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ChadTower:
--- Quote from: hypernova on May 22, 2011, 01:13:55 pm ---you can only hope he gets the good karma that's deserved.
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Something tells me that was his good karma and he threw it back.
Howard_Casto:
Reading the article it seems obvious to me that while the guy might be the nicest person in the world, he really didn't do the "right thing".
It's obvious to me that this was one of those stingy, grouchy old men that lived like a poor man just because he was too cheap to enjoy life. (I know the type.) That wasn't an inheritance for the old man's children, that was money he hid from his children and everyone else. It was his money and he wasn't going to let anyone have it.
If the old man was alive, he doesn't deserve to get the money back.... that's what you get for being stingy.
While giving the money to the man's kids was a wonderful gesture, it obviously wasn't meant to be passed down to the kids, so the home buyer essentially just did a nice thing, the kids didn't have any right to it...asfterall, if their father had wanted them to have it, don't you think he would have told them about 40 frikkin thousand dollars stored in the attic?
Also they sold the house.... that often means the family wasn't that close. You would have to shoot me before I would give up the family homestead even if I was foreced to rent it out or something due to having another home or what not.
Legally he was in the clear... when you buy a house you get everything that comes with it. And morally he was definatley in the clear, as I've described above.
So I've gotta agree with Chad on this one...I think that was his good karma and he threw it back.
danny_galaga:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 23, 2011, 02:34:16 am ---Reading the article it seems obvious to me that while the guy might be the nicest person in the world, he really didn't do the "right thing".
It's obvious to me that this was one of those stingy, grouchy old men that lived like a poor man just because he was too cheap to enjoy life. (I know the type.) That wasn't an inheritance for the old man's children, that was money he hid from his children and everyone else. It was his money and he wasn't going to let anyone have it.
If the old man was alive, he doesn't deserve to get the money back.... that's what you get for being stingy.
While giving the money to the man's kids was a wonderful gesture, it obviously wasn't meant to be passed down to the kids, so the home buyer essentially just did a nice thing, the kids didn't have any right to it...asfterall, if their father had wanted them to have it, don't you think he would have told them about 40 frikkin thousand dollars stored in the attic?
Also they sold the house.... that often means the family wasn't that close. You would have to shoot me before I would give up the family homestead even if I was foreced to rent it out or something due to having another home or what not.
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Dunno. If what you are saying is correct, and it certainly could be, that he was a stingy old grouch then it was still something that morally his kids deserved.
Myself, I probably wouldn't have thought it through that hard, thus ensuring I wouldn't get to the stage of feeling guilty about keeping it ;D
Cakemeister:
Returning half the money would have been a compromise I would have accepted. Win-win.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on May 23, 2011, 02:34:16 am ---Also they sold the house.... that often means the family wasn't that close. You would have to shoot me before I would give up the family homestead even if I was foreced to rent it out or something due to having another home or what not.
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That's a tough assumption. My uncles just sold our grandfather's house because he's in a nursing home now and isn't coming out. It has been vacant for 5 years now and badly needs a new roof. It's in Nova Scotia. I was actually the last person in it 3-4 weeks ago and the one who handed over the keys. It broke my ---smurfing--- heart. That property has been in our family since the 1800s or longer. I'm actually not sure. There was absolutely nothing I could do other than buy it. It was not rentable without an entirely new roof, the wiring probably from 1925, and really to be suitable for modern living it would need a complete interior teardown. Given the fact that we all live in the US now it just wasn't feasible unless someone moved back.
I am surprised nobody assumes he did keep some of the money. The more I think about it the more I think I would have given back half at most. Nobody knows how much cash he really found and I don't have faith that if I returned the money I would receive a reasonable share.
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