Storing Things That Belonged to Grandparents

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grandparentsposessionMy grandparents lived in Hemet, California almost all of their lives and accumulated quite a bit of stuff over the years. Since I was the only other family member living in the area when they had both passed away, it was decided that I was the one that would initially take care of their possessions until the rest of the family members could get the time to come pick up the things that they inherited. It was their wish that their house be sold and the money divided among us, so it was to go on the market right away and everything needed to be moved out. There was no way that I could keep everything in my own home so I decided that my best option was to find a suitable Hemet storage unit.

Some of the Hemet storage units that I researched were actually large enclosed trailers. One would be brought to the location, packed, and hauled away to be parked on the storage facility property. To me, that seemed like an easy way to take care of everything. However, when I contacted the closest facility, I found out that each time we wanted to get something out of the storage unit there was a fee because it involved the company moving the trailer to a safe location for us to access the contents. Since family members would be trickling in from all over the country, there was no telling how many times we would need to access the storage trailer. 

Instead of going with that type of storage, I decided to call some of the Hemet self storage facilities to find out what they had to offer. I was glad to hear that we would be able to access the contents for free. In addition, the Hemet self storage units could be accessed anytime during their long weekday hours and even on the weekends. When I explained my situation to one of the managers, he suggested that I could still have a professional moving company pack up everything and take it to a Hemet self storage unit instead of doing all of the heavy work myself. That is what I decided to do. To be sure that each family member could easily find all of their things in the storage unit, I had everything labeled and told the moving company to arrange everything into groups according to the labels when they unloaded it into the storage unit.