One Man's Opinion

This story irked me a bit. It seems this contractor, Bob Kitts, was tearing out some walls and found 2 containers containing $182,000, which had been stashed there by the previous owners. He was doing work for the current owners.

So the homeowner, his client, the person he is working for who owns the house he is doing the work in, offers him 10%. That's $18,200. Pretty generous, if you ask me. But he wanted 40%. So they end up in court. That's what irks me. I'm a sub-contractor. We work in both new construction and existing, commercial and residential. And anything found on the customers property, is the customers. Especially if you found hidden money. He is, in my opinion, greedy and a disgrace. He should have been thankful that she offered him 10%.

Unfortunately it ended up in the papers, and the previous owners family sued also. I'm not sure what the law is, but I know what it should be. The cash should belong to the current owners. But the judge awarded part of it to the previous owners estate.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081108/ap_on_re_us/house_hidden_money

One Man's Opinion