UNITS Mobile Storage of Milwaukee

Jim and Janelle just days before opening.

UNITS Team (JJ-driver, Janelle-owner, Vicki-customer care, Jim-owner)

Today is our anniversary! September 1st of 2009 we rented our first 16 foot UNIT to a business owner that needed commercial storage. He had purchased another business’ equipment and was not ready to move the equipment into his current location. He needed commercial storage fast and we were happy to deliver.   Luck for us, our first 16 foot UNIT was delivered from the manufacturer minutes before we needed it!    Our customer rented for over 7 months and then we delivered his excess business inventory to a new location.  Another happy customer.

We were a new franchise with just two employees (really, owners). Fast forward one year to today. We have doubled our staff and have provided high quality containers and customer service to hundreds in the metro Milwaukee area. Growing a business during a recession is challenging, but we found the people of metro Milwaukee value good quality product and service at a completive price. Thanks Milwaukee for making our first year a success!

 Whether you need residential or commercial storage or moving services in the metro Milwaukee area, call the UNITS‘ team at 414-476-unit (8648). We are looking forward to many more successful years.

The pet food and supplies gathered at the Milwaukee Humane Society tweet-up should help feed and care for many pets waiting for adoption.   UNITS Mobile Storage helped with the Humane Society by donating a portable storage unit to store the pet food and supplies collected during their tweet-up on August 1, 2010.  Thanks to the twitter community for coming out and supporting the Milwaukee Humane Society.

If you have a project that needs a collection or staging area, consider portable storage.  The portable storage unit can be kept on location and locked for safety.  Call us at 414-476-8648 and let us help make your next project hassle free.

Moving Checklist – 3 Weeks before Moving

• Make sure all library books and videos have been returned and that all dry cleaning have been pick-up.
• Start or continue packing items you don’t use often.
• Decide if you will keep your plants or give them away.  Remember, plants cannot be loaded with your other household items in portable storage units.   Consider taking a slip of the plant and moving it with you to your new home.
• Have your automobile(s) serviced and prepare for auto registration to be transferred.
• If moving to or from an apartment or condo, arrange to use the elevator on your loading and unloading days.

 UNITS Milwaukee will delivery your portable storage units on weekends to all the counties we service (Milwaukee, Waukesha, Jefferson, Dodge, Racine, Kenosha, Ozaukee and Washington).  Please call us soon at 414-476-8648 (UNIT) because the weekend schedule fills up fast.

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We started with a beautiful night on the outside patio at Leff’s Lucky Town in the village of Wauwatosa.   Glues where tweeted out by @UNITSMilwaukee to help patrons guess What’s in my UNIT?    Four prize packages where secure inside the locked storage UNIT.

Here are the clues for the first prize: Leff’s is pet friendly (yes, I bring my dog Reagan to Leff’s!); This prize is centrally located.  Can you guess What’s in my UNIT?  The lucky winner guessed a gift basket from Central Bark in Wauwatosa. 

The next prize package had clues that where a little harder to decipher: The Navy’s General; Don’t puck around; Roscoe is here.  Can you guess What’s in my UNIT?  The answer is The Admirals prize package including a zamboni ride at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee.

How are you doing?  Our third prize had lots of guessers, but only one lucky winner: We are brewin’ up a good time for you; Win this prize four fun; Tix toc tix toc time is running out.  Can you guess What’s in my UNIT?  Brewers’ tickets of course!  At this point in the night, we wished we had a retractable roof like Miller Park because it started to rain and we all had to move inside.  But, not to worry, the final prize was dry inside our storage UNIT.

Final prize and last chance to win: Beer belly be gone!!; You can go for a spin or a swim here; 6 Milwaukee area locations.  Can you guess What’s in my UNIT?  A one year membership to the WAC with locations in West Allis, Wauwatosa, Waukesha, Greenfield, Milwaukee and North Shore Wisconsin.

Congratulations to our winners!  Follow us @UNITSMilwaukee on twitter for the next What’s in my UNIT? Contest.

Moving Checklist – 5 Weeks Before Moving

• Plan ahead for your UNITS mobile storage container delivery to your current home and future home.   Contact your property manager or local municipality to ensure you will be complying with their packing rules and restrictions. 
• Have your yard sale or donate your items that are not being moved. 
• Continue collecting boxes and other packing supplies. You can order boxes and packing supplies from UNITS and they will be delivered with your portable storage unit. 
• Start packing items you don’t use often.
• Donate anything that did not sell at your yard sale and remember to get a receipt for income tax purposes.

UNITS will deliver a portable storage unit in Milwaukee county.  Both our warehouse and administrative offices are location in Milwaukee county.  We are locally owned and operated, give us a call at 414-476-8648.

Moving Checklist – 7 Weeks Before Moving

• Start pulling together medical and dental record.  Find new medical professionals and ask your existing medical professionals for a referral.
• Arrange to have school records transferred to your child’s new school or daycare.
• Call your insurance agent to see what changes to expect in your policies.  Ask if moving is covered and arrange for insurance for your new home. 
• If your insurance policy does not cover your belongings stored in the storage unit during your move, contact Tenant One for insurance coverage.
• Contact clubs (health, social, golf) that you have joined.  Ask how to end, sell or transfer your membership.
• Arrange for veterinarian records to be transferred.

UNITS delivers storage units as far north as Ozaukee and Washington counties.  We can be reached at 414-476-8648.

 As someone who has lived through three remodeling projects, I know how dusty your belongings get when your home is being remodeled.  Where do you store your belongings when the house is being remodeled?  In the garage (no that is where the remodeling supplies are stored), in the basement (no that may be where you are living during the remodel), self-storage (this requires loading twice and then unloading twice).   If you are in the Milwaukee area, try a portable storage unit. 

These portable storage units can be delivered to your house, you pack them and then stored on your location or stored in a heated, secure warehouse.   When your remodel is done, the portable storage unit can be delivered back to your house. 

Call UNITS Milwaukee at 414-476-8648 to solve your remodeling storage problem with a portable storage unit.