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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 4312126, member: 27832&quot;]When we moved into our house, it had been on the market for about six months. There was a pile of debris in the front yard. At some point someone had used the downstairs toilet, and apparently the Realtor didn&#039;t know how to turn the water back on at the main valve, so the downstairs smelled... off-putting. (My wife found the valve, turned it back on, and flushed the toilet; if we hadn&#039;t bought the house, that alone probably would&#039;ve raised its market value by $5K.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The previous owners left that pile of junk in the front yard, some oddities in the crawlspace, and some rather ugly window treatments in the master bedroom. When we moved in, tearing down those drapes was one of our first tasks. When we pulled down the first set, two $20 bills fluttered out of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>We <i>very</i> carefully examined the other set, and everything else we cleaned out of the house, but that was the only windfall. No, actually, there was a 1963 quarter (I think) in one of the medicine cabinets. I wasn&#039;t collecting at the time, but I did know about silver coins, so we saved it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since then, I&#039;ve cut holes in the drywall to access the return-air plenums upstairs and downstairs. The downstairs plenum connects to a larger space under part of the stairway, and there were some scraps there left by the builders, but no money.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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