Students seek 7-week storage
- posted: 10 July 2007
- scrollnews@byui.edu
Some students are concerned with what they are going to do with their possessions over the extended break between semesters.
The new academic calendar has created almost two months between summer and fall semesters. The longer break has created a new situation leaving some apartments, making new rules and making more students obligated to move their things out of their apartment.
Those students who planned to live in the same apartment used to be able to leave their things during the break. Now, some apartments will not allow students to leave their things over the extra-long break.
Camden apartment managers Brittany and Shaun Meng discourage students from keeping their things at the apartments, because students will be moving in to stay during the break. It is only fair to ask everyone to move their things out, rather than ask a select few people to move out their things, Shaun said.
Another reason to have students move their things out, even if they are moving back to the same room, is to protect students’ things from being stolen. “We can’t be liable for [students’] stuff while nobody is here,” Shaun said.
Tiffany Birch, a sophomore from Grants Pass, Ore., is a student who was told to move her things out during the extended break.
“It’s annoying because [I] have to move [my] stuff out for seven weeks to come back later to the same apartment,” Birch said.
This situation leaves Birch needing a place to store her things. Students have different options when it comes to storage. Birch will be storing her things with her roommate’s sister. “It will cost me less than a storage unit,” Birch said.
Other students moving their things to a storage unit at the end of the semester may find it worth the money to have someone else move their things for them.
Paul Dille, a senior from Nampa, Idaho, was helping his friends who don’t have vehicles move their things to storage units when he got the idea that many others would need similar help.
This led him to offer his services to others. Paul will provide boxes that are six-feet-square, move students’ things and store them at his storage unit.
Some students have already signed up for the offer. “A mom was in town and said, ‘I don’t care how much it costs, that’s a good idea,’” Dille said.
One box costs $15 while three cost $30. That includes picking up the boxes and storing them.
Any students that may be interested in this option may contact Dille
at 208.250.2229. 
