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Renting a bay at Silknitter Storage

This is a plain-language summary of renting a storage bay from Silknitter Storage (201 W Silknitter St, Rose Hill, KS 67133), whether you sign online or at the lot. The agreement you actually sign is the Silknitter Storage Rental Agreement (PDF); where this page and the Rental Agreement differ, the Rental Agreement controls. If anything here is unclear, email support@silknitterstorage.com before you agree.

1. What you're renting

One outdoor, drive-up storage bay, identified by its number on your receipt and lease. You rent the space only: this is not a lease of real property, and we do not take custody or care of what you store. The bay is not climate controlled, watertight or secure against every risk, and you accept it as it is.

2. Term and rent

  • The lease is month to month and renews automatically. Each rental month starts on the 1st; a mid-month move-in pays a prorated first month.
  • Rent is due in advance on the 1st, without an invoice or reminder. Not getting a reminder does not excuse a late payment.
  • Pay online or by check made payable to Silknitter Storage. Paying online by card or bank account authorizes us to save that card or account and charge it on the 1st for the rent then due, until you tell us to stop or the lease ends. A bank payment takes a few business days to clear and counts as received when it does.
  • Payments go first to fees and charges owed, then to the oldest unpaid rent.
  • We will give you at least 30 days' written notice before changing your rent, fees, access hours or the lot rules.
  • You may not sublet the bay or let anyone else use it without our written consent. Only the people named on your lease may get into it.

3. Fees

  • Late rent: rent unpaid after the 5th costs double the daily rate for each late day (the month's rent divided by the days in that month, so an $80 bay is about $2.67 a day, and a late day costs about $5.33).
  • Returned check or bank payment: $35.
  • Cutting and replacing a lock, when we have to remove yours: $35.
  • Lien processing: the full cost of preparing and sending default notices.
  • Cleaning or disposal, if the bay is not left broom-clean: what it actually costs.

4. What you may not store or do

  • No gasoline, propane, oil, paint, solvents or other flammable liquids or gases; no explosives, fireworks, or ammunition beyond ordinary personal amounts; nothing hazardous, toxic or radioactive.
  • No food, plants or anything that draws pests, and nothing living, ever.
  • No stolen property, controlled substances or anything illegal to have, and no cash, securities, deeds, jewelry, furs, artwork, collectibles or other items of unusual value.
  • Nobody may live in, sleep in or run a business, workshop or office from a bay. No alterations, shelving fixed to the building, wiring, appliances or machinery.
  • Follow the lot rules posted at the lot or given to you.

5. Your risk, insurance and the $5,000 limit

  • Everything in your bay is stored at your own risk. We are not responsible for loss or damage from any cause (fire, water, weather, pests, theft, other tenants) unless it is caused by our own gross negligence or willful misconduct.
  • You are required to insure what you store, for its full value, against fire, theft and water. We do not insure it. If you choose not to, you accept all risk of loss.
  • The total value of what you store is limited to $5,000, and that is the most you could claim from us for any loss. To store more, ask us in writing first.

6. Access and your lock

  • The lot is open 24 hours. We may change access hours on written notice, or close the lot for a while for maintenance, weather or an emergency.
  • You supply and use your own lock and keep the bay locked. We keep no key or combination.
  • We may enter your bay in an emergency, to make repairs, to inspect it on reasonable notice, when the law requires or allows (including to enforce our lien), or on a court's or government's lawful request, and may cut your lock to do so. We will secure the bay afterwards and give you notice when entry does not have to be immediate.

7. Late rent, default and our lien

If rent or any charge goes unpaid, or you break the agreement, you are in default. We may then deny you access and put our own lock on the bay until everything owed is paid. Kansas law (K.S.A. 58-816 and 58-817) gives us a lien on what is stored in the bay. Before anything is sold we send a first notice by first-class mail to your mailing address, and by email if you gave us one, and a second notice at least 7 days later. Nothing is sold until you have been in default for more than 45 days. You can stop a sale at any time before it happens by paying everything owed. Money left over after a sale is held for you for a year, then goes to the Kansas State Treasurer as unclaimed property.

8. Notices and your contact details

  • We send notices to the mailing address and email you gave us. Tell us in writing within 10 days if your name, address, email or phone changes: notices sent to the old address still count.
  • Kansas law lets you name someone else to receive notices too. Tell us if you want to.
  • Notices to us, and everyday questions, go by email to support@silknitterstorage.com.
  • If you are an active-duty servicemember, tell us in writing: federal law gives you additional protections and we will honor them.

9. Ending the lease

  • You may end the lease by giving at least 10 days' written notice before the end of a rental month (by email to support@silknitterstorage.com, or under Moving out in your account), then emptying the bay, removing your lock and leaving it broom-clean.
  • Rent is not prorated or refunded for a partial month when you move out, unless we agree in writing. There is no separate termination fee.
  • We may end the lease with at least 10 days' written notice, or immediately if you are in default or break the storage rules in section 4. Anything left behind after you move out may be removed and disposed of at your cost, as the law allows.

10. The rest

Kansas law governs the agreement, and any case about it is heard in Butler County district court. You are responsible for claims arising from your use of the bay or what you store, and whoever wins a lawsuit to enforce the agreement recovers reasonable attorney fees. The agreement can be signed and kept electronically, and it binds you once you rent or store anything in the bay, whether or not you sign it.