What is the coolest thing you have ever found in a property?

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We just purchased a 1920 home to flip in a historic district in Mesa, Arizona. The house would probably be considered a hoarder house because it was stuffed full of things everywhere. We rented 3 40-yard dumpsters to haul everything away and that only got about half the stuff. When I was rummaging through the rest of the stuff I found a belt buckle with a 1896 silver coin from Peru in it. I really like rare coins so this was an awesome find for me.

What has been the coolest thing that you have ever "inherited" in a house that you have bought as an investor?

What has been the coolest thing that you have ever "inherited" in a house that you have bought as an investor?

Shiloh Lundahl · Answer

@Mindy Jensen Collecting baseball cards became a really popular thing in the late 80's and 90's so the market became saturated and the value went down.  At one point the cards could have been worth something.  Then there were some kids that just collected the cards of their favorite players and didn't care as much about their value.  But I remember how fun it was collecting cards.

Mindy Jensen · Answer

A tenant left his baseball collection and comic book collection at our house when he moved out. (I forgot about it until I read this thread.)

I found it absolutely astonishing that someone could put together two separate collections that were completely worthless. Absolutely not one card or comic worth anything. I wasted a lot of time checking into them both.

Shiloh Lundahl · Answer

@Jon Ree and @Stone Jin, It is almost like a treasure hunt when you buy a house with a bunch of stuff in it.  Even though the treasure is usually not worth the 2-4k to do the trash out, it is still exciting to see if you can find something of value.

Being a child who grew up in the late 80's and early 90's and having 10s of thousands of baseball cards myself, I would love to stumble upon an old baseball card collection.  In my older years though I have migrated toward collecting old coins, so this find was awesome for me.  What I would love would be to take out a wall in an old house and find that an owner before me had old silver and gold coins hidden away in it.  That is what I am hoping for someday.

Stone Jin · Answer

@Shiloh Lundahl   I don't know about the coolest item, but the hottest things I've found were 2 rabbits that were left by a tenant in the middle of August in Arizona in the backyard.  One of them is still living in my own backyard.

Also another tenant left me a Wade Boggs rookie card.

Stone

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