How to Make Money Buying Abandoned Storage Units. Abandoned storage units are eventually auctioned off if the owner of the contents stops paying the rent. Buyers take advantage of those auctions ...

After buying storage units, bid winners have a small amount of time to pay or risk forfeiting the bid. Generally, payment is required directly after the auction or, at the most, the next day.

Cable television shows have helped drive the popularity of storage-facility auctions, and an Indianapolis man who conducts the sales is witnessing the trend firsthand.

But, alas, the macabre often is thrown in with the gems people find in self-storage auctions. Bonnie Altenried said she fielded repeated phone calls from a tenant whose self-storage unit was soon ...

Wade Venture, 37, bought an abandoned storage unit at auction for $410 and was happily surprised to discover it was filled with $70,000 worth of designer clothes.

A Rhode Island teen is being praised for his good deeds after he started buying repossessed storage units to help previous owners recover their belongings.

Think you can be the next Storage Warrior? You aren’t alone. Attendance at auctions of items in storage units whose owners have failed to pay their bills has soared thanks to the popularity of ...

On the first Monday of every month, Lackland Self Storage on Quakerbridge Road sells storage units full of items from boats and cars to furniture and clothing.

It's anything but storage wars for a teen who buys units at auction and then returns the contents to their rightful owners.