I can certainly appreciate your storage woes, they aren't without merit, especially there in the capital beltway- Real Estate is just expensive.
Perhaps some cost savings idea for storage-
1.) Safe deposit box at your local bank- why not?? Look at how these things appreciate and how much money we spend on them. A SD box isn't a bad idea.
2.) Rent a shed- a lot of places have controlled environment annexes where you can store anything without worrying about damage from the weather. Perhaps you can meet some more guys here on the forum and you can all join in on the cost.
3.) Store with a trusted friend or relative.
Yeah- collection management is an issue, which is why I diversified a bit. St. Pete and East of India don't retire their pieces nearly as fast as KC does (the demand isn't there) so I decided to pick what I felt was the better quality figures from those companies. That way, the defense budget can be flexible and adaptive and respond to the sudden "Aw man, he's retiring all those pieces." and I can jump on them. I had to watch WS52 slip away this month and looking back, it was a good thing. I had gotten away from KC when that thing and the new 88 came out and just missed the boat. C'est la vie. There will be other fun trucks and cannons to snatch up.
You can almost approach it like a floor manager at a retail concern- they only have so much shelf space to work with- that is a given constraint- one that we all are limited by- the big name retailers like Gucci, Nieman Marcus- heck Ron- just go the Crossings there in McLean
)- you know what I am saying- but work with the space you have and then demand that you put the highest quality figures in that space that you can.
Heck Ron, from what I understand, you work pretty closely with the government- perhaps you can get them to tool up the IRC and allow for storage space to be an itemized deduction like a home office or, dare I say, a second home in the DC area
) I believe Louis, with his 800 sq feet of space could possibly pull that off now.
