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They did not name the company
SMARTBOX without reason! In 2002,
the SMARTBOX company was founded
in Virginia to make the process of moving
and storage much easier for the typical
consumer. The idea was to offer
the customer the convenience they
needed to stored their household treasures
and provide a space where their
things would be stored in a controlled
environment. SMARTBOX understood
the intelligence of their target market
and allows their ‘smart’ customers to
control their move.
As SMARTBOX has grown and
expanded, so has the use of their facilities
and SmartBoxes. Not only are
SmartBoxes used for the storage and
moving of household goods, but customers
now use SmartBoxes for a number
of other things not limited to the
following: storage for holiday decorations;
extra furniture as households
combine from two to one homes; homes
needing to be staged for showings; document
storage for businesses; business
relocations; seasonal inventory for businesses;
transitional storage as buyers
SmartBox
wait for the completion of a new home
while moving from their current residence
and more. The idea of portable
long term or temporary storage has
proven a tremendous success across the
country.
With over 20 locations nationwide
serving more than 60 metropolitan
areas, SMARTBOX arrived in San
Antonio in late 2006 and business has
been quite successful. Franchise owners
Sara and Jim Plumhoff have enjoyed
a steady growth in their business with
just a little advertising and a lot of
word-of-mouth endorsements. In San
Antonio, they are located at 4702
Macro or can be reached by phone at
210.666.5200 or on the company website
at www.smartboxusa.com. The
website provides a wealth of information
including a ‘How it Works’ section
which helps customers calculate how
many SmartBoxes they will need.
Each SmartBox is five feet wide,
eight feet long and seven feet tall. The
boxes are made of wood and have a
vinyl water resistant cover on the outside.
Customers lock their boxes and
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keep the keys
so that only
they have
access to their
belongings. A
SmartBox will
hold approximately
a room
and a half of
furniture or
about 3000
pounds. Once
the box is
p a c k e d ,
SMARTBOX
will pick up
the boxes and
transport them
to their secure
storage facility.
The
SmartBox is
Sara and Jim Plumhoff
large enough for sofas, refrigerators, ments. You lock your box and can
entertainment centers, washers, dryers, obtain insurance for the contents
freezers and other household items.
through insurance offered by SMART-
SMARTBOX pricing is deter- BOX.
mined by zip code. Delivery fees
SMARTBOX was designed with
include round trip delivery of up to four the customer in mind. Their years of
(4) Boxes which include delivery to the experience in the industry have demon-
customer and transportation back to the strated how labor-intensive moving and
Storage Center. Anywhere a car can go, storage can be. By listening to cus-
a SmartBox can go. Two SmartBoxes tomers, they developed a way to get the
can be placed in a standard parking job of moving and storage done with
space and can be delivered almost any- much less effort and expense than the
where. They can be stored on your site tradition moving and storage practices.
or at their Storage Center at no addi- Customers save time, effort and money
tional cost. One day or indefinitely, the and that is the value to a SMART cus-
enclosed, secure, clean facilities provide
double protection from the eletomer.