Stolen Sound System

[musiciangirl]

My band’s PA (Sound) System was stolen from The Public Storage on Avalon Way in West Seattle on or about (no one knows) Sept 21st to Oct 1st.

If anyone has any information please contact The Jet City Players@yahoo.com. Total value of stolen items approximately $5000.00. NO suspects according to the detectives, no forced entry to the building, nothing on video. You do the math.

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[37Ray]

YIKES

Sorry to hear it. This should be posted on the blog as a crime watch item.

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[musiciangirl]

I’m new to all of this and not sure how to do that?

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[Leroniusmonkfish]

Wouldn’t the storage facility have insurance and that it be part of your monthly agreement with them?

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[37Ray]

Hi Musiciangirl, I didn’t mean to say “you” should have put it on the blog ;) just wanted to add that the site owners might wish to do so. Someone here will probably just see this topic and inform the site operators of it to post as a blog article as well, but also, you could email the main blog contact “hotline” https://westseattleblog.com/blog/?page_id=2

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[Leroniusmonkfish]

Musiciangirl – I hate to say it but it sounds like an “inside” job…who had a key to the lock? Just checked out their website and unless you have homeowners/renters insurance or signed up through the Willis Storage Insurance Program which Public Storage offers you unfortunately are outta luck….start checking out Craigslist and other used musical gear shops.

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[EmmyJane]

Hey- I know when we got our storage unit we had it added to our homeowners insurance policy. You might be covered?

Good luck…

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[37Ray]

Going just by what’s posted here it could be inside job or could have been another renter who has key masters or just lucky lock picker while video system was off(?), maybe a stretch but its theoretically possible… Was it a key lock or combo or? It does seem occam’s razor would lean to someone else who already had access…

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[JeffSavoie]

I have something to add to this topic, as my storage unit was also broken into…

https://westseattleblog.com/blog/forum/topic.php?id=7018

Cameras only cover the lobby, garage, and elevator, not the halls inside the storage area, nor individual units.

There were actually, according to the police report I obtained yesterday, a total of 13 units involved.

Locks weren’t opened, or broken, the units (at least mine and another near me) were the type with swinging doors, secured by a flat metal sliding bolt, and then two locks (one with a key the company has a master to, and one that is “private” to the tenant).

In my case, the door was simply pried open, bending the bolt in… that’s how the manager and I got back in, to inspect the contents, repairing and re-locking it when we finished.

The units with this type of door are no longer, in my opinion, secure, and efforts should be made to vacate them.

The insurance, offered by Willis, isn’t any better than the flimsy doors.

They aren’t very cooperative, and if possible, like Emmy Jane has done, I’d back it up or replace it with a more effective policy.

I’d also make a documentation, including photos of any and all items placed inside, and I dunno, maybe even appraisals of items not documented by receipts.

Proof of ownership, and value (including depreciation), is at issue, in my own case.

I may be able to narrow down the time line some, since I visited my unit, on or about the 24th or 25th, and it was intact and secure.

There’s talk of a second floor door, as a possible exit point… but I have already been overwhelmed by the amount of disinformation given by management, and how the police report doesn’t jibe with the stories I got.

I don’t know what to believe anymore.

Items taken, could possibly have been relocated to another unit, which would explain access, to the second floor… codes for the elevator only allow one to access their own level.

Jeff Savoie

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