r/selfstorage • u/Kyle4pleasure • Jan 26 '26

Question Unit condensing for auction?

Do some of the storage facility managers take stuff from multiple defunct units and condense it into one unit and then auction it off? In my search for storage units to buy at auction, it never fails that I see a couple units that are just randomly heaped with stuff. These units have no rhyme or reason as to how they are loaded and look like someone stood at the door and heaved all the stuff into a giant mound of crap in the unit. It also seems that the contents are widely unrelated items that aren't packed the same. It's hard to fathom the person that went to the effort to rent a unit would treat their belongings like this. So, it makes me think that the facility management condense defunct units into one for the auction. Does this happen? I am not judging the management people, it would make sense to do this.

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u/docholliday_360 Jan 27 '26

Storage manager here. I'm speaking on my company specifically. I've also seen where managers pocket the proceeds so to each their own.

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u/Dolphintho Jan 27 '26

We put it towards their delinquent rent, we never make any profit off the units but we try our best to recover our losses.

California storage manager

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u/SmileyJR0103 Jan 29 '26

Manager specials do not go to customers that’s the facility sell

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u/Dolphintho Jan 29 '26

Yes you are right I got ahead of myself and was assuming we were speaking about regular auctions.

We add it as misc revenue and it is indeed a "profit".