Jennifer M.
Heart-breaking experience
We are still involved in a heart-breaking experience with Two Men. My mother's items were moved and put in storage with Two Men when we moved her to assisted living. My mom was very pleased with the service provided by Two Men. When she died, we moved her property to a far less expensive and secure storage facility. The Two Men facility in Peoria is a warehouse with everyone's things in it--items are just put in several different large stacks that are supposed to be separated by a chain link fence, though most are not. There are no labels or tags on anything in the warehouse that has the name or a barcode or anything to tell whose property is whose. And some items supposedly belonging to one pile are not necessarily in that pile--just next to it. Two Men moved our mother's things to the new storage space. No one in our family physically supervised the move, and this was not required by Two Men. After our mother's memorial, we went through the storage facility. A lot of it were big items of furniture or books that we were planning to give away if no one in our family wanted them. But there were several items that were meant to be passed on to us--items that had been passed onto my mother from her mother and to her from our great-grandmothers and great-great grandmothers. Precious China that had been in our family for generations were missing, along with several other items. Items we planned to pass on to our own children someday. When we called Two Men, we were originally told that none of my mothers items were at the facility and that they had all been moved and had we looked good enough through the new storage. We wanted to see the storage space anyway (we had specifically labeled these boxes with their contents and we did not use the Two Men moving boxes). When we were driving to the warehouse, Two Men called and said they had found several boxes that probably were ours. When we got there, there were 6 boxes pulled out for us to view. We were allowed to open and look through them. It was glassware, but it was not our mother's items. Again, these boxes were not labeled with anything to say whose they were. When we asked the worker, he said that he didn't know whose boxes they were, but was quick to add that nothing like this had ever happened before (which I find very hard to believe). I believe that if we had claimed these items as ours, this worker would have let us take them. When we left, we asked for the corporate number and were given the franchise owner, Kevin Christensen's, phone number. Since that date, we have called and spoken with Mr. Christensen at which time he admitted that items in the warehouse were to have been labeled for identity. After we spoke on the phone with Mr. Christensen, we sent an email detailing the phone call, the situation, and our complaint. We requested a response. It has been near a month and we have received no response from Mr. Christensen or from any representative from Two Men. We have reached out to Mr. Christensen again requesting a response. And this is where we are. We hope that we do not have to seek legal advice to get a response and to get some sort of redress for Two Men's negligence.



