Kobe, a kid working a summer construction job in Belgium whose crew found a buried stash of gold worth €9M or 10.5M USD in today’s money, is the inspiration for this question. I’m assuming in that event, half goes to the property owner and it’s 4 construction workers and a foreman splitting the other half. The rightful owner has 5 years to claim according to local law. What would you do while you wait that out?
As an American, the majority of that is going into a retirement fund. If I put in $700,000 now, I can retire at 60 and never worry about saving for retirement.
With the other $300,000, about half will go to paying off my student debt.
Which leaves me like $150,000 to put towards a house. 3-4 bed homes are in the 400-600 range in my neighborhood, so even if boyfriend sold his house, we’d still have to wait until I finish school to be able to buy one.
So I guess like, look for an accountant.