Yet another lie....

Dust Free Storage

Did you know that flooring matters in your storage unit? Most storage facilities use concrete floors, which promote dust, mold, and mildew. Not at LifeStorage! We go the extra mile to keep your items dust free. Our floors are VCT-tiled just like the floor at a retail store, which minimizes dust and exposure to unwanted moisture. We also have epoxy coated floors on all drive aisles, which also minimizes dust.

 http://www.lifestorage.net/choose_life_storage

No, nothing about RAT FREE, but that should be a given. Although the Rogers Park location has concrete floors..and rodents!

does this look like tile?

RATS IN LINCOLN PARK....

Are RAMPANT! Having recently spent some time there in the evening, I was astounded--and DISGUSTED.

LifeStorage should feel right at home--or make a home...for them.....

So, this is the problem I'm having....

As is probably clear, I (and my KID, for godssakes!) lost a SHITLOAD of stuff.  Essentials - beds, linens, clothes, a couch, coats, toys (20 + years worth, some valuable, some sentimental, all useful), due to LifeStorage's negligence and irresponsibility in not exterminating its Rogers Park facility for rodents (per their own Orkin Guy - AND THERE IS STILL RODENT SHIT THERE!). Now, this in no way represents millions, or even six figures although I am pretty pissed off and put out, so I'd seek as much as possible in punitive damages (please note this, LifeStorage Troll, and pass it on). But for me, it IS thousands, which represents a lot of money, especially now. 

LifeStorage and /or its principals HAVE OFFERED NOTHING.  NADA.  ZIP!  They in fact refused to admit fault, like big boys, like ethical responsible adults and business owners, yet ran out and bought several MILLION dollars in property VERY recently. To open stores, to increase their business and income, AND they're all touchy feely warm 'n' fuzzy and hip--or AT LEAST THE PR(web) PEEPS THEY PAY to put that bullshit out want you to think they are. Trust me, it is a load of rat crap.

Compounded by the fact that they, in reality, have been unprofessional, rude, snide and flat-assed dishonest. I bitched for months, they said they'd handle it, they fired everybody at the local at the time (like they sign the contracts for the exterminators?), lied about what they were doing and lied about the contents of my unit, trying to pass the blame on me, That African Lady, the residents tenants, the "old" exterminator or ANYBODY ELSE, and let Idiot Fred sit on his ass and sneer (although sometime he snipped my lock and planted--childishly--a banana peel).

Some businesses don't deserve to grow. And they'll lie to you, too, dear reader.

So, these two guys, +Jean Jodoin and +Chris Barry (and their merry band of flunky bullshitters) spend insane amounts of money to make their penises seem bigger and their bank accounts GET bigger, but refuse to right a wrong THEY INFLICTED on a woman and her child OR exterminate THEIR OWN PROPERTY properly to prevent it.

Is this RIGHT? WTF???? 

LifeStorage Lincoln Park $2,054,318 Assessed Value, $334,284.77 Taxes

LifeStorage is Getting Closer To Leaving It’s (sic) Teens and Entering It’s

(sic) 20′s

June 20th, 2012 No Comments

LifeStorage Lincoln Park

LifeStorage has just purchased what will eventually be its 19^th Chicagoland location infestation. The property, located at 1030 W. North Avenue, is 114,000 square feet, next to some prominent retailers, including Old Navy. Currently leasing space in the building is a gym, but LifeStorage has big plans ahead for the property, obviously including its outstanding self-storage, AND RODENT HAVEN solutions, but also utilizing the space for  office rentals , PRIME NESTING and potential retail leasing as well.
There’s some work ahead, though, with CRAPPY renovations BY COBALT COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION  and improvements on the way, but as you know, LifeStorage makes sure everything is tip-top, hip, and modern FOR UPSCALE RATS AND MICE, and this future facility is no exception to our lax exterminaion. We’ll keep you posted with more details as we have them, but for now, let’s hear it for LifeStorage, great self-storage, and great neighborhoods TO INFEST,  RUINING PEOPLE'S LIVES and INCREASING CHICAGO'S RAT POPULATION!

We’ll see you soon, Clybourn Corridor and Lincoln Park MINNIES & MICKEYS. Get ready for some high-class rat, TRASH, IMBECILIC MANAGEMENT and shit filled affordable self storage!

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 LIKE ALL GREAT COMPANIES??????

For Life Storage, this is yet another perfect location to bring its unique, upscale brand of self storage to another Chicagoland neighborhood. Tentative plans for the property include Life Storage solutions, potential office rentals, and retail leasing. It's another step in showcasing one of Chicago's own and the most luxurious climate-controlled, secure, self-storage and record management solutions available in the entire city. Life Storage co-owner Christopher Barry mentions that the project is still in the early stages and will require interior and exterior improvements, so there isn't a set-in-stone date for what will eventually be the 19th store in the Life Storage family.
“These things take time, but this is a wonderful location. We've been looking in this area for a while now, and the close proximity to some prominent retailers will offer us some really great exposure. As a company, we're constantly trying to find prime areas to open new facilities, and we take great care and perform our due diligence before taking that next step,” Barry said.
“With this space, we think we have a really special location on our hands and we can't wait to get the ball rolling. Like all great companies, we invest and expand when the time is right, and this is another step in our development as Chicago's premiere provider of self-storage solutions,” continues Barry.

Great. After you screw over little girls and women when YOUR RATS AT YOUR PROPERTY THAT THEY PAID YOU FOR SO IT WOULD BE SAFE ATE AND SHAT UPON THEIR STUFF?

CHRIS, SERIOUSLY DUDE, GREAT COMPANIES EXTERMINATE THEIR PREMISES, DON'T HIRE MORONS AND ACT RESPONSIBLE AS OWNERS WHEN SOMETHING DOES GO WRONG. JUST A THOUGHT, SPORT. WHAT A CHARMER FUCKING DICK!

1,536!!!!

YAY!! Thanks, dear reader! and, anyone wanting to voice support, call the Rat Kings at  

Life Storage — Corporate Offices
777 Lake Zurich Road
Barrington, IL. 60010

888.968.0001

1,400

!!!!!!!

And so it continues.....

Dear Reputable (sic) Business People That Own this LITERAL SHITHOLE:

I will continue to try and get as much traffic to this site as long as you continue to NOT MAKE AMENDS TO MYSELF and my child.

Almost 1400 1,635  views. That means, give or take a few, (me and YOU, you bastards and your flunkies) at least 1500 people know what rat shits you are.

Now, I would say, our pending court battle notwithstanding, I have cost you a bundle in lost business.

Yay me!!!

BTW-There is still rat shit all over your RP store. And that AG Kailey doll is getting pricier and pricier.

PARK AVE CORPORATE CENTER????

http://archinect.com/people/project/22306172/park-avenue-corporate-center/22379454

JUST HOW MUCH DOES THE KING RAT OWN, ALREADY??? And does he EXTERMINATE IT???

This bastard seems to own a rat-shitload of real estate, but cannot reimburse a woman and her CHILD for losses that his negligence caused? My guess would be, if he wasn't such an asshole, he could write a check today!  

And just in case anybody has any kind of bad-ass notions...

What Are Defamation, Libel and Slander?

Generally speaking, defamation is the issuance of a false statement about another person, which causes that person to suffer harm. Slander involves the making of defamatory statements by a transitory (non-fixed) representation, usually an oral (spoken) representation. Libel involves the making of defamatory statements in a printed or fixed medium, such as a magazine or newspaper.

Typically, the elements of a cause of action for defamation include:

1. A false and defamatory statement concerning another;
2. The unprivileged publication of the statement to a third party (that is, somebody other than the person defamed by the statement);
3. If the defamatory matter is of public concern, fault amounting at least to negligence on the part of the publisher; and
4. Damage to the plaintiff.  

http://www.expertlaw.com/library/personal_injury/defamation.html

FALSE. GOT THAT? NOTHING HEREIN IS FALSE, AND IS IN FACT DOCUMENTED AND WELL WITNESSED. AS LONG AS IT IS TRUE, AND IT IS, I CAN KIND OF SAY WHAT I WANT.  

ALTHOUGH, I AM THINKING THAT DUMB ASS STATEMENT ABOUT THE FOOD OR BANANA OR WHATEVER IS A LITTLE SLANDEROUS. ESPECIALLY SINCE IDIOT FRED CUT MY LOCK OFF TWO WEEKS EARLIER AND STUCK IT IN THERE.

ANDREW FULLER kinda hinted along these lines once. So, I just want to make things clear.....

UPDATE!!!

MICHELLE WIGHT GOT A PROMOTION!
SHE IS NOW DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS!

WHAT. THE. FUCK?????
LOLOLOLLLLL.......

I actually FORGOT (or maybe blocked as part of the pain)...

In the telling of this tale, this manifesto, this blog, one pertinent thing about +CHRIS BARRY, Storage Rat King and what a dick he has been regarding this fucking disaster matter (you, or your flunkies, have been Googling yourself, haven't you, sport?).

At one point, during the period when I was having daily frequent conversations with JO ("WE ARE DOING ALL WE CAN!!") LEMACK, who answered the Corporate Phone (although why, I  cannot say; she has a voice like an inebriated drag queen and the telephone etiquette of a chihuahua. I also do not know what the fuck else she does), DEMANDING to talk to the Esteemed <snort> Mr. Barry, to be TOLD by said Jo, "he doesn't want to talk to you! He doesn't feel he has to!" or some bogus shit like that, Mr. Barry offered, via Jo to:

CREDIT ONE MONTH'S RENT. IN EXCHANGE FOR ME SIGNING A WAIVER AGAINST ANY DAAAAAMMMMAAAGGGGE.

Yeppers!

What. Does. That. Say. To. You ??????????????????? (*note: nobody even possibly comprehended the amount of damage there was, at this juncture.)

Something like, I am guilty. I knew exactly what was going on, and that I AM LIABLE! And I think you are a moron so, I am gonna weasel my way out of this, regardless of how much YOU'RE fucked? Because I am the Rat Storage KING, and you are a poor peon! I am the Storage King and I don't have to talk to you, little peon tenant that pays me and follows my rules! Ha HA!

Something like that?

YOU, Mr. Barry, approved, executed the agreement, signed the check for, the extermination, or have the stupid fuck(s) that did on your payroll.  You are in (Cobalt) Commercial Construction and are thus familiar with square footage ratios or some such shit, as well as regulations and potential damage caused by pests. Aren't you? Or is your head that far up your ass? Did you need a loss on the books, and so washed your little manicured pinky ringed hands over the Rogers Park store? Because, after all, there were also people living there, PROSTITUTION and it was run by somebody who was dumber than a rock. YOUR OWN ORKIN GUY said that the amount of treatment contracted for the severity of infestation and SIZE of the space was pretty much useless.

And you approved re-carpeting and painting, probably from your own cheesy Cobalt Construction workers, but were too fucking CHEAP TO CONTRACT A SUFFICIENT EXTERMINATION PACKAGE. LOLOLLLLLLL. Really. BTW-that "guarantee" that Orkin offers is only applicable  when you contract the treatment package they recommend. And, as recent as two weeks ago, there was still mouse shit to be seen all over the floor, from a window! I took a picture!

I don't know, really, what the Canadian dude (JEAN JODOIN) has to do with all of this. Nor do I care. Most Canadians I have dealt with in the past have been kind, upstanding people.Mr. Jodain, however, remains notedly silent and nonchalant. As such, he must also be designated a Rat King and Shithead.

You own a business, you are where the buck stops. CHRIS BARRY is listed as the President on all corporate type documents. AND HAS DONE NOTHING TO ACKNOWLEDGE, RECTIFY OR EVEN ADDRESS, EXCEPT IN AN ASSWIPE LIKE MANNER, this situation.

Thus, Mr. Barry is seemingly not only An Asswipe Shithead and Rat King (or King Rat), he's a COWARD. 

Whatsmore, evidently he and his partner, the (seemingly) elusive JEAN JODAIN are fucking multi multi multi BAZILLIONAIRES, creating trusts and acquiring real property.

 I am not

(to be continued....)

THE VERY WHITE GUY IN THE MIDDLE: RAT KING CHRIS BARRY

goodbye, YELP

HELLO, CRAIGSLIST!!!!!

BWWAAAAAAHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

The power of the keyboard

Is pretty fucking mighty. Now, do the right thing. Okay, King Rat? That's a good little rich boy.

GROSS, indeed....

Gross Negligence/Willful and Wanton Misconduct

Courts in most states hold that a waiver intended to protect a provider from liability for gross negligence, reckless misconduct, or willful and wanton misconduct violates the public policy of the state. Some define ordinary negligence as the failure to act as a reasonably prudent person would act under the circumstances. Most states distinguish between ordinary negligence and gross negligence and define gross negligence as an extreme form of negligence in which one fails to use the care that even a careless person would use. Reckless misconduct is usually considered to involve more extreme conduct than gross negligence, while willful and wanton misconduct is generally regarded as the most extreme form of negligence. 

 http://www.selfstoragetalk.com/legal-insurance-issues/5552-can-we-contract-away-our-own-gross-negligence.html

Wouldn't RODENT CONTROL be a public policy of the state?

REDUX (see below for pics!)

Here is the short story as I posted on YELP: (and incidentally, they, too SUCK.)

This company has no business ethics, etiquette, concepts of truthful facts, or regard for its customers.

This place is SATURATED by mice. They permeated my unit, resulting in $1000s in loss along with grief, inane amounts of time, insane exchanges with employees  and having a LIVE litter IN THE BOX CONTAINING DISHES. What is left smells like a zoo.

I am stressed and exhausted and my 13 year old daughter is devastated. I could not have imagined this in my worst nightmare. It is my personal Katrina. And guess what? NO ONE CARES.

I have lost over half of my things due to rodent destruction and the current regional manager +MICHELLE WIGHT (there have been a few) claims she can do no more after buying me some containers and bags and paying for movers FROM one of their units TO another. I am going to have to sue to recover myself and my daughters losses now, a long and expensive process. And they have had the nerve to ask ME to leave, but I would anyway.

They  have claimed at various times they are not responsible for rodent control in their own building and business. Um, not according to city ordinances and case law.

The problem first became evident in MARCH and they then told me the mice were isolated to a particular area of the building and were being addressed "aggressively" (THIS WAS BY THE THEN REGIONAL MANAGER? PART OWNER? VP? WHO KNOWS, have heard it all). Same thing in April, May, June, July, August and September. Numerous mice were IN THE UNIT before during and after the move, which took over a week to organize and several hours.

I spoke with their Orkin tech who said the treatment they had was in no way sufficient for the property's size or level of infestation. They went the cheap route, clearly. BTW, folks, Orkin does what it is paid to do, period.

The site manager, FRED WEAVER (now fired) so admired by a previous poster, is a psycho; rude, unresponsive, lazy, unprofessional and I strongly suspect illiterate. When questioned about the rodent problem for MONTHS, his response is "it gonna take a minute". This is a site manager?

The corporate number is answered, when it IS, by a woman NAMED JO, who is just as bad or worse. The Owners, +CHRIS BARRY AND +JEAN JODOIN seem to think speaking with customers, the schmucks who butter their pretty crusty bread, is beneath them. The only  decent employee is a girl that works there, who these idiots set up and fired, too. She was pleasant and was sympathetic about the matter.   AVOID AVOID AVOID.

OVER ONE THOUSAND VIEWS!!!

YES! Thank you, whoever you are, and SUCK IT, LIFE STORAGE!
This means that hundreds of people know what shits you are are, you nasty rodent infested, pimping dickheads.

And they're talking.....

Hey, "Classy Lady"!

That was sophmorically lame. And irrelevant. And since it interests you so much, pretty much a non-event. BUT, I have a general idea of who you are. Which is, a dumb-ass, low level flunky of Life Storage.  That stupid shit is as good as you can come up with, and again it is way lame.

So--SCUM-bag, you wanna start a cyber war?

BRING IT, and good luck with THAT.

Because, I remind you that what your company, with you contributing, did is illegal and reprehensible. At the end of the day, they will pay. They can make it easy and try and negotiate, or make it hard and expensive--and damage their reputation MORE.

In addition, please note that this blog is within the parameters of the law (and ethics), as everything alleged here is documented, photographed or witnessed. EVERYTHING. Some even by your former colleagues, who are not only the few in the organization that are honest, but who got totally screwed by it because they are.  As well as your customers.

Besides, now I am sure THEY know. By the way, your video is discoverable and subject to forensics if need be. See, in this day and age they can tell what's been altered and erased.

So, either do what you can to FIX IT, or shove it up your flabbity ass. I and this blog are going nowhere and are grateful you acknowledged our presence.

Peace. Out.  Stephen.

BWWAAAAAHHAAAAA!!!!! MORE LOADS OF RAT SHIT....

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Life Storage - Chicago self storage-provides the best in household and business self storage services. Whether you are downsizing, relocating, or growing your business, Life Storage Centers offer the 21st century way to manage your belongings, records, and merchandise. Our drive-in and drive-thru convenience makes your move easy. Life Storage also offers office suites, records storage, document destruction and truck rentals. Tenants have access to their offices or storage facility with a keypad code for getting in after hours.
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  http://www.yelp.com/biz/life-storage-centers-of-rogers-park-chicago

There is a 'J Lennon' writing glowing reviews of LSC all over the web. It is 'his' only one. Hmmm......

Am I some kind of a nut?

No.

Well, maybe.

Look, I am a single mother with a young teen who has experienced a lot of anguish over this and lost over half of the things my daughter and I owned. It effected my mental state, work, relationships and finances. I would have thought Life Storage, so warm and fuzzy in the media would have righted its wrong. They knew for months about the problem, related problems  and, it's a safe bet, all the other things (e.g., a girl turning tricks in their facility, people living there--it was all on video). And did nothing except get attitude and make a nasty retaliatory move, locking me out of my unit (with my purse, keys and money in it!) when I had a zero balance and a perfectly good lease (read up on successor clauses, Andrew Fuller, 'k?).

Their employee laughed when my daughter spotted a mouse and got hysterical. 

Their "manager", who talked like he had shit in his mouth was either a bigger idiot than I have indicated or taking a cut of something (drugs, tail, or cash). HOWEVER, upper management is responsible for lower (and I DO MEAN LOW!-heh) management. The guy who signs the paycheck....

Their business has no governing body.
They know they are far richer than me.
They can afford to take a loss on one property, so they don't really care if it has a bad rep or not and the residents tenants will continue to pay, as they have no where to go.


They have indicated they think it's okay. And that is the worst.

Make this right, gentlemen, and it will all go away. But until then, the campaign continues....

So, what's up with the FLIES?

Well, put simply, they didn't have wallpaper with mice.
I felt the site needed a bit of spiffing up.
And, where there's mice, there's flies.
Plus they're pretty icky themselves.