Things You Should Never Buy at a Storage Auction

I had one town i was buying a lot of units in and i rented a unit just to store the junk in and another next to it to store the trash.

After 6 months and after i sold off everything i could i quit paying the rent on the two units.

They both went up at auction and the one with the broken and unsaleable stuff went for $330.

The trash went for $30.

One self storage place i had worked for i filled 4 units with trash from units around town but they were crooks and when i worked for them they would clean out units after the renters had left and take all the trash and have my put it in boxes.

They would then claim that it was abandoned units and would sell the stuff at the auction.

The owners would also cut the locks and go through units the day before they sold them at auction and remove all they wanted.

Oh and mattresses? i would never store mattresses at a self storage place as many are now infested with bed bugs.

Even clothing stored in storage units should be packed in contractors bags and sealed with mothballs or you are taking a chance the bed bugs may get into them and spread to your home later.

If you are buying units don't take any clothing home unless its washed and dried at high setting at a Laundromat or bagged and treated for two weeks with mothballs.
 

i also had a unit with a bunch of copy machines but also a bunch of those receipt printers that restaurants use. even though tehre were a ton on ebay for like $100+ buy it now so not necessarily selling i coudlnt sell them on ebay couldn't sell them to restaurants, no luck

I made the mistake of buying a unit that had 2 industrial XEROX machines. 4 of us couldn't get them on the truck and nobody wanted to buy these things so I gave them away for free on Craigslist.