A man became substantially more wealthy after purchasing the $500 unit

A man who purchased a storage unit for unit for $500 got a hell of a lot more than he’d bargained for.

Most people who purchase a storage unit don’t necessarily find anything of note inside; however, sometimes they do.

For example Rick Ratzlaff from Colorado got much more than he bargained for when he bought a unit in 2017 and discovered police evidence relating to a cold case.

Storage Wars star sold $7.5 million lot for $500
Credit: Facebook/Dan and Laura Dotson

The documents were later revealed to be about Candace Hiltz, a teenage girl who was shot dead in 2006.

The police officer responsible for leaving the evidence in the unit went on to be charged, but Candace’s case still remains cold.

This man has a much more positive find, however, and found a safe in a unit he purchased for $480.

Dan Dotson became somewhat famous amongst those who watch Storage Wars, as he ended up selling the lot to the man in question.

According to Dotson, a lot of the time safes that are discovered in a unit are empty – but this man got lucky and found a whopping $7.5 million worth of cash in his.

Dotson explained that a woman came up to him and told him that her husband had bought a unit from him, which contained a safe of unknown contents.

The woman said they’d hired experts to crack open the safe and when they finally did manage to get it open, they discovered that the safe had contained the cash.

“Then they got a phone call, mysteriously, from an attorney representing the folks that lost the money and the goods inside the unit,” Dotson further explained.

The couple who found the money were initially offered $600,000 of the cash on the basis the rest was returned to the apparent owners.

Ultimately they doubled the offer, and the people who spent $498 on the unit came away $1.2 million richer.

Recalling the ordeal in a video, Dotson mused: “The question is would you give it back, or would you keep it and would you run for the hills, or would you look over your shoulder. What would you do?”

Whichever way you slice it, making $1.2 million off a storage unit you bought for almost $500 is one hell of a good day’s business.

One of the men described the unit as ‘one of our most amazing finds’

Two men in California were completely blown away after they opened up an old storage unit they’d bought for $30 and discovered what was inside.

Alex Stevens and Andrew Cordova, from Northern California, have gained more than 90,000 followers on TikTok by sharing posts about their storage unit discoveries.

The page explained that the pair ‘buy abandoned storage units’, and in an interview with Fox 5, Stevens explained they usually spend about $5 on the units, and make between $100-$200 off the items they find inside.

With $5 as their average spend, it seems the pair decided to splash out a bit when they came across an abandoned unit in the city of Tracy.

Stevens explained: “In the pictures, it just looked like a bunch of clothes laying in the back of the unit… This one just happens to be different.”

When the pair went to investigate what they’d got for their $30, they found clothes including parachute pants, fur coats and an old Mac computer.

In any other context, these items might just be a sign of eccentric style.

But it was what was found alongside the clothes that caught Stevens and Cordova’s attention.

The pair discovered more 30 master tapes in the unit, which were labeled Death Row Records and could possibly hold unreleased music from MC Hammer, DJ Quick, and Snoop Dogg.

After finding the items, Stevens and Cordova were contacted by people claiming to be from Death Row Records, which MC Hammer was signed to in the 1990s.

The people who got in touch acquired about buying some of the items, but Stevens and Cordova said they’ve not yet agreed on a deal.

If the items are authentic, the pair believe they could be worth millions.

Not only would it be an incredible find, but it would be a huge profit on the $30 they paid for the unit.

However, Stevens and Cordova are hesitant when the find seems too good to be true.

“Until I actually hear from MC Hammer himself or Snoop Dogg, I don’t believe it,” Stevens said.

Interestingly, MC Hammer himself has actually since weighed in on the find after an X user asked him whether he was going to ‘get [his things] back’.

In response, Hammer wrote: “If this be truth a man spent $50 for such a gift are they not his? God bless him.”

However, Stevens indicated that there’s more authentication that needs to be done.

“People claim to be managers, but all we have is the documentation, the tapes, and people are contacting me [claiming to be] affiliated with them. So obviously, something’s going on to where it’s related,” he said.

No matter what the outcome, Cordova is happy with the purchase of the storage unit.

“It’s amazing,” he said. “You just don’t know what you’re gonna find when you get inside the unit, but this is probably one of our most amazing finds.”