Temecula Valley Transition Specialist

As your neighborhood real estate professionals, I've had the opportunity to work with amazing professionals. Today I will introduce you to another local expert to provide meaningful information. I'm Mitchell Jones, and this is the lowdown on Temecula Valley. Well, I'm here today with a dear friend of mine, Celeste Ducharme. I'm so honored to have her here. She has been a resident of the Temecula Valley for over 17 years. She serves in so many capacities and which probably we should do multiple interviews. But today we're going to talk about she is a transition specialist. Whoo. at Ranch RV and self storage. And well first of all, let's talk about what what is a transition specialist?

Celeste Ducharme - Temecula Valley Transition Specialist
So I'm so glad you asked. And I first of all, I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for for who you are, and for how you're wanting to spotlight me and how I get to help people as they transition in life. So it's incredible, but just being able to help people as they transition sometimes through death, divorce dislocation downsizing, people need a place for short term or long teams, long term storage and at ranch RV and self storage, we get to do that for people.

Mitchell Jones
So describe for us who your greatest customers are, the type of clients you're serving.

Celeste Ducharme
So typically our customers are about 80% women in the industry. So whether it's just the women are taking care of when there's a death in the family or divorce. It's both sides and dislocating relocating. You know, the women are typically shopping and our customer who we deal with the most. So it's a great industry, you know, nobody window shop storage, you definitely have a need if you're looking for it. So it's a very specialty industry to be in and we love it. I have an amazing staff. And we get to encourage and love and embrace them while they're there. Short term or long term.

Mitchell Jones
That is neat. So when someone is looking for self storage, what what should We look forward what questions should we ask?

Celeste Ducharme
That's a great question.

Celeste Ducharme
If you were I were looking for storage or you know, even within our house, we want peace of mind, right? We want to know where secure, so nothing is different within storage, you definitely want peace of mind. So how many surveillance cameras do you have? Are your units individually alarmed? Does someone live on site? A site manager is not as common anymore because the technology is so brilliant. We can access our cameras I can from my house from anywhere. And so that's the peace of mind you're wanting friendliness? How is the staff? how responsive? Are they? So very important to have someone who's going to meet your needs with friendliness and then cleanliness? Is it maintained? Do they have pest control? How is the facility or is it being cleaned daily? Is it being cleaned monthly? So friendliness, calmness and peace of mind the three biggest things you want to look at? And then is it short term? Is it long term? What happens if I move out mid month do I get a refund? Why don't make no refund. So some great questions to ask. Do I only They get the movement special. If I'm there for the full three months, right? Can I rent for a weekend?

Mitchell Jones
Okay, so are you suggesting you have short term rentals available?

Celeste Ducharme
I'm so glad you asked.

Celeste Ducharme
We do we specialize in short term. We ask for 10 days notice I had somebody walk in the office yesterday who gave me a two day notice and that's okay. We want you to be there as short or long as you...