You can get internet on your computer through your phone.

I've known about this for a while but finally got around to testing it out. Most phone companies charge like $30 for this service, you can do it for free with an app called easytether. You do need to be connected from your phone to computer by your charger but that's it. It is possible to have wifi for up to 8 devices but that requires rooting your phone. No rooting or unlocking needed just gotta dowload easy tether and it's pretty easy to set up.

Definately will be nice for certain types of auctions as well as flea markets if you get tired of messing around on your computers small screen or possibly limited web access via apps instead of true internet you can get free internet wherever you are.

If anyone is curiuos about speeds did a speed test. First one is 4g through easytether second one is comcast internet. I'll have to do another one though. 4G isn't that great within Chicago, I think it's decent in the burbs where most of my auctions and flea markets tend to be.

Not at all storage auction related but just curious if any of you guys have suggestions for destinations for a solo vacation?

I normally go to Jamaica but summer is slow season so thinking it may be boring heading down there by myself. Looking for a warm beach destination hopefully some place that will have some solo travelers and or singles and not just families and couples.

So far Playa Del Carmen, Cancun and Costa Rica are on my radar but wondering if anyone has any suggestions?

http://www.wreg.com/news/wreg-couple-stashes-guns-drugs,0,2944814.story

Couple got caught through bad luck. Units burglarized, one happenned to be theirs.

I think on here people have brought up the hypothetical situation of people intentionally letting units go into default. I think I even joked about someone should stack a bunch of empty electronics boxes and watch a unit go for 5k, some expensive cardboard. Obviously I was joking as I wouldnt' want this to happen to me so also woudln't like to see it happen to others but potentially it can happen and the "defaulted tenant" makes a boatload.

As with anything in life, there’s a downside to these proactive events. Criminal minds come out of the woodwork, as Inside Self Storage recently reported in an article entitled Self-Storage Staffers Discuss Latest Auction Scam. Apparently, storage auction buyers will rent a unit and  fill it with trash-filled, misleadingly labeled boxes. They’ll stop paying rent and dodge phone calls from the facility, effectively letting the unit go up for auction. The goal is to excite buyers so they’ll throw down major cash at auction (a Self Storage Talk forum user reported that a buyer at a facility in his area bought a unit of this nature for $2,600), and the scam orchestrator will profit from the payout leftover, after the facility takes what was owed on the unit.

Blair said he has seen a similar scam unfold recently, and the missing tenant actually called in about his unit a few hours after auction to find out what it sold for

So stopped by one of my regular consignment shops, more of an upscale one womens clothes, knick knacks and they actually just bought the store next store and expanded all furniture there.

Anyhow, was stopping by to pick up a check and a few items that hadn't sold. Btw, it's all women working there. The owner asked me if I had any other new stuff. I picked up a few furniture items but she's kinda picky so offered to run out to my car and pick up my digital camera. Came in showed her some pics.

Love that piece bring it in, that ones nice but I'd have to see it in person, etc, etc, etc. Keep flipping what do we come across? Some fun pics the gf and I had taken lol.  Scrolled through those real quick and shut off the camera. From now on I have a memory card for ebay/cl, storage auction items and another for personal pics.

Back when I was 21 used to head to vegas about twice a month, back then you could get flights round trip for not much over $100 if I remember correctly and my buddy had comped hotels and meals everywhere.

Anyhow, fast forward about 6 or 7 years later cleaning out my suitecase and found a piece of stardust hotel stationary with a hooker named bellas phone number and lipstick kiss lol.

Was about to throw it out and then figured hey, I wonder if I can sell it on ebay. Wrote up a listing calling it a piece of vegas history since the stardust was demolished a few years back. What do you know made $5 plus a few bucks for shipping or a piece of paper that was going to go in the trash.

Just curious if you guys wish storage wars showed more of the resale end of the business?

Obviously not as exciting as the auctions but really buying an auction as much as you profile a unit, know resale values, etc majority comes down to luck. Most of the best things I've found were hidden so as much as I'd love to give credit to myprofiling units I'd say its luck.

On the show they show a guy finding something worth 5k, take it to the expert he buys it for too high of a price and everyone goes home happy.

They don't however show the guy at the flea market really grinding it out selling quarter tshirts lol.

I think the resale end would make for kind of a boring show but maybe show 5 min at the end of an episode or something.

This whole idea of everything already having an expert buyer ready in the waiting to pay retail prices for the find is kinda lame.

Drew, have a suggestion for a new topic. Storage Auctions in the media. Sure people can post articles they find online in any section but thought it mgiht be interesting to have a topic devoted to it.

I read a few interesting articles lately. One was about how last week storage wars had their highest ratings, 3.8 million. I thought it was interesting because I've noticed crowds diminished lately. Obviously no where near pre storage war times but quite a bit lower. I thought that was odd seeing as how the show now has more viweers than ever.

I suppose however that the people who were actually going to get out and check out an auction already have and realized either its more work than they thought or the show isn't accurate in the type of stuff you find in the average unit.

Anyhow, before I get too far off topic noticed a few other interesting articles lately and thought it may be a worthwhile category. Just my 2 cents.