HIDE-AWAY vs PODS® MOBILE CONTAINERS

The Hide-Away's Mobile Storage unit 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.

• RENT ONLY THE SPACE YOU NEED: Each Hide-Away Mobile Storage unit 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 units. 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 container 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 units, 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%.