![]() ![]() When I was planning on opening my store I was buying everything and anything. What is your best treasure find from any storage auction to date, and how much did you sell it for?Ī. Let me just say the smell that came out of it is something I will never forget. I ended up breaking the egg because I thought it was a toy. In the center of the room, in a sort of nest, there was one lonely egg. ![]() Room in the Bronx right outside of Yankee stadium was filled with boxes and boxes of bibles. What is the strangest item you’ve found inside a storage unit?Ī. Good news is I now have a large warehouse located at my new shop. I was able to get liability insurance, but I couldn’t get insurance for inventory because there is no real set price per item. Bad news, the whole store was lost after Hurricane Irene, about 2 months after the grand opening. Easiest thing to flip are electronics, tools, and jewelry. I lost my job and was out of work, learning from my uncle about the biz. Maybe we can explore that rabbit hole a little further later on down the line.Ī. Honestly there is so much more to the story of my life and what I have been through. And if I were ever to have a family of my own to love and cherish everyday with them my dream would be to try my hardest for them to not go through what I went through growing up. The only dream I ever had was to make my grandmother proud of me. If it wasn’t for her, God only knows where I would be right now.Ī: Another question that’s a tough one for me to answer. Honestly, I would have to say it was my grandmother who adopted me. Who was the most influential person in your life growing up?Ī. So my message to all of you out there that blame their lives on their past and cry about how you were raised, go tell your story somewhere else! You are in control of your own destiny, and nothing that has happened in the past has anything to do with your future. They had their own problems to worry about at the time they had to give me up. For the record, I do not have or have ever had ill will towards my parents. She did the best she could, and I think she installed enough values in me that carried on to the man I am today. For a 60-something-year old women trying to raise a pretty-much-out-of-control-kid, at that point was a very difficult task. ![]() For about 2-3 years I bounced around from foster home to foster home back and forth to the orphanage.įinally my grandmother on my father’s side had seen enough and filed for custody for me. Later on I found out that I was in an ORPHANAGE! And soon learned that my mother was not coming back. She gave me a “kiss” and told me she would be back. When I was about six-years old, my mother realized she could not support me while she was battling her demons. My father was not around and it got to a point where my mother and I were living out of a van. It’s not where I grew up, it’s more like where didn’t I grow up? At a very young age, maybe between 4-5 years of age, both my parents were fighting their own demons. How was life growing up in… exactly where did you grow up?Ī. Mike was gracious to take some time out of his hectic schedule to answer a few questions for. But if you want his opinion, understand he won’t be afraid to tell-it-like-it-is no holding back. He’s a hard working guy who is not afraid to talk to anyone. The second half of Storage Wars’ latest season began last week.A&E’s reality series Storage Wars: New York star Mike Braiotta tagged as “The Hustler.” He hails from the Bronx. Known as “the Mogul,” Hester has been one of the seven main participants on the show since it debuted in 2010. Now in its third season, the highly rated Storage Wars pits buyers against one another for contents of abandoned storage lockers. Related: TLC Admits ‘Breaking Amish’ Bends Truth Original also manipulates the outcome of certain auctions by paying for storage units on behalf of the weaker cast members who lack the both the skill and financial wherewithal to place winning bids,” it adds. “Original regularly ‘salts’ the storage lockers that are the subject of the auctions portrayed on the Series with valuable or unusual items to add dramatic effect, even going so far as to stage entire storage units. “Nearly every aspect of the Series is faked, even down to the plastic surgery that one of the female cast members underwent in order to create more “sex appeal” for the show, the cost of which was paid for by Original,” the suit claims. Reality shows are often accused of sleight-of-hand manipulation of events, contestants and other participants, but Hester’s suit tarnishes Storage Wars almost from top to bottom. ![]()
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