There is a guy here in Clarksville who rents several storage units at the Summerhaven Storage facility on Tiny Town Rd. and what he does is drive around town and pick up junk from curbsides to fill his units with. Once he has enough stuff that he thinks he can use he stages one of the units to look like an abandoned storage unit that he is selling. Just like legitimate storage auctions he will not allow you to enter the room or touch any of the stuff in there because he knows what he is doing and you would likely realize you are buying garbage. He puts things like washers and dryers up front (that have no insides) and obscures your view with boxes, or riding lawnmowers near the back that he also obscures with boxes so you can't tell the engine is gone, flat screen TV boxes that look brand new just far enough inside so you can't touch it but its filled with stuff like shoes.
Once he gets your money, the unit is your and he is gone. He gives you a hand written bill of sale and terms of agreement that you have to have the stuff out by a certain time or your forfeit the property and he changes the code so you can't back in the facility. Once you realize that you have been had and you attempt to contact and confront him he basically tells you to screw off because he knows he hasn't broken any laws. The Clarksville Police are aware that he is doing it but won't touch him because defrauding people that way is not technically illegal. The storage facility management is well aware that he is doing it and said that they try to warn people but they don't care either because he pays the rent for his units and although they know what he is doing is morally wrong it's not illegal so they don't do anything. He tries to pass himself off as a veteran and told one guy he was a former CID agent which usually makes them trust him. read more
