More storage units coming east and west. Why so many? ‘Honey, you’d be amazed.’

If it seems like everyone you know either owns or rents a storage facility, you’re probably about right, and that’s why Morrie Sheets has two more storage deals in the works on the east and west sides of Wichita.

Sheets, who is with ReeceNichols of South Central Kansas, also is surprisingly frank about the storage industry, but more on that in a minute.

First, Sheets is partnering with Slawson Cos. on his third Exec-u-stor development.

The condo project is just south of his Exec-u-stor II near Central and Greenwich.

Like that development and another Exec-u-stor he has near Central and Webb Road that filled up before the condos even went up, Sheets said he’s already sold two of the five planned buildings.

The units can be as small as 750 square feet to “as large as you want,” Sheets said. “You can combine them side by side or straight through.”

That could be either 80 or 86 feet deep.

The buildings will be ready by December and are for sale only — not for lease.

Potential customers “really want to buy them instead of rent them,” Sheets said.

That’s part of why condo storage is so popular, he said.

Sheets said another key is “having different-size units so you don’t have to force one unit size down everybody’s throat.”

On the west side near 151st Street West and Kellogg, Sheets is helping another group with their MyStor storage rental units, which are 1,650 square feet each.

The first phase is almost complete.

Lots of storage units are popular for man caves along with car, boat and RV storage, which makes sense.

Still, storage units seem to be more popular than even car washes these days, so what else are people filling them up with?

“Honey, you’d be amazed,” Sheets said.

He should know. He’s been paying $289 a month for a 10-by-25 unit at somebody else’s storage facility since 2010, and he doesn’t exactly know what’s in it.

Sheets said his “wife’s got it packed full of . . . ” — well, you can’t mention that word in a family newspaper — but he thinks it includes random items like photos of his and her great-great grandmothers.

“Hell, I’ve never met her,” Sheets said. “You think somebody will want this stuff. They’ll never want it.”

Still, he can’t get rid of it.

“I’ll be dammed if I want to spend a week in there going through it.”

Sheets has a better plan than that.

“I’m praying for a tornado on that one.”