Guy Buys Storage Unit For $500, Finds A Cool $7.5 MILLION Cash Inside
Source – While attending a charity event on November 1, Dan Dotson — who operates his own auction house and frequently stars in Storage Wars on A&E — says he was approached by a woman who told him a family friend had recently purchased a storage unit he had auctioned off and had quite the story to tell in the days that followed.
Turns out, the man, who was a friend of the woman’s husband, found a mysterious safe in the storage shed that held the surprise of a lifetime.
“The first person they called to open the safe, I guess, couldn’t, or didn’t, so they called a second person,” Dotson recalled in a video posted to Facebook on November 5. “When that person opened it up, inside the safe — normally they’re empty, but this time it wasn’t empty— [and] it had $7.5 million cash inside.”
Dotson revealed that when the original owners of the unit found out that it had been sold — with their cash still inside — they quickly contacted their attorney to negotiate a deal with the new owner.
First, the original owners offered $600,000 to return the money, but then settled on a deal that saw the man return the money for a $1.2 million reward. While he didn’t keep the full amount, the man still came out with $1,499,500 in profit on a measly $500 investment.
This story is absolutely insane to me. I’ve seen the show Storage Wars on A&E before and I always thought the whole, ‘once we sell it everything inside of it is yours’ schtick was fake. Five hundred dollars for the storage unit and this guy was able to claim ownership to $7.5 MILLION in cash and there’s nothing the previous owners could’ve done about it other than lawyer up, which is what they did.
What a terrifyingly large sum of money to find. I don’t even know what I’d do if I was in that situation. You’re sifting through a bunch of trash and all of a sudden you come across more money than you’ve ever seen in your life. On one hand I’d obviously want to keep it, but on the other hand I’d be so afraid of being murdered by the cartels that I’d want to turn it in. There’s just no way that money is clean. People who make legitimate livings don’t keep their cash in storage units.
He still got a pretty good deal out of it, though, $1.2 million dollars is more than enough to change your life. Especially in East Bumfuck, Texas where you can get a house for the price of a VCR. Hopefully whoever the money ended up going to is able to retire from the business of looking through people’s junk and move onto something more enjoyable. Regardless, he’s going to have an awesome Christmas with that much money in the bank.