hey guys it's Brian with retired at 40 and it's a cold nasty windy day here in
Colorado and against my better judgment I'm gonna buy a storage unit just so I
can show you what you actually in reality can expect from a storage unit
because they're not all good ones so
I've been on a pretty big luck streak on my storage unit purchasing lately at the
end of the last one I kind of mentioned that you get a lot of trash in the
storage unit all right we've got four minutes left and it's at a hundred and
twenty dollars all right I'm gonna go ahead and bump it up to 210 as my max
bid so with 2 minutes and 43 seconds left I'm the current high bidder at 1:40
there's a few odds and ends they're gonna make up for what I'm paying for
this unit but just a couple things that really peak my interest and there's
some radio-controlled plane stuff there's a hard case right here so
someone just bumped it up at 200 but we're still the high bidder at 210 I
don't think it'll go for much more than this one annoying thing about this
website is every time someone bids at 3 minutes - the final time so now it's a 5
minutes and 23 seconds I've had quite a few people ask me which website I use I
use storage treasures it's not the cheapest website you actually have to
pay twice because you're paying sales tax in the place that you purchase it in
and you're also paying a fee to storage treasures but I like their setup the
quality of their units is a little is usually a little bit better okay so we're
down to the last few seconds here bid is at 270 and look like we won all right so
270 dollars for the final bid if nothing else this will be some cheap
entertainment let's go figure out what's in it all right we're all paid up and I
just experienced one of the weirdest things I've ever experienced
at a storage facility like this so on the way in here I had one of the
weirdest experiences I've ever had at a storage facility and apparently this is
gonna be like the new thing that they do at storage facilities it's all virtual
so you walk into like this commons area
and all there is is a computer screen and a camera and basically an ATM
machine type thing that you put your money in you're talking to a guy in a
different state I'm doing all right how are you virtually and they give you
the information there's a there is a supervisor here but they come and cut a
lot for you and then and then you get your storage unit really strange a
little uncomfortable but I guess I don't know the world's just becoming less and
less personal every single day that goes by but let's go check out the storage
unit
all right let's see if we can make our money back quick the toolbox right here
no not the greatest one 15 bucks maybe
there's a little ship here's what I was after right here has all these planes
cuz I'm really into radio-controlled planes and there's a there's at least
four in here I'm guessing we're gonna find a whole bunch of them there's a car
subwoofer a couple of really nice radio-controlled cars in here there's
another plane here's another plane I'm gonna try and
make some room in here and try and get some inventory
well I'm making a little bit of progress haven't really found a whole lot of
worthwhile yet quite a bit of tools lots of radio
controlled airplanes boats sail boats and planes couple skateboards I've
definitely made my money back which is so everything else I guess is just gravy
at this point but I'm gonna keep digging it's not a very nice day out so I'm
gonna try and load the trailer up and kind of sort through it at home it's my
suspicions we're correct there's lots of trash in here there is
some good stuff that I've come across but a lot of trash so I'm going to show you
the reality of storage units today and I found 85 cents so far this looks
curious here nothing to write home about the box is really cool totally you know
all right we made it home with our trailer full of junk so what can you
expect in the average storage unit well it's right here it's about 60 to 70%
garbage and you sift through that so you can get to the good stuff here's all the
garbage already pulled out of here so now I'm gonna go through all that 60 to
70% of garbage so I can get to the cream or the gravy as I call it which is where
the money's at
I'm just gonna take a minute and just soak in all this reality right here a
lot of times I think to myself what was I thinking this would be one of those
cases you gotta just keep digging you never know what lies in the next box
well I guess I didn't learn my lesson because I just bought another storage
unit so that either makes me able to redeem myself or the biggest idiot on
YouTube right now well maybe not the biggest idiot so I grabbed a few things
that I kind of set aside now that we've seen plenty of junk that I went through
I want to show you kind of the reality of what you're gonna find in the average
storage unit you're gonna find way more junk than you're gonna find good things
but obviously your goal is you kind of have to weigh out your time versus what
you're gonna make on the storage unit and how much trash you're willing to
sort through to find the stuff that's worth keeping so I found a big RC car
another RC car I found a couple of spektrum remotes for RC cars they're
probably $50 apiece this one I'm not really sure it is a big scale so it's
probably a couple hundred dollars this is probably maybe 50 bucks not sure on
this it's not in real great shape but I did find a box that had quite a few Xbox
one games those are always a quick seller some Xbox remotes and I found an
Xbox one console I don't know if it works or not
and then I found another Xbox console it's obviously in pieces so I'm assuming
that it doesn't work it could be sold as parts
and then they found this little Train Set which is this is pretty cool this is
it's n scale I looked it up it's probably about $70 and it looks to be
complete but I'm gonna give it a shot and see if it works here's a typical
site in a storage unit a bag full of clothes
there's probably dirty underwear and socks in there I can almost guarantee
you but once again I wanted to show you this video because I want to show you
what you can realistically expect in most storage units
I really enjoyed showing you guys my successes but I also want to show you my
failures this box did have some good stuff in it it's got a whole set of
Ryobi cordless tools and they'll have to be tested to make sure that they work
here's a grinder but those I don't know they're probably worth all this stuff is
probably 40 or 50 dollars there's just kind of miscellaneous tools and things I
really like going through these type of junk drawer boxes because there's a lot
of smalls in there and by smalls I mean something that's small that's got a good
value to it and they don't take a lot of room to store they're quick to sell and
you can have a whole box full of stuff to sell that really doesn't take up much
room but it's a it's a lot of value in one small package another thing that I
want to address is you need to have space to do storage units I mean look at
all this it fills up your house really quick and it can really just end up
taking over your house if you're not careful you have to remain really really
organized you have to have a place to put all of your trash that's a really
important one now how do you get rid of the trash I have a trailer so whatever I
can't recycle or use in a different way I'll take to the dump if I have to but
you have to realize when you go to the dump you're spending money and right now
I think it's about a hundred bucks a ton to dump garbage so what I really try and
do is recycle everything I can I recycle my steel my aluminum all the metals that
I can and my goal with that is usually to make enough money on the recycling to
pay for the dump fee I hope this video helped you guys figure out whether or
not you are even interested in buying storage units and hopefully it gave you
a few pointers on how to buy storage units and what
expect when you actually get into the storage units don't forget to tune in in
the next couple of weeks and I'll have an update on that storage unit that I
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