hey guys retired at 40 I want to show you something I do to make a little bit
of extra income every once in a while and more than that it's just it's cheap
entertainment it's a lot of fun so I've got to bid in on this storage unit so I
haven't really done one for a while but I just this just happened to catch my
eye for some reason so I put a bit in right now I've got about 12 seconds left
and you can see that I'm the winning bid right now two one
cool so it looks like I won I paid nine hundred and sixty dollars for it so I'm
a little bit anxious because I haven't done this in a while and I used to do it
a lot when my kids were real little because I stayed at home with them and
we just have fun opening boxes and playing with stuff and you just never
knew what was in the next box I've had my share of really good storage units
and I've also had my share of really bad storage units so I'm gonna get the van
and the trailer hooked up and we're gonna go check this out and see what's
in there alright next we need to get some greenbacks for youngsters that
means money Benjamins
"Got the Goods?"
so we're all paid up we've got the gate code now we're gonna meet the guy over
there he's gonna let us into the unit so anxious
"care if i video?" I think you'll do well yeah if nothing else we'll have fun
so right away inside the door there's quite a bit of good stuff this propeller
is what I have my eye on those go for like four or five hundred bucks there's
couple model planes here there's some diecast little engines for planes a
metal detector and there's tons tons and tons of mystery boxes one thing that
caught my eye was this D&RGW railroad that's Denver and Rio Grande there's
some private property railroad signs which are kind of cool there's a big old
train right here punching bag so we tend to load everything up and then kind of
dissect it as we get at home so that's what we're gonna do right now
so my first impressions of this unit are pretty good there's a lot of good stuff
just from our first glance I think it's gonna be a really good unit I think
there's gonna be a lot of good surprises in it I've got a really good feeling
about it but I'm gonna get everything unloaded and kind of sorted out and
we'll we'll go through some of the things that I find and then we'll open
up some of the mystery boxes so all these boxes they're all train stuff so
I've had a chance to kind of go through everything real quick and the first
thing I like to do before I start going through boxes is go through the really
obvious stuff because I like to go and try and find how I'm gonna make my money
back so this is a big steel train that it's a mail box I'm sure some kind of
train lever person would love to spend 50 bucks on that I looked up this Piper Cub
but this is unassembled and quite a few of them sold on eBay for just over 200
bucks this narrow gauge said this should be worth a hundred $150 these are super
cool I found these hiding behind some other stuff it's a no trespassing signs
these ought to be worth I don't know 50 to 100 bucks apiece any railroad
collector would love to have these this plain is an older one but it ought to be
worth about 50 bucks so get this airplane prop 2 and I thought it was
worth a lot more than it is but after I got it home I noticed that it's got a
big chunk out of it so it's probably still worth a hundred or 200 bucks it is
pretty cool it's definitely old it's got the old brass tips on it so that breaks
us even so what does that mean that means that I scored big-time
because I've got I've got all of this I've got all of this and I've got all
the and I know for a fact there's some real
good boxes in here because of how they're labeled so we've got these two
bikes to the out of you're worth 50 bucks so this is pretty cool I did some
research on this it would be for a signal person or a flag person on the
caboose and this one actually has a flag in it and then in this box would
actually carry flares or I believe they call them torpedoes this one would have
to do a little research on I can't find a price but I have found a couple of
them that are exactly like it I've got a couple radiant heaters cold seasons
coming up those out of you worth 40 50 bucks so there's a jacket and some
coveralls and I always check the pockets on everything because people stash
things in strange spots had some mid-century modern chairs that I pulled
off the cushions and found $300 3 $100 bills
nothing in these nitro motor for an airplane it's worth about $250 I think
that should be worth a hundred bucks got a punching bag that'll be worth 25 got a
nice camp stove a propane burner it's got some random tools and three sets of
tire chains all that stuff's probably worth about 75 bucks the JL audio
amplifier those are selling on eBay for like 50 50 to 75 dollars the best part
about it so far is that's all the garbage that came out of here the
students turning out to be quite a goldmine I'm already out quite a bit on
the plus side and I haven't yet haven't even gotten into the boxes yet I'm gonna
get into the models first and then I'm gonna work my way up into what I think
is going to be probably the best part of the gravy
holy models so most of these ended up being just Revell put together models
they're not worth a whole lot maybe I don't know fifty to a hundred bucks for
the whole thing if someone wants them same thing with the cars they're all put
together models they're not really worth a whole lot this helicopter is a BBI
and it's worth about $200 and then we get into the 21st century models this
stack right here is about $450 and all these planes are all 21st century or
they're all probably worth about 30 to 50 apiece so let me count them all quick
there's 16 of them that are out of the box so even at $30 a piece that's 480
dollars so next I'm gonna start going through some of these books and I know
there's some good stuff in here because they're titled train books I know that
train books are real collectible so what kind of sort through it and I'll give
you the highlights so I had a chance to go through all the books and as I
expected it was just a total treasure chest lots of books that were just kind
of hard to find stuff it's out of print quite a few books that were like 300
bucks a piece quite a few sets here I'll show you
so these two boxes were full of publications from 1979 till current
almost they've got close to 40 years worth of publications so take 40 years
times 25 to 30 dollars per year and then there's quite a few boxes like this with
you know 20 books in it they're all 20 to 30 dollars apiece this one was a
really good one this black set right here is worth close to a thousand bucks
just by itself and then we've got a couple more books that are like a
hundred bucks apiece so this box is over $1,000 just by
itself and as I was flipping through I found this book it's something that's
out of date and it was a small publication this alone is $350 and then
I've just got random stacks that I've sorted out of different types of books
they're all 20 to 30 bucks apiece I've got boxes that I have
through yet this set right here was 130 dollars all these little books here like
20 to 30 bucks and then I've got tons and tons of just out-of-date
publications now that I've had a chance to go through all the books and the
magazines I'm gonna tackle the last big section we've got buildings and freight
cars all along here these are all engines and locomotives so that's kind
of where the money is at so I'm gonna get that all sorted and then I'm gonna
show you what I found and I know for a fact that was a really good box in there
because it's labeled brass trains a few years back I sold an enormous model
train collection and the brass trains just command a huge amount of money so
I'm gonna save that for laughs you're gonna have to stick around to the last
of the video to find out I got all of the locomotives and all of the Freight
all sorted out and there is easily a couple thousand dollars here and then
I've also got all of my rolling stock separated and the buildings these three
boxes are full of unopened buildings that's easily another thousand I've got
three boxes I've repaired locomotives those should easily bring three to four
hundred dollars I've got lots and lots of odds and ends and paperwork from the
locomotives that's another couple hundred books so what I'm most excited
about are these two boxes right here and I'm gonna show you why so I know my
trains pretty well and anyone that makes a special box to have foam that makes
everything real nice there's got to be something really really good in here and
these are n scale they're all hand painted someone put tons and tons and
tons of work into all these I've only opened the top one so I'm not sure what
all is in these but yeah just more of these n scales easily another thousand
dollars just because these are all hand weathered hand painted so this is my
final box and this should be the mother lode because it says brass trains and I
lifted it up and it's extremely heavy so it probably is brass trains which is
awesome because brass trains are extremely expensive and I can already
see right now just off the top these two brands they're expensive so I'm going to
go through this real quick so definitely some expensive trains here but I saved
the best for last because this box right here is about two thousand dollars just
by itself these are all brass trains completely unread well it's been a while
since I've done a storage unit probably at least a couple years but this was a
killer unit probably one of the best if not the best I've ever bought I mean I
don't I don't think I'll have a problem probably 8 to 10 X on what I spent for
the unit I will say though I've had my share of crappy units in order to get to
this point and I've bought lots and lots and lots of stuff that I just instantly
regretted buying but this kind of unit makes it all worth it going through
people's dirty mattresses and dirty underwear and dirty socks because every
once in a while you hit the motherlode like this one make sure you take a
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remember to live life simple we'll catch you next week