Many people live in areas with restrictions and thus have to pay for storage
Now let me ask you "Oh Geeze" folks a question.
Assume you rent an apartment, or a house.. You pay for it (IN advance) and you go on a 2 week vacation.. You come home and like Baby Bear you find someone sleeping in your bed.. What you gonna do (Call 9-1-1 perhaps)
Well, that is EXACTLY what happened to the O/P.. Only he called the landlord, not the cops.. so far..
As for the storage lot owner not (yet) returning the call.....
Well..the O/P just returned from vactation,, The Lot owner may have taken one as well.
Or it could be like the landscaper who was working for my dad and suddenly started failing to show up....
Finally my Sister, the family lawyer. Leave him a voice mail message (Ok Answering machine back then) You'd better get back out there or I'm going to know why....
She knows why.. Police returned the call. He was dedeased (Natural causes, appears to have forgotten to wake up one morning, Eventually people called cops and they broke in and found him deceased).
So let's not get mad at the lot owner....yet.. Let's wait for the facts.
As for the squatter.. OK to be ticked with him.