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    Several years ago we got a dryer from a guy that sounded like a maraca. We got $30 in change out of it.

    Our best was a supercharged Nissan Frontier pickup. I was getting it ready to sell ( I got it for scrap title and all and it ran, but it was wrecked). I saw it had huge wires going under the passengers seat so I unbolted the seat, after digging through change. When I pulled the seat off it was level with change - and an amplifier. We took the change straight to the banks coin counting machine - $218. I only paid $150 for the truck, I sold it for $800. Too bad every deal isn't that good.




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    Quote Originally Posted by wwhijr View Post
    Several years ago we got a dryer from a guy that sounded like a maraca. We got $30 in change out of it.

    Our best was a supercharged Nissan Frontier pickup. I was getting it ready to sell ( I got it for scrap title and all and it ran, but it was wrecked). I saw it had huge wires going under the passengers seat so I unbolted the seat, after digging through change. When I pulled the seat off it was level with change - and an amplifier. We took the change straight to the banks coin counting machine - $218. I only paid $150 for the truck, I sold it for $800. Too bad every deal isn't that good.

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    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...
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    Quote Originally Posted by BurlyGuys View Post
    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 is pretty impressive.........I thought I was doing good to find a few hundred in different clean-outs thru the years

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikeinreco View Post
    that is pretty impressive.........I thought I was doing good to find a few hundred in different clean-outs thru the years
    I'm not expecting to ever come across a find like that again!

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    Quote Originally Posted by BurlyGuys View Post
    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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