Where I work, if you’re unit is scheduled for auction, you cannot get in unless you pay your bill. I lock people out all the time after the 6th of the month if the bill is not paid.
Yes, but they always get a notice before they get so far in arrears that it will be auctioned, and if you had $7.5 million in the unit in a safe, and knew it, then you had opportuinity to pay the arrears before being locked out of the unit.
I can only assume (1) they put the safe in the unit not knowing it’s contents (idiots), or (2) the money was “hot” (idiots) and using it would have raised alarms, so they did not even retrieve just enough to pay their storage unit bills.