RV self storage does not mean parking your RV in your driveway or alongside your home, and yet go take a drive around your neighborhood and that is, in fact, what you will see more often than not.
In this article, we will explain why that approach to RV storage is a wrong one during the winter months, and as an added bonus we will propose the best RV self storage solution.
We are Mouser Self Storage, serving South Fort Worth, Alvarado, and Johnson County with affordable self storage solutions. Call us at 682-800-3949 for more information and information about current prices.
Your RV signifies a major investment.
For this discussion, let’s set some parameters regarding what is and what is not an RV. An RV is not some ten-foot pop up trailer. RVs are generally classified as Class A, Class B, and Class C, and they range in size from the mammoth 30’ Class A motorhomes to the 14’ travel trailers.
The cost has a wide range. We have seen new travel trailers sold new for as low as $6,000, and we have seen new Class A’s sell for $100,000 or more. Either way, if you are in the Middle Class of wage-earners in this country, that is a major investment. Six-thousand is nothing to sneeze at, and one-hundred grand is like buying a small starter home.
And what do you do with a major investment? You protect it. You keep it safe. You do not keep a valuable piece of art leaned up outside your home. You do not keep your coin collection sitting on your front porch. You do not keep your ’55 Chevrolet sitting out alongside the curb. So why would you keep a similar investment, your RV, outside in your driveway or in your side yard?
RV self storage at your home is not protecting that investment.
It really is a mystery why RV owners do these things, but we see it all the time.
And why not, you ask? Several reasons, all of which are not only very common but also very likely to happen to anyone/everyone who owns an RV.
Mother Nature is unforgiving, and RVs are notorious for leaking when heavy rains and cold temperatures hit them continually.
Vandals love to strip parts off an RV in the middle of the night.
Thieves can hook your travel trailer to their pickup truck in a matter of minutes and drive away while you are sleeping.
Shall we continue?
Pay now or pay later, and you will pay later.
You make a $50,000 investment in a new Class B and then park it in your driveway over the winter. It makes absolutely no sense. But RV owners justify it by saying it costs too much to pay for RV self storge, and we truly do understand that argument, but compare the cost of RV storage units, say six months at $200 per month ($1200) compared to the cost of replacing the roof of your RV, or having it repainted and repaired after a hailstorm, or replacing the tires after thieves ran off with them during the night.
More often than not, Mother Nature is going to be the main culprit, and more often than not she will do damage each and every winter. We cannot emphasize this too much: why would you risk it for a major financial investment?
And yet, millions do exactly that.
Call around now and find out what RV self storage costs in your city. Maybe you will get lucky and find a self storage company like our own Mouser Self Storage, where you will find secure self storage at a price you can afford.
A final word about Mouser Self Storage.
Mouser Self Storage and our sister company, Blue Mound 287 Self Storage in Haslet, are locally owned and operated. Call us today and ask us about car storage, RV self storage, boat storage units, small hobby shops and, of course, storage units for your household possessions.