Would you trust someone with $300million... and no legal contract?
In this spoken anecdote, the speaker recounts a situation where they and a male acquaintance, who lived in the same apartment building, signed a handwritten agreement that was never formally drafted by a lawyer. The contract was placed on the speaker’s table, and before it could be scanned (the speaker’s scanner was broken), it vanished from the apartment. The speaker suspects the acquaintance deliberately removed the document, noting he was the only person with access to the apartment at that time. The disappearance left the speaker unable to prove the agreement’s terms, leading to feelings of betrayal and anger, especially when the acquaintance later dismissed the speaker’s claims and offered no compensation. The narrative highlights the risks of relying on informal, non‑legal contracts and the erosion of trust when a party may sabotage evidence.
