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al9226 · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

U Store It

Washed-up · guest

Yea I think there is a guy who stores his stuff. I think he said he has stored it for 8 years. It's secure and has cameras.

SP Cleaning · Dec 11, 2010

Hey Al,

I use one for our storage. The benefit for me is Mileage Deductions for taxes.
If you take mileage as opposed to Truck maint. and expenses this can be a huge deduction for you if you drive allot of miles.
The IRS will allow a mileage deduction. If you have your own business you can deduct the amount of business miles x the IRS allotted $$$ per mile. The catch is it is NOT all miles. Your trip from your home to the FIRST job of the day is considered Commute miles and is NOT deductible. The mileage you drive for the rest of the day up to the last job is deductible. Your drive from the last job back home is considered commute miles and is NOT deductible.
I have my equipment in storage 1.5 miles from home. The 3 miles I drive each day to and from the Storage facility is commute miles and NOT deductible, The rest of my driving is deductible. If you look at your own situation, it may be a great advantage to rent a unit and work from there. I had over $30,000 mileage deduction for mileage alone for 2009. Please consult your Accountant for your own situation.

The rent is also deductible biggrin

Chris

al9226 · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

Do you keep everything there except the truck. Has anyone ever complained about chems etc?

SP Cleaning · Dec 11, 2010

I keep everything there but the truck. No complaints on Chems.

Ron Musgraves · National Cleaning Expo's

I dont store them. We are too busy washing family freinds and customers?

Roof Cleaning Bradenton FL 941-822-2454 · Guest

Need to check on storing the chems they can be really funny about that
Kim R

al9226 · Premium Member Roof Cleaning Institute of America

I get mine fresh, but for early jobs, I get it the night before. I'll have to look at the contract and see what it says about keeping chems there.

guest

put it in storage if you don't mind going to get it everytime you want to use it.

I would prefer having in my gargage where you work on it at night, clean things up etc.

tough call uh?

Roof Cleaning Cleveland (216) 323-0552 · Dec 12, 2010

If it is an enclosed trailer you could pay a local business to park in their lot. It would be closer to home plus you would get free advertising.

Dec 12, 2010

I park my enclosed trailer in a gated lot with video cameras,that cost $50 a month. I rent a storage room there as well just during the season and thats $130 a month,it's great to store Chems and I can just load up while im hooking up the trailer. So now the trailers sits until april first at a cost of $200.00 for four months. It beats sitting in my driveway getting neighbors angry.

Roof Cleaning Bradenton FL 941-822-2454 · Guest

I have rented a few storage units a little while back and they ask clearly if there is any hazardous or flammable contents or food stuff as well( bbq tank had to be empty),
I guess the question is if there was a full 55 gal drum in a unit and the building caught fire would it cause an explosion?, and the FD would not know what is in there, could be a huge liability to your company. Minor scenario if a leak developed in the barrel and ran under the walls would your insurance cover damaging your neighboring units contents. The issue of terrorism and storage of large barrels of stuff could raise an eye by someone in there. They just blew up a house that was full of barrels of explosive stuff by some scumbag.
That would really suck, being raided by the feds.. sorry for dulling the day :(
Kim R

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SP Cleaning wrote:

Hey Al,

I use one for our storage. The benefit for me is Mileage Deductions for taxes.
If you take mileage as opposed to Truck maint. and expenses this can be a huge deduction for you if you drive allot of miles.
The IRS will allow a mileage deduction. If you have your own business you can deduct the amount of business miles x the IRS allotted $$$ per mile. The catch is it is NOT all miles. Your trip from your home to the FIRST job of the day is considered Commute miles and is NOT deductible. The mileage you drive for the rest of the day up to the last job is deductible. Your drive from the last job back home is considered commute miles and is NOT deductible.
I have my equipment in storage 1.5 miles from home. The 3 miles I drive each day to and from the Storage facility is commute miles and NOT deductible, The rest of my driving is deductible. If you look at your own situation, it may be a great advantage to rent a unit and work from there. I had over $30,000 mileage deduction for mileage alone for 2009. Please consult your Accountant for your own situation.

The rent is also deductible

Chris

Good info here, Chris!

I am going to price some storage around here, too. We live in a townhouse and my trailer takes up just about the entire garage.

Guest

I would think it deals with preference, I have a 15 ft wide, 44 ft deep storage, plus 20 plus high ceiling with heated floors and electrical hook ups. It is nice to put the truck in and do work if needed since I only have a single car garage at home. It is only 2 miles from my house so not a long haul when I need to work on something, I pay 330.00 a month for it though so I would think you would want to look at the money, distance and your time going between the your home and storage.

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