where to put your stuff when leasing out your room?
 

I think I may sublease my room for a few months, and go on a tour, before I start grad school. What's a good place to put my stuff? I don't have too much. Most everything is in tote boxes already, and I have no furniture.

storage space? (which ones?)
I can put everything in my door closet, and put a lock on the door knob.

what do you guys do?

Storage locker facility? Probably not ones near My House , more likely nearer to where yours is .
But, "Inside my body" does not say what town you live in.


You can also buy a Marine shipping container , have a truck come pick it up and send it to you if you choose to not come back.

8x8x20' is the unit size , though most commerce comes across the Oceans in 40' units .

maybe you want to go to a university in a country that won't put you in the debt hole .. say Berlin? Sorbonne?

I am in the process of moving 30 years of accumulated stuff from one residence to the other. So believe me when I tell you, if you can't carry it on you bike then you don't really need it. Sell your stuff, you will be a lot happier without it.

I'm trying to declutter, but I am also coming back. I'm enrolling in the fall for grad school. just want to do something fun before I get that started, and I hate my current job, so I want an excuse to not work here anymore.

Box it up and ship it to a relative?

Storage locker facility. They're everywhere! We had our stuff in storage for about 10 months while we roamed the world, we got it all out for about 6 months, then put it all back into storage again for a little over a year while we moved to a new State and got settled.

Or PODS: PODS® Storage Containers & Storage Units | Outdoor Storage

Do you have any friends or relatives that could help you out?

If you can fit all the stuff into a closet, then do that and put a lock on the door. Simple and done, and easy enough to undo when you come back. If this is more of a permanent move, and you're leaving town you're probably better off getting out of your lease and putting the stuff into a storage facility. That way you'll be footloose and able to resettle anywhere when you;re ready.

I guess it depends on how valuable certain items are; storage facility is more secure. In my area a 5'/1.5 m square unit is about $55/month. Once had a crook absentee landlord who evicted me with short notice--I had to leave a fancy racing bike in the basement & he wouldn't let me reclaim it. Rented a pair of bolt-cutters & in 5 minutes the bike was back.

The OP is ambiguous about whether he plans to keep the apartment and sublet only for a short while, not ever come back.

I feel that the closet option, is OK for a short term sublet, assuming that he's leaving other stuff for his renter to use. This is common practice when folks rent vacation homes and condos.

However, I agree (and said) that if he's not coming back, or even if he's not sure he's coming back, then a U-store or relative's garage is a better bet.

If you're planning to sublease a room with a closet ... is that all it is, just a room with a closet?? ... you'll probably get better results if you make the whole room and closet available.


We rent houses in the various places we've lived, and it is really annoying when there's a nice place up for rent, but we can't use the garage because the owners are storing all their stuff in there. We usually turn those ones down.

I have a bit more stuff - but here is what I've done:

First go through an exercise to sort everything into four piles: (1) things to throw out, (2) things to sell/donate, (3) things to store and (4) things to take with me. Take a good look at pile #3 since you might not really need these things and might be cheaper to replace than store and at pile #4 .

I've done three different things on my longest trips:

When I left for 12 months, I put everything I owned into one bedroom and rented out my two-bedroom condo as a one-bedroom to a good friend. Gave her a good rate and she also took care of mail as necessary.

When I left for 10 months, I had a duplex. One half was rented out and I left my stuff in the other half.

When I left for 6 months, sold my place and put everything into storage units.

I am now going through the sorting into piles exercise for an upcoming extended trip. This next time I will put everything I have left into a storage unit and rent out my place. Financially it makes the most sense and also good to have someone living there rather than vacant.

Not everyone is annoyed with a locked closet, especially if it's just for a few months. Many people are fine with it, and it shouldn't be hard to find such a person.

Seems like one direct and simple way to go.

Most stuff that people are attached to and lug around is stuff that can be dispensed with. And it can be stored for free, short term, long term, or indefinitely, by turning the whole business over to the stores and warehouses and manufacturers. With no worries or responsibilities. It feels better letting go and going light.

You can just re-buy as and if needed.

There are plenty of charitable organizations and thrift stores that turn donations into good work, and it's nice to contribute and support and give. There are thrift stores that help hospices, cancer patients, animal rescue, victims of spousal abuse and domestic violence, medical clinics, young single moms, and others who need help.

Piling things up, collecting, and hoarding are bad habits.

A compromise approach is to keep just a very few things that are easy to store.

More and more I am appreciating the freedom and lightness that go with the approach of giving or contributing, and non-attachment.

In your parents' basement.

Recycle.

Everything gets recycled anyway, in the end.

Good timing is one possibility.

go rent a Storage unit a 5X5 or 5X10

I have rented a Storage unit in San Diego County in Southern California since 3-1998 to store my camping gear and Bike and Clothes etc

My room has a huge storage closet in it, separate from the clothes closet, that I'm storing the bulk of my belongings in while I'm away May 1 - August 30. I made it clear in my sublet add that one of the two closets in the room would be unavailable and locked because of this. I was lucky enough to find someone who was going to be in town working a contract job the same dates. Thought it would be hard to find someone for only four months. I'm letting him use my bigger items. Bed frame (not the mattress), dresser, TV, bookcase etc so I don't have to store those.

How about just burying stuff out in the woods? GPS makes it easy to recover. Sounds kinda crazy but just might work; stealth-storage like stealth-camping.

Rent a small storage container.

How many months and are you coming back to live in the same room?

For just a few months if coming back to live there after I'd just pay the rent and leave my stuff in place. Unless you know someone you can trust who wants to sublet for that time period, finding a responsible tenant to sublet to can be difficult and if they wind up trashing the place you may wind up paying more than the rent you collected from your tenant.

If moving to somewhere else when you come back, I'd try to get out of the lease and move my stuff out. If storing the stuff I'd prefer to leave it with friends or family as a first choice, or use a storage facility as a second choice. Also I'd probably use it as an opportunity to get rid of anything that I wasn't really attached to.

eBay

So I think, "what about an Airbnb for storage?" & I see there are at least startups for such like Roost.com. Perhaps one could find folks on CraigsList offering storage too.

Big reason why I charged a deposit large enough to cover any significant damage slight of him burning the place down :crash: