Went through a house a few years back where I found better than $4000 in cash and change, not to mention some old furniture, etc. that I'm working to get back into shape for use. In this instance I had paid for the right to go through the house because the family hadn't cared to do it for more than 2 years after the old guy had died. The old guy was Hoarder to the extreem and the place was nearly full floor to ceiling. On top of the junk and pure trash, there was also the nose blistering odor of a putrified cat that had died in the place (it was the middle of summer), along with the other cats that had gotten in through a partially open window and had a few litters in the years since the guys death.
I was told specifically that no one care what I found in the place, they didn't want to know about it, and 'if I found 'a million dollars'' that was just fine, no one cared. All I was asked to set any family mementos like pictures, etc in a box by the rear door, which I did.
I had expected to find a little money after what I had found in one of the vehicles a buddy hauled off, but nothing like I found. The way I saw it I was in dire straights trying to keep my family up during the worst times my business had ever seen, and the old guy was dead and gone and had no use for the money at all. Then there was the fact that the family had absolutely no desire to go in the place at all, and had had more than two years to do so. In fact the plan, as I was told, was to simply let the local FD have the place to burn for practice as it sat. What really bugs me about the deal is that given what all I found, and the places I found it, there was probably even more cash left in the place that was missed. Heck a buddy of mine was helping me out and he picked up a Hardees bag off the floor, that had been walked on/over for several days, and found $600 inside of it. Then nearly 6 months after the fact I was going through a trash can full of old cards, etc that were 30 years old,and that I had saved to light my wood stove in the shop, and found another $90 in them. Shortely after that Dad, found nearly $150 in bills in a cigarette pack that had been put into an otherwise unopened full carton.
Never once did I feel the need to tell anyone what I had found. That was nearly two years ago and I went by the place the other week and it's now even more overgrown and positively abandoned as it was when I went through it. I wish I could go back torugh it again but I had gotten the deal through a buddy who was cleaning up scrap cars the old guy had setting outside and, unfortunately, my access ended when he finished his part.
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