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I worked at a storage facility at one time. We put an additional lock on units where money as owed (until it was paid). Most of the time, the amount owed was more than what the contents were worth. After a couple months, we ran an ad in the classified announcing that we would sell the contents of the unit if not paid. After that, we cut the owner's locks and sorta did an inventory (from the doorway). Then we had an auction. Many were clearly all junk and the boss just had me empty them and put the stuff in a dumpster (so we could get it rented again). An artificial Christmas tree and some boxes of old clothes or a bicycle. Sometimes I would laugh looking at how someone had paid $100 a month for many years and only had a few pieces of junk inside. A few times, it was a business storage and there was quite a bit of some junk product, brochures, etc.

If you bought it, you had to empty everything out.