My dad is a wonderful, kind man who is absolutely garbage at anything finance related. Back in the '60s, he started buying model trains (HO gauge, Märklin brand) and told my mom that they would appreciate in value.
Today, I learned that he had car trouble and asked him why he didn't try selling some of the model trains to pay for his car. The heartbreaking response was, "I tried."
Apparently, his model train collection—which was once valued at nearly half a million bucks—is now worthless. He has retirement, but it's very modest.
What do we do? Do you know of any way we could recoup the money he invested in these things?
tl; dr–My dad invested his money in a now semi-worthless German model train collection. How do we try to get back some of his investment?
Submitted June 22, 2019 at 07:54PM by menstruatin4satan http://bit.ly/2Y5SFSh
