The windfall discovery amounted to little more than grief for contractor bob kitts who couldn t agree on how to split the money with homeowner amanda reece.
Money found in bathroom wall.
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A recently hired employee at a calgary based plumbing company in canada struck gold while shoveling through some rubble during a bathroom renovation.
He saw something shimmery grabbed it and quickly realized what he had found.
Actually it was their contractor who found the bag full of money and he was honest enough to give it to them.
Again you can t tear open a ceiling just for the small chance that there s something valuable in there but you can look for clues.
The couple did some remodeling in the course of which a worker for the contracting company found two ammunition cans full of cash in the kitchen wall and another two inside the framing of an upstairs bathroom.
Cleveland a contractor who found 182 000 in depression era currency hidden in a bathroom wall has ended up with only a few thousand dollars but he feels some vindication.
Bob kitts and amanda reece were friends when they found 182 000 in her bathroom walls.
When general contractor david gonzalez of hoffman minnesota found a rare comic book in his walls that sold at auction for a reported 175 000 we asked houzzers to chime in with what they ve found buried in their yards or walls or that had simply been shellacked over.
By matthew taub july 10 2019 some of the treasures found in the pilfered.
In 2008 the daughters sold the rundown house as is to a couple.
The cash totaled 500 000.
While remodeling a new york couple found 15 000 in their ceiling.
Here are a few things they found lurking in their homes.
Then they split over how to divvy up the money.
Cleveland ap a contractor who found 182 000 in old currency hidden in a bathroom wall has ended up with only a few thousand dollars but he feels some vindication.
Cleveland ap in the end a contractor who found 182 000 in depression era currency hidden in bathroom walls got just a few thousand dollars and he feels some vindication.