This article is part of our basic banking series designed to provide new savers with the key skills to save smarter.
Small safety deposit box size.
One which remains with the bank and one which goes to the owner of the box.
With the safe deposit box your valuables are tucked away in a vault behind a steel door about 2 feet thick.
Both keys are required to open the safe deposit box which provides an additional layer of security.
Let s eliminate the hole in the ground right off the bat.
The average cost of a safety deposit box changes according to the size of the box and the location of the bank where it is stored.
That leaves 2 viable options.
We spoke with numerous banks around the country and found that annual safe deposit box prices can range from as low as 49 for a 3 by 5 inch box to as high as 360 for some 10 by 10 inch options.
A safe deposit box often referred to as a safety deposit is a small locked metal container stored in a vault within a bank.
On average the banks we surveyed charge about 60 annually for their smallest boxes which are usually 3 x5 x24.
Safe deposit box rentals range from 60 to 500 annually plus applicable taxes.
Safe deposit boxes are a good place to keep hard to replace documents such as contracts and business papers military discharge papers and physical stock and bond certificates along with small.
While all boxes tend to be 18 to 24 in length larger sizes are available with faces measuring 5 x5 or 10 x10.
Written by dillon thompson published on march 1 2020 note.
These boxes involve two sets of keys.
You can rent a safe deposit box at the bank you can dig a hole in the backyard or you can buy a home safe.