If they moved their car and then found a winning lottery ticket on the ground would you be owed something?

I would grab a ton of lottery tickets.....okay I wouldn't but what I would do is...

You can take massive risk and bet on the lottery or in a casino.

Funny thing is, they are usually right, but in a lottery winning sort of way...if you don't count all the other years they predicted it...and nothing happened.

I still remember people camping out at builder's site for a chance to be in a lottery to buy a new house, crazy times.As for your case, 500K for a quad is like Phoenix prices, doesn't seem like midwest prices to me. 

You are about as likely to get a good house for just the taxes as you are to buy one lottery ticket and win a Million dollars.

You just won the equivalent of a spiritual real estate lottery. 

.- With ~18K for expenses and ~63K of income, that works out to ~29%; extremely unlikely (to the point that I would buy a lottery ticket first - at least I would know what I am going to loose ;).

Minus lottery winners, inheritances and professional sports stars, it does take a high level of skill to amass money.

I also desired to have a lot more money and had a tendency to be aggressive short of buying lottery tickets, which I knew were not a reliable means of getting rich.