Strange Auction Services gets its name from its owner, but the company's moniker could just as easily describe some of the unusual sales conducted by the 2-year-old Indianapolis-based business. “I get ...

Self-storage units are a great way to store extra items and property for which you don't have an immediate need. For a monthly fee, storage unit companies can keep your things safe and protected, ...

DENVER (CBS4) - A new law is about to make it easier for owners of self-storage businesses to sell the belongings of customers who haven't paid up. Owners will no longer have to notify customers ...

Auctioneers continually warn buyers to bid only on what they can see. Brook Snyder, the auctioneer at the West Side storage unit, said his auctions are typically over in a matter of moments, with ...

Every year, more than 80,000 storage auctions are held across the U.S., whether at a storage facility or online through an auction site. Auctions present a unique opportunity for buyers to scoop up ...

Attendance at storage unit auctions has hit record highs since shows such as Storage Wars, Storage Hunters and Auction Hunters hit the air. Convinced that abandoned storage units are concealing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Americans love self-storage units — rented metal bins, far from home, where you can stuff everything from excess Christmas decorations to the last, best fitness fad equipment. But in this economy, a ...

When I was about 10 years old, I went to an abandoned property auction at a local self-storage place with my mother. We thought it would be a fun end to a long day of yard-saling. It was anything but.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CHIGAGO—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 ...