DERBY city council built some garages. 37 garages 37 flats.

 

http://goo.gl/maps/FgLnO

 

I have spoken with the housing officer, and he tells me that they are gradually taking them back, as people stop renting them, as they put up the rent. When they have them all, they'll bulldoze them and use the land for something else. I called the policy "daft" and "profit not service led" and he didn't disagree.

 

The whole idea is going tits up because I can't seem to get the agent to get the vendor to agree to a viewing.

[cort16]

There's a big waiting list around here . Input my name down about 2 years ago and recently got one for 38 quid a month . No power but it's dry.