I recently had a yard sale and while talking with a young girl told her we do storage auctions. She yelped out, "Oh my friend does that too, he just bought 8 units out in Arboga!" (that's a small community outside Yuba City California. Anyway, I know for a fact the facility did not post and has never posted since we moved back a year ago in the local newspaper. I had a feeling some didn't bother with that anyway and probably sold to their good ol' boys around here but that confirmed it. I thought by law they were supposed to list the lien but I guess in California it's not that way? Any thoughts? We have quit the auctions for a while since we were at good money after bad products. We'll get into it a little later on but most likely not too soon. :-)

I heard a story on the caravans this past week that someone that was pretty cool was let go from one of the auction companies. I noticed on the Storage Auction E.....s site that one of their employees is no longer in the picture they have posted. So, being inquisitive (nosy) as I am at times I started asking, and I heard that this one employee (I'll call him Bryan) had to basically quit because the management insisted he decide between doing to an out of town auction or being with his child in the hospital. Well, of course he told the owner he was going to be at the hospital with his child. He is now with another company already and seems to be very happy. I hated seeing him leave the company because it was nice seeing him in our area, but I don't blame him a bit for his decision. Seems the owner is getting a big head since he has been on TV a few times (rumor has it)  I guess auctioneers come and go as quickly as trainers at a gym. I for one will miss Bryan and his wife, they were really good people from what I've experienced. Yes, this is gossip I guess but hey, I am a woman and we know men would NEVER gossip. 

A few days ago RL Liquidators had an auction running for a location in northern California. It looked like the same name was high bidder on all if not most of the units. The last hour several people could not get into the site at all to bid. One person I know of, called them and raised holy he** with them, calling them scams, cheats etc. lol...All they kept telling her was they had system problems and it was out of their control. She accused them of having their acquaintances bidding and messing with the site themselves. (or something like that). She told them that IF there had been system problems, why didn't they auction them again. No comment from them. She had them on the phone for quite some time. This is just one of a few things that are odd about this companies auctions. A few months ago there was a unit that looked like it might be worth 700.00 at it's highest and was at that price. We watched the last few bids rolling along and then all of a sudden 2 people shot it up to over 5000.00!!! No way it was worth that from what we could see from their pictures and videos but there you go. I wonder if there's a way to turn them in for investigation...hmmm..."something to ponder"...as my dad would say. ;-)

Found this on the TMZ website, didn't know if it has been posted. Couldn't find anything in the search. http://www.tmz.com/

Went to an auction yesterday and units that should have gone for 300.00 - 600.00 max, went for 650 and 1000+ and this was with regulars! Granted I think maybe the prices were so ridiculous might be caused by the fact there were 75 + people there and it was crowd mentality of "Gotta get this no matter what!!!!" I had noticed in general, the prices were calming down a bit and then all of a sudden it's bad again. The units were pretty crappy on a whole and when something decent came up it was stupid bidding.

Can anyone tell me where I can find the Newspapers for legal notices on the storage auctions around Sacramento or Yuba City areas? Thanks!

We did auctions in Central California, moved a few years ago to Texas and started doing them in the Dallas/Ft Worth areas the past year again. We know a lot of people do not want to give info out as far as finding auctions. We all also know that a newbie is treated pretty rude and gets all kinds of comments (said on the side and most of the time not to their faces), glaring looks etc. from SOME regulars. Well, we met one gentleman that surprisingly enough was very nice. At first we thought he was a BS'r because he was actually telling us a few places to look for local auctions but sure enough he was giving us good info. (We were doing a lot of searching on the internet and printing locations but still missing some.)  We saw him yesterday at a small auction and he told us again about a site that helps with finding auctions. We signed on and it has helped us a lot. We are not competitors with him since he buys for 3 stores and we buy mostly for smaller units.  But, I feel that's not why he helped us, I feel it's because he is a nice guy PERIOD! There are a few out there I guess.  That's my comment for the day, just wanted to share a good thing.