I’d like to start going to abandoned storage unit sales mostly, and also flea markets and auctions… then, open a small thrift store and sell the goods there.

i know that it will take a little money to begin the process of buying… i am considering investing 5,000 to 10,000 in that part. how much would the rest cost? i’d have to find a store to rent, maybe shelves, advertising, a sign for the front, etc.

thanks for the advice!

I know I haven’t posted on this site in awhile, but I have a general question I’m hoping someone can answer.

Through most of the 1990s and up until the end of the last decade, I mostly made my living off of customized wall-sized paintings I do for homes and offices and such. People will send me swatches from their carpet, drapes, etc., and I create something to fit. While this isn’t the high art I was hoping to create when I was a Master of Fine Arts student in New York, it was quite lucrative — until I went through a messy divorce and the housing market where I live (Florida) totally crashed.

Thankfully, I had an adjunct teaching gig at the local junior college and was able to parlay that into a full-time faculty/adviser role and curator of the college art gallery. Recently, I was promoted to Dean. It’s a respectable job that everyone can related to and the pay is very good. My relatives seem very proud of me to have accomplished this intellectual honor, though they never really understood the art.

However, I did keep painting and the housing market is coming back around. Also, one of my paintings was recently found in a storage unit in the TV show “Storage Wars” and was appraised on the show at a decent value, driving a good deal of traffic to my web site and resulting in a lot of new orders, many from out of state.

I’m starting to get pretty stressed out with the extra art orders and the full-time dean’s position. Each one in itself is at least the equivalent of a full-time job.

But the painting is more of a craft than an art and quite a pragmatic job in arranging transportation, dimensions, etc. But it is more closely related to what I studied as a student. It also has the potential, if I did have more hours to devote to it, to pay much more than my academic job.

But it’s tough to look a gift horse in the mouth. The academic job alone puts me in the top 5 percent of earners in this region. In this horrible economy, it’s hard to let go of a sure thing.

Besides, maybe if I stick with it, I could be a college president some day. But the painting lets me make my own hours, I can dress however I want, not shave.

Such decisions. What would you do?

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MAPLE SHADE — Police are investigating a burglary at the Public Storage on Route 38, during which 12 units were entered sometime before 4:15 p.m. Jan. 27. The property was entered by cutting a lock on the gate and a hole in the fence.

What can happen in this scenario?

Person A gets a storage unit in his name and pays for it with his credit card. I am not sure, but it might be pay 3 months up front get 3 months free or pay 6 months up front get 6 months free. If he allows somebody to put their stuff in the storage unit that is under his (person A) name and is paying for it with his on credit card but 90% of the stuff in the storage unit “belongs” to the other person (person B), can the person paying for it do what ever he wants to with the stuff?

Oh man, where to start. Tonight I got a horrible phone call from my friend. She was hysterical. Her boyfriend and father of her two children had broken up with her Thursday and they had been living with her mother. They have a storage unit, but it’s in his name and after moving out of her moms, he wants to leave all of HER stuff in storage and let it be thrown out or auctioned off. He took her 500 dollar camera and will not give it back and he came to her house tonight and things got worse. She has the title to his car (That’s in HER mothers name) and she wanted him to sign some papers or she wasn;t giving him the title back. She wanted him to sign papers saying that he would meet up with her at their storage unit and let her get his things, he signed it and then signed another paper saying he wouldn’t cut her phone off, because that’s in his name too, even though she paid for it. Then it came down to custody. He wants to take the girls every other weekend, so all she wanted to know was where he was staying. He is also a drug dealer and stays with others that do drugs and deal them, she doesn’t want her children anywhere near that, so she NEEDS to know if they go with him, he’s not around it so her children won’t be. (Obviously in my opinion, they don’t need to be around him either) Well, he flipped out when she wanted to know that. He tore up all the papers that he signed, then he took her W-2 Forms and her Birth Certificate and tore those up too. Then he beat her while he was there by taking her by the back on the neck and thowing her up against walls and slamming her face in to the wall. All while grabbing her arms and pushing her. He took her I.D. and and cell phone and said she wasn’t getting them back until she gave him the title, so she did and he gave her that back and stormed out. What all can she do. I keep trying to tell her to press charges, but she said she doesn’t even know where he stays so it won’t matter which I know is bullshit. He abused her and that’s assault, he tore up her things, that’s destruction of property isn’t it?

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Ok, so I’ve been watching this show that’s on A and E alot thats called “Storage Wars”…its the show where they auction off storage units to the highest bidder……my question is: does this show seem fake to you? Because it seems like the ONLY people who ever win the bids are the same people: “Jarrod/Brandi, Dave Hester, Darrell Sheets, and Barry Weiss” They probably have at least like 30-40 people on the whole show but it’s always the same people who get to win the auction over and over and over again…..so basically the question’s pretty simple: Is this show for real? Or is this thing scripted that they already know whos going to win beforehand?

we have, or had. a storage unit and we got a letter int he mail saying it was auctioned like 2 days ago.
shouldn’t we have been notified BEFORE they auctioned it? and if it was auctioned is there any way we can get the name of the person who bought it. we really didnt have anything that would be valuable to anyone else in there. it was mostly old pictures and stuff but they were really important pictures to us

Hello I created a device that creates a consistent half volt DC current.

The problem is that when I put a load on it “a led light” the load goes down to 5 MV. Obviously this
will not work for a small practical experiment.

Id like to get a 1.5 V battery that would continuously store the half volt continuously
keeping the 1.5 V battery charged to power my led light.

What would be the best storage unit to store the 1.5 V for my experiment? Just a rechargeable battery?
Question: If I hooked up lets say 3 of these devices with an output at or over 1.5 V would that be sufficient to charge a 1.5v rechargeable battery or a 1.5 v capacitor?

So another words in order to charge anything properly the device charging “a rechargeable battery? or a capacitor” the voltage needs to be the same as the device it is charging?

Also remember the load goes down to 5 MV when I put the led on the device, Does this mean the device I am charging will only receive 5 MV or will it receive the half volt?
Can you recommend a good storage capacitor, for 1.5V?

Can you recommend a good storage battery for 1.5V?

A friend knows the owners of a couple storage facilities and told me its not worth it to get involved, because before the units go to auction, they go through them first to and keep a lot of the valuable stuff. Is this true? I know some people that do his with estate sales, but first time I heard of someone going through the storage units.

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