- In 2020, a lot of people lost their jobs.
And in 2021, I would imagine it's going to continue
the same for awhile.
There's like 20 or 30,000 units
that go up for auction every single week.
And so finding additional ways
to make a little extra money if you hustle it out
is a good thing.
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In today's video, I wanna teach you
everything that I've learned about storage lockers
and how to make real money from storage lockers.
I think we've done 10 of them now.
This was just a portion of the profits
from one of the storage lockers.
And I just thought a thousand dollar bill was cool,
I didn't know they existed.
I bought this for $2,200.
It's a $1,000 bill, I bought it for $2,200.
I'm gonna get it graded
and it should be worth around $3,500,
if it is graded at a good level, which it looks super clean.
These are the three things that are gonna happen
in today's video.
First, I'm gonna bid on a storage locker.
Here it is right here.
I've got it up.
Hopefully we will win it.
And I'm going to tell you my thoughts behind it
and how much money I wanna spend on it.
And then two, we're gonna go get the items,
search the storage locker, find what else is in there.
And then three, something
that I don't usually show in my storage locker videos,
we're going to sell all of the items in there
and let you know exactly how much money we made
from buying this storage locker.
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We've had some interesting comments from people
and even emails from people,
they say that I'm basically gambling,
that I'm addicted to storage lockers.
Well, yes, I do think it's really fun to buy storage lockers
and it is fun to make actual money.
But is this gambling?
Is this like playing the lottery?
In general, for the majority of the storage lockers
if you use good techniques, it is not a gamble.
It actually should get at least your money back
and out of all the storage lockers that we have done,
overall we are up as far as money that we've made
just off of selling the items inside of the storage locker.
Have there been some videos that seem like a gamble?
Yeah, sometimes I will overpay for a locker
because there's a safe inside of it,
and because for our viewers, and for our audience,
and for our YouTube channel, we make back the money
on our storage lockers, just off of the views on the video.
So for us, it's not really a gamble.
Whether there's things inside of the storage locker
that we can resell or not, that is good content,
and it's really fun.
But if you take away the YouTube views
and you're just somebody that's buying storage lockers
just to turn around and flip them to make some extra cash,
out of the 10 that we bought,
even if you count the ones that were a total bust,
overall we have made money on them,
because we've made some hard decisions
on the storage lockers that we've purchased.
And this video might take me two months to make,
but for you get on the website, look in your area.
There's multiple websites for storage lockers,
or storage treasures or storage auctions.
There's Bid 13, there's a couple of other ones.
There's like a Storage Fox that are on there.
And see if you can find something that's within
a hundred-mile radius of where you live.
Let's take a look at the storage locker that we have today.
This is it.
You can see it down here.
It is in San Diego, California,
not a bad drive from where I'm at.
And one cool thing about Bid 13
is they actually show a video of them putting the lock on.
So check this out, here is the video.
It shows you, check that out,
there's golf clubs in the back.
There are bikes, there's one, two, three, four,
and then like a mini.
And then they go and they put the lock on it in the video.
And then there's a bunch of bins in the back.
So a ton of bins and some other stuff.
You wanna look at the contents
that are inside of the storage locker
and find some experts and put a value on it.
So as long as you get the locker
for the price of the things that you can actually see,
you know you're going to at least break even.
You should at least break even.
And then anything else that you find inside of the bins
or anywhere else, that's just gonna be be money on top of it
when you find it.
And so that's where you really make your money.
This is clearly somebody that had some money.
They have really nice specialized road bikes.
They also have really nice golf clubs.
I know golf clubs.
Those are really good sets.
And everything is neat in the plastic bins.
Plastic bins in the storage space typically means
that it's somebody that does have more valuable things,
if they're not just getting a cheap box.
They want their stuff to stay away from the elements,
from the humidity, but also be strong
and be protected inside of there.
So, I've sent this video and these pictures
to two of my cycling friends that are big into cycling space
and these bikes are they're in good condition,
so that's good.
The low end, I could get $500 for each one of these bikes.
The high end, one of them says $1,000,
one of them says potentially $1,500
for each one of those bikes.
So, if we just say on the low end four bikes,
just on the four bikes right there, that's $500 a bike.
You're lookin' at $2,000.
Add on the golf clubs, that's 2,250.
Let's add a little bit extra for the smaller bike
and let's add some extra on there,
just in case we can get more than the minimum
$500 for these bikes.
So based off of that, I'm going to say,
that my breakeven point for this locker,
for where it would make sense, would be $2,600.
If I spend anything more than $2,600,
it does become a bit risky because I don't know
what the other items are inside of the storage locker.
This one has a rule within the last minute if you bid on it
then it bumps it up another minute.
So we're gonna wait until there's two minutes left
and we're gonna place our high bid,
which is the max bid that I'm willing to spend,
it's the $2,600, and then we're gonna see what happens.
Hopefully I'll get it for less than that,
but if it goes above it, okay, I'm just gonna walk away.
When people do the live storage auctions
where they're there, all they do is open the door.
You get like 20 seconds
to peek inside of it with a flashlight
and then you've gotta bid against eight random people.
The online system is a nice way to do it
because you have plenty of time.
You have it a week or two weeks to look at these pictures,
to do some research and do some homework.
Now on the flip side, it does drive the prices up
because there's a lot more people
that are doing that same thing,
but you can get a better idea of what things you're buying
and do some research before.
Okay, here we are two minutes left.
In the last hour, not one person has bid,
actually in the last 24 hours, it's been stuck at 1,701.
Yes, I've been watching it for more than 24 hours.
So, I think it's time.
I'm gonna make a bid on this.
Oh, somebody just bid.
$2,400, here we go.
All right, so I am the high bidder right now.
There's three minutes left on it.
It's at $1,800.
All right, so now we just wait and we watch.
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We are under a minute.
We have 50, 48 seconds left.
Walk away everybody, everybody but Jimmer.
Oh, somebody just bid $200 more.
It's at $2,012.
That adds another minute to it.
We're at 1:39.
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10 seconds.
Eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one.
I know I'm the high bidder, it just says zero.
It just says zero, but it doesn't say if I got it.
Where does it say if you got it?
Refresh it.
We won the auction, 2012, that was a good year.
Okay, so, now we gotta go to San Diego.
And now for step two,
to get the actual items out of the storage locker.
It is the next day, I am here.
I paid the $2,012.
Plus I needed to pay extra in taxes.
I'll put on screen what it is.
I think it was like $134.
And I also had to pay 15% fee to the auction website.
So now we need to get the things out.
This is the exciting part.
Looks a lot like the pictures.
Man, it is dark in here.
I don't see any lights.
Are there lights?
Nope, no lights.
Okay, one, two, three sets of golf clubs
and then a mini, like junior set down below.
We've got this white specialized bike.
Trying to see the name of it.
I can't quite see the name.
But that's a nice lookin' bike.
It's upside down.
We have this one here, it says Vita on it,
specialized Vita, really good condition, nice seat.
This is the one that we could kind of see in the picture.
And then you've got the little junior one here
specialized horchata, horchata something.
And what is this guy?
Oh, it's like a little go-cart thing down here.
Okay, that's cool.
And then one, two, three, four bins.
A little trashcan thing back there, some laundry baskets.
Okay, not bad that shouldn't be
too difficult to get through and also to take home
and to be able to sell.
Check out this facility.
It has carpet inside of it.
I'm on the second level.
Metal walls here, like interesting little metal walls.
And then it does have an elevator.
There it is.
There's the elevator.
No riders are allowed to go in it.
So that should work.
I will just get all the things,
put 'em inside of the elevator
and then just take the elevator down,
throw it in the truck, and we're good set to go.
All right, let's get to it.
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This little thing is super cool.
Oh, it's pretty heavy.
It has the charger.
It's a razor thing.
I would imagine a few hundred bucks for this guy.
I'll look it up.
We will find out with the video.
The first set of clubs.
Oh my gosh, okay the Grand Golf Club,
that's a nice golf course around here.
Oh, baby, look at this.
Okay, Montana 72 Ghost Tour Even Roll.
That's a cool putter.
This is pretty nice.
Nice TaylorMade SLDRs.
A Cleveland wedge.
Oh, that's a nice TaylorMade 60 degree lob wedge.
Okay, not the nicest driver, a little older.
Some golf balls down in there.
The next one.
How about the tiny golf clubs.
U.S. Kids Golf, Lincoln used to this kind.
Some TaylorMade, oh man.
Little kid's golf clubs, right handed.
Bringin' back the memories of Lincoln.
Okay, next one.
Oh, there's even more golf clubs in here.
Did I miss these earlier?
All right, so we got some Ping irons, G25s.
Oh, that's another one of those TaylorMade drivers.
All right, nice golf bag.
Two more golf bags.
Oh, I love the RocketBallz clubs.
These are the RocketBallz drivers heads.
Daytona Ghost Tour Black.
No, what, golf shoes.
Ashworth golf shoes, okay.
Last set of golf clubs.
It is dark back here.
Calloway X Hot, X2 Hot.
This definitely is a girl's set.
So, five golf clubs and five bikes, and a scooter.
This is some sort of gate it looks like.
Another type of gate.
And then we've just got these right here.
So, I would have to believe
that we are going to get our money back
just from these items.
We will know in this video, but hopefully
there's some sort of surprise inside of here,
that's valuable and worth something.
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Just has some bottles inside of it and some paper.
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Okay, this one just has a rug inside of it, a giant rug.
A folding chair.
Really nice bike pump, which makes sense.
Another chair, the "Hunger Games" book.
That's pretty much all that was in this one,
so not too exciting inside of that bin.
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Oh, look at that.
Pro VI golf balls.
That is nice.
Those are like 45 bucks right there.
Other golf balls, some more Pro VIs.
Got a small version of the Qur'an.
Taboo, okay, so this is brand.
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Gloves and bike shorts.
Oh, those are some nice golf shoes right there.
These ones are a little more used,
but I really like those Adidas golf shoes.
More shoes in here, more golf shoes.
In a real scenario for me when I get this stuff,
I usually keep a lot of the things
and I use them, like the golf balls,
the golf shoes I would use them.
But for this video, to show you how much we can make,
I'm gonna try to sell most of the stuff.
Look at the handle on that.
That is a massive handle.
That's a good quality.
Maybe people will buy these too, I don't know.
Oh, ho, ho.
We hit the mother lode of bike safety helmets everywhere.
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A nice Bell motorcycle helmet.
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An actual motorcycle outfit right there.
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This one's Arai, Arai.
This bin is gonna give us some money here.
It's not a safe, it's not Pokemon cards, it's not coins,
it's not some of the things that we've gotten
that are super valuable,
but all of these little things add up.
These have wheels on the bottom of them even.
The next one, this is like the last little box here.
All right, we've got a nice tennis racket here.
Personal cleaning cloths.
Not my favorite thing in here,
but 20 adult disposable wash cloths.
That's pretty much it in that bin right there.
I can confirm it is a gate.
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Another gate.
(video squelches)
A 17-gallon tub.
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Two small pogo sticks.
(video squelches)
This one is the Spooner.
A random pair of used shoes.
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The final remaining items are all wooden boxes.
So that's the locker.
Other than the motorcycle helmets, maybe the golf shoes.
We really didn't find much.
I mean, much other than the stuff that we saw.
It's probably gonna take me, I don't know,
three weeks to sell all these items.
I'll price them aggressively to try to get 'em sold.
Step three, coming up next.
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Welcome back, it has been three weeks, maybe four weeks.
It's been a while since we've given an update,
but for you it's the same video.
- I've been selling everything.
- Like a boss. - Big time.
- She sold everything.
I didn't sell anything.
But Leslie sells it.
- On Facebook Marketplace.
- But do you just post it on Facebook Marketplace
or don't you have to like go and share it
in some certain groups?
- So, I share it in certain groups.
So like our town, there's like multiple St. George
marketplace groups.
So I share to normally two to three.
If it's a higher-value item, I'll even do it
all the way up to Salt Lake.
Whatever you price it at they're gonna say,
I want half the price.
So always listed a little bit higher,
knowing that you need to go down
because otherwise they don't give you stars.
And I want five stars.
- She has all five stars. - I have five stars.
- But she always does it a little bit higher.
So there's some good tips.
One time we sold our fancy camera lens
and Leslie went and found some camera groups on there
and shared it in the camera group.
- And I'd been tryin' to sell it
for like months just locally.
And within one day we had like multiple people.
So just find the groups.
You have to like be accepted into the group,
but it's so worth it and people are really fast.
But don't ever ship anything
unless you actually have proof.
That's the other thing you have to
because there's lots of scammers out there.
- There are. If I remember right, we spent around $2,000
on this storage locker.
There were some fees associated, some taxes on site,
and then also a fee to the storage website.
So we'll put on screen exactly what that number is.
Were the bikes hard to sell?
- The bikes weren't that hard to sell.
- The first day the first three sold.
So we sold one bike for $475.
The next bike we sold for $325.
And we sold another bike for $420.
And then one of them took a really long time to sell.
Like the last thing that we sold.
- It was the nicest one.
- It was the black one, I loved it, it was matte black
and that one sold for $340.
We started around 500, dropped it all the way down,
sold it for $340.
So, golf clubs.
Now I took a couple of trips to the golf shop
and I was able to sell some of that.
Okay, we are leaving the golf store right now.
- I was surprised that you got as much as you did.
So tell them how much you got.
- $708 for a few of the sets.
$250 for another one.
So basically $1,000 from the golf clubs.
No bags, just the golf clubs.
When I did sell the last set the guy at the shop did ask me,
"Why aren't you selling these yourself?"
Like on Facebook, like the rest of your stuff?
'Cause I told him what I was up to with the storage locker.
And I was like, "Well, because I sell 'em here,
you guys do a good job."
Then of course I walked out and I'm like,
"Oh, I could have made more money."
- It probably would have taken a longer amount of time.
The amount of people that had to come to our house
to test things out, whether they wanted it or not.
So it definitely takes more time.
- It was nice. - We could have gotten
probably another $300, I bet.
- But the one thing that I didn't expect is,
I was going to send it to Goodwill,
all of the golf bags that were like used, dirty.
- Yes, we had to put 'em on Facebook.
And literally I think I sold those in two days to one mom.
She wanted all four bags.
We sold them for $120.
She was so excited.
Every member of her family needed a bag
and she was just excited.
- $120 Leslie killed it with that.
The kids gates.
We sold both of them for $30, not bad.
We sold lawn chairs for like sporting events $10 a chair.
Motorcycle, like bullet bike racing pants and like a jacket.
They were kind of gross.
Like they kind of smelled funky.
They were dirty, they had like grease on them.
So we sold those pants for $95.
So the guy came and it was funny.
He actually put them on in my garage
and they fit him perfectly.
And he was like, my mom's gonna be so happy
now that I'm wearing this safety stuff
when I'm out riding my bike.
So I was like, okay, you really can sell everything.
Pogo sticks, little tiny pogo sticks.
- Yes, I never even met the person.
I just trusted them.
They Venmoed me beforehand
and I left it outside the front door
and said, come pick it up whenever.
- $20. - Yes.
- And then we had some helmets.
We sold one helmet for $15 to somebody
that was already buying a bike.
There was a kid's bike that was $80,
and I sold a helmet for $5 to them.
So that little tiny specialized kid's bike.
- There was like seven helmets or something.
So random people would just come try on helmets
- So, $60 from the helmets.
This razor scooter thing, somebody came in bought that.
- It was for like a kid that was like in his '20s.
And he wanted to do it with his younger siblings.
It was really cute.
- Yeah, it was adults that bought that bike, that thing.
So the grand total of all of the things
that we sold was $3,173.
It did take some time.
Of course, I didn't factor in gas for driving.
You've gotta have a truck to be able to pick up the stuff.
And then also measuring our time for like taking pictures
and posting 'em and then meeting with people
and then talking to all the people online.
There definitely is time involved in that.
But I guess my whole point of making this video,
if you were looking for a good way
to make a little extra money,
there's tons of different ways
to like flip things on the internet.
And while I was nervous a little bit during this video,
we did it, just took a little bit extra time.
- Yeah, it was awesome.
- Thanks for watchin'.
Hope you enjoyed this video.
A little educational video, fun and on to the next one.
- [Leslie] Good job.
- Yes, my name on this is Jimmer.
Had to come up with a name, thought it'd be that.
I'll probably have to change it after this
so that people don't look for me on this site
and outbid me all the time, just 'cause they know it's me.
- Filling myself up with energy.
Oh, ouch.
- Oh, that was more than energy.
Then jago, oh no, I thought this was part of it.
Those are barely even used at all.