Extra Space Storage

Just got a unit for a relocation and have been pleased with the service and team so far. This storage facility stood out because the temperature control seems pretty good, and you can drive your car inside the building to get closer to your unit. (Which is handy if it’s snowing or raining.)
Also like the historic feel of the building and cleanliness.

Convenient location for me off Mass Ave to hold the overflow from our townhouse. It’s all been said and I agree. Standard creepy ambiance, but seems clean. Owner lives onsite, which I find kinda weird but somewhat reassuring. Supposedly climate controlled to non-​arctic freezing, but it was still pretty cold after 2 hours of heavy furniture lifting. It probably didn’t help that there was a hole in the wall, but covered with bars/​mesh from the outside, i think. I don’t particularly like our unit: second smallest unit has a standard size door, which makes i hard to get oversized furniture inside, but fits fine when it’s in there. (the larger units with the garage door type openings are all on a main driveable hallway. The non-​main hallways are kinda tight, and our unit is down 2 smaller hallways. But so far, so… ok. Units available on short notice. Manager was nice. Keypad entry. Loading dock for large trucks. Watch for ceiling height changes!

This place is well managed with staff actually on-​site. Secure and clean.

Perfectly fine storage for all the stuff we have from moving from a multilevel duplex in Chicago to a two bedroom apartment in downtown Indy. No complaints, just the usual creepiness that is to be expected from any storage space. Scary Timed lights, terrible music piping in from some strange station that only plays the worst songs from the 80s and 90s. Is there a storage building anywhere that will not make me feel like I am Clarice Starling in Silence of The Lambs where she goes to that horrific storage unit? Probably not. When I go I always tell someone I am going there in case I get trapped under boxes… or worse… Nothing exciting to say about this place other than that.

Are all storage units creepy? Is it odd of me to constantly look over my shoulder and craft a vicious fighting plan at every turn? I am new to the world of storage units, forgive my virgin storing ways.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Extra Space Storage for offering soft rock from the 80s to comfort my fears of being tackled and thrown into a unit for some sort of unsolicited sexual madness scene like those found on Law and Order. So far, that music has provided me with countless hours of necessary white noise. The timed lighting in each hall can be seen as a pro and a con — pro: how eco/​budget-​friendly of you — — - con: oh shit. I’m knee deep in Unilocal swag and have to climb back out to turn the dungeon lights back on.
I’m thinking over time, Extra Space Storage and I will grow on one another. For now, ‘A-​OK’.

So far, A-​OK. I’m hesitant to give many more stars than 3 because, well, storage units, for me, are a long term relationship. They may be rock solid in their convenient location, swift sign up, easy going access (a good thing?), price point and unit choice; yet, are they in it for the long term? I mean, sure, that first month is one buck, but, when I start paying upwards of $ 32 a month, are you going to come through with, well, what am I saying… just keep it safe, don’t let lions and hedgehogs in to eat my stuff or allow ruralites to run meth labs from Unit Q1423.
Yeah, meth labs… why’d I bring it up? Well, they started it – Extra Space Storage that is. With their black ink fingerprinting and all. I care less about this; I just find it intriguing. There are a fistful of folks that you want so close a watch on that you need fingerprints: meth lab conductors, drug runners, gun runners, militant militiamen and circus animal traders.
The only downtown storage location? I think so…
Located just North of Michigan St, just West of I-​65/​70, it’s a mighty easy way to add a closet of wares for us downtown dwellers.