I've known Yang Sisi for three years, and this is the first time I've experienced the feeling of "waiting" with her. Yes, ever since that email was sent, I've been waiting. I waited for ten minutes, then an hour, then days, until the hope became increasingly faint.
I don't know if she saw the email, but I know she's drifting further and further away from me.
I hoped to raise the funds to buy the villa within three days, but now it's already the fourth day... I'm feeling quite frustrated. Coupled with my limited mobility, I feel like I'm living in a cage, and I can't accomplish anything I set my mind to.
Of course I know that a career takes time, but my mindset now is not as good as when I started my business at "Jiulongju". After all, I was healthy back then, and I naturally had the passion to "start over if necessary". But now, the opportunities and time in front of me are getting fewer and fewer.
Moreover, when I was starting my business at Jiulongju, I could communicate with anyone without any barriers, so I always had a sense of being in control of the whole situation. But when I arrived in Phuket, all the information was passed on to me by Ping Ge, and I didn't have a very direct understanding of it myself. This caused me a great sense of emptiness, making it difficult to make any further plans.
Yes, language barriers and physical barriers are the two biggest difficulties I currently face, and they are insurmountable.
...
This is my fourth day in Phuket. In the evening, a thunderstorm hit. I was sitting alone in the house studying English, breathing in the stuffy, humid air, when suddenly I lost patience with memorizing vocabulary. I slammed the book down on the table and covered my face with my hands...
This is what pain feels like. What I'm experiencing now is completely different from what I imagined before I came here. I wanted to conquer the real estate market here with overwhelming force, but in the end, not even a drop of rain fell.
Was it just bad timing, or had my abilities deteriorated?
Feeling frustrated, I took out my phone again to check, but there was still no reply from Yang Sisi... I knew that I could basically give up hope of borrowing money from Yang Sisi's father, because as long as Yang Sisi didn't go back, I was a sinner in his eyes.
...
After sitting there for a while, there was a knock on the door. It was probably just Brother Ping. He stood outside the room and said to me, "Michael, want me to take you out for a walk?"
"I don't want to go out."
"It's not good for you to keep locking yourself in your room like this!"
I opened the door and then asked Brother Ping, "Have you contacted the landlord again in the past two days?"
“I contacted him, and he said that quite a few people have contacted him to view the house, since it's below market price... He estimates that he can resell the house in the next couple of days.”
With a hint of disdain, I chuckled, "Selling a house is not something you can estimate; whether it sells or not can be decided in an instant."
Especially for properties priced significantly below market value… So don't listen to his nonsense; he just hasn't found a buyer with the real financial strength to purchase this property yet… Even though it's below market value, 3 million RMB isn't something everyone can easily come up with, and besides, after taking over the property, there will be renovations to be done, which is no small expense.”
Brother Ping nodded, then said to me in a consultative tone, "The situation is what it is now... If you ask me, why don't we help him resell it? We can earn a few tens of thousands of yuan in brokerage fees, which would be a consolation prize. It's better than just watching it go by!"
“I’m not willing to accept this. I don’t want my first business deal here to be a second-best option.”
Ping Ge then advised, “There aren’t a lot of properties in Phuket, but there aren’t few either… Since we’ve decided to do this, we’ll definitely come across properties below market price again. Why worry about short-term gains or losses?… Listen to me, contact your previous clients and see if any of them are interested in this villa… If we can close the deal, we’ll cover their round-trip airfare and accommodation. This is a perk our company gives to our clients.”
I looked at Brother Ping coldly, then asked, "Are you really that short of a few tens of thousands of yuan?"
"You know, 'great things come from small beginnings'? ... Now that our company is open, we need to make a sale to kick things off... Besides, it's not that I'm not going to cooperate with your ideas. I've already agreed to mortgage the house, but it's been four days already... Michael, when we do business, we need to be realistic, okay?"
“My philosophy is different from yours. Every business deal I make is earned through hard work.”
"That's because you haven't fallen yet. If you had actually fallen, you wouldn't dare to speak so arrogantly!"
"I've never fallen before?...I'm falling right now...I'm on the ground and can barely get up."
Brother Ping didn't speak, and I knew he was tolerating me. If I had any visible flaws when it came to business, it was that I was too assertive. But Brother Ping was older than me and the de facto legal representative of the company, so I had to give him face. Therefore, I softened my tone and said, "Brother Ping, the business we're doing now isn't like selling fried skewers on the street. If business isn't good here, we can just move to another place. After all, it's just selling fried skewers, so we can be flexible... We need to have our own strategic thinking. If we approach this villa using the methods of a real estate agent, our..." The company will inevitably fall into a lower position. Our first impression on clients is crucial. In their eyes, Michael should only be a developer of high-end villas and apartments in Thailand. We're not a real estate agency; we have the ability to decide the quality, style, and even location of the properties ourselves… Do you understand my thinking? …If I advertise this villa on my social media, they'll only ever think of me as a real estate agent. They'll be wary of me trying to profit from the price difference, they'll haggle with me, they'll disrespect my work, and they'll try to get our listings from other channels.
Then I saved on the agency fee... These days, aren't there enough disputes between agencies and clients over such a small amount of hard-earned money? ...I really don't want to play this game; I want to create my own style!
Despite my attempts to control myself, the more I talked, the less I could control my emotions. I tapped my fingers on the table... Ping Ge just stared at me, unable to utter a single word in rebuttal.
Whether it's Chen Jin or Brother Ping, I'm different from them. I prefer to do things well from a holistic perspective, so I'd rather endure temporary pain than touch those petty gains.
At this moment, I am very clear that if I cannot acquire this villa myself, I will simply not do it... If Brother Ping cannot respect my thoughts and insists on using the real estate agent's methods, I will go back to Dali... Phuket is nice, but it cannot fulfill my dream.
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