What is the reason for needing to rent? Is your school unwilling to give you needed space? Do you have alot of equipment to store? Is it really that neccessary that you are willing to give up hard earned funds for rent and utilities?
We don't have any storage space other than a few cupboards. We have mostly little things to store, so even if we couldn't have that space in our school, we could easily store items at home. We use the library for meetings. I volunteer in our library, so I use that space also to do some other PTO related work. But, most of us do things at home.
I'm interested to hear the story behind a decision to rent.