<p>Does anyone have any recommendations for storage facilities in Ithaca for the summer, aside from Big Red? My daughter (sophomore, A&S) loved the convenience of Big Red last year, but the cost is not in our budget this year. Thanks!</p>
<p>there are other similar companies…</p>
<p>there are also self-storage options but are hectic without a vehicle!</p>
<p>Big Red didn’t look so bad on paper for my son. Books, Bedding and Clothes mainly. Better than driving 700x4 miles. Now I am concerned. I think we are stuck. He has no car nor does he have any friends with cars!</p>
<p>We rented a small storage area at Fort Locks in Ithaca. Ran about $225 for a 5x5 space and it is big enough for my D and her friend to split. But I rented it last month so not sure they will still have the smaller spaces available.</p>
<p>i too used fort locks (i think)…is that the one out past ithaca college? </p>
<p>storage space is highly overpriced in ithaca…</p>
<p>This was D1s experience at a different college:
We rented a storage room that was much bigger than she needed, because that was what was available there. But then she used the local campus newspaper to advertise for “subletters” and wound up with 4-5 other students to share the space and defray the costs. One summer she found she still had extra room, and got yet another person at the end, and it wound up costing us nothing at all. This worked out well for us for all three summers, but again it was at a completely different school.</p>
<p>If no car access, you must be able to post on craigslist, or wherever, for a “man with a van”.</p>
<p>lol @ man with a van…</p>
<p>that sounds uber sketch…i think there was a man in a white van going around sexing up people round town :x</p>
<p>yes, self storage is very overpriced in ithaca. My S told me yesterday that him and 3 other buddies rented the same size unit for a total of $100 for the summer.</p>
<p>But, law of supply and demand I guess. Still much less expensive than big red.</p>
<p>Works for us because I am driving to pick her up. I just don’t have a vehicle big enough to bring everything home. Renting an SUV would have been more expensive and I would have had to do it twice.</p>
<p>and yes, Fort Locks is the one that is by Ithaca college</p>
<p>Thanks for the input. Is the facility you mentioned climate controlled? Having grown up in Upstate, I cannot imagine exposing my D’s stuff to the heat and humidity, but it might be ok for one summer. </p>
<p>My D spent at least $600 on Big Red last year, as did a friend who also lives far away. I have helped her move in anyway for the first two years, because we live so far from school, so this year I will help her move out as well. Next year in spring, she will probably go to study abroad so I need to get a storage facility for that time period, either way.</p>
<p>My daughter is moving from one apartment to another apartment. She was able to work out the the current tenant to let her move her stuff few days early to the new apartment.</p>
<p>Fort Locks has both climate controlled and not. We rented a climate controlled unit.</p>
<p>There are a number of self-storage facilities near campus but pretty much all of them require cars to get there. They are definitely cheaper than Big Red Storage though - get a bunch of people and pay 30 bucks each instead of 200+ for Big Red.</p>
<p>You could also ask people (who you trust) who are going to be living in apartments next year if they want to rent out their rooms for storage. That’s what I’m doing for this summer.</p>
<p>I used Sunny’s Self-Storage last summer - split a huge one with three other people, it ended up being $40/person for the whole summer. Not climate controlled - but honestly, your stuff will be fine…it’s just one summer. I left a computer even (a desktop) and it was fine.</p>
<p>that seems to be a little further than fort locks…</p>
<p>there is a closer storage space near the airport but when i went no one was there! so i had to go to fort locks :(</p>
<p>You do need to be careful with electronics. Even for just one summer. Humidity will cause corrosion and it won’t show up immediately but will slowly show up as connections begin to fail over time.</p>
<p>i would say if you can’t use climate controlled storage for whatever reason, take your electronics home. Better safe than sorry</p>
<p>usafa dad makes a good point. if you’ve never been here in the summer then you dont know how nasty it can get ;x</p>
<p>…for most people, the extent of their electronics is a laptop…which is small enough, everyone would take it home anyway. I would not waste the money on big red s/s nor a climate controlled unit.</p>