Localfolks: storage facilities for cars

[geekchick]

Thanks to our *ahem* friendly neighborhood homeowner's association, we need to find a place to store one of the cars for a while that isn't our parking lot or the streets in our subdivision. There seem to be several places that will let you put your car into one of their exterior units if it fits, as well as a few that have parking spots specifically for things like RV/car/boat storage. For some reason though, even the folks who say on the phone that they have exterior 10x20 units with roll-up doors available say that the car must be registered and insured if it's stored there. Um, if the car was currently registered, we'd be able to park it on the street and this whole thing would be a complete non-issue. I'm not sure if the people who were claiming it must be registered were expecting the car to be parked in an exterior space rather than shut up in a locked storage unit (because frankly, if it's stored in a locked unit, how is anyone going to know the registration status?), but that's something that I guess needs clearing up sometime during the day when the manager's around.

I see someone posted about car storage in one of the NoVA communities and I'm keeping an eye on that, but do any of y'all have any recommendations for places to stash a car for a few months that don't care if the tags are current or not?

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[geekchick]

No, I don't think either of us is even remotely keen on leaving it parked outside someplace where we can't keep an eye on it. (Not to mention, those definitely require the tags to be current.) We're wanting to grab a 10x20 storage unit and park the car inside it.