I purchased stock in a swim club over 10 years ago. At the time, there was a waiting list to purchase, and now there is a waiting list to sell. Annual dues are about $400. The club began letting people join without purchasing stock a few years ago, so obviuosly I will never be able to sell my stock now. Am I still obligated to pay yearly dues as the club says? I have offered to donate or give away my stock, but no luck. Any advice is appreciated.

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I’d like to ask for advice in recovering lost securities.

Many years ago (1980-85) I invested in a publicly traded company. I purchased the stock through a discount brokerage (which subsequently merged with one, then another larger brokerage house). I took possession of the stock certificates myself at one point (about 15 years ago). At present I do not have the certificates and believe they are lost.

I contacted the transfer agent for the company last week, explained the situation and received some less than helpful advice. I was instructed to contact the (now defunct) brokerage house through which I purchased the stock and ask them to investigate. Barring that, I was told to search the State’s unclaimed property database, which I did, and found nothing.

My question is the following: Is it unreasonable to expect a (large) publicly traded company to retain records of who their stockholders are, how many shares they own, and when they were purchased/sold? If indeed their records show that I am a present stockholder, I will gladly pay for any necessary surety bonds for the issuance of a new certificate.

A second question is: Is there a service which can investigate this for me? (I’d be happy to pay the fee.) How should I proceed?

Thank you in advance for your advice.

My husband & I filed Chapter 7 seperately in 2008. At that time my husband had a small share of stock in a family business. We signed the share over to our trustee who in turn sold it back to the family business for $25,000. We just received our 2009 Income Tax Returns and found that we are being charged with a capital gain for the stock sale of $22,000! Is this correct?

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