HIDE-AWAY vs PODS® MOBILE CONTAINERS

Hide-Away Mobile Storage Boxes Compared To Competitive Containers

The Hide-Away's Mobile Storage box holds about 1 - 1½ rooms of furniture and is similar in size to what the nation's traditional moving and storage industry has used successfully for nearly a century for temporary storage for millions of Americans. Other competitors use a much larger container that is similar in size to a small overseas shipping container. It's important to understand how this size difference in portable storage containers may affect your household goods storage.

This table gives a quick summary of the differences, and more details follow below it.

Feature	Hide-Away Mobile Storage Box	PODS® Mobile Container	Comments
Sizes for your individual needs	Yes	No	Each Hide-Away Mobile Storage box holds 1-1 ½ rooms. Order the number you need. Even the smallest PODS® Mobile Container is nearly the size of a small garage.
Maximum protection for your property while in transit	Yes	No	Smaller boxes make it easier to load securely to avoid damage from furniture moving during transit. Larger containers make it harder to load as securely.
Find individual items easily	Yes	No	Hide-Away's smaller box makes it easier to find a particular item.
Easy organization and separation of different rooms or types of items in storage	Yes	No	With Hide-Away's "right sized" boxes, you can keep your good furniture separated from smelly and dirty items such as tools, lawn equipment, etc.
Air-Conditioned/ Dehumidified Storage	Yes	?	All Hide-Away Mobile Storage facilities maintain 80 degrees or less and 60% or less humidity.

•  RENT ONLY THE SPACE YOU NEED: Each Hide-Away Mobile Storage box holds 1 - 1½ rooms of furniture. This means you only rent the exact storage space you actually need. PODS® Mobile Containers are much larger, and this means you could end up renting more space than you really need for your temporary storage or seasonal storage. But there are also other not-so-obvious advantages for many residential storage users of Hide-Away's smaller portable storage box.

•  PROTECT YOUR BELONGINGS: When you pack a full household into separate smaller portable storage boxes, there is much less chance for your household goods storage items to move about and suffer damage. For example, every professional moving company tries to load for household goods using the smallest space possible to keep furniture and boxes from shifting about and being damaged. (Here is an illustration to clarify why smaller containers such as the Hide-Away uses can be better: Suppose you were moving everything in your kitchen. Would your kitchen items be safer if they were moved in one very large cardboard box? Or would they be better protected with one cardboard box for dishes, another for glasses, and other boxes for pots and pans, etc.? The same principle applies to Hide-Away's "right sized" Mobile Storage boxes. They are the best size to protect furniture. That's why the traditional moving and storage industry has used basically the Hide-Away's size of storage box for nearly half a century.)

•  LOCATE INDIVIDUAL ITEMS EASILY: If you need to find an individual item while your goods remain in Mobile Storage, it's easy to find individual items with Hide-Away's "right sized" portable storage boxes. But it could be much more difficult and time consuming finding an individual item when everything is packed in a much larger PODS®-type "all in one" mobile storage container.

•  KEEP YOUR BELONGINGS ORGANIZED: With Hide-Away's "right sized" Mobile Storage boxes, you can separate your high-value and delicate household storage items from smelly and dirty tools and outdoor equipment such as lawn mowers, barbeque grills, outdoor furniture, tools, bicycles, etc. Also, many people like to keep their belongings separate for one or two rooms to make loading or unloading into a new home easier. This works best with Hide-Away's "right sized" portable containers, compared to the PODS® Mobile Container "all-in-one" approach.

•  AIR CONDITIONED-DEHUMIDIFIED STORAGE: All of the Hide-Away's facilities where your Mobile Storage units are kept are climate controlled buildings. And your portable storage units are made of wood to "breath," so you do not need to worry about mold and mildew in these conditions. Typically, the temperature in the Hide-Away Mobile Storage buildings, even on Florida 's humid West Coast, averages 80 degrees or less with the humidity less than 60%.

DELIVERY TO YOUR DOOR

Why bother renting a truck or finding another way to move your belongings into storage? With Portable Storage, you never need to leave the comfort of your home!

LESS WORK

Cut your work in half by only loading and unloading one time with Portable Storage, versus multiple times with conventional self-storage. Less handling also reduces damage to your belongings!

LOAD ON YOUR SCHEDULE

Take as much time as you need without worrying about rental truck schedules and late charges.

PREVENT DAMAGE

Our Portable Storage boxes allow you to pack securely, which reduces load shifting and damage to belongings during transport. The moving industry has used the same size box for decades because of this proven benefit.

NO LONG-TERM CONTRACTS

After the first month, you can end your storage any time and we'll refund the unused rent. You only pay for the number of days you store with us.

PROTECT YOUR GOODS

Enjoy peace of mind knowing that your belongings are stored in a super-clean, climate-controlled, high-security Mobile Storage Facility.

EASY ACCESS

Simply give us a call for easy access to your belongings at our Portable Storage Facility during normal business hours.

GROUND-LEVEL LOADING

Our Mobile Storage boxes are loaded at ground level, eliminating the need for dangerous and difficult loading ramp.