
Originally Posted by
BurlyGuys
I once found $33,000.00 on a job. No lie. Property was purchased from the estate of a dead woman who was crazy and had no living relatives. The buyer took one look at the hoarder mess and called me to empty it. He told me to take everything, so I did. There was money hidden everywhere, in newspapers, books, vases, drawers, in folded socks, you name it.
Believe me I searched my conscience for a long time to determine if I was within my rights.
This was about three years ago.
I kept a bundle of 100 singles from that job for the longest time...
That's a tough one...
I'd have to say that you were told to "Take it all", and that's what you did.
As long as the money wasn't known about, and wasn't part of the new owner's math on buying the property, he really didn't have much of a 'right' to it, either. I think it might be a good idea to edit the fine print on your contract to cover this kinda thing. Something lawyered up along the lines of "All items requested to be removed from the job site become the property of Burly Guys. Any undisclosed readily-fungible items found in the items to be removed also become property of Burly Guys".... or something.
I think I would still have to take a pretty sizable chunk of that dough & "do good things" with it if I were to come across such a situation.
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