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Another story about “treasure in the garage” in the US. A man who took part in an auction of abandoned storage facilities purchased one of the warehouses for a few hundred dollars and accidentally stumbled upon a find that most people can only dream of. Inside the old metal safe were not only neatly stacked bundles of banknotes. Among the $7.5 million in cash was an even more interesting find.
The buyer, who paid only $500 for the premises, could not believe his eyes at first — among the stacks of money, there was a glasses case in the safe. The case contained a handwritten password for a crypto wallet on a sheet of paper.
However, the joy did not last long. When the former owners heard about the discovery, they quickly got in touch with lawyers and claimed the money and cryptocurrency. After a lot of back and forth, they reached a compromise: the buyer got to keep $1.2 million in cash, and the rest went back to the previous owners, who insisted that the money had been “lost by accident.”
Despite the fact that the man was unable to keep the entire treasure, his profit was still enormous: a $500 investment turned into over a million US dollars, and his story instantly spread across social media, sparking a wave of discussion — from jokes about “the best investment of the year” to debates about the legal nuances of owning found funds and cryptocurrency.
Experts note that such cases occur more often than it seems. Storage rooms are often rented by people who, for various reasons, stop paying for them, and their contents are put up for auction. However, finding treasure worth millions there is a real rarity. Most buyers get old furniture, boxes of clothes, or useless and broken appliances.
This story has once again drawn attention to the phenomenon of “abandoned storage auctions” — a kind of lottery where each lot can turn out to be either a complete zero or an unexpected jackpot.
The case became known thanks to the star of the show Storage Wars, who told the story during one of his performances. According to him, a woman approached him and said that her husband worked for the buyer of that very warehouse. It was he, as a craftsman, who opened the safe, which the previous owners had apparently forgotten or for some reason were unable to take away.