A $150 investment turns up $98,000.

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13. Along those lines...

my grandfather was a child of the depression and never really fully trusted the existence of any money he couldn't physically possess in short order...so despite putting money in the bank and using modern financial conveniences, he always made comments about the suitcase of cash in the backyard, money for hard times, comments my family brushed off...if it was there, grandma would know where it was anyways. Then, grandpa died...then in very short order, within several months, grandma died too. Nobody had any idea where to look or if it existed or was another of his practical jokes.

My uncles wanted to sell the house. They just wanted to be rid of it immediately, not even looking for market value. My mother wanted to put in the effort to clean the house up, flip/refurbish it and wait for a good offer. They just wanted it gone. This pissed off my mother so she bought them out...then when the septic failed, she had the excavator excavate the entire backyard. When she found the money...$400,000...everybody wanted their share...and she told them that the contents of the property had sold with the house.