Looked up one of the cases and manuals on flea bay. The manual ALONE recently sold for $50 plus !

Send me the money...I'll give you the case too !

I also got about 20 or so shoulder patches reading California Correction Officer (or some such). I see that police patches on eBay are going for about $5 a pop, so some hope there for a good return on the $375 investment.
This guy also had some LA police officer patches and some from other places, so those alone will help foot the bill on the way to the profit.

I don't know if I can sell some of the state printed books (more like binders with papers inside) but the other books are true class-designed texts which hopefully are still being used and will sell.

One true military duffel bag had a tear gas mask in case....probably from guard duty. His black duty boots need a little sole work...unglued at heel.

No ideas at the moment; kind of hard to come up with something interesting about a storage locker door !
But, someone will come up with some ideas. Easier for me with words than pics. 

Yep, it's official...more "buyers" now than then ! 

Yep, you read it right 7 (count 'em 7) pistol cases....and all empty !

1 Ruger, 1 Colt, 1 S&W, 2 Glock, 2 non-name (Wal-Mart) and 2 pistol "rugs". I'll keep the rugs and sell the cases on eBay...they go from $10 to $20 or so depending on model. I also sell them in that range at the flea.

This was a 10 x 10 for $375; very clean looking with only 1 good mattress, no other furn. Lots of boxes, totes. Turns out the guy was a California Correctional Officer. One bag with his heavy jacket (with patch), pants, shirts, dress cap (with shield). Lots of black (thatch pattern) leather belts, baton holders, handcuff case (no cuffs), etc.
Did get a nice black baton (should be worth a few bucks).

Found a nice zippo (Harley Davidson) with HD black leather holder to go with it; all in a gift box. Other stuff of similar nature inluding two Bolo ties with silver and nice stone; $60 price tag on one.

On and on including boxes of papers, several boxes of criminology texts, 12 empty Nintendo DS game boxes.
I think this was a single dad with two daughters who visited, but kept the REAL goodies (like the DS box) with them when they went home to mom.

Wish the pistols had been there but....Happy with the locker  !

As Ironman said the most important thing is to NOT spend money you can't afford. If things go south you won't be a happy camper.

If prices moderate a bit you could get a pretty good locker for $200 to $300 and hopefully make some money off it.
Of course if you made a bad judgement about the contents and they aren't that good, now you're talking break even or worst case, losing money.

I don't think anyone can give you a $ amount that would work for seed money, but consider all the costs before you get into this game. As Ironman said, locker buy, dump run(s), storage (if needed), rental space at flea (if needed) and of course GASOLINE.  They all add up and have to be subtracted from whatever your total sales figure is before you know how much PROFIT you made.

haha I appreciate the effort.

One of the problems with my location is that I'm close enough to both Ohio and West Virginia that I could look up auctions in 3 states, with very few being close to me. It'll prob be awhile though until I venture to an out of state auction though

When I first started 7 years ago I went to auctions in multiple cities within 75 miles. Now I've cut that back to maybe 30 miles. I found quickly that JUNK is JUNK no matter where it's stored. Sure I miss a good one now and again, but think of the gas and TIME I've saved over the years by NOT going to every auction.

Just so you guys don't have to lose any sleep wondering about

Dang. Couldn't you have posted this last week; I've been tossing and turning wondering about this !