Introducing urBin’s smart, on-demand-storage with convenient access to your belongings
The company also offers moving services and its staff of full-time professionals is experienced in handling belongings of all kinds.
There are fewer spots on the planet where storage—that is, having a place to put your stuff when you aren’t using it—is more important than New York City. And yet, to the dismay of New Yorkers everywhere, the city also happens to be one of the most challenging places to find a convenient, easy, and affordable way to store things other than your own tiny apartment.
The good news is that storing your personal belongings just got a lot easier, flexible, and affordable, thanks to the new tech company urBin.
Disrupting the storage industry
Among the less-than-ideal issues people often encounter when storing their belongings in NYC: hidden fees, pricey minimum requirements, inflexible terms and contracts, poor customer service, and perhaps most irritating: the amount of time involved going to and from a storage unit, and the need to borrow or rent a vehicle, if you don’t own one. urBin has simplified and streamlined the storage experience for customers, making it effortless, flexible, and efficient.
How urBin makes storage simple
A lot of stuff or a little, long-term or short, urBin takes all of the hassle out of storing your belongings and getting them back easily and quickly when you need them.
Using urBin is as simple as downloading the urBin app or heading to urBinstorage.com. Once there, customers can select the items they wish to store from an extensive menu organized by room (kitchen, bedroom, office), pieces of furniture (table, bed, chair), and boxes. Or you can select the space you would like to rent, with options that range from five by five feet (about the size of a small closet) to 10 by 50 feet, large enough to hold the contents of a townhouse.
Flexibility if you need more space and discounts if you don’t
From there, determine how long you’d like to store your items—or don’t. urBin customers can opt for maximum flexibility and minimum commitment with a pay-as-you-go, month-to-month plan for as little as $10 a month. However, if you know you’ll need to store items for three months or more, you automatically qualify for a discount of 25 percent; if you’ll need storage for seven months or more, your price break can go up to 75 percent.
No hidden fees
The rate is the rate. urBin doesn’t have any hidden fees for things like where in the storage facility your items are located. And all urBin storage facilities are secure and climate-controlled to ensure your belongings are safe and protected from fluctuations in heat, humidity, and other potentially harmful environmental conditions.
Customers can pack their items in their own boxes, or use bins provided by urBin, which start at just $10 a bin. Request how many bins you think you’ll need, and you’ll only be charged for the ones you end up using. Really busy, overwhelmed, or don’t really trust yourself to pack your stuff well? For an additional fee, urBin will take care of that, too. Pricing is by the box and includes labor and materials. So you can pack the books, and leave the delicate glassware to urBin. The company also offers moving services and its staff of full-time professionals is experienced in handling belongings of all kinds.
When you’re all packed, you schedule a date and time for pickup, and keep an eye out for an email that will confirm the details of your booking. urBin will take it from there.
Packed and tracked
On the day of pickup, urBin professionals will assign your account a QR code for easy digital tracking and to access your personal online indexing and inventory management system. Nervous about your stuff? No problem, you can track it en route if you like.
Upon arrival at the storage facility, your items will be photographed and cataloged. Customers can access an online visual inventory of stored pieces within 48 hours of their arrival at the facility.
And even though urBin is a tech-forward company with an app and website that makes booking and managing your storage easy and simple, you can still connect with a real person if you have questions or concerns about your account. Customer assistance is available via text, email, and you can even pick up the phone and talk to someone if you want.
Access one item—or everything—and have it delivered when you want.
The process of retrieving anything from your storage space is similarly simple. Customers access their online personal inventory and request that a single item, a few, or everything be delivered to the location of their choice. urBin guarantees delivery in the tri-state area within 24 hours.
That might mean you’ve signed the lease on your new place in Brooklyn and are ready to move everything in. Or perhaps you’re a college student who packed up a dorm room for the summer, and need the contents to be delivered to a different dorm when you return in the fall. Maybe you’ve been keeping your ski gear in storage and are headed to Vail for vacation; you can access your urBin inventory and request to have it there when you check in at the lodge.
A simple storage solution for everyone
The beauty of urBin is that it offers a smart storage solution that you can customize to your need, timeline, and budget. Whether you want a place to stash a single item, the off-season clothes and gear your condo’s closets can’t accommodate, or even the contents of an entire townhouse while you renovate or move, urBin can make it simple and easy. Thanks to urBin, the days of expensive, time-consuming, and inefficient storage in New York City are over, no matter who you are, your need, or budget.
