Well Drew he has a tiny cross in his signature block.

Maybe he is praying that his good fortune in finding all that drug money won't lead to serious consequences.
I know he can write because I have seen his other posts.

No way to tell for sure but I'd bet it happens more than we know.

Yep, no way to tell, but if it only happens in 1 in 10 or 20, it might be the one you get that is then a bit short of the original goodies.

The thing that I think is funny that one of the auctioneers big in my area makes a big deal of the fact that they (the auctioneer) cut the locks.  Well, consider this.

1) the property manager cuts off the original lkr owner lock.
2) the property manager can go in and look, take, whatever.
3) the property manager comes out and puts a lock on.
4) the auctioneer comes along and cuts that lock off....he doesn't know it wasn't the original.


The worst case I have seen of this happened when another regular buyer and I made a point of watching the locks get cut off. This was being done by the property owner AT THE AUCTION, he made a big deal of this. 

Guess he didn't realize we were watching carefully. Every lock he cut (10 of them) was of the same brand, quality of construction and the brand he sold in his office. He had been inside on all lockers, come back out and put his locks on after doing who knows what in the lkr.

It would be nice to see some responses from people west of the Mississippi and east of the rockies.

Let us know what you see at the auctions in Missouri even if you don't buy anything.

Yep....check this thread. 


http://storageauctionforums.com/index.php?topic=582.msg1964#msg1964

I suppose all storage auction bidders go to sleep early

Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. (well, healthy anyway).

The early bird gets the worm. (I always wondered who wanted a worm...I guess the bird.)

And finally, Jose, here is a Houston area lkr facility for you...I think this one is one of the lightly attended facilities.

Bonehead.  He should have either parked somewhere inconvenient, had someone along who could refead the meters, or drove a smaller vehicle to the auctions and returned later with the truck. 

Locally, expired meter tickets cost something like $15.  Assuming that they only reticket once per hour, he's be on the hook for eleven tickets (three for the fifth spot and two each for the other four) amounting to something like $165.  Of course, I'd be worried that tptb would simply tow the truck away...

In a big city like San Francisco they might be more expensive and added costs could have bumped it up too.
For instance a citation for talking on a cell phone while driving is $25...doesn't seem bad, but by the time they have added other costs, it is $175.


What I find funny about the story is that there were even that many parking spaces in a row available at one time, but like I said I trust the person who told me the story.

Heard a story about a San Francisco auction.
In downtown the parking is tight of course and often storage units are vertical unlike the horizontal suburbs.

Fellow parks his big honking dually truck with full back seat and 16 foot trailer "across" about 4 parking spots each of which had a parking meter.  Puts in 1 hour worth of quarters in each of the 4 meters. I think his trailer was a foot over into a fifth space too, but he didn't feed that meter.

Anyway, he comes back 2 hours and 20 minutes later and finds HUGE number of parking tickets on the windshield, one for each of the 5 spots and one for each of the hours (and partial hours) he was over his paid time.

Total bill was $700.   Then he still had to get the 4th floor goodies out, and the elevator wasn't working.
True story (though I wasn't there....I trust the guy who told me.)  Oh well .

This one sold for $275 !