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Originally Posted by MckinneyOwnr
My parents had something similar happen when they bought a home once. In the attic, stashed in a corner, half buried under some old carpet and pad, were three shotgun cases, each one full with a nice shotgun.
Now, this was back in the 80's, internet didn't exist, etc. They told their agent who contacted the seller's agent, and gave them their phone number.
The previous owners had moved to FL, about 1200 miles away. When they heard they'd left the guns (valued about $1000 back then) they asked my parents to box them up and ship them to FL. Now, since it was out of state, you can't just ship a gun across state lines. So my parents couldn't do that. They offered to let one of the seller's friends come pick them up, and they could figure something out with their friends, but the seller refused.
Sellers got really angry that my parents wouldn't jump through hoops to mail them their guns back and the whole thing turned into a huge mess. Police actually got involved because of threats the sellers were making. In the end, my Dad said they just should have kept their mouths shut and denied they were in the house and told them they must have been lost in the move.
Sellers got really angry that my parents wouldn't jump through hoops to mail them their guns back and the whole thing turned into a huge mess. Police actually got involved because of threats the sellers were making.
I would have simply gave the guns to the police at that point and said, here...... you deal with them.
Being the analytical sort, I think I'd look at the dates on the bills and see what the latest date was -- for example, if the latest date was 1994, and the previous owners didn't buy the house until 2004, then it probably didn't belong to the previous owners. :-)
I have lots of bills with dates older than 1994, as I am sure many others do.
I bought a home through Probate and all the contents transferred with the Real Estate.
I did find sock certificates worth 10k at the time and a few bonds that were under 1k total... the estate did not know about them.
Called the Estate Attorney and forwarded to him... the heir sent me a $150 gift certificate for dinner...
The heir was an elderly niece and no one had children... just knew it was the right thing to do and she really wanted me to have the house... karma I guess.
I never lie...so I don't know what I'd do after that.
Wait another year?
I'd probably find out life situations of the sellers...maybe they had an illness
in the family and could use the money....so I might leave it on their doorstep.
OR leave half of it....after 2 years after all.
See, there is that chance it was left by owners before them...and indeed it is drug money and the person is outta the picture.
No way to know who it belongs to. You can't assume it belonged to the last owners either. It could be much older than that or just stashed there by someone else. The dates on the bills, particularly any 1$ bills, would let you estimate how long the money had been there because 1$ bills are used and replaced the most.
I would hold on to the money and tell the last owners they were welcome to come back if they found they had forgotten anything. And they would have to describe what they had left, where it was hidden, and the packaging, when and if they came to collect. If they did, I would hand it over.
If I didn't hear anything from them in a reasonable period of time, it's my money. If the money is their's you will hear from them.
My parents stashed money all over the place. After they died, I found money in every room of the house. In books, couch cushions, sugar jars, you name it. And I am sure I missed some too. Oh well, I did the best I could and the new owners will discover it eventually. And when they do, they are welcome to it. My sister was a criminal and she stole everything she could get her hands on. I told my parents and the sheriff's office what she was doing and they didn't believe me and wouldn't do anything. Then she started stashing money in my room in an attic vent. I figured she was planning on framing me for her crimes because she was angry I 'told' on her. I was only about 16 and still a kid myself. I then took the money and hid it. Over then next few months, I put it in my bank account a little at a time. Then the time came when she accused me of all the crimes she had committed and brought my parents to my room to 'find' the money and there was nothing there! Bummer! I doubt my sister was the first or the last to do something like this.
There are 6000 ways that $6000 could have wound up in the attic!
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It's mine.
