They reached out to me. I was running adds on Craigslist about buying contents of people's home for my store when I got the call. They asked if I did storage auctions and I was like "yea 95% of my shop is from auctions". One thing led to another and here I am.

My uncle took me to my first auction when I was about 9 years old. He would take me to garage sales and flea markets all the time. Back then he was a glorified junk man but he sure did know his stuff. Buy low sell high.

Na man I couldn't get insurance for inventory because there is no real set price per item. All I was able to get was liability so no insurance to cover my merch.

I know the comparisons are going to start about me and you know who from LA. Operation LockDown my partner Matty Temple and I started way before I knew that I was going to be on the show.

I'm a normal person just like the rest of you. Few fans here and there nothing crazy. I use every trick in the book to try and get rid of my stuff. Craigslist used to be great but has been taken over by spammers. eBay also used to be the way to go but the fees are out of this world. I did own a 2nd hand store. I opened about 3 months before hurricane Irene hit. The area I was in was flooded and I lost pretty much everything. After that storm considering I just opened I had no energy left to rebuild. I went back to the old school way of selling what I like to call (hand to hand combat) granted there is a lot of work trying to sell things without having a store but it does have its perks.(little to no overhead). I have thought about opening a new shop but I'm still unsure about it. I just started listing some items on my website so hopefully that will take off soon.

This is Mike from Storage Wars. That is a 100% true story not made up for good PR.