The auctioneer slides the steel door up, and a small crowd at the storage facility steps forward for a peek. They are here to bid on possessions left behind when the people who rented the storage unit ...

The reality TV series "Storage Wars" has made it popular for entrepreneurs to buy storage units abandoned by renters, and to profit from what they find in those units. And while the show has produced ...

At a recent auction at the Quakerbridge Road site of Lackland Self Storage in Hamilton, Janina Friedman and Lester Erbe, both from Bordentown and both unemployed, were two of 20 people looking for a ...

Antiques, cash and jewelry. Soiled mattresses, drug paraphernalia and busted furniture. There’s no telling what’s behind the door of a self-storage unit. It might be the next thing to King Tut’s tomb ...

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — Ben Rosales saw potential profit when he won a storage unit auction sight unseen. “I’ve bought storage units with comic books, with collectibles,” Rosales said. But recently, ...

A pair of storage buildings in Dallas and in Denton seem unlikely places for a treasure hunt, but when auctioneer Jackie Sutton comes to call, any day could be someone's lucky day. Sutton sells off ...

Ben Rosales never knows what he will find when he purchases storage units from auctions. He finds all sorts of relics from buying storage units online and they often yield sizable profits. But last ...

LITTLE ROCK — "When storage units are abandonedthe treasures within are put up for auction." That is the line that start's every episode of A&E's hit cable tv show "Storage Wars." Interest in the show ...