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How many idiots do you think got into storage unit buying
Posted on 2/28/12 at 7:45 pm
Posted on 2/28/12 at 7:45 pm
Due to shows like storage wars only to discover 99% of them are actually filled with shite the owners obviously did not want and not hidden treasures?
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Posted on 2/28/12 at 7:47 pm to BilJ
are you insinuating that these shows are staged? cause i will climb through the internet and punch you through your shitty computer monitor.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 7:47 pm to BilJ
dude, I bought a storage unit in port allen and got a nice Zebco fishing reel and an ab lounger. shits legit.
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Posted on 2/28/12 at 7:49 pm to BilJ
I remember actually going to sheriff and tax sales and buying properties a few years prior to shows like Flip This House and the amount of people tripled at the very least. Sadly I saw many that had no clue what they were doing and have some stories about people getting fricked over big time.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 7:55 pm to stout
is this similar to how to find estate sales? i hear you can actually get good things from those.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 7:57 pm to BlacknGold
A Lot
Posted on 2/28/12 at 7:58 pm to BilJ
One of our former employees is doing it now
Posted on 2/28/12 at 8:10 pm to BilJ
An older guy I know own a storage building place. A pretty good sized one. I asked him about this and he said people ask him about the auctions all the time now. He said he used to have them and he would make a couple hundred dollars or so now he can make a few thousand becasue of more people showing up.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 8:13 pm to iwyLSUiwy
you ask him if good shite is ever left? does he go through them?
i hear in situations that arent on tv, the storage building owners rifle through the lockers, take what they want, then auction it.
i hear in situations that arent on tv, the storage building owners rifle through the lockers, take what they want, then auction it.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 8:27 pm to BlacknGold
Never asked him if he's done that. I think I remember him saying that if nobody buy the locker he gets the stuff. He told me one time he had a unit that had four brand new, never once used, three wheelers a guy put in there and payed for the unit for like 12 years every month and then stopped paying and they went up for auction 
I dont understand crap like that.
I dont understand crap like that.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 8:48 pm to BilJ
My friends dumbass boyfriend think he wants to do this. He has no money and is dumb as hell. I'd love to see him try.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 8:52 pm to BlacknGold
quote:I guess if there was never anything good in them, people wouldn't go to the auctions and the owner would not make money.
i hear in situations that arent on tv, the storage building owners rifle through the lockers, take what they want, then auction it.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 9:13 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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payed for the unit for like 12 years every month and then stopped paying and they went up for auction
See I don't understand this. Then why don't you just got get the four wheelers instead of letting the place sell them?
I don't really understand how someone would just anything of value go.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 9:18 pm to Brettesaurus Rex
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See I don't understand this. Then why don't you just got get the four wheelers instead of letting the place sell them? I don't really understand how someone would just anything of value go.
Maybe he died and nobody else knew they were there?
Posted on 2/28/12 at 9:27 pm to Jim Rockford
hey hey hey dont be throwing logic around up in here
Posted on 2/28/12 at 10:26 pm to iwyLSUiwy
Met someone local that bought a unit that had a comic book shop's inventory stored in it. She got bummed out when I explained to her that she'd have to put it up on eBay piece by piece to get the full value.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 10:28 pm to BilJ
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.
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.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 10:51 pm to stout
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I remember actually going to sheriff and tax sales and buying properties a few years prior to shows like Flip This House and the amount of people tripled at the very least. Sadly I saw many that had no clue what they were doing and have some stories about people getting fricked over big time.
There is a show about 1st time home flippers that is awesome. Shows these idiots dont know what they are doing and lose a buttload of money.
Posted on 2/28/12 at 10:56 pm to BilJ
I am a G.M. at a storage facility right now. The answer is a lot. Most of them have found out how hard it is to really make it work doing that and have quit though. People aren't storing gold bars in these things and letting them go to auction. The shows are horse shite. There are some good units, but you have to have an outlet for the stuff like a thrift shop or something and even then used blue jeans aren't worth 40 bucks a pop.
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