[ExTxMarine]

A lot of lockers that go to auction are because people died and the relatives didn’t know about it.

Several years ago, one of my Aunts owned/operated five of these self storage places all over the Dallas/Fort Worth area - she had over 700 total lockers. She loves the "Storage Wars" show. She said most of the locker auctions are because people have had the stuff in storage for over two years and then simply walk away, thinking they had already gotten everything of value out of the unit. Or they simply forgot what all they had stored in there and just let it go.

She said in the twelve years she owned those units she only had two deaths - and both of those were claimed by the families before they went to auction.

This Sunday news show made it seem like these auction people were cheating people out of their history and life - but that is simply BS!

[discostu]

I wonder how many kind of combine death and abandonment. If my grandfather, whose paperwork was a complete mess, had a storage locker we never found out, so we never would have informed the locker company, so they would have considered it abandoned.

Yeah the whole lib angle is, as always, silly. Nobody’s getting cheated here. Anybody that abandoned good stuff in a storage locker has only themselves to blame.