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<p>[QUOTE="VistaCruiser69, post: 25322517, member: 107016"]Precisely why old bills in great shape (coins for that matter as well) are found in circulation every day. Either, like what you mentioned above, or when siblings clean out their parents drawers while "treasure hunting" after the last one passes.</p><p><br /></p><p>In my line of work, it's so common for me to get calls from sibling about a parent's past investment(s). Siblings will go on "treasure hunt's" when their remaining last parent passes, and they come across an old investment statement from 20 + years ago. They see a dollar amount and all hell breaks loose. And what compounds the problem even more is, they see the dollar amount and whatever the interest rate(s) of return were on the documents they have and will calculate and add in the additional interest earned over x number of years from the date on the documents and expect all that be coming to them.</p><p><br /></p><p>They call up and when they find out that the investment has already been closed out decades ago, they just can't believe it. Deflated, a lot of times they go as far as threaten lawsuit. We provide them with the documents to support the close out and that's the last we hear from them. But it's amazing how hard people fight when they're all pumped up that they found a fortune in their parents junk drawers, safe and files.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="VistaCruiser69, post: 25322517, member: 107016"]Precisely why old bills in great shape (coins for that matter as well) are found in circulation every day. Either, like what you mentioned above, or when siblings clean out their parents drawers while "treasure hunting" after the last one passes. In my line of work, it's so common for me to get calls from sibling about a parent's past investment(s). Siblings will go on "treasure hunt's" when their remaining last parent passes, and they come across an old investment statement from 20 + years ago. They see a dollar amount and all hell breaks loose. And what compounds the problem even more is, they see the dollar amount and whatever the interest rate(s) of return were on the documents they have and will calculate and add in the additional interest earned over x number of years from the date on the documents and expect all that be coming to them. They call up and when they find out that the investment has already been closed out decades ago, they just can't believe it. Deflated, a lot of times they go as far as threaten lawsuit. We provide them with the documents to support the close out and that's the last we hear from them. But it's amazing how hard people fight when they're all pumped up that they found a fortune in their parents junk drawers, safe and files.[/QUOTE]
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