One lucky storage unit buyer hit the jackpot, literally. Storage Wars host Dan Dotson shared this story on social media after he was told about it by a woman at an auction. Apparently, an anonymous buyer purchased a storage unit for only $500. It contained a safe that was very hard to open.
If you watch Storage Wars, you know that many times safes in abandoned storage units are empty. This time, however, it had the ultimate prize: $7.5 million in cash. Things got a little sticky from there though. After the safe was opened and the cash was found, an attorney representing the original owners of the unit called the new owner.
They Were Contacted By The Original Owner Of The Unit
The new owner was initially offered a $600,000 cash reward for the return of the rest of the money. They turned it down. The buyer did, however, accept the second offer of $1.2 million. They gave back the rest of the $6.3 million to the original owners. No word on who the buyer of the unit was, the original owner, or when or where it was purchased.
There are so many questions. Who would keep that much money in a safe and not pay for the storage unit? Where did the money come from? It seems like the money may have been from a sketchy deal, but perhaps we will never know. Do you think you might want to try to buy storage lockers that have been abandoned now? Just like the interesting stories on Storage Wars, you never know what you might find. It literally could be trash or treasure.
Would You Keep The Money Or Give It Back?
Dan and Laura Dotson shared this crazy story on social media and asked their followers what they would have done. Would you have kept all of the cash or given the majority of it back like the buyer did? Many debated about this hot topic on social media.
Some wondered why someone would store that much money anyway. Some said they would keep it since the original owner did not claim their locker and seemingly forgot about all that cash. Others said the right thing to do was to give most of it back. What do you think?
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7.5 million and you cannot afford the fees for storage, eff yourself, id keep the money
Honestly if the unit was abandon and put up for bidding then the original owner should have not got anything ??? like come on think about this if he /she had that much money stashed then they could have afforded to pay for their locker right???
I dont thi k it was right once you stop paying you no longer the owner and its your loss!!!!
I would have kept the money and not have said a word about it. those who found it are dummies
I AGREE, FIRST OFF IF I PURCHASED THE LOCKER AND FOUND IT, I WOULD HAVE KEPT MY MOUTH SHUT.
At a guess, I’d say that the old owners have a hefty amount of money. They could, after all, afford to put $7.5 million in a storage unit and not think about it again for at least two years.
[Talk about not trusting banks! Who was this — Granny Clampett?]
Had the impulsive, unwise buyer and his girlfriend not blabbed all over social media, how much more time would have passed before the old owners found that their cash cache had cashed out?
Anyway, I the old owners had the money in hand to sustain a lawsuit. The court would, of course, put the money into an escrow account until the case was finalized (likely several years away). The new owners could not use that money for their legal costs. Would they have had the financial resources for their fight? That’s important, because if your opponent can outspend you into bankruptcy, and is that determined to win, they can bring in the butter and call you “toast!”
This does make me wonder if there isn’t some guy reading this story and yelling, “So that’s where that fargin’, two-bit, cork suckin’, ice hole bastage Vinnie stashed that danged moolah! That’s so clever I’m almost sorry I had my boys stick ‘im under the cornerstone of the new headquarters of Acme Bird Hunting Gear, Inc. LLC.