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I'm a big fan of putting life decisions to a vote on messageboards.
Here's the situation:
-I run a light carpentry/painting company. Minimal "big" tools. Hand tools and power tools with some ladders and painting poles. Occasionally some leftover materials hang around. All my gear takes up roughly 250 cubic feet if stacked up.
-I rent my apartment for $1400/mo and a storage space for $65/mo. Storage space contains stuff like trash cans, shovels, and the aforementioned leftover materials as well as messier things like compound buckets, paint cans, turpentine.
-The storage unit is about a 20 minute, extremely annoying, car ride away and is nowhere near my service area. I got it because it's one of the only ones that would give me 30sqft for 60 bucks and had good access hours and a loading dock.
-Just looked at a ~200sqft place in the next town over(5 minute car ride) that's a ground floor unit with 24 hour access for $400. It's also industrial so I can work in there. Build tables, cut trim, whatever. Free wifi/electricity/bathrooms so I can use it as an office as well.
I really didn't want to add $300 month in overhead, but it will return an entire room of my apartment to me(I can have a livingroom again!) and will cut the drive to the storage unit out of my life forever. This will also allow me to take on bigger projects and more cabinetry jobs which I usually decline, pass off, or do on site.
So what say you, internet? Go for it or keep the money/aggravation?
Here's the situation:
-I run a light carpentry/painting company. Minimal "big" tools. Hand tools and power tools with some ladders and painting poles. Occasionally some leftover materials hang around. All my gear takes up roughly 250 cubic feet if stacked up.
-I rent my apartment for $1400/mo and a storage space for $65/mo. Storage space contains stuff like trash cans, shovels, and the aforementioned leftover materials as well as messier things like compound buckets, paint cans, turpentine.
-The storage unit is about a 20 minute, extremely annoying, car ride away and is nowhere near my service area. I got it because it's one of the only ones that would give me 30sqft for 60 bucks and had good access hours and a loading dock.
-Just looked at a ~200sqft place in the next town over(5 minute car ride) that's a ground floor unit with 24 hour access for $400. It's also industrial so I can work in there. Build tables, cut trim, whatever. Free wifi/electricity/bathrooms so I can use it as an office as well.
I really didn't want to add $300 month in overhead, but it will return an entire room of my apartment to me(I can have a livingroom again!) and will cut the drive to the storage unit out of my life forever. This will also allow me to take on bigger projects and more cabinetry jobs which I usually decline, pass off, or do on site.
So what say you, internet? Go for it or keep the money/aggravation?