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<p>[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 1064360, member: 13650"]I would have to wonder the same thing. The only way this could happen was if somebody died and they had no living relatives nearby or didn't tell their relatives about the unit or what was in it. </p><p><br /></p><p> The reality of it is that 99% of these storage units are filled with JUNK that nobody has room to store at their house, but it's not stuff that should be thrown away. I can't imagine why anybody would store valuables in these units. Most are not temp controlled. The cheap little padlocks that go on the doors will keep kids out but not a professional thief with a pair of bolt cutters. I wouldn't put anything in one that I wasn't willing to have stolen, personally. It would be hard to want to pay for that for decades.</p><p><br /></p><p> One time I saw a woman and who was most likely her son, go to one of these units and open it up. They pulled the door up, and once the light of day shown upon the contents, all I heard was "Oh......My......God!!!!" And I was quite a distance away. It looked like somebody had professionally packed that thing, left to right, floor to ceiling, packed solid! They apparently were checking it out for the first time!</p><p><br /></p><p> I'm afraid somebody would have to pay ME to go through storage units like this. No way in hell I'd be wasting my money on buying trucks loads of somebody else's junk and then have to handle it myself. Surely wouldn't buy it all blindly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Vess1, post: 1064360, member: 13650"]I would have to wonder the same thing. The only way this could happen was if somebody died and they had no living relatives nearby or didn't tell their relatives about the unit or what was in it. The reality of it is that 99% of these storage units are filled with JUNK that nobody has room to store at their house, but it's not stuff that should be thrown away. I can't imagine why anybody would store valuables in these units. Most are not temp controlled. The cheap little padlocks that go on the doors will keep kids out but not a professional thief with a pair of bolt cutters. I wouldn't put anything in one that I wasn't willing to have stolen, personally. It would be hard to want to pay for that for decades. One time I saw a woman and who was most likely her son, go to one of these units and open it up. They pulled the door up, and once the light of day shown upon the contents, all I heard was "Oh......My......God!!!!" And I was quite a distance away. It looked like somebody had professionally packed that thing, left to right, floor to ceiling, packed solid! They apparently were checking it out for the first time! I'm afraid somebody would have to pay ME to go through storage units like this. No way in hell I'd be wasting my money on buying trucks loads of somebody else's junk and then have to handle it myself. Surely wouldn't buy it all blindly.[/QUOTE]
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