Some possibilities:

1) The garage at your rental.
2) A rental storage unit.
3) PODS.
4) Rent a cargo container & stash it on your lot or at your rental.
5) Mom & Dad's garage.

We used Pods for things we did not have to access often and rented two storage units. One storage unit was used for the stuff we bought for the new house- light fixtures, faucets etc.
My parents also let us store boxes in their basement.

Sherlock Holmes would deduce from my list that I live in a warm area, where basements are uncommon. :) There is, of course, the basement of your rental, or the basement of a helpful friend or relative, if you are in an area where basements are the norm.

Also, you could get a rental with an extra bedroom. A great deal will fit in there if you pack it floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall. (Just make sure that you don't have so much weight that the floor collapses. Completely filling that volume with books, for example, might not be the best idea...)

We are in the same boat. Our temporary housing accomodations will not give us sufficient room for all of our things. We are renting cargo containers for the temporary housing time period.

Here is a link that might be useful: Our Progress So Far

We have an overseas shipping cargo container for all of our stuff. We moved from a 3000 sq foot house into a mobile home while we are building the new one. We didn't rent it....we bought it. We are using it for a while since we are building the house ourselves. The only part of the purchase price we won't recoup is the delivery charge ($300). We will get our money back for the container when we re-sell it.

Moving is a great opportunity for a thorough housecleaning.

With our youngest then four years old, I felt it wasn't necessary to carry around spare cases of diapers and assorted changing tables, warming bottles and the like. (I surely hope so!) And I hadn't realized mrs worthy had every Victoria's Secret catalogue ever printed. (Helps explain the 6 pregnancies in a row, I suppose.) I chipped in too, dumping my 1980s collection of Architectural Digests. Just as dated.

My basement stored my neighbor's stuff when their house burned, my best friend's stuff when he moved, and is now full of my son's stuff while he looks for an apartment. I have a few things down there too. You gotta have a basement.

What's a BASEMENT!!!!

;)

worthy-LOL at the Victoria's Secret-for me it is Southern Living-think DH would rather be married to Mrs. Worthy? Took me 8 hrs to go through the SLs and rip out "necessary articles" and another 5 min to recycle the rest after I discovered I was ripping out the whole magazine.

We cannot park in the garage of our rental home because my kitchen is in there! As solarpowered suggested, our temporary home has an extra bedroom that we use for storage. As worthy said, I have noticed this year that of the kitchen stuff I packed away I only miss my bread machine and a couple of specialty baking pans. When we move into our house, a LOT of stuff will not be going with us.

We have rented a storage unit since we will not start building until we have sold our current house and we want our current house to look as empty as possible when we put it on the market.
We looked at the PODS vs storage unit and compared prices if we were to rent for 6 mos. The cost difference was about $700. We just couldn't justify the added cost for the mere convenience (and the POD unit would be smaller than the storage unit).
Anything like photos or electronics we will store at my DH's father's house.

We used a gigantic, regular storage unit.

We are living in my in-laws basement until our house is finished. We have to have a place where we can have 24 hour access to our tools, summer clothes, kids sports gear and all of the other stuff that we don't have room for at our in-laws.

First thing we did was build a 28x32ft pole building with a cement floor. We purchased used industrial shelving for storage. We use it for storing building materials and personal goods. Don't know what we have done without it!

We built a house a couple years ago and had to move out of our home into a rental apartment for 3 months. Check out other companies similar to PODS to compare prices. There is another company called Door-to-Door. Same service, maybe cheaper.

Using this type of storage is GREAT! Especially if you have a lot of larger stuff to store like we did. We moved from a 2800 sq. ft. home to a 900 sq. ft apartment. The great thing about it is you only have to move everything one time out and one time back in. If you use a storage unit, or store it somewhere else, you have to move it twice.

We rented a two bedroom apartment so we could bring with us our comfort items, otherwise, we just took the bare necessities. We didn't even take our bedroom set, just put the boxspring and mattress on the floor.

It might be a little more expensive, but well worth it. I don't know if you're moving yourselves or hiring movers, but this way saves you a lot of work and money, if you are paying to help with the move.

I'm about to go through the same process, wondering where to store all this "stuff" we've accumulated throughout the years. One thing you need to consider is wherever you do end up storing things, make sure your insurance covers it. I have to add a rider to my policy to cover everything if we put it in a storage unit.