re: How many idiots do you think got into storage unit buying

I used to run ads for one of the larger storage companies in the nation for all of their Dallas/Ft.Worth locations.

The larger ones have auctions monthly if there are any units that come up and they nearly always do. In Texas they are required by law to run ads for two weeks in a local paper before auctioning it. Each month the owners/managers called with the unit numbers and the date of the auction.

As far as units having valuables in them, sometimes they definitely do. I ran ads for a mover who offered storage to his customers. He got into financial trouble, quit paying his bills and we cut off his advertising. A couple of months later a reader that used his service and paid for storage called complaining about him.

After a Farmers Branch PD investigation we found out the mover had moved the guys possessions from a warehouse he rented to a monthly pay facility in Dallas. He quit paying it and the facility auctioned off the unit. By the time they found the guy he was already in prison for some kind of parole violation.

The facility involved is one that deals mostly with businesses. It's in a terrible warehouse only neighborhood but it's right next to a UHaul place.