If you could change one thing about storage auctions, it would be.....

If I could change one thing about storage auctions, it would be.....

.... to make showers and deodorant mandatory   

If you could change one thing about storage auctions, it would be.....

Tenants should have to pay up by the close of business the day before the auction. I find it BS that 50 people drive to an auction only to find it was canceled minutes before it was supposed to start.

Tenants should have to pay up by the close of business the day before the auction. I find it BS that 50 people drive to an auction only to find it was canceled minutes before it was supposed to start.

You have a point.
No other auction is the property available to be paid up on right up untill the auctioneer starts.

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I'd like to change it so auction fee's come out of facilities end.  I hate buyers premiums. Unless I'm the seller at an auction. Then buyer premiums are cool.

I would like taking showers more of a federal law. Seriously, sometimes in public I just want to faint.

I agree with Alloro about paying up the night before. Just drove 2 hours to an auction specifically for certain units. Owner paid 20 minutes before auction. Seriously why do people do that? Couldn't come up with the money the day before but suddenly find it moments before the auction?

I know this is a touchy one but for me no kids under say 12 at the auction. School is out and on Friday we had the little girls. There are at least five of them when school is out. Between the age of I'm guessing 5 and 7. They run around and knock into you playing tag up and down crowed halls, they are very noisy and this time one fell down and scraped her knee. You would have thought she lost her leg. He dad picked her up and stood there letting her scream throught two units. The auctioneer in my opinion should have asked him to leave.
I have a kid but I would have never dreamed of taking him somewhere like that and not make him behave. It is a huge distraction and several people were complaining that they couldn't hear the auctioneer. In my opinion a storage auction is not the place for little kids.

Not all facilities do this but the one thing I would change is to make all auctions cash only on the spot. No credit cards, no debit cards, & no letting people go to the ATM to get more money on a unit they bid on. I also would like to see units re-auctioned on the spot or that day whenever some yocal bids up a unit & doesn't have the money to pay for it.

...................that I could be the auctioneer at every auction, instead of one of the buyers.

A 15%-20% commission on every unit would be awesome, and I can go home and do better things with my time afterwards. And I could spend all the money at garage and estate sales, and not haul the trash of others around.

OR, that there just be four buyers at every sale other than myself (in my state, there has to be 5 bidders present to constitute a legal auction), and they all forgot to bring their wallets.

I know this is a touchy one but for me no kids under say 12 at the auction. School is out and on Friday we had the little girls. There are at least five of them when school is out. Between the age of I'm guessing 5 and 7. They run around and knock into you playing tag up and down crowed halls, they are very noisy and this time one fell down and scraped her knee. You would have thought she lost her leg. He dad picked her up and stood there letting her scream throught two units. The auctioneer in my opinion should have asked him to leave.
I have a kid but I would have never dreamed of taking him somewhere like that and not make him behave. It is a huge distraction and several people were complaining that they couldn't hear the auctioneer. In my opinion a storage auction is not the place for little kids.

Agreed. Storage auctions are no place for young children. Or adults who can't teach them how to behave in public without being an embarrassment............................

Not all facilities do this but the one thing I would change is to make all auctions cash only on the spot. No credit cards, no debit cards, & no letting people go to the ATM to get more money on a unit they bid on. I also would like to see units re-auctioned on the spot or that day whenever some yocal bids up a unit & doesn't have the money to pay for it.

In my state, cash on the spot is the ONLY accepted form of payment for a storage unit. BY THE LETTER OF THE LAW.

This past week we had a tenant come and pay during the auction. We hadn't gotten to her unit yet, but she ran into the unit with her past due and paid up. The most annoying thing in the world! I agree with setting the payment due the day before auction date.