How much cash did you have to work with?

When you first started buying storage units, how much cash did you have to work with?

Any rags to riches stories?

When I first started I never carried that much cash. It was my way of keeping myself from getting caught up in the moment and excitement of the auction and overpaying. Now I carry a bit more but I still keep it to a minimum for the same reason.

I started with about $400 of discretionary funds. In the beginning, Storage auctions were a fun way to make some extra money. Wasn't even two months before it became a full time job.

I think when we started we had about $1200 in cash that we had squirreled away.

I heard that if you want to become a millionaire in this business, start out with 10 million and stop when you get down to one million left........

I started with $1000 part time, worked it into a full time gig

my first auction and purchase  was on a whim at a storage facility i was storing things at
my bankroll was whatever i happened to have in my pocket , im fairly sure it was under 100 and may have been under 50
first room was $30-40 or so and it turned out to be owned by someone i went to high school with
had a great time going through it although i dont think it was too big a money maker

The first time I went to an auction I had $1000 on me. I learned that day that if I wanted a good unit that was not enough. The day I finally bought my first unit I had $2500 with me. My unit cost me $1100 plus a $100 cleaning deposit.