*“Storage Wars” star Dan Dotson has revealed that he sold a storage unit for $500 and the buyer got quite the shock when he found $7.5 million cash inside a safe. An attorney reached out to the buyer and offered $1.2 million in return for all money.
“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.”
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While it was a potentially life-changing discovery for the unit’s buyer, it was also meant someone out there had just lost an enormous amount of money. But, fortunately, this story has a happy ending for everyone involved.
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.
“I don’t feel like it’d be clean money,” said Dotson’s wife Laura in the couple’s Facebook video.
Whether he would take the $1.2 million reward, Dotson said he would because he wouldn’t want to find out how far the former owners would go to get all their money back.
“I wouldn’t ask a damn thing,” he explained. “$7.5 million is a lot of money… but that’s a lot of running, too.”
Would you have given the money back?
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