Living in a 450 sq. ft. apartment, the big thing for me is storage space. I have seven new tires and my two cyclocross tires stored on a shelf in a credenza in the living room, along with a whole lot of other stuff. It lets me buy when they're on sale, and they're stored where I'll work on the bikes.

It helps too, that my preferred three-seasons tires come only in folding bead. Only my studded snow tires are wire bead. They get stored away in the basement storage locker.