Have you ever personally lost a storage unit to foreclosure?

Huh ?

Welcome !

My first suggestion would be to buy a unit or two at a live auction just to get your feet wet before buying online.

Then (or now) do a search within the forum area here for "online auctions". You should see a number of threads pop-up.

You'll have to make your own decisions about what to do from that point on. 

A couple of months ago cList was deleting some items that I was renewing.

I had an idea what was going on and if I had 16 items (as an example) I started renewing just 4 a day over a course of 4 days.

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Today I have 24 listings and I decided to try renewing them all (5 at a time over a course of a day) so they would all show up as having been renewed on the same day (9/16/2013).

I renewed five and waited a couple of hours to go back in and do another five.  Only problem was that the 5th one I renewed a couple of hours ago was DELETED by cList. Not ghosted. Deleted...comes up pink in account summary.

So, now I'm thinking the algorithim being used in my area (may be different in yours) is a max of 4 renews in any given time period. Don't know what that time period is. I'll wait about 4 hours and try to renew 4 more and see what happens.

Meanwhile the one they deleted can't be reposted even from an OLD listing as it will be too similar to the one they deleted. Yes, I know, multiple accounts, different phone numbers, etc. I've tried many things over 10 years and they are constantly changing their parameters.  The ghosting is the most aggravating...that's when I use a second account.

What would be great, is that if there was a way to burn them for heating your house....

I would guess that has been thought about and dismissed for whatever reasons.  The most successful idea I saw working some years ago was recyling little pieces of them for use in "asphalting" type operations.

With the millions of used tires in the USA it's a market just waiting for the right "futurist" waiting to pounce.
Of course that group will have to have chemists, engineers, money-men to make it happen! 

Once or twice a month I go to facilities in several cities which conduct single item or piece-by-piece sales.

This doesn't seem to be all that common across the country (at least no one else writes about it on this forum), and only one other member on the forum has mentioned this practice and that was negatively.

I used to feel that way about it too. It can take a lot of hours and sometimes the rewards are slim, but other times they are great....just like buying regular units only with more control on the part of the buyer.

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In this case I got to the first facility about 15 minutes late thinking not a big deal as they were supposed to have 8 lockers. Instead, people were walking out as I was parking. They only had two lockers and both got sold in a total of 15 minutes. What does that tell you about their contents?

Even a lkr with next to nothing in it takes 10 to15 minutes to sell unless it's just plain empty.

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Second facilty supposed to have 8 or so lkrs also .... and it did.  This time the sale took about 5 hours.  Worse than that was that I only bought one box of items for $5 and it wasn't that great when I got through it. 

One fellow buyer though did well getting a whole locker for $100. It is going to come out good. I didn't bid on it because the location was remote from my home base and I just didn't want to deal with it and it would have just been driving the price up for him. He has returned that favor for me in the past.

Yah think!

Yep, that's why I said it. 

Since I was replying to you, I figured I would tailor the saying accordingly.

Me too !   

God protects fools and drunks.

I thought it was "God protects babies and global moderators".