My state does not require storage auctions. The large corporate chains all have auctions, but I would guess somewhere in the neighborhood of only 10-20% of the small family owned facilities have auctions. When I first started doing auctions I compiled a list of all the facilities I could find in my county and quickly realized VERY few have auctions. Many told me they never have auctions, Never have tenants who don't pay (yeah right
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) or have a "guy" who gets the stuff.
At one time I worked myself into a relationship with one facility to be "that guy" but it wasn't long before he wanted more money per unit and most of the units at this facility were junk. I think I got like 8 units and 1 was decent, but even that one the owner knew was better so I had to pay more for it.
I've really not tried to contact these facilities lately to become "that guy", mostly because the small facilities around here tend to be poor shape, cheap rent, and very crappy contents. The nicer stuff tends to be stored in the corporate facilities that hold auctions.