Updated Friday July 3: Tucson schedule updated with # of units slated to be sold + new Tucson auction site A-Alvernon Armored Self Storage at 1625 S. Alvernon Way added to schedule. If this is your 1st visit to our website please read Auction Rules on this page and our FAQ page.

July Schedule:

Tucson - Thursday July 09 2009

About 5 days before the remaining July auction dates (Phoenix and Sedona/Cottonwood area)....I will add quantity of units scheduled to be sold at these locations and move those schedules up nearer to the top of this page.  

West Phx/Glendale/Peoria/Sun City - Tuesday July 14 2009

Camp Verde/Sedona/Cottonwood - Wednesday July 15 2009 

East Phx/Mesa/Casa Grande - Thursday 16 July 2009

Check this website the night before or morning OF the day's auctions that interest you, late adjustments to start times & order of facilities auctioned at are rare but they can occur.

Tucson, Arizona

We conduct Storage Unit Auctions in:

• Tucson
• Phoenix West (Glendale/Peoria Sun City/El Mirage)
• Phoenix East (Mesa and Apache Junction)
• Casa Grande

and

• Sedona area (incl. Cottonwood and Camp Verde)

For the Storage facilities that we auction for, Auctions are always a last resort; they lose money on them and only hold them after taking multiple steps toward a resolution. It's better for the storage site and for the tenant if something can be worked out, no business can stay afloat if it gives away its product. Being forced to resort to auctioning a unit is similar to an apartment eviction in that it is the last resort, following multiple attempts to broker a resolution.

• High Bidder must pay in cash for unit(s) immediately after auction
• All contents must be cleared by closing time, usually 5 pm, the day after the auction (2 additional days allowed at just $2.00 per day)
• Theres a $50 refundable deposit (per unit that you buy) which is given back to you, in its entirety, after your unit is cleared and swept out.
  
  Please do not use the dumpsters at the auction sites
  
  You must remove all contents of your unit from the premises. What you then do with it is up to you but please do not leave stuff behind or try to toss it in the dumpster at the storage facilities.

ABC15 TV News Reporter Christina Boomer visited one of our March 2009 auctions along with a Cameraman and together they produced an excellent report on Storage Auctions and how these relate to our current economic situation in Arizona......

Click this image to see that report:

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We do the day's first auction at the time shown, then we do the rest. To auction storage units, its legally required that a start time be set at each location. Auctions at locations after the first site may start later than whats shown but never earlier.

Please read whats on this page and check out our Frequently Asked Questions page. Bookmark this page and check this website the night before or morning OF the day's auctions that interest you. Late adjustments to the schedule are rare, but they can occur.

A week to 5 days prior to the auctions on the calendars below....I will add quantity of units scheduled to be sold at each location.

East Phoenix Metro includes a location that consists of Portable Storage Units.

This auction of these is worthy of your attention for two reasons:

1. The demographic ("upper and middle class" people) who use this form of storage.

2. When we auctioned at this location in November 2008 and January 2009 some great deals were had on units filled with high quality stuff.

If you are unfamiliar with what a Portable Storage Unit is, maybe you haven't heard of these yet or just want more information on them...click this picture:

Phoenix Metro West
Peoria, Glendale, El Mirage and Sun City

Tuesday July 14, 2009

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Camp Verde/Sedona/Cottonwood

Wednesday July 15, 2009

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Phoenix Metro East
Mesa, Apache Junction and Casa Grande

Thursday July 16, 2009

8:00 AM	1-800 Pack Rat (Portable Storage Units)	2225 S. 43rd Ave. Phoenix
9:00 AM	Arrow Self Storage	1055 W. Guadalupe Road, Mesa
9:30 AM	American Self Storage	1541 W. University Drive, Mesa
10:30 AM	Southern Pavillion	7110 E. Southern Avenue, Mesa
11:00 AM	American Mini Storage	8050 E. Main Street, Mesa
11:30 AM	Watchful Eye	10461 E. Apache Trail, Apache Junction
CALL	American Mini Storage	517 N. Colorado, Casa Grande Phone: 520-316-0763

Number of units auctioned can prove to be less than whats reflected on the schedule for two reasons which are both beyond the control of Universal Auctions and the people working at the storage facilities :

1. People pay the past due balance on their unit right at closing time the night before or even just prior to the auction itself!!!

Sometimes its just not possible to adjust the numbers because people waited until the "last minute".

2. The legally required process to auction a unit is a complex and tedious procedure requiring paperwork, deadlines that have to be met among other stuff. Even a simple "typo" in paperwork can derail the legal auction of a unit.

If you have any doubts at all that the legal process which Arizona Law requires be followed to auction a Storage Unit is....shall we say....."involved"......have a peek at the relevant Arizona Statutes by clicking on the next picture.

I do everything possible to accurately represent #'s of units that will be sold at each location but events which I have no control over can lead to less units being sold.

As mentioned above and reiterated here because its important that auction attendees understand how the schedule works:

Legally, the sale of delinquent storage units requires that a start time to the sale must be declared.

The first auction on a given day begins at the time shown or shortly thereafter. When that location is done the auction team moves on to the next location and so on until all of that day's auctions are completed.

Its impossible to know exact start times after the first location due to travel time and time required to do the previous auctions.

Actual start times at each location after the first one will allow bidders, if they desire, to "follow" from one auction site to the next.

This is usually what people do so that they can have the largest selection of units to bid on.

The first start time on a day is "exact" or a short while after that time if it takes longer to register bidders.

Beyond that first start time the listed times are there because the law requires a start time be declared .

Our Storage Auctions are like a "traveling" or mobile auction...one storage facility to the next, until they are all done.

Bring padlock(s) to secure your unit(s)

Thats your stuff in there, it belongs to you!!

Come prepared to secure your stuff by bringing padlock(s)!!

And please return any Birth Certificates, Family Photos and other personal belongings that you find in a unit to the Storage facility staff. Its very important that this be done and very easily accomplished. As you go through your unit, sorting things out, whether that be at the storage facility or later on, somewhere else......just please have a special box set off to the side and when you happen across personal stuff place it in the box then give the box to the staff at the storage site.

Storage unit Auctions are immensely exciting. We hope to see you at our auctions for many years to come.

"Treasures" are routinely found by auction attendees. Storage auctions are, in essence, that......Treasure hunts that do not require you digging in the ground, diving into the ocean, climbing the dangerous Superstition Mountains to uncover gold that no one is really sure is there or not and that the federal government has claimed as "theirs" anyway (as if.) or putting on an eye patch and training a parrot to sit on your shoulder so that you can conquest vessels at sea.

Join us and share in the adventure!!

Thanks for visiting our website.

Universal Auctions

Tempe Arizona

www.azuniversalauctions.com
www.universalauctions.net

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