Ok here are the dirty details. 

The Good
Stainless Steel Frigidaire Stainless Steel Fridge works great water dispenser works all tested.
Sold to old partner for $400
A mini fridge
sold for $25
Power Tools Galore
Highlights
2 Black and decker cordless drills 18v
2 Dewalt cordless drills 18v
2 Milwaukee Sawzalls
4 Circular saws
2 sanders
1 belt sander
about another 12 I haven't inventoried

hundreds of hand tools screwdrivers, saws, hammers, wrenches etc
Precision wood tools

Speakers are interesting getting them all checked out tomorrow
2 unknown 3 ft speakers
1 Leslie Amp
2 Leslie speakers
2 home theatre subwoofers
6 misc speakers RCA, Sony, etc
rolls of speaker cables

shelving units
2 stainless steel restaurant shelves 6ft by 4ft
3 metal garage shelves 6ft by 4ft

Harley Davidson collectibles
5 1:18 die cast bikes
lots of mics HD stuff

2 toy fender guitars that are listed on Ebay for 79.99
some ok furniture
2 desk
2 bed frames
2 file cabinets
tons of cool nice little wooden boxes

The bad
4 empty guitar cases
2 power washers with cut electrical cords

The ugly
a drawer full of needles
a box full of condoms (at least the were unused)


Thats just the good stuff we processed last night and today.  Still got a third of the shelves to go through and more furniture.  I reached an agreement with manager for a couple weeks.
Going to have a big parking lot sale at a friends business on October 19th.
It was a fun unit and hopefully get some good news on speakers.
Not the grand slam but a nice hit overall.  I have to still be careful of getting overexcited on these units.


 

Even though I am new to auction buying I usually bring 5k to auctions.  I have yet to see a unit go more than 2k besides when they are filming Texas SW but just in case something shows up I don't want to run out of ammo. 

Eventually I would like to have 10k.

I am pretty strict on myself especially after a couple of tough lessons about what I buy and how much.  Still the other day I think I was able to get a unit because I was confident on what I could spend.

Having enough money allows you to make decisions when something special shows up.

I don't understand the intimation factor either.  Most whales are pretty smart, that's how they become whales.  If you really think you can turn a unit just push it to your own limit. 

I think you are right, bankroll plays a huge part.

Still pretty hot here in Dallas but I went to my first October auction today at 1:30 so it was hot.  It was advertised as 11 units but only three when I called around noon.  Over 30 people waiting around when I pulled up at 1:20.

Not looking good.  A couple of regulars and a nice mother son I have seen around a lot. 

First unit tons of clothes in trash bags.  I was shocked when opening bid was $20, still it went for $40. 

2nd unit was a nice little furniture unit.  It looked like a showroom with a couch, love seat, a couple of coffee tables and some other end tables.  There was a nice dining room table in the back.  I made a play at it but when it got to $150 I was out.  Unit went for $240

3rd unit
Dream unit
Amazing 10x20 unit filled to the back. In the front was a stainless steel fridge.  I could see 4 guitar speakers with a Fender cover.  There where 2 6 ft long remote control airplanes with remotes.  Nice shelving all the way to the back on one side full.
Other side had a nice workbench with tons of tools.  Mystery boxes all over the unit, nice wooden ones, stainless steel ones, camera cases. 
In the back was a guitar case.
to much to list really
If I didint know better I would have thought it was a staged unit. 
The guy might have even lived there, he had a heavy duty extension cord attached to the light on top.
Anyway so I started to look up fridge on phone and I hear the bidding already to $1000

Oh well still I was going to make a play
1225 me
back and forth and its to 1400
me 1425
and then suddenly I got it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The storage facility did not use a pro auctioneer and it hurt them but it helped me. 
Bad news I had to run back to get kids from school and attend a meeting.  I took a quick look around and it was actually better than I thought.  I will fill in details tonight.  I think I finally have a really nice score

Has anyone else daydreamed of getting a locker like the one Walt used in Breaking Bad.  Cause there was a good chance everyone could have died and left no one to pay it.  Though I can't imagine a storage manager not looking under the tarp.  But it did happen once with the pirate gold. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/15/storage-wars-stars-sell-locker-filled-with-pirate-booty_n_1095325.html

Who won?

Bought a unit with a big leather couch that no one wanted to move for $1.  Took a pic put in on Clist sold it on an hour for $50 and they came and picked it up as I was chatting with storage manager. 

Oh man that makes me a little sick reading it.  Like Alias300 said you could rent the storage for a month and even sold stuff out of it.  30 miles is nothing.

One of my biggest regrets was a small auction and I was just starting.  Locker opened it was full of scaffolding and some stuff nobody could see in the back.  I was inexperienced but still had a feeling this could be worth something.  It went for $80.  Now I would have gone at least $200 maybe even $300 depending on how much was there.