Storage Wars Sparks Consumers interests, Attendance at Storage Auctions. Demand for National Storage Auction Listing Explodes.

posted on 1 February 2011 | posted in Arts and Entertainment

A few years ago, it was an unknown industry. Now storage unit auctions are
attracting millions of Americans to their local self-storage facilities to nab
that next great deal.
The popularity of the industry has sparked brainchild companies such as
StorageUnitAuctionList.com, a recently introduced national directory of auction
listings.
The company, started by 24 year old entrepreneur Maddison Lake, has seen an
overwhelming growth of new subscribers from what he says is mainly due to the
television show Storage Wars.
In one city particularly Charlotte, North Carolina, local storage facilities
have seen a tremendous rise in turnouts for their auctions. Many people visit
the storage auctions just to watch them deliver a Saturday morning full of
entertainment.

Each year, the 50,000 storage facilities throughout the United States must
auction unpaid or abandoned storage units to the general public.
StorageUnitAuctionList.com claims it lists over 12,000 auctions nationwide each
month, clearly illustrating the state of the economy and the state of peoples’
wallets.

“Many patrons are looking at
storage auctions as the new eBay,” 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
warehouses up to 10,000 square feet”.

In January, A&E ordered 20 new episodes for the second season of Storage Wars,
which are scheduled to premiere in April. The show, currently racks in over 2.3
million total viewers per episode, and is expected to grow. Storage Wars could
be one of A&E’s most watched series. 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.

“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.

StorageUnitAuctionList.com offers the only complete directory of storage auction
listings, expert advice, and a storage auction ebook for novice to professional
auction hunters.