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The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities

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  1. alexpotato · · focus · HN ↗
    A lot of small businesses use self storage facilities as mini warehouses.

    e.g. let's say you are starting a painting business

    You have a lot of equipment you need (ladders, sprayers, buckets, etc) but you live in a small apartment.

    A self storage unit can hold all of the above and the storage price is probably tax deductible.

    1. stasomatic · · focus · HN ↗
      Not just warehouses. In one facility here in South Florida a family member who is a general contractor, uses the storage just as you described, but a couple of units over, there is a gun range, a gun smith shop, a tattoo shop running out of these "self-storage" units. It's legal too, kind of strange how it would be, but I see cops at the range often enough.
      1. GenerWork · · focus · HN ↗
        A gun range being run out of a storage unit? I realize that Florida has gun laws that people would consider nuts (you can have a gun range in your backyard and nobody can really stop you), but I'd think that the contract of the storage unit would absolutely say no gun ranges.
        1. stasomatic · · focus · HN ↗
          I may have expanded the definition of self-storage, apologies, but here's the place I was talking about. There is definitely storage and there are definitely guns and gunsmith shops. Crazy, hey? There are people living out of these, this part of Florida is bananas.

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          1. GenerWork · · focus · HN ↗
            Ah ok, this makes a lot more sense. We have places that look exactly like this near my area of Florida as well, and it&#x27;s 100% in the &quot;industrial&quot; zoned area. No homes, only commercial businesses and small industrial setups.

            &gt;this part of Florida is bananas

            All parts of Florida are bananas :)

            1. stasomatic · · focus · HN ↗
              Really I don’t mind, I wish there were more archery ranges but I can deal. People all around are nice, all walks of life. But if someone from another continent were to drop in, their eyebrows would have a heart attack.
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