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eugene,#2Author of original report
Mon, February 01, 2010
Really. Now they are claiming that they did not in fact buy my boyfriends and my unit. If that is true then how did my friend who is friends with a relative that works at castle storage get a document with my boyfriends name dob address and other identifying information. And why would she tell me her friends relative who works there had it cause they bought the unit themselves. The document that she had was an arrest record or ticket. I thought all personal documents and pictures were returned to the rightful owner. Obviously thats not true either. So I don't know which one of their employees has a relative that is friends with my friend but I heard all about it and it made my heart sink. It still makes me angry to this day. The fact that they lie about it makes me even more angry.
Castle
Eugene,#3UPDATE Employee
Fri, January 29, 2010
First of all, I would like to start by saying that the person who filed this report did NOT have a storage unit with us, but her boyfriend did. This auction took place over a year ago.
This customer had the unit for one year and was habitually late in paying rent and late fees for the first 7 months that he actually paid.
He was told about our late fee policy and accepted the terms when he signed our monthly contract by initialling the area that explains our late/lien fees which are as follows: $10.00 when 11 days past due...another $10 after 21 days past due... another $30 when 31 days past due and $90 is charged for lein fee after 45 days past due. (Oregon state law requires only 31 days, but we allow 45 days)
During that time they wrote us a bad check, so we would only accept cash from this customer. They also could not keep us furnished with a valid address. Six late letters were returned due to insufficient address.
When payments completely stopped we found his name on a public website that he was in Lane County Jail. We looked there because Eugene Police had contacted us regarding this unit while investigating him on property theft allegations.
This unit went 5 months without payment at $87 per month, one month of late fees at $50, and a one time lien fee of $90 for a total of $575.
She is right that we changed the way we did auctions. Instead of having the cost of an outside auctioneer and offering piece by piece items of the units, we took sealed bids on the whole units which is one method under state law. Each unit was valued by an outside auctioneer. The value of this unit was $150, which is where the bidding started. The unit was sold for more than that to the highest bidder and not split by the staff of Castle Storage.
Our auctions are always on a Saturday, game or no game and we have averaged at least 20 or more attendees at every auction. Not EVERYBODY goes to the games!
If she had an issue, she should take it up with her boyfriend and not slander our business.