Well I most always find some money but just a few dollars. Once found over $4,300 in a locker. This summer bought a locker for $500 and found a little over $200 in change and cash in it it was a very good locker.  Couple years ago paid $180 for a locker and found $140 in a woman wallet that was otherwise empty.  Normally I only find a few dollars though. 

I am new to the whole storage auction scene. I am just wondering what the weirdest or strangest things are you ever came across? What can I expect to find?

Most unexpected and unwanted-3 pound tube of hamburger that had been in the locker 6 months. Or maybe the eggs that were in another locker about a year.

Typical finds I have found them all-Dentures, Cremains human and pet,  sex toys, dirty dishes, porn, stuffed chicken, letters from prison, girlfriends letters to convict with naked pictures of herself, drug paraphernalia, grow operations, medical records from the mental hospital, bag of over 100 condoms at least they were not used, school books, library books, DVD from the rental place, Uhaul marked carts and blankets obviously stolen, rug doctor rental not returned, ammo about every other locker has at least a little, cheap falling apart pressboard furniture, older quality furniture with drawers missing and major damage, AA literature and coins, NA Literature and coin, bongs, magazines, junk mail, unpaid bills, eviction notices, home canned food 10 year old, rat droppings, dead rats, live rats (7 babies in a box), worthless tube TVs one or more in every unit, kitchen utensils of no value, worn out tires, cheap wall hangings, mattresses that are so ugly they go the dump, couches you would not want in your house, beat up VCRs, paint, hazardous household goods, 3 pounds of mercury in a flask,  and cheap tools made in China.
 
Rare finds but I have found them- Gold, silver, cash or coin, quality tools, nice furniture,guns, good fishing gear, fine china, antiques, quality clothes or shoes, construction stuff like a new tub once, boat motors, copper wire, new car parts and militaria.

Finds I have only heard about- Dive gear and quality cameras.

Bottom line you can find anything in there but in my experience 95% of what you find will have little or no value rare is the locker you can sell everything from. I take all the cheap stuff to goodwill or the dump. If you have a storefront or do a lot of garage sales then it should be run through there first but $1 items are not worth messing with.

I think I once found a few items in a safe it was sports memorabilia not real great maybe $50 worth of stuff tops. Normally I find paperwork of no value.  Never found any gold or cash did find a worthless airsoft pistol and some porn in safes. 

I would bid $600 to $700 myself but expect to only have a 50% chance o making money on it. 

In 2012 I got a locker that had been in storage since 1982. It had not been opened since 1982 and it was pretty good. Some high end fishing rods some nice furniture lots of high end smalls.

That said I got several in the last year that had been in storage over 20 years and they were mostly trash. Pressboard furniture books no one wants anymore magazines from the 80s and 90s just junk.

Yes a lot of people store things of little real value and just let it sit for years because they can not stand to get rid of it.

I like going late and seeing if things have been moved to the free box. Several times I have found a yard full of stuff with a free sign on it.  Great way to get scrap. Once got a truck load of books, took right to halfprice books and got $34 for about 30 minutes of work late on a Sunday. Usually the stuff left at the end of a sale is not worth much but Free is always good never pass metal object up if they are free.

I have a lot of autographed CDs but coolest thing a letter from the gov of Michigan William Milliken addressed tot he person whose stuff was in the locker.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Milliken

A $300 locker a big one mostly girls toys of no value  but in one box a broken off14K bracelet right on top. Had to have happened when packing.  Got about half my money back from that.  One piece of gold can make or break a locker but my experience is a crappy locker will not have anything good in it. A good locker has a lot of good things not just one.