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Extra Greed Storage - Assistant Manager Extra Space Storage Employee Review

2.0
Apr 22, 2014
Recommend
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Pros

Store managers and assistant managers along with our district team leader are good quality people and are all helpfull. Starting pay is fair for the market. Paid time off is good and benefits are good . Work hours are pretty good.

Cons

Where as the starting pay is decent the raises you get at the store level are pathetic considering the huge profits Extra Space Storage has made in recent years and the fact the store employees are the ones busting their butts making the corporate big shots rich. Now I'm a bussiness major so I understand the need for a company to increase it's revenues and profits but Extra Space goes to far as they try to nickle and dime their customers at every turn. Extra Space pushes its employees to use bait and switch tactics when renting storage units to customers. They force customers to buy storage insurance . As one customer told me sounds like ObamaCare ( where the federal government mandates that everyone buys health insurance). Extra Space also loves to jack up tenants rates . Now I understand rate increases are necessary but their increases are ridiculously high and of course it's the store employees who catch the crap from angry tenants. The computer system that Extra Space uses is outdated slow and prone to many errors which can make life hell for store employees. Technical support from The "Help" Desk is slow and useless. In a nutshell Extra Space is extremely greedy and at times unethical. Which is why I can't wait to find new employment.

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5.0
Jun 5, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

The good points of working for Extra Space these five years is the help and growth management allows me. I enjoy working for Extra Space Storage and i come everyday wit a positive mindset to achieve our company goals.

Cons

Extra Space has trained me to listen and show empathy to our tenants. I do my best to give our tenants great customer service and advice.

3.0
May 14, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Solid schedule - 40 hours per week, not expected to be there more than that. No one looking over your shoulder constantly (unless you have a new DM, they can't seem to help it) Mostly great people to work with Local, immediate management does care and are helpful.

Cons

Very large rate increases really upset customers and that's just too bad. We are given word to tell them but it just isn't true. Putting more money in stock holder's pockets is the bottom line and it doesn't matter how much anger we have to deal with. You are absolutely expected to sell insurance to every renter. However, you must be careful because you aren't "insurance salesmen". You get a ding when you don't sell it. We are encouraged to use evasive language and rush through it so the renter thinks it's required without quite saying so. You would think this large of a corporation would have handymen available but it is so, so difficult to get the smallest repair done due to getting bids from vendors, turning them in, reminding the person you turned them in to what needs done maybe getting approval, then scheduling. By that time lights (or whatever) have been out for a month or 2. Benefits are very expensive and cover so little.

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