Oh ok well maybe they have reached all their legal obligations and rightfully own the unit now but they are willing to still work with the tenants until the last minute

Around our area (Seattle), they cut the locks and a lot of the auctioneers (and sometimes property managers) will take pictures and document what they can see from the door.  They then put their lock on it, and the owner can still pay and pull it out of the auction all the way up until it is declared sold.  One of the auctioneers does put pictures of those lockers on his website, so when I'm deciding where to go that day, I can see if there might be something that interest me or if they just look like garbage.  And technically, the tenants still own the entire contents of their locker right up until the auctioneer yells "SOLD"!

You don't look for their auctions.....they call you and tell you what they have coming up, especially if they know it's your type of locker.....or so I've been told.....

Two free tips:

1.  Pay your bill, and it won't ever be an issue!

2.  Don't pay rent on a bunch of crap in a storage locker.......get rid of that stuff!

Well, maybe it's not all that weird, but the last unit we bought had syringes everywhere.  We found maybe 40 or so in probably 8 or 10 different places.  Fortunately they were all capped.  Used, but at least they recapped them.

I bought a locker a year or two ago and it was definitely a "tweakers" unit.  There was a nice standard airline size suitcase in it that rattled when I shook it and when I opened it up, it was completely full of used needles!  Ick!

Ain't that the truth!  After Hester, Jarrod and Brandy are my least favorite people on SW.  Jarrod's mouth writes checks it can't cash and Brandy is about as trailer-trashy as you can get.  She treats Jarrod about the same as that Kate chick treated John on "John and Kate Plus 8".  I would guess there isn't one high school diploma between the two of them.

So, yes, if those two idiots can run a business, my guess is that any of us could certainly do better than them.

I don't know.......did you notice how much their business grew from season one to season two?  I'm thinking they are making "show money" that we aren't going to get! 

I agree with Movieman........I think the quality (and the quantity) of the lockers has actually been declining overall.  Sure, there are still those really awesome units occasionally, but I would say that in the last year or so we are paying more money for lower quality units than we ever have.

The "Shows" have been a big contributing factor for a number of reasons:
 
1.  Way more people showing up at the auctions, causing prices to double and triple!

2.  Renters also watch the "Shows", and have realized that, "If I don't pay my bill, they will sell my crap"!  So, I think some of them are pulling the valuable stuff before it gets overlocked, or not putting the best stuff in the locker to begin with.  How many lockers have you seen that look like they have been rummaged through and just the garbage is left? 

3.  The facilities are loving the overall higher prices, especially on the good lockers.  There is one company I am familiar with that has the managers "estimate" what the locker will go for at current auction prices.  If it's a nice locker that they think will bring, say $800, but the renter only owes say $400, they will actually pull the locker from the sale and let it ride for another month or two, under the guise that it's nice stuff and they are going to give the renter more time to come up with the money to pay.  They win either way.....either the owner comes up with the cash and they get all their money and a little extra rent, or, the locker get's sold at auction and they get to keep a couple extra months rent because now they don't have a big overage they have to send to the renter.  Damn smart from a business standpoint, but leaves the auction buyer looking at a bunch of crappy lockers on a long day of touring storage facilities on auction day!

I agree with movieman........it is so slooooowww!

I"m gonna need about 200 donuts to fill up the tank in my F350 Crew Cab Diesel though!

I don't mind all the lookers at the auctions, except that it makes a 20 minute auction take and hour and a half while everybody ambles by the door.  Makes for a long and boring day when you are on a multiple facility run!