One of the more attractive elements of watching "Storage Wars" is that the buyers are real people, unexceptional aside from their encyclopedic knowledge of collectibles and memorabilia. Not glamoured up for television, the series showcases their true day-to-day lives filled with treasures and failures. Like average people, the characters of the show have livelihoods to maintain, and storage auctions are more often than not their main source of income. However, unlike his competition, Jarrod Schulz was still a rookie to the second-hand scene when the show first aired. In fact, the young buyer had tried on a few hats before bringing a wad of cash to his inaugural auction.
One of the more well-documented careers of Schulz's past was managing a carpet cleaning business in the late '90s, where he met future partner Brandi Passante. In an interview with the Philippine Daily Inquirer, Schulz admitted that their relationship broke some rules, "we were coworkers in the same carpet store. Technically, I was her boss ... and you were not supposed to do that."
Subsequently, as documented in the couple's appearance on The Mystery Men Podcast, the storage companions have different ideas about who courted who at the rug company. Still, Schulz moved on from carpets to becoming his own boss. According to Outsider, Some of his earliest ventures included branching out into mortgage brokerage and real estate.
