Let me explain a little more, Im 34 now and when I was looking I was 19. After High School I went to college and took some business classes one in which we had to write a paper. The big things that people were talking about at the time was owning Storage Auction Facilities so I decided to write my paper on that. After interviewing an actual facility manager I learned it wasn't as low maintenance that was going around in the media. The Storage Facility manager was working on setting up a Auction for that week so I was lucky to find out about it.

Well at 19 getting a few hundred grand to get a storage unit was a pipe dream but the Auctions could of been a little in my price range hahahahaha.

Well my first auction I guess I was too stereotypical. The units looked like junk and the people looked like junkers. At 19 trying to look at it like a business it didnt look like I would get wealthy off of it.

I should of kept going but I got married and changed my educational goals and forgot about it

Now skip 5 years and I heard a crazy story about a guy who found a Harley Davidson in a storage locker and I saw dollar signs and went to a few auctions.

Well I ended up in a divorce, never bought a unit, met someone new, moved to brazil for a year, got married and returned to the states.

Now what do I see on TV? Storage Auctions shows!! I started connecting the dots. It was all the small junk that made a steady paycheck not the WOW factor!

I have been trying to count the cleaning deposit in with my bids which has never gave me much to work with.

Do you need to have the cleaning deposit in cash at the time of sale? Ive always heard you need the amount that you bid the minute you win but nothing about the cleaning deposit. Can you use credit for deposit or run to the atm?

And you have heard this from who?

It will be alot of fun in the comming months, as i am going to CA on a trip, i will then make sure i attend auctions as much as i can. I will time it so i can be at one of the auctions run by Laura and Don, as i have talked to them a few times.  Don is the man behind it all. I doubt he is willing to loose his license over fake auctions.

I never said the Auctions or Bidding was faked or staged. I was saying that after the units are bought and are in the the hands of the buyers.

How would Laura and Don be involved If I pay for a locker and when everyone moves on to the next locker I throw something valuable in the locker I just bought and say "Hey look what I found in this locker"?

Ive only bought two units this year and had three garage sales that have made 200-300 dollars each. Not to mention that these garage sales have included my own stuff.

Im just wondering how much can I make before I go through the process of paying taxes on it? I dont want to spend money getting all the paperwork and buying a cash register when I haven't  even made a grand yet.

Well in my area there where a lot of drug raids and a lot of people started hiding stuff in storage lockers. Now the list of "your screwed because" was that I did do quite a bit of research. This is why I got a P.O. Box, started using my middle name as my first name at the auctions, and learned how to make things disapear!

Actually if you found drugs and money all you can do is pray because no matter what you do your screwed!!!!


1) If you Turn it over to the police then they will take a statement and you will be part of the investigation. Now you run the risk of the wrong people finding out who you are be it Drug Lords, Gangbangers, or the mob. Your running the risk of being on the front news of the paper or even worse being put on the stand.

2) You can not leave the facility with any of it! The cops will wonder why you didnt call the police immediately and decided to keep it. This could happen if police investigation leads them to the storage locker you bought, you get pulled over by cops upon leaving the facility, or simply someone turns you in to the cops.

3) The people who own the locker could strong arm the Facility and get your name and address, this means at anytime someone could show up at your front door looking for their stuff!

4) You cannot turn over the drugs and keep the money. The police will be suspicious because large amounts of drugs and large amounts of cash go hand in hand. They will investigate you just in case you did keep some drugs for yourself or you found money with the drugs.

So now lets fire this topic up......What would you do?;