Is your storage unit filled with grandfather’s furniture and grandma’s vintage plate collection? If so, you may be spending good money to harbor bad investments. Collectibles of all types typically benefit from the passage of…
John Luke—a fast-talking New Yorker’s New Yorker known for his “tough, old-schooled charm”—recalls the most valuable “room” he auctioned off on Storage Wars: New York. “The best room that we sold was when Joe P…
She’s known as “The Junkster” on Storage Wars for her knack of turning “junk” into pieces of art. Now in her fifth season on the popular A&E Network show, Mary Padian—the eccentric, free-spirited storeowner of…
Is Storage Wars real? That is the first question people ask me when they find out I work not only in self-storage but also with self-storage auctions. Auctions typically happen when tenants default on their…
If you’re a follower of storage auction reality TV shows like “Auction Hunters” and “Storage Wars,” you probably share with the randy collective of onscreen bidders the excitement and anticipation that behind every rollup door…
When self-storage tenants fail to pay the rent, facilities can auction off their belongings to recover what they are owed. This once obscure practice was brought into the mainstream by the international television hit Storage…
Put yourself in storage auctioneer John Cardoza’s shoes. A storage auction regular approaches and asks to speak with you in private. “I found $500,000 in that unit you sold me in San Jose,” the fellow…
Even Beatles need to downsize. At 75, Ringo Starr and his wife, model and one-time Bond girl Barbara Bach, have decided to sell their country house in England as well as their Monte Carlo apartment….
Standing a lean 6-foot-4, even taller in his boots and cowboy hat, auctioneer Rich “Slim” Scott gathers a dozen individuals and pairs of would-be buyers to share the rules auction. “Don’t go in the storage…
Get your remotes ready, Dave Hester haters. Season 8 of “Storage Wars” starts July 21. Based on a Season 8 preview posted on A&E’s website, we can expect Hester to be the same villain who…
