Mountain of TVs in the making

So, today my boyfriend picked up the first bit of the load of TVs that he is removing from a few storage units in a storage facility owned by a friend of his. The guy who was renting the units used to own a TV repair business until his wife died and he had a heart attack. Since then, he has fallen behind on the rent on the units and has been paying back what he can on the back rent from his limited income. He asked the storage unit owner to get rid of all the back stock he had in there so that he can actually make progress on paying off the amount owed. I guess this is a job that is equal parts scrapping and charity.

We were told that there were 4 units full of TVs, turns out there are only 3. The fourth unit only had 6 TVs inside of it, so it doesn't count. One full unit was emptied out today and toted into the side yard. You never really get the feel for how big a pile of things will be until you see it in person. I was anxious all afternoon at work after I got a text telling me that it took 3 trailer loads just to empty one unit. Yeah, he is kind of working with a smallish trailer, but still! I didn't manage to get over here until the sun was going down so I couldn't really get any good pics of the mountain. I will try to upload what pics I did get. Sorry for the poor quality. My phone has a decent camera when it has enough light to work with. I tried to keep the edge of the shed in the pics for size reference.



We got initial contact with a local scrapper who apparently has a way to part these out and make some bucks off them so we are waiting to hear back from him regarding further details. Things are moving slower than I'd like but I understand he is working on some big project so I am just trying to breathe lol. I know he will come through, he is pretty well established on here, I'm just crossing my fingers that no one from code enforcement comes peeking into the yard in the interim. My boyfriend is anxious about getting them from Point A to Point B as quick as possible. We don't have anywhere near the facilities required to store, break down, part out, mail and monetize this many TVs.





Just figured I'd share my first (of many, I'm sure) "OMG THAT IS A FRICKING HUGE PILE OF STUFF!!!" moments. Whee!