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?
Any plans I make usually end up with something preventing them from being possible, or they begin to unravel if I get to the point of implementation.
I can think of a few things I might do with the money once it’s under my control, but there’s nothing I can do to prepare for any of that.
One thing I wouldn’t do, however tempting, given the foreknowledge, is start to spend it before I have it.