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Any creative ideas or buying strategies for auctions now that the business has changed?

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Just wondering how many of you use or have used a storage auction listing service. How are or were the results of the one you used?

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Just wanted to get some feedback from those of you that have bought RV's, boats, cars, trailers, ATV's, motorcycles, etc. from a storage auction. How difficult was it to get title? What steps did you have to take to get the title?

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The Lounge / Boxing Ring for Mr. A & Movieman
« on: April 17, 2011, 06:17:31 PM »
You guys can duke it out here.

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Did anyone else see this idiot go cuckoo for cocoa puffs? His first auction and he pays $2,600 for a unit that we used to be able to pick up for a few hundred dollars. There goes the rent! Sorry honey, we can't watch Storage Wars because we can't afford to pay the cable bill. They should do a follow up episode of this idiot in the unemployment line.

If there are any newcomers reading this, check out the article on the following page titled "Don't quit your day job" at http://houstonstorageauctions.com/blog/

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Houston Storage Auctions
        
Location: Houston, Texas
Posts: 11

If S.B. 690 becomes law, will it cause more confusion than the current system?

In Texas, our storage lien notification laws are dated and do not reflect changes in current technology. The current law is 30 years old and needs to be modernized. Placing an advertisement in a newspaper's legal section is no longer the best way to notify the public, nor a delinquent tenant, of an upcoming storage sale.

If Chapter 59 of the Texas Property Code is amended to allow Self Storage Facilities to publicize their auction via a public website, Texas newspapers would lose millions of dollars in annual revenue. However, collectively, storage facilities would save millions of dollars on their advertising costs. Think about it, why would a storage company pay a newspaper hundreds of dollars every month, per facility, to publish a public notice, when they could advertise their auction on a storage auction related website or their own website for next to nothing.

When companies like Public Storage, U-Haul Storage Centers, Morningstar Mini Storage, Private Mini Storage, Uncle Bob's Self Storage & other storage facility chains realize that they could be saving tens, if not hundreds of thousand of dollars a year by publishing their notices online, they will abandon ship. Every storage facility will benefit from this change, regardless of their size. Legal notices in newspapers will be a thing of the past.

Bottom line, we should consider which option of notification best represents the interest of the delinquent tenant. Allowing legal notices to be placed on a public website would give a delinquent tenant a better chance of finding the information they are searching for as well as saving storage facilities hundreds, if not thousands of dollars on their annual advertising expenses.

The current law worked fine 30 years ago when it was written. It worked better for smaller to medium size towns that only had one newspaper, everyone knew where to look. For example: With over 40 smaller local publications in the greater Houston area, if a tenant were seeking information on the sale of their property, it would be like searching for a needle in a haystack. Currently, storage auction buyers in Houston, if they are not members of www.houstonstorageauctions.com, have to search several information sources just to find about half of the storage auctions occurring in our area. With no centralized information source, the entire system is flawed & confusing.

We all need to get on the same page, literally. Even if Chapter 59 is amended, if every storage facility were to publicize their auction on their own website, there would be more confusion than the current system is causing.




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It looks like a few of the large facility chains are converting storage units to cylinder locks. They have already converted their vacant lockers. They continue converting lockers when a tenant moves out so that they don't have to cut and replace locks. In my opinion, the cylinder locks are much more secure. I have yet to see one removed in less than 5 minutes of drilling. I think this may discourage a lot of thieves.

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A few months ago, a unit I bought got broken into the night after the auction. Apparently, someone hit about 30 other units. Luckily, my unit was full of library books and it only cost me a pad lock.

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I was checking out the other storage auction forum (storage auction boards) and it is ghost town. I have only been there a few times but it's kind of spooky how empty it is. I sort of feel like I'm writing to myself. Movieman, you're a member there as well, what is you're opinion? The only good thing I can say is that I have noticed that some of the posts get top placement in search engine results, I'm not sure why that is, perhaps they have some higher PR links. 

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Craigslist / What I put on Craigslist.
« on: March 20, 2011, 08:05:07 PM »
I generally will put anything that I think I can get more than $20 for on Craigslist. If you have the item priced right it will sell quickly.

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Just wondering if anyone has been to Newport Consignment Gallery or Rags to Riches Thrift Store?
I used to live in Laguna Beach and in Costa Mesa, but I have never seen either of these places. The consignment gallery looks huge on their website.

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Definition: A person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs. A person who feigns some desirable or publicly approved attitude, especially one whose private life, opinions, or statements belie his or her public statements.


I love Hypocrites...well, I love to expose them :o

Over the last week, I have received a lot of criticism for some of my posts that had a link in them to my website. Most of my posts have quality content that contributed substantially to this forum. There were a few postings that were just a small paragraph with a link to my website. I admit that these were only advertisements for my business; however, these two advertisements were placed in the geographic threads.

Back to the subject, I received a lot of criticism from Mr. Anderson about these postings because he said that the forum should not be used to promote one's own business. However, I recently read a post by Mr. Anderson in which he is soliciting new recruits for his multi-level marketing business or in other words his "pyramid scam". Here is the link. http://storageauctionforums.com/index.php?topic=732.0

At least our business has something to do with storage auctions and could be useful to the reader.

Also, I read another post where he is trying to recruit people from this forum into his own forum. Here is the link. http://storageauctionsusa.blogspot.com/

Mr. Anderson, I realize that you have some sort of resentment toward technology and innovative ideas but you shouldn't judge others ambitions. How would you like it if I said that your blog was going to fail miserably and that there is no market for a Memphis based storage auction forum? How would you like it if I said that only idiots fall for pyramid scams? But, I would never say that, then that would be hypocrisy on my part. Practice what you preach reverend! :o


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If you found a large amount of cash, guns, drugs or other items that "technically require the police to be notified", what would you do and why?




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There is a facility owner here in Houston that bids on units for sale at his own facilities. He has 7 locations in Houston and he travels to each one to bid against us. Example: This manager and I were bidding on the same unit. It was a nice unit that had 6 brand new A/C compressors that you could see,there were also about 20 other boxes. I knew they were worth money but I didn't know exactly how much they would resell for nor exactly how many were there. I pushed the unit pretty high and he kept going. He won the unit. I was talking to him a little later and he told me he would have went up to 4 thousand dollars on the unit. Turns out, there was around 60K in a/c compressors in the unit but you would have never known that without moving things and opening boxes.

My argument is that anyone who has access to the unit shouldn't be allowed to bid on it.

Does anyone have another view point?

 

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I purchased a unit about 6 months ago and the owner approached me after the auction and asked me to return certain items like photos and medical records. She was very polite so I agreed. I told her I would leave the items with the facility manager.
Anytime a tenant makes an effort to contact me to see if I will return sentimental items, documents, photos, etc., I usually try to help them out.

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