I m guilty of that too. 

I see a washing machine or dryer on the side of the road, I go to the front door and ask whats wrong with it. 


If it sounds minor and I end up taking it home and see if i can repair it.

80 percent is repairable and cheap so i sell it for 50-75 a pc. 

Not bad. 

it doesnt happen very often,  just on bulk days  twice a year. 

Well,

I was in the business of buying bmx and flipping them 85% of it on bmx forums, ebay and craigslist.  Been doing this for 4 years and this year, bmx has dried up (I would find a worthy bmx bike to part out and sell every 3 months instead of weekly basis)
Finally, I watched Storage Wars and Auction Hunters - thought to myself,  I had experience selling and flipping things, I can do this.  Now im trying to persuade my wife to come help me with the auctions (team tag bid, extra pair of eyes that i didnt see and clean ups)

My goal is to open a small resell shop and say I have a business that I can go to everyday and be my own boss - to do that, i have to have stuff to re sell. 

Thus, I popped my cherry last saturday and going to one on this coming week Friday and hopefully it will go as planned. 

I want us to have recognition in the community and like to know pretty much everyone in town by their names. 

Yes we are in a town of 51,182 people. 

I have some few questions to ask you.


1) when a storage locker doesn't get paid for 3 months, it goes up for auction.  Is it required for it to be a public notice in the paper provided by that storage unit? 

I looked in every local paper and nada.  I was like 

2) Where can i get a complete listing online for free without all the do this and that, jump a couple of hoops then pay a little bit bs? 

where else can i look? 


3) I was going to ask about the locks on the storage during auction day but I have found my answer on that one.


thanks! 

Hello,

My name is Todd Hamilton and I popped my cherry on bidding in a storage auction past Saturday locally.  No I didnt win anything because I really didnt see anything that took a shining to my eye.  I have one coming up on the 18th and hopefully its better. 

Please welcome me to your forum and want to say hello guys!