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07-07-2010, 09:40 AM
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Ideas on off-site trailer storage.
If I'm ever going to make the move to the next level (trailer, track car, racing) I'm either going to need a much bigger garage (not happening) or some other way to safely store a trailer with toys on/in it. Any suggestions?
> Should I approach nearby building managers and offer to rent parking space in a back corner somewhere? There are several offices that have excess lot and garage space. > What's a fair monthly charge? (I'm in the Rockville/N.Bethesda area.)
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07-07-2010, 10:13 AM
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I would recommend looking into some of the existing pay-for-storage facilities. I used to keep my trailered boat at one of them, in Germantown off Middlebrook Rd. near Rt 118. I was paying around $150/mo about 6 years ago. But it was a fenced in facility with a "caretaker" living onsite. Security was pretty good. There are a number of them out there.
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07-07-2010, 10:59 AM
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We're planting small bushes next to our garage, and when they grow a bit we hope to store the trailer there (and to think I used to be the HOA Nazi...). Our neighbors are fine with it--in fact, they're fine with it in the driveway but I'm not. In the meantime, a friend in Mount Airy said I can leave it back in her woods.
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#5
07-07-2010, 02:37 PM
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#6
07-07-2010, 07:57 PM
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What about at your shop? I know atspeed has a few trailers outside their shop (they have a lot of room).
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#7
07-07-2010, 09:24 PM
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While too far for you, I use a Fairfax County boat/RV lot at Pohick Regional Park (about 15 miles from my house and actually a very pleasent drive from my house). Price is good at $140 per quarter. Secured and lighted.
Boat oriented places may be cheaper.....
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#8
07-07-2010, 09:59 PM
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I can set up some off season storage for trailers in a pool parking lot in McLean VA. Off season only, no fence, not guarded, at your own risk but a good area kind of storage. something like $20 a month or the like.
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07-08-2010, 07:39 AM
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#10
07-08-2010, 08:39 AM
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Mine won't fit in the garage either so it's next to the house. Keep telling my wife i'll stuff it behind the shed (soybeans don't mind looking at trailers) but I think she's getting wise to the fact that it may not fit with the boat already back there.
Neighbors don't seem to mind. Of course I don't bitch (what kind of asshat would?) about boats in driveways and next to houses in my 'hood either. Nor do I bitch.....much....about people who insist on putting up acres of white plastic (aka fences) around their yards.
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