| Cash in Wall | | I think the homeowner deserves all the money. She is willing to share a 10% finder's fee with the contractor but he wants 40%. I think the contractor should take what the homeowner is offering. After all it was found in her house. What's your opinion?
A Cleveland contractor who helped discover bundles of U.S. currency, which was issued in 1927 and 1929, while gutting a client's bathroom is demanding the homeowner hand over the cash or at least share some of it.Kitts said his lawyer has drafted a lawsuit that he hopes will force Amanda Reece to turn over the money she has kept.Most of the currency, issued in 1927 and 1929, is in good condition, and some of the bills are so rare that one currency appraiser valued the treasure at up to $500,000, Kitts said.Reece accuses Kitts of extortion.The fight began in May 2006 when Kitts was gutting Reece's bathroom and found a box below the medicine cabinet that contained $25,200."I almost passed out," Kitts recalled. "It was the ultimate contractor fantasy."What's Your Take?He called Reece, who rushed home. Together they found another steel box tied to the end of a wire nailed to a stud. Inside was more... | |
| | How Is Your Bracket Looking? | | I don't know how things will turn out for the rest of the NCAA tournament, but my bracket for the first round still looks pretty good. I was correct on 25 of the 32 games, picking a few upsets along the way. The worst miss I made was in picking Butler over LSU, and I missed on Dayton over West Virginia.But I got the Cleveland State upset over Wake Forest and the Arizona win over Utah. I have CSU beating 'Zona in the second round but losing to Louisville in the Sweet 16.How's Your bracket looking? box below the medicine cabinet that contained $25,200."I almost passed out," Kitts recalled. "It was the ultimate contractor fantasy."What's Your Take?He called Reece, who rushed home. Together they found another steel box tied to the end of a wire nailed to a stud. Inside was more than $100,000, Kitts said. Two more boxes were filled with a mix of money and religious memorabilia."It was insane," Kitts said. "She was in shock - she was a wreck."The bundles had "P. Dunne" written on them, a likely reference to Peter Dunne, a businessman who owned the home during the Depression.Kitts said he took some of the currency for an... | |
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