Agreed a deal a couple of months ago to buy a house off market from an older couple who are moving into a retirement community (nothing sketchy, I am paying them fair market price). We take possession October 1st so did a walkthrough today to determine what work we need to do to it before we can rent it out. As we're going through the old boy says to me, "Oh, there is one thing I need to show you in the basement workshop." He pulls a paper calendar aside on one of the walls to reveal a safe. "We don't have the code for this so we've never opened it. We were told it was empty by the guy we bought the house from 14 years ago, but because he was in the early stages of dementia he couldn't remember the code for it either."
I wonder how one goes about hiring a safecracker.