I had up to 300 sets at one time, which filled our house plus numerous rented garages, etc. However, it became quantity over quality, and I realized that I couldn't ever live long enough to play with all those toys, and I'd go broke paying to keep them. So over a period of about 10 years, I thinned out, finding "new good homes" for most of them. I now have about 8 collectible sets, plus my collection of small-screen (8" & under) Sony Trinitrons. No rental space, YIPPEE!!!!! Now I have room for 10 or 12 more enormous, 1000-lb Cold War era air raid sirens to add to my air raid siren collection
I can't say the same for another local collector here in LA... He now has at least 350 sets, mostly consoles and late 40s table models. Many huge Magnavox stereo-phono-color TV combos too. His house is about 4000 sq ft, and you better not have over a 32" waist, or you won't get in the house. Last night, he called me on an emergency basis because he bought ANOTHER huge Magnavox 27" B&W stereo-phono-TV combo, and it was in his van, preventing him from going on a road trip. NO room to squeeze it into his house last night without a team of engineers and a couple of football players to carry it overhead, so he followed me to a vacant house in Chatsworth that we're getting ready to rent out, where I said I'd leave it for a few weeks for him.
Charles