Storage Unit Is Bought by A Man For $500, Ends Up Bringing Home A Whopping $7.5 Million In Cash
An unidentified man was in for the shock of his life when a storage unit worth $500 that he bought brought him a visit from the police, along with $7.5 million in cash. One fine morning the man, who we’ll call Joe for easier reference, came across a 75 sq.ft. storage unit, full of someone else’s junk, up for auction. It wasn’t the first time Joe was willing to participate in auctions, in fact, he usually sold everything he bought through auctions and always gained marginal profits.
Staring at this storage unit were 20 other people, but Joe warned himself to stick to his budget. The bid started at $100 and Joe fixed his budget at $350, thinking that he would surely win the storage unit. In the end, he ended up paying $500 for it because he was at loggerheads with another woman who was equally interested in taking home the unit. After winning, Joe uninterestingly walked inside the unit only to find old furniture, including an old chest of drawers and an old grey safe that was locked.
With the help of a few friends and a power drill, they were able to pry open the old safe only to find huge stacks of $50 bills waiting to overflow. In the moment of excitement, Joe quickly sent photos of the cash to his girlfriend and even uploaded the images on almost all social media sites. Lo and behold, within two hours the police were standing at his doorstep, while Joe struggled to count the cash.
Joe thought he had the right to claim the cash but instead got in trouble because as soon as the original owner realized that someone had found his money, he hired top-notch lawyers to claim his bounty. The police, who were at his doorstep, was there to collect the cash while Joe struggled to speak to the owner’s lawyer. According to the lawyer, Joe had to return the money but could keep $600,000 as a finder’s fee. Later they upped the finder’s fee to $1,200,000 after Joe, who consulted his friends, dictated Californian law stating that once a unit is sold, the original tenant loses rights to all the contents within the unit.
Like many, Joe began witnessing a silent battle within himself as the lawyer tried hard to lure him into accepting the terms. After all, he had won the money fair and square, but he had done absolutely nothing to earn it. And so after much thought, Joe and the lawyer came to a mutual agreement to split the money equally between the two, leaving Joe with a whopping $3.75 million in cash, some old furniture and a pried open old safe!
