StorageUnitAuctionList.com Hits 12,000 Monthly Storage Auctions

Online, February 8, 2011 (Newswire.com) - The data provider, based in Asheville North Carolina, claims that between its proprietary methods of aggregating data, storage facility relations and an easy to use storage auction list website will continue to dominate in delivering the largest collection of storage auctions of any competitor.

"This little know industry, has exploded over the past few months" said Maddison Lake, President and Creator of StorageUnitAuctionList.com.

In Charlotte North Carolina, local storage facilities have seen a tremendous rise in turnouts for their auctions. "Many people visit storage auctions just to get a Saturday morning full of entertainment and they come by the hundreds," one Facility Manager said.

Each year, the 50,000 storage facilities throughout the United States must auction unpaid or abandoned storage units to the general public resulting in an estimated 1.2 billion dollars in goods changing hands.

"Many auction hunters are looking at storage auctions as the new eBay, except you can easily make a 4 figure profit per unit purchased," said Lake. "With as many as 1.2 million individual units going on the auction block each year, there's plenty to go around. We have many subscribers who have made their full-time business centered on storage auctions, with some owners having as many as 20 to 30 employees and multiple warehouses up to 10,000 square feet."

The reason for this startup industry could easily be due to the popular new show "Storage Wars". In January, A&E ordered 20 new episodes for the second season of the newly introduced show, which is scheduled to premiere in April. The show currently attracts over 2.3 million viewers per episode and is expected to grow. Original Productions based in Burbank California, added "Storage Wars" among its roster of productions such as "Deadliest Catch" and "Ice Road Truckers," in November of 2010.
"Dynamic characters on "Storage Wars" like Jarrod Schulz and Darrell Sheets are putting a face on the storage industry and putting character on a metal building with a concrete slab. This could only mean good things for the storage industry," said Lake.