The Stars Of Storage Wars Before They Got Famous

When RiverScene Magazine sat down to interview Darrell Sheets in 2016, they asked him how long he had been in the business. His response? About 40 years. That’s not to say it was his passion from the time he was young, and Sheets went on to say that originally, he had owned his own landscaping business. He admitted: “I wasn’t doing a good job, and the guy fired me.” 

Sheets went back to ask for his job back, and while his client refused to re-hire him as a landscaper, he did introduce him to another way to make some money. An introduction to buying and flipping storage lockers came with a promise that it would keep Sheets going for the rest of his life, and it did. “He showed me this business and I never looked back. From the very first locker I ever bought, I tripled my money … and I was like, ‘Whoa. I’m onto something.’ … I’m forever indebted to that guy for showing me this.”

Even before “Storage Wars,” The Cinemaholic says that Sheets was already well-known in the auction circuit. In 2011, Sheets shared the story of a storage locker he bought in the late 1980s. When he started going through it, one of the finds was human remains, wrapped in plastic. Sheets said (via Outsider) that the police confiscated the whole thing, and he later learned that the unit was owned by a man who killed his wife, and left her there.

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