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67How to Profit from Storage Auctions and Lien Sales
make money with self storage auctions. Most self storage facilities hold storage auctions or lien sales to vacate non-paying tenants. Self storage facilities will hold a storage auction or lien sale in any given month. Learn how self auctions work and how to start your own business selling the items you find at these auctions are opened to the general public with most bidders buying for the purpose of reselling for profit.
Auctions accept cash. You are bidding on a unit or lot. View is limited to the entrance doorway. Then the bidding starts with sales for a little under $300 dollars. Most items are general household goods, furniture, electronics, clothing and personal records. Bidders may find money, jewelry, antiques and collectibles at these auctions. It is not uncommon to find someone's whole household or business in a unit, with that in mind, you never know what you may find.
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List of Storage Auctions
Places to find out where auctions will be held are:
- storageauctions Publishes monthly newsletter with dates, time, locations and phone numbers of self storage facilities conducting lien sale auctions.
- aamericanselfstorage.com/auction Lists auctions in California, Hawaii, Illinois and more.
- internetauctionlist.com Provides free searches of self storage auctions across America. Specialize in self storage auctions in the MA, RI, CT areas.
- selfstorage.org/ official site for self storage information and education.
- bizjournals.com/ states that housing slowdown leads to boom in mini storage units. Rising demand for storage space due to those renovating their homes or people losing their homes to foreclosure or babyboomers downsizing by moving into condos and smaller homes is leading to a spurr in the use of storage units.
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Ghost, thats, interesting I would guess due to people moving around so much in California they will always have plenty of stuff to give a way, which would become a profit for someone else.
thanks great info
Thanks comment on this, I think there will be a bigger market in the storage unit industry with so many foreclosures on the market.
I agree its a great place to find. but if you run into a unit that has someones whole entire life It is sad. i personally recently was lied to by the storage facility in NY called lockaway. They knew I was trying to make the attempt to pay and agreed to a payment plan. Before I could get in with the ammount they wanted cause it was alot... over 1200.00 they already sold my things. My drivers lisc. expired with my SS card and old credit statements bank records tax sheets from my Business and that was just the beginning. Paintings, Valuable ones. A Salavadore dahli with signgature.. etc. if Anyone would help i will offer a reward.
2buzzy, I am sorry to hear of your loss.
Ghost32 says:
2 years ago
This Hub has some pretty good information I did not know--and I'm an Auctioneer! Or at least I was one, graduated from Western College of Auctioneering in Billings, MT, in 1980. The statement about the sorts of things one might find in a self storage auction kind of got to me, though, and points up the aspect of auctioneering that made me decide to get out of the business: This type of auction underscores a whole lot of pain and broken dreams. Unless you believe people WANTED to abandon an entire household of goods, which I doubt is generally the case.
Livestock and auto auctions are different kettles of fish, of course.
And I will admit that had I continued with last summer's plan of selling merchandise on eBay to make a living, self storage auctions would indeed have provided a rich source of "stuff" to sell...plus, of course, the excitement of the "treasure hunt", never knowing what you might find.