Tom sold his company to Freemantle and is getting $3m+ a year in salary, on top of what he made off the sale of the company.  Since then other people have taken over the reigns which is why Storage Wars NY tanked ... producers over there didn't take advice of casting co, brandi and jarrod, ..etc.

And he makes extra for his voiceover work ... and his wife works for the company so she makes some cash too. 

Hes a very smart guy ... the people that took over are not.

at the end of the day its all just something to have on in the background while I list my junk on ebay

It's a picture of Barry Weiss shown on one of the episodes

I bought a unit with 50 beautiful tubs with lids all lined up, nothing else in the room.  figured each one could be worth about 20-30 depending on contents inside and went up to 600.  Every box was empty.

there are going to be "vultures" in almost any type of occupation.  Banker forecloses on houses, farmer uses pesticides and GMOs and get a bigger harvest, executives make too much ...etc.

Your mother had the opportunity to get certain things out before it went to auction.  The second you are sweating coming up with the fee get your but their and get some of it out.  Then let it go to auction.  If she didn't have room she could have taken out the keepsakes and gotten the smaller locker they have which wouldn't have gone over the 100 a month that she could afford.

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You mean she doesn't really work at a pawn shop ... and is actually a brazilian supermodel?? what??

I can't believe storage auction shows hire actresses to cast the show.  mind. blown.

What I know that has happened at an extra space is that a tenant whose room was going up for auction broke in the night before, cut his lock and removed all of his stuff .. he didn't want them to know it was him so he cut another 20 locks to mask that he was only after his stuff.

Unfortunately for him he tried to use his gate code, and of course it got rejected, but it also got saved on the facilities computer. 

He was charged with trespassing and 20 different counts of breaking and entering

If the landlord came into your house and left the front door open and you got robbed its his fault.  If he hired a locksmith, movers, painters ...etc. to make repairs to the house and they broke in its his fault ...etc.

So it depends on how the unit was broken into irregardless of whether you had insurance or not, it was offered or not.  If the gate was broken, the cameras down ..etc. the security and piece of mind that you pay monthly for was not present and they are liable.

Simply by asking these questions the landlord/facility manager will usually recognize they are wrong and will offer a buy out.

There is an Uncle Bobs in Bayshore, NY that had 70 units robbed in one night.  The gate was left open and the cameras in that row were turned off.  Obviously an inside job but no one was fired and no police reports were filed.

  Insurance wasn't required at this facility so many people didn't have it.  Uncle Bobs basically knew they would get decimated in the press and that would cost them far more in future rentals than a payout so they had each owner write out a content list and submitted it to their insurance for payout.  In the end the tenants won and the facility saved face.