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 ...

Antiques, cash and jewelry. Soiled mattresses, drug paraphernalia and busted furniture. There’s no telling what’s behind the door of a self-storage unit. It might be the next thing to King Tut’s tomb ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A group of Cuban women living in the United States shared their disappointing experience on TikTok after purchasing a storage unit at auction for ...

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 ...

On a recent Saturday, Jami Norman scored big at her first storage auction, winning a widescreen TV, high-end power tools and truckloads of other items for $500. "It was an awesome day," said Norman, ...

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 ...