Auburn sits where the Sacramento Valley starts climbing into the Sierra foothills, and that geography shapes how people here move and store. Long driveways on Bowman acreage, tight loading windows during Old Town home sales, rural lots off Auburn Lake Trails with no good place to back a 26 ft moving truck, fire rebuilds along the foothill ridgelines that need somewhere to put a household for the better part of a year. A portable storage container that arrives on your schedule, sits where you need it, and leaves when you say so handles all of it without the back-and-forth of a self-storage unit in town.
UNITS Sacramento delivers across Placer County including all of Auburn, North Auburn, Bowman, Christian Valley, Meadow Vista, and the surrounding 95602 / 95603 / 95604 ZIP areas. We have served the Auburn area for years from our West Sacramento facility, and the foothill grade and rural driveways are part of our normal week, not an exception.
Why Auburn chooses UNITS
- Two container sizes for two very different Auburn moves. A 12 ft container handles a downtown Auburn apartment, a Bowman cabin remodel, or a tool and equipment offload for a short job. A 16 ft container handles a full single-family home on an acre lot. Most local Auburn operators only carry one size.
- ROBO delivery for sloped, narrow, and surface-sensitive Auburn driveways. The ROBO-UNIT places the container level on uneven foothill driveways, gravel pads, decomposed-granite parking areas, and tight spots where a roll-back tow truck would jackknife or chew up the surface. If you have a steep approach off Hwy 49, Bell Rd, or a private lane into Christian Valley, this is the difference between getting a container placed and getting told no.
- Six days a week including Saturday. We deliver and pick up Monday through Saturday. Working Auburn households can schedule the drop and the load around a weekend rather than burning a vacation day.
- Steel-frame containers with treated pine floors and E-Track tie-downs. Built for actual moves and built for the foothill weather. Sealed so the rain and the summer dust both stay out of your belongings.
- Local Placer County experience. We know where the encroachment permit applies and where it does not, what the access constraints look like across the Auburn ZIPs, and how to position a container so a fire rebuild crew, a contractor, or a moving truck can still get past it.
How UNITS portable storage works in Auburn
Same simple flow every time.
Step 1. Get a quote. Call (916) 929-4435 or use the contact form. Give us the Auburn address, what you are storing, and roughly how long. We size you into a 12 ft or a 16 ft container and quote you a flat monthly rate. No upsell, no add-ons buried later.
Step 2. We deliver. A driver brings the container to your Auburn address on the day you scheduled. The ROBO-UNIT places it level on your driveway, side yard, or pad. Most Auburn drops take under 30 minutes from arrival to driver back in the truck.
Step 3. You load on your time. Pack today, next weekend, over three weeks. The container stays put. Ground-level loading means no ramp, no truck-bed lift, and no pulling your back hauling a couch up two feet.
Step 4. We move it, store it, or pick it up. When you are ready, we either move the container to your new Auburn address, transport it to our secure West Sacramento warehouse for indoor storage, or simply pick it up empty. You decide on the timing.
Step 5. We deliver it back whenever you are ready. If we are storing it at our facility and you want it back at a Placer County address (yours or a new one), we put it back on the schedule and bring it out.
STEP 1
Get a quote and book your delivery
STEPS 2-3
We deliver, you load on your time
STEPS 4-5
We move it, store it, or pick it up
Where you can use portable storage in Auburn
Home remodel and addition projects. Bath remodels, kitchen tear-outs, second-story additions on Old Town Auburn craftsman homes and the 1970s ranches above Bell Rd. Park a container on the driveway, move the dining room and the spare bedroom into it, and your contractor has the room they need to work clean.
Real estate gap moves. Auburn sales close on their own timeline. When the close on the old place is two weeks before the close on the new one, the container holds the household and you only handle the load and the unload, not three runs to a storage unit in town. We work with Auburn-area real estate agents on staging holds, photo-day clear-outs, and post-listing inventory storage.
Fire rebuilds and defensible-space cleanouts. Auburn-area properties that lost outbuildings or main structures in recent fire seasons, or that are clearing brush and outbuildings to meet defensible-space requirements ahead of the next fire season, need somewhere to stage tools, salvageable belongings, and replacement materials. Containers work for the full duration of a rebuild and the contents stay sealed against weather and dust.
Estate transitions and downsizing. Long-time Auburn residents downsizing out of larger homes into a smaller place in Auburn or out to family use the container as a sort decision. Load what you are keeping, take a month to make the keep / donate / sell calls without crowding the new place.
Rural and equestrian property storage. Acreage off Auburn Lake Trails, Christian Valley, Lake of the Pines, and the rural roads off Hwy 49 often does not have a good outbuilding for off-season tack, hay, feed, RV gear, boating supplies, or seasonal yard equipment. A 12 ft or 16 ft container on the property handles it without the cost and footprint of a permanent structure.
Commercial and contractor on-site storage. Auburn contractors, restoration companies, retail buildouts, and short-term commercial overflow use containers as on-job storage. Lockable, ground-level, and you can keep it as long as the job runs.
Why UNITS beats the alternatives in Auburn
When an Auburn homeowner is weighing how to handle a move or a remodel, there are usually four real options on the table. Here is how UNITS stacks up against each.
vs renting a moving truck
Renting a 20 ft or 26 ft U-Haul, Penske, or Budget truck out of Auburn means driving a box truck up and down foothill grades, pulling onto your driveway, loading on a rental clock, then driving back to return it the same day. Two trips at minimum if the new place is not ready. UNITS removes the truck entirely. Container arrives on your driveway, you load it ground-level, and we move it. No rental hours ticking, no driving anything you do not normally drive.
vs renting a self-storage unit in town
Self-storage in Auburn means renting a unit on Bell Rd, Grass Valley Hwy, or one of the facilities along I-80, then making the trips. Pack at home, drive to the unit, unload at the unit, drive home, repeat. With UNITS the container comes to you, you load once on your driveway, and either we store it at our secure West Sacramento facility or it stays put on your property. Either way you handle every box one time instead of three.
vs the local Auburn portable storage operator
There is one other portable storage company physically located in Auburn. They have been around a long time and they are real competitors. Two differences worth knowing before you choose:
- They run a single container size (8 ft x 8 ft x 16 ft). UNITS offers both a 12 ft and a 16 ft. If your move is closer to a studio, a 1-bedroom, or a partial-room project, the 12 ft is the right tool and costs less to rent.
- Their listed hours are Monday through Friday. UNITS runs Monday through Saturday. If a Saturday delivery or Saturday pickup matters for your work schedule, that is a real difference.
We respect the local competition. Auburn buyers should choose based on container fit, schedule fit, and price for the actual job, not just who has been here longest.
vs PODS, 1-800-PACK-RAT, or other national brands
National-brand portable storage routes Auburn calls through a corporate call center and dispatches a driver from a regional yard. UNITS is a locally franchise-owned operation with one direct phone line, one local team, and equipment staged closer to the Auburn area than most of the national fleets. When you call us, you reach the people who actually run the delivery.
Container sizes for your Auburn move
12 ft container
12 FT LONG, 8 FT WIDE, 8 FT TALL. ABOUT 770 CUBIC FEET.
Right-sized for a downtown Auburn apartment, a small Old Town bungalow, a 1-bedroom condo, a cabin in Meadow Vista, or a partial-room project like a kitchen tear-out or a garage clean-out. Also works well for contractor on-site tool and material storage where space is tight.
16 ft container
16 FT LONG, 8 FT WIDE, 8 FT TALL. ABOUT 1,000 CUBIC FEET.
Right-sized for a full single-family home on a typical Auburn lot, a 3-bedroom 1970s ranch above Bell Rd, a Bowman acreage property, or an Auburn Lake Trails / Christian Valley home. Handles a full household move, a multi-room remodel, or a rebuild that needs to stage tools and salvaged items for several months.
Not sure which size you need? Call (916) 929-4435 and tell us what you are moving or storing. We will size you correctly the first time.
Auburn portable storage questions, answered
Do you deliver to all of Auburn including ZIP codes 95602, 95603, and 95604?
Yes. We deliver to every Auburn-area ZIP code including 95602 (North Auburn, Bowman, Lake of the Pines edge), 95603 (Auburn proper, Old Town, Christian Valley), and 95604 (Auburn PO). We also serve the surrounding Placer County communities: Meadow Vista, Newcastle, Penryn, Loomis, Weimar, and Colfax. If you are not sure your address is in our delivery zone, call (916) 929-4435 and we will confirm in a minute.
Will the container fit on a sloped or gravel Auburn driveway?
In almost every case, yes. The ROBO-UNIT places the container level on uneven and sloped Auburn driveways, gravel pads, decomposed granite, and tight foothill approaches that a roll-back truck cannot handle. The container sits flat once placed even if the surface underneath is not. If you are unsure about your specific driveway, take a couple of photos when you call and we can usually clear it on the spot.
Do I need a Placer County permit to put a container on my property?
If the container is fully on your private property, no permit is required. If it has to sit in the public right-of-way (in the street, on the shoulder, partially over a county-maintained road easement) you may need an encroachment permit from Placer County Public Works. We can help you figure out which applies before we deliver, so you do not have to find out the day the container shows up.
Can I use a UNITS container during a fire rebuild?
Yes. Containers are well-suited for rebuilds because the timeline is long and the contents need to stay sealed against weather, dust, and ash. We rent month to month with no fixed end date so you can keep the container as long as the rebuild runs. Common rebuild uses: staging salvaged household items, storing replacement materials and fixtures before install, holding tools and equipment on the work site.
What is the difference between keeping the container at my Auburn home versus storing it at your facility?
If you keep the container at your Auburn property, you have direct access to your belongings any time you want, and you do not pay a separate transport fee until pickup. If you store the container at our secure indoor West Sacramento warehouse, the contents are protected from weather and out of sight, but you need to schedule access in advance. Many Auburn customers do a hybrid: container on the driveway for the active load and the move, then transferred to our warehouse once the new place is ready or the rebuild is paused.
Also serving Rocklin, Roseville, Citrus Heights, Folsom, El Dorado Hills, and our full service area across the Sacramento region.
Get a free Auburn portable storage quote
Call (916) 929-4435 or fill out a quote form online. Tell us the Auburn address, what you are moving or storing, and roughly when you need the container. We will quote a flat monthly rate, confirm the delivery window, and have a container on your driveway within a few business days.
