Celebrity Biographies
Dan Dotson Biography
Date of Birth: | 1962, November 23 |
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Years: | 58 years |
Nation of birth: | United States of America |
Height: | 5 feet 8 inches |
birth name | and dotson |
Nationality | American |
Place of birth / city | California |
ethnicity | White |
Profession | television personality |
Net worth | $4.5 million |
Married | Yes |
Married to | Laura Datson |
tv show | Storage Wars, Storage Wars: Behind the locker |
Dan Dotson is an American auctioneer who has been auctioning off businesses. He is best known for his reality TV storage wars on A&E. He has been married to Laura Dotson. He and his wife Laura Dotson run American Auctioneers, a full-service auction company in Riverside, California.
Early life and education of Dan Dotson
The famous television personality was born on November 23, 1962 in California. She is an American national and belongs to the White American ethnicity. Her sun sign is Sagittarius.
When Dotson was just 11 years old, his grandfather taught him how to auction and he used to spend summers working alongside his grandfather as an auctioneer.
Instead of studying, he skipped school and went to the Chinese auction in California. He was just 16 years old when he moved to California and sold furniture for an auctioneer, Merl Bernard.
Dan Dotson’s career
In 1983, Dan Dotson began his career where he worked as an auctioneer. He ran an auction house in Riverside. During his work in Riverside, he met Laura, who later turned out to be his wife. They started working together.
Dan currently works on a self-storage auction including property, commercial inventories, fundraisers, as well as legal auctions and appraisals. He averages two auctions a day and six a week. He is also the owner of Self-Storage auctions.net , an Internet portal that focuses on offering self-storage auctions.
In 2010, along with Laura, he began appearing on A&E’s The Storage Wars , a series that follows four professional buyers. Her involvement in the storage wars has helped her appear more in various news articles including TMZ, USA Today and The Washington Post .
Dan Dotson Net Worth
Dan Datson net worth is $4.5 million today. He lives a luxurious life with his wife, Laura . An auctioneer is supposed to earn $46,000 annually based on his salary. His annual salary as an auctioneer for the TV show Storage Wars was $300,000.
Dan is quite popular than the standard auctioneers, it is believed that he has earned more than that annually.
Dan Dotson’s personal life
The talented auctioneer was married to Laura Datson , whom he met in Riverside. There are no rumors of their separation as they both live happily with each other. There are also no rumors about their divorce.
Laura became his business partner and recently works as a co-owner and manager for US auctioneers. Laura, his wife, acts as helmsman when Y acts as an auctioneer, but these roles were reversed at Laura’s request.
In 2014, Dan suffered a double aneurysm where he used to wake up at 1:30am asking some weird questions in his sleep. Early in the morning when he used to get up, he would complain of double vision and feel unwell.