Student Storage Near Pitzer College | Pitzer Student Storage
Classes end on a Wednesday in the first week of May. Ten days later the residences at Pitzer College close at five in the afternoon, five on the Sunday if you are graduating, and every late-stay student is off campus by the Wednesday after that. Somewhere in there is a flight, and a weekend that was meant for Joshua Tree. What is left is a room to empty and belongings with nowhere to go. That is the week student storage near Pitzer College is booked for, and why Pitzer College student storage gets arranged in April instead of in the middle of it.
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Claremont Village, California Botanic Garden and the Robert J. Bernard Biological Field Station are all close by, and none of them is the problem in May. The problem is the date the college sets and does not move: the room has to be empty by then, and a futon has nowhere to go until late August. That gap is what a Pitzer student is dealing with when they go looking for Claremont student storage.
Why Pitzer Students Need Student Storage Near Pitzer College
Pitzer was founded in 1963 as the sixth of the Claremont Colleges, and it publishes the deadline and enforces it: residences close at five, and a storage container left on campus outside its window is towed. The date is not negotiable. Every first-year lives on campus and most students stay in college housing after that, so the date belongs to Residence Life rather than to a lease. The room has to be empty and the contents have to survive fifteen weeks somewhere that is not Mead.
A container stands in the East Mesa lot off Claremont Boulevard, the one lot Pitzer assigns for them, and only after the form is in. It arrives about four days before move-out and is collected by the Monday after it. A good share of Pitzer comes from out of state or from abroad, and shipping a room home and back costs more than storing it here. First-years move back in on the fourth Saturday of August and returning students a week later, which leaves fifteen weeks between the two ends.
The Traditional Pitzer College Summer Storage Challenge
The week itself is the problem. Five colleges empty inside the same few days, so every truck, every unit and every hotel room in Claremont is being chased by several thousand people at once, and whatever gets packed in a hurry is the thing that arrives broken.
Flights to Ontario or LAX during consortium week are not cheap. Claremont's housing options fill fast when five colleges empty at once, so families end up booking in Pomona or Rancho at a higher nightly rate. Add a truck rental competing with thousands of other students, and the cost of every separate trip it takes to empty a room. Sagehen families spend more on the trip than the storage costs.
Box-n-Go: Pitzer College Student Storage Made Simple
Box-n-Go takes those complications out, with a service built around terms and housing dates. Instead of coordinating trucks, storage facilities, and family travel logistics, Pitzer College summer storage through Box-n-Go works around your academic calendar. We come to the hall, carry the load out, keep it in an indoor warehouse and deliver it in August wherever you are living then. We keep to Pitzer's window instead of leaving you to watch it, and by-the-box pickup leaves nothing standing in East Mesa at all. Words used here that are new to you are in Storage Terms: A Plain-Language Glossary.
Self-Load Flex Container: Student Storage Near Pitzer for Apartments
Furniture changes the answer. A futon, a desk and a chair are a container job rather than a box job. The container is eight feet by five by seven and it is delivered to the building or the nearest approved spot. It rests on the ground the whole time, so the loading is done at arm height with no ramp and no dock. If the pod window, gate hours or waiver are not phrases you have had to read closely, Moving Glossary: Moving Terms and Definitions defines them.
It is filled over the days that are free rather than in one push, which matters when the last paper is due the same week. Loaded, it leaves whole and goes indoors. It comes back to the address you name, on the day you name it. It takes furniture, bed frames, desks, chairs and the boxes that go on top of them.
A suite in WES can put one container between them and divide it. Loading help is there for anyone who does not want to carry a futon down a stairwell.
A La Carte Valet: Pitzer Dorm Storage
For dorm residents and students with fewer belongings, A La Carte Valet is Pitzer dorm storage priced by the box, with the crew doing the carrying. It is charged by the box, so nine boxes and a desk fan are billed as nine boxes and a desk fan.
A packing kit is mailed to you before pickup day and contains five Box-n-Go U Boxes, packing tape and a marker. Nothing ends at five: order additional boxes, customize the kit before it ships, or use boxes you already have. The U Box is built for students rather than for a warehouse: the board is heavier than the flat-packed kind and the flaps overlap the whole way across, because these sit at the bottom of a stack for a season. Fill them across the reading period, then pick the collection day. The crew arrives at your room on pickup day, labels each item for tracking, carries everything out to the truck and into secure indoor storage, and brings it back up to your room in the fall.
One trip takes the whole room, which is a good deal fewer than the several a rental truck needs.
Lease Gap Solutions
Students who have moved off campus hit the other version of it: a Claremont lease that runs out in June against one that starts in late August leaves two months of rent on an empty room. Put the furniture with us for the interval and take it back on the day the keys change hands. That interval is what Short-term storage Pitzer College students book, billed month by month like any longer stay.
Study Abroad Storage
Fifty-three percent of Pitzer students study abroad, which is why this comes up so often here. Nobody ships a bookcase to Nepal. It stays with us for as long as the program runs. If the return date moves, the delivery date moves with it.
Internship and Co-op Programs
Fieldwork and summer jobs do the same thing. Whatever is not going with you waits here until you come back for it. Furnished housing at the far end is the usual reason: it already has a bed in it.
Claremont Student Storage Options Near Pitzer
If you would rather rent a unit and handle the driving, these are the closest ones. Box-n-Go covers the whole of Claremont and the 91711 ZIP code, every one of the Claremont Colleges included. Everything on this list is a unit you drive to and load yourself:
- Extra Space Storage, 135 S Campus Ave, Upland, CA 91711
- Public Storage, 211 W Allen Ave, San Dimas, CA 91711
- Extra Space Storage, 711 S Mills Ave, Claremont, CA 91711
- Public Storage, 127 S Euclid Ave, Upland, CA 91711
- Extra Space Storage, 1960 S San Dimas Canyon Rd, La Verne, CA 91711
- Public Storage, 10580 Benson Ave, Montclair, CA 91711
- Extra Space Storage, 601 Ridgeway St, Pomona, CA 91711
- Public Storage, 1640 N White Ave, La Verne, CA 91711
These are the Claremont options if you have a car and a free afternoon. Box-n-Go is the version where the driving is not yours, and Box-n-Go vs Self-Storage is the straight comparison between the two.
What Students and Parents Say
From students and parents who have used the service at campuses around Southern California:
"As a student, I value this BoxNGo Santa Monica storage unit for offering a dependable, secure, and safe space to keep my belongings when I am traveling."
- Lara B.
"Box-n-Go for my daughter's college dorm in LA from Chicago was a breeze! Took all the stress away. Ashley was so helpful and our driver Andrew was great!"
- Cary G., Munster, IN - Parent
"Absolutely the best company! I was blown off by a moving company when i was moving out of my apartment at UCLA. I was leaving for Europe the next day and the moving company that was supposed to pick up my stuff, never called or answered any of my calls and just never showed up. I called and spoke to Frank on the phone in panic because I saw one of their boxes on the side of the road. He immediately helped me and got all my information as soon as he could in order to speed up the process. This company saved my moving experience and were very helpful and kind whenever I spoke with them! I am never using another moving company because I had such an amazing experience with this company!"
- Monica V., Los Angeles, CA - UCLA
"Box-n-Go is a very easy service to use. I am a student in Claremont, but I live in Arizona and it is such a hassle to transport all of my belongings back and forth over the summer. Most of my stuff does not even need to go home for the summer. I've seen the Box-n-Go storage containers all over campus but I never wanted to rent one. I thought that it would be a long and expensive process. But it's not. Box-n-Go is a very easy service to use. It was not hard at all to make a reservation for a storage container to be dropped off on campus. And the price was not bad either, especially if you share a box with some friends, because they are very spacious! Tip for college students using this service: you probably won't need a whole container to yourself, so share with friends, split the cost, and that will make the service that much cheaper!"
- Alexa M., Claremont, CA
Pitzer Dorm Storage Tips: Preparing for Move-Out Success
It starts with the four usual culprits: food, liquids, mini-fridges and open toiletries. Everything below is aimed at those:
- Keep every box under fifty pounds. Overloaded boxes are unsafe to lift and collapse when stacked.
- Nothing that pours, nothing that spoils. Shampoo, detergent, half-finished drinks and anything sealed in the pantry all find a way out in a warm truck. Tape the lids, bag them, or leave them behind.
- Defrost the mini-fridge a day before pickup. Then clean and dry it, and clean the microwave. A fridge packed damp comes back smelling of what was in it.
- Label all sides of every box. Student name, a phone number, and where it is going. Boxes are stacked, and the top is the one face nobody can read.
- Trash bags are dust covers, not luggage. Never let one carry weight. Roll mattress toppers rather than folding them, and bag them.
- Pad anything breakable and mark it fragile. Wrap each piece individually. Nothing loose rattling in drawers.
- Photograph the inside of each box before taping it. It takes a second and it is the only inventory anybody actually keeps.
- Keep passport, medication, laptop and chargers with you. Nothing needed in the next few days goes into storage.
The steps are all in the student storage move-out checklist, which is worth going through before the first box.
Frequently Asked Questions: Storage Near Pitzer College
Do dorms allow students to leave belongings over the summer?
Pitzer residence halls require complete move-out at the end of the academic year. Items cannot be left behind in Mead, Sanborn, or other residences, which is why many students need summer storage.
| Self Load | A la Carte Valet | |
|---|---|---|
| Furniture Prep | You | You |
| Pack Boxes | You | You |
| Load Storage | You | We Do |
| Prorate | Yes | No |
| Access Notice | 1 Day | 3 Day |
| Min. Return Notice | 7 Days | 5 Days |
How do I schedule a delivery date for fall move-in?
Book the delivery online or by phone once housing is settled. Give the Pitzer residence or the Claremont address you are moving into, and the boxes come back to the room rather than to a curb.
How do I know how many boxes I need?
A Pitzer single usually empties into ten to twenty boxes plus a few loose items. Order a few more than you think, because a spare flat box costs nothing and running out on the last evening costs an afternoon.
How do I know my student's items are secure?
Everything is held indoors in a monitored warehouse rather than in an outdoor drive-up row, and each container is sealed and tracked against the booking it belongs to. Nobody but the crew handling it goes near it while it is with us.
Can parents arrange storage for their student?
Yes. Pitzer parents often help coordinate storage, even when they live far away and cannot fly in to help. Parents can arrange everything remotely. Box-n-Go works with both students and parents to schedule services and answer questions.
How do I schedule a pickup time?
Pick a slot online or by phone. During the Claremont move-out week there are bulk pickup days at a lower rate; a pickup on a date of your own choosing costs slightly more.
Box-n-Go Student Storage at Nearby Southern California Schools
The same service runs at the rest of the Claremont campuses and across Southern California. The other campuses we cover from here:
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The Claremont Colleges Student Storage
Pomona College Student Storage
Scripps College Student Storage
Harvey Mudd College Student Storage
Claremont McKenna College Student Storage
University of La Verne Student Storage
Storage Resources for Sagehens
It covers both ends of a Pitzer year, dorm storage solutions in the spring and summer break storage after that. The whole silo sits under student storage options. Box-n-Go Storage for Students lists what a student gets that other customers do not, and Box-n-Go Storage and Moving Services for Students describes the services themselves.
Get Started with Student Storage Near Pitzer College Today
Book it in April. The days around the five o'clock deadline fill before anything else does, and booking early is how you get the slot you wanted. A container if there is furniture, A La Carte if it is a room in PAS: neither takes any thinking about. Cancellation, access and payment terms are all in Box-n-Go Service Policies.
Call and hold a date before the closing weekend books out: 877-269-6461
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