Every year, more than 80,000 storage auctions are held across the U.S., whether at a storage facility or online through an auction site. Auctions present a unique opportunity for buyers to scoop up ...

The man with a clipboard leads 22 men and women into the maze of storage units just off a main thoroughfare in Gresham. "OK," he announces, "you all know the rules; same as always." He opens a padlock ...

The reality TV series "Storage Wars" has made it popular for entrepreneurs to buy storage units abandoned by renters, and to profit from what they find in those units. And while the show has produced ...

Auctioneer Justin Steel, far right, lets potential bidders look inside a storage unit at Rock Castle Storage, 2901 S. Breiel Blvd., Middletown. Those who store their items were months behind on their ...

At a recent auction at the Quakerbridge Road site of Lackland Self Storage in Hamilton, Janina Friedman and Lester Erbe, both from Bordentown and both unemployed, were two of 20 people looking for a ...

What is one man's trash is another's treasure - isn't that how the saying goes? During storage auctions, that saying sometimes proves true, but most times it doesn't. Made popular by the reality TV ...

After the lock was cut and the corrugated steel door was rolled up, a throng of people jammed in to see what treasures the mini-storage unit held. The 10-by-10-foot unit was stuffed to the brim with ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Ben Rosales saw potential profit when he won a storage unit auction sight unseen. “I’ve bought storage units with comic books, with collectibles,” Rosales said. But recently, ...

Americans love self-storage units — rented metal bins, far from home, where you can stuff everything from excess Christmas decorations to the last, best fitness fad equipment. But in this economy, a ...

LITTLE ROCK — "When storage units are abandonedthe treasures within are put up for auction." That is the line that start's every episode of A&E's hit cable tv show "Storage Wars." Interest in the show ...