When I lived in Manhattan I had a storage room that bled me every month as I only kept my better stuff and recent acquisitions in my apartment, but one of the joys of buying (if you can call the bank owning half of it "buying") a 7 bedroom wreck in brooklyn (other than all those home repairs and my mortgage payment every month) is that my wife allows me to have a room for comics. for now. although we are considering renting it out to foreign college students and making a mint, in which case i will need to move my comics to a smaller room and maybe get rid of half of them. cutting down from like 25,000 or so. frankly, i have no idea how many i have. and i have never bought a collection. indeed, turned down 8-10 longies when one of my shops shut down and he just wanted to get rid of drek. of course, that was 5 years ago and some of that drek is probably now $25 books.
Im saving my shekels to move down south in 2-3 years and buy a big enough house to accommodate my collection, heck with the money Ill spend on a house here I could prolly purchase 2 units and use the second just for books and my other stuff (mainly vintage audio production gear)..I really have no business here anymore and its trivial for me to pay so much taxes a year for something I can do as comfortably anywhere else for ALOT cheaper. Sorry to take this post off topic.