For nine days, Dad barely said a word about what he was investigating around Aldric\u2019s swimming pool. He had repaired the pool perfectly, yet Aldric still refused to pay the $8,400 he owed him. Worse, Aldric tried using my job as leverage, knowing I worked for him. Dad stayed strangely calm through every threat. I assumed he was simply trying to collect his money without making the situation worse for me. What I didn\u2019t know was that while inspecting the property, Dad had discovered something buried beneath decades of concrete.<\/p>\n
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He found old iron boundary markers driven into the ground in 1962. Two of them were completely encased in the pool\u2019s concrete foundation, which had been poured in 1987. Dad checked the measurements repeatedly before accepting what they meant. The swimming pool extended eighteen inches beyond the original property line. Part of Aldric\u2019s expensive pool was sitting on land that had never legally belonged to him\u2014or to any previous owner of his house. And when Dad discovered who actually owned that narrow strip of property, he made one phone call that changed everything.<\/p>\n
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