If the town isn't that big, you could do it the old fashioned way and just cold call all of the storage unit places in the area to ask if they have a customer with his name. If they do, you could most likely explain the situation to them and let them know you'll pay the back pay if they will hold the unit while you become executor of the estate at the county courthouse.

Not everyone in the world has access to the internet, and even if you do, it is very difficult to learn another language. Think about this: How much would you need to be paid to learn Mandarin? If I told you I would pay you $50k to become conversational in Mandarin, would you do it?

For a lot of people in the non-Western world, they could make more money by working more hours than they could make by dedicating a lot of time to learn English or another language.