Comments on: Use PODS Storage When Staging Your Home for Sale

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:47:53 +0000

Fred - you mention holding costs when using pods.com. This isn’t the case with all portable storage companies. Many pod units can be held for a number of days/weeks at no charge. But really, when comparing the cost of portable storage with self-storage, you have to ask yourself: “What is your time worth?”

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 31 May 2008 02:20:41 +0000

Leslie,

Thanks for the comment! You’re absolutely right about storage facilities offering a cheaper alternative. With PODS, you really pay for the convenience of the drop off, pick-up, and storage. The last article I wrote about PODS compared them to moving trucks. The moving truck option will be cheaper for most applications.

PODS are really nice if you need about a week to get things loaded up, and you are going to complete the move within a month - otherwise the holding costs start to really bite.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Sat, 31 May 2008 01:22:27 +0000

The PODS were decidedly too pricey for our last move, especially considering that the house we were moving out of was only valued in the five-digits (on leased land, long story). But we rented a storage facility and drove loads and loads of stuff to it, and I am very certain that getting the house cleared out of a HUGE amount of stuff made a difference in our being able to sell it, especially as the house market bust was just around the corner.

Also, we negotiated with the movers that we hired to swing by our storage facility and pick up and pack up everything that was in there as part of our moving contract, for nothing more than they were going to charge us for the move from our house. If PODS seems too pricey (or, as was also an issue for us, we were packing up too little at a time to make it worth it to us and didn’t want the pod sitting out in our yard as folks looked at the house), consider renting a storage facility that is convenient to your old or new house, and talk to your movers about including it in your moving contract.