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There's a special place in Hell for storage owners. They provide a storage place for people hoping to store their things until they get situated and can move their things out.
They know that many of those people will more than likely pay for several months and eventually not be able to pay. So, they collect a monthly payment until they can't pay any longer, then sell their things at auction.
Yes, that's a burn in Hell for eternity offense!
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How late were you? They can’t do that unless you are a few months late. If it’s sentimental stuff I’m sure they’ll give it to you .
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Once you find them. Call the auction company, and you give them your number to give to the new owners of your stuff.
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Usually it’s 90 days delinquent then they take ownership and schedule a unit for the next auction
She could have gone to the auction with a friend to bid and bought it back. Was the unit in pico Rivera?
Who ever bought it took anything of resell-able value (furniture appliances etc.) and tossed the rest in a dumpster.
It’s gone gone gone
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I use to work for Public Storage when I was in college, they don’t auction your things for being a few days late, and they document heavily every attempt to reach out to the renter. Sorry to hear, but a hard lesson learned. Due to privacy, there is no way to get the buyers info, and they probably still do the auctions in cash.
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boyel heights public storage,
i spoke to them on the phone 4 days before they auctioned my unit. i told them in 3/4 days i was going to make the payment in full.... they didnt tell me anything about possibly loosing my stuff.
i even asked them if my stuff is safe and i was told yes.
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more than likely you were mailed several late notices with the results for failure to cure to the address you provided on the rental contract. They do jump through hoops to to get you to cure but end of day, read the contract, understand it and get everything in writing in the future.
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what does your rental agreement say about unpaid bills?
What company is it? If it's a larger brand, I bet their lease agreement is probably on line to review.
Not sure you have any recourse, but if you do, it's contained in the legal agreement that you signed.
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If you spoke to them and knew the auction date and intended to pay them in full, You should of been there on that date and seen the auction in progress and either win it or offer to buy it from the winner.
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I had no idea about an auction date. They never told me anything about an auction.
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An old story from the 70s. An ex girlfriend moved in with me and put her furniture in storage. A few months later we went to get some stuff from her unit, most of her appliances was missing. Turns out she left the key number on the bottom of the Master lock. I told her that we should file a police report, but she refused. I remembered her ex ran with a professional theft ring, and apparently she had bought a lot of her stuff from him.
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Brandi from Storage Wars helps run one of the bars I frequent, very cool lady. On the other hand, her Ex, Jared, from the show owns another bar across town and is a total douche nozzle.
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Stop looking, I got your stuff.
90 bucks was more than I wanted to spend on that worthless crap.
You can have all the crusty panties and bras back. The books and magazines are in the trash. The leathers and shoes and the cowboy shit is on ebay.
I just hope I get my 90 bucks back.
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A day late and a dollar short... classic.
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How many months behind were you before they auction your stuff off?
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I used to work at one of those places about 20 years ago. Here was our policy (if I can remember correctly)
1 month late = 1 month + late fee
If you haven't paid rent in 3 months, you go into pre lien. To get out of it, you must be current and pay late and pre lien fee.
If you haven't paid 6 months, you go into lien and is on the list for auction.
Just because a unit goes up for auction in that 6 months, it doesn't immediately have an auction. My place waited for multiple units to be up for auction so we wouldn't have to hire an auctioneer too often. That being said, yes, a unit could be auctioned off right at 6 months no payment, but it could be with those that haven't paid for up to a year. During that time, those tenants could've paid for their unit and get off the auction block.
Every month late, we would register mail a notice, call, and take notes (left message, talked to tenant, number no longer in service, etc). About a month before each auction, we would mail and call one last time.
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what was in the storage unit?
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^ Probably a bag of dicks.
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@Wooden, I always curious about that business. The return on the investment must be pretty good to be able to go without rent payment for 3 months to a year, having to pay the auctioneer and all the paper works, just to get less than a month rent in this case.
Smart renters could go to bid for the content for less the the rent owe.
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^^
Not knowing any better, as I'm not in that business, I would bet that any bidders have to have some minimal level of vetting by the storage company, for several reasons:
a) reputable - if they bid up to $91, how are they paying for that? Check? will it bounce? Credit card? Charge backs - or do they pay cash..... which creates more fees due to the need of the rental place needing to document cash paid, receipts given - a paper trail.
 litigation - who knows what's in a storage unit. Stolen property, weapons, a dead body? not only does a bidder need to be reputable, but think about it - if some joe off of the street bid on a unit, found a gun, then used that gun in a murder - who's liable? In California - you bet your ass a rental place is going to want to cover their asses.
c) - circumvent - what's to prevent what's been stated here, the renter themselves or a friend bidding on a unit that's 6 months or more behind on rent? The units I've seen ain't cheap. A place isn't going to want to let someone off the hook that easily.
I could go on, but living in CA for as long as I have, I am sure the laws, rules and regulations on what a place can and cannot do are spelled out specifically, thus my comment earlier on what's in the agreement?
We've already had one white knight jump to the defense of the OP.
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@Sbsurf40s It's a pretty good business to own. The breakdown of tenants are the following (based on my location):
60% are businesses that use it to store merchandise, paperwork, and office equipment/furniture. Of that 60% a high majority are big businesses that forget they have unit(s) and just pay every month without knowing what is in them. It's just a regular monthly expense.
30% are regular people who need to store stuff. Most times they are in a jam and need a place to store stuff. Like they got evicted or kicked out. Others are just weirdos who pay to store very mundane stuff like clothes in garbage bags and stacks of newspapers. There are the small percentage of people who use it for the short period they intend on using it for. Like those who come in and say, "I only need it for 3 months" and leave at 3 months.
At my place, auctions were very rare. I worked at one for 4-5 years and we only had 2 auctions. We used to encourage tenants that were being auctioned off to bid on their stuff to save money (only 1 person did that and won for something dirt cheap). We don't like to kick anyone out and throw away your stuff, unless you're a nightmare tenant.
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@remo Auctions are cash only. The winner of the auction has that same day to empty the unit. I think a refundable cash deposit is given to the storage company and returned to the winning bidder when the unit is empty. If not empty, the deposit is kept and the remaining stuff is garbage.
The legal stuff is in the contract they are supposed to read before they sign. Before an auction happens we open the unit and take pictures. If there is anything visible that is illegal or against our terms what to store, we notify authorities and have it removed before auctions. When we take pictures, we do not touch or open anything unless we can see something suspicious.
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I use to keep my boat at a Public Storage. Someone set my boat cover on fire. Thanks to the fire departments quick response the boat was saved.
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Did the oars survive?
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bummer the boat didnt burn up
sometimes i hope mine would.. or sink accidentially
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People are where they are in life or on HX ....not by accident but for good reason.
You signed an agreement...you weren't 1 day late but months what did you think was gonna happen?
Maybe you outta look at what you signed but then you couldn't whine about it. Just ask all the people here that you have seen for help...oh yeah you didn't give two fukk's about any of your "clients" then and only do now that you need something, but you love what you do!
I suggest you beg one of these simpy dumb ass white knights on this blog for help or look for an attorney to blow.
Good luck, in the next life.
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I hope that guys Lotus wasn't in the storage unit
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You guys are mean.
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The definition of a simpy white knight douchebag..
"There's a special place in Hell for storage owners. They provide a storage place for people hoping to store their things until they get situated and can move their things out.
They know that many of those people will more than likely pay for several months and eventually not be able to pay. So, they collect a monthly payment until they can't pay any longer, then sell their things at auction.
Yes, that's a burn in Hell for eternity offense!"
Burn in hell Tom? Because some brain-dead ho with a monkey on her back can stop paying? It's a business douchebag wtf are they supposed to do?
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