Better than Garage Finds

MtnMike2 · #1 07-20-2009, 08:13 AM

Wow Dan, that sounds like fun. Maybe you should do it for a living.

Mike

multibeard · #2 07-20-2009, 08:47 AM

Ya can not get any deals on forclosed storages here.

The owners will bid you up!!!!!!

Besides that the one owner is a gun nut so there would not be any gun stuff left by the time they auctioned it off

skeet · #3 07-21-2009, 12:39 PM

In Md they will not allow the owner to bid on his own stuff. Once the first bid is made they have lost rights to it and the owners of the storage units don't allow them to bid anyway..unless they want to bid what they owed.. Not to say they don't have someone else bid for them..but they usually aren't there anyway. Now that being said ol Dan is making me look like a piker with his finds.. Good fer you Dan..keep it up..

multibeard · #4 07-21-2009, 05:29 PM

You have to watch some of the auctioneers as some of them will have you bidding against yourself or pulling bids against you out of the air.

This same family was having an auction of a house that had belonged to the wifes grandparents. They all of a sudden started bidding against my farmer buddy that was trying to buy the place for his son, saying they had decided they wanted to keep the place.

It ended up costing my buddy a an extra 10 grand over where the auction had stalled out.

Dan Morris · #5 07-21-2009, 07:43 PM

Here, they have to post 2 legal ads...stating that contents of XXX is going to be sold at auction on X date. Facility cannot enter it. On the X time, it's a crap shoot....let the buyer beware....only time I've ever done this and will probably quit while I'm ahead......my other units were nothing but personal stuff....pics/clothes....ratty household stuff....sad....when ya think of the dreams the people had.............that's life.
Dan