September 2010 Archives

A few months ago we received a call from Mark Steigerwald of Steigerwald Construction looking for portable storage during the renovation of St. Ann Rest Home in Milwaukee WI.   They needed a secure place to store tools and supplies for the remodeling project.   UNITS Milwaukee had just the answer.  We worked with Sister Andrea and delivered a UNITS portable storage container to the construction site.

There is a great article in the Milwaukee Business Journal about St. Ann's $11 million project.  Read it.  It is nice to see during a difficult economic time that business' are expanding.  Sister Andrea, St. Ann's Administrator, expects the addition to attract more residents to St. Ann Rest Home.

If you are remodeling, commercial or residential, call UNITS Milwaukee to store your belongings, supplies and/or tools during your remodeling project.   Our local owners can be reached at 414-476-UNIT (8646).

You can find a UNITS' storage container at Hart Park in Wauwatosa for the Tosa Tonight Concert Series.  While some minor restoration is being completed on the Hart Park Pavilion vendors are storing supplies in the donate storage container.  The next and final concert of the season is September 14^th.  

When you are doing some remodeling or restoration on your home and need a convenient, safe and dry means to store your belongings, contact us at 414-476-8648 for a storage container.  See you on September 14^th, at Wauwatosa's Hart Park!

Your house is on the market and your agent wants you to de-clutter (you know remove personal items, excess furniture, items not being used stored in closets) so your home appeals to a wider array of buyers.  That means you need to move your excess furniture and belongings off-site to make your home seem more spacious and inviting.  Remember, if you store your excess belongings on-site in your garage, basement or driveway, a potential buyer might think since you do not have enough room/storage in the house the buyer may not either.

So, what do you do now?  Most people procrastinate and do nothing.   It is a lot of work to rent a moving truck, load your belongings, and then unload them into storage only to do the same thing in reverse order once you find your new house.  To solve your problem, call for a portable storage container to be delivered to your house.  With the storage container at your house, you simply load your excess belongings at your convenience.  When you are finished and your agent thinks your house is ready to sell, you call for a pick-up and the storage container is delivered to a secure, heated warehouse until you are ready for delivery to your new home.  Your agent calls this process de-cluttering (we call it pre-packing), but you just completed some of your packing and you are a step ahead!

It's just that easy.   If you need help with your de-cluttering/pre-packing, call UNITS Mobile Storage of Milwaukee at 414-476-8648.  We specialize in portable storage!

Southeast Wisconsin is sure getting its share of turbulent weather.  Eariler this summer a tornado set down in Eagle Wisconsin and now parts of metro Milwaukee have flooding from heavy rain.  The review from google maps is one such customer.

"I needed a UNITS quickly just for temporary storage because of basement flooding that had happened overnight. I called the number on the website at 5:50a just hoping to find out their hours to know when to call back. To my amazement and chagrin, Janelle answered!! She had been monitoring the weather (and her own basement), knew she'd be getting calls, and made sure to be available to any customer that needed their services. I got a UNITS by 12:30p that day, JJ was great and very flexible in helping me find the best spot to put the unit. You can tell each person really cares about providing their customers with the best experience possible, which is rare these days. They were definitely a bright spot in a day that wasn't very much fun. Janet - 07/2010"

When flooding hits your area and you need to salvage what you can, please call us at 414-476-UNIT (8648).  We will make sure you get a portable storage container delivered to your metro Milwaukee location.

The Wisconsin State Fair Champion Pig, along with some champion sheep, was purchased for the upcoming Pork-tober Feast to be held on October 21, 2010.   Several local charities will benefit from the dinner and silent auction.   UNITS Mobile Storage is proud to be one of Pork-tober Feast's corporate sponsors. 

As a locally owned and operated portable storage company we like to give back to the community where we live and work.  When people in the Milwaukee, Waukesha, Kenosha and Racine area need portable storage we hope they will call us at 414-476-unit (8648) or find us on the web.  Check back for more information about Pork-tober Feast and remember to save the date!  We will be enjoying the champion pig on October 21, 2010 at the Wisconsin State Fair Grounds (of course!).

Today is our anniversary!  September 1st of 2009 we rented our first 16 foot UNIT to a business owner that needed commercial storage.   He had purchased another business' equipment and was not ready to move the equipment into his current location.  He needed commercial storage fast and we were happy to deliver.  Lucky for us, our first 16 foot UNIT was delivered from the manufacturer minutes before we needed it!  Our customer rented for over 7 months and then we delivered his excess business inventory to a new location.  Another happy customer.

We were a new franchise with just two employees (really, owners).  Fast forward one year to today.  We have doubled our staff and have provided high quality containers and customer service to hundreds in the metro Milwaukee area.   

Growing a business during a recession is challenging, but we found the people of metro Milwaukee value good quality product and service at a completive price.  Thanks Milwaukee for making our first year a success!

Whether you need commercial or residential storage or moving services in the metro Milwaukee area, call Janelle, Vicki or Jim at 414-476-unit (8648).  We are looking forward to many more successful years.