Chapter 11 Buying One Is Not Enough
Wang Kui introduced Lin Ruoyan to a steady female agent, Qin Shuang, who was particularly knowledgeable about second-hand houses in this area of X City. Of course, at this time, there were not many people working as agents, and even fewer who were interested in Siheyuan.
Xiao Qin happened to be one of the first people to get involved in these things. He is also hardworking and will accept any housing offer.
Siheyuan is a characteristic residential building in Beijing. However, with the development of urbanization, most of these century-old houses have been gradually demolished, replaced by wide roads and simple buildings and tube-shaped buildings that were popular at that time, as well as a small number of new-style apartment buildings.
The existing courtyard houses are mostly large and uneven, except for those occupied by some units that are relatively neatly arranged.
More than a dozen families are crowded in a decent courtyard, with all kinds of illegal construction. Heating and cooking rely on coal. It is extremely cold in winter and mosquitoes breed in summer. Many people fight for one faucet. To go to the toilet, you have to leave the yard and go to the public toilet on the street. In short, it is very inconvenient.
Of course, there are also those who plan to immigrate abroad. Their ancestors passed down a relatively tidy courtyard with house deeds and land deeds, but it is very likely that no one has lived there for many years, and the walls and houses have collapsed, making it extremely desolate.
Xiao Qin found it hard to understand why the eldest daughter of the Lin family, arriving in a luxury car, would be interested in a courtyard house in the alley. Wang Kui had told him that the Lin family already had a large villa in the suburbs near the airport. If they were going to buy one, they should have bought one of those beautiful new high-rise buildings with elevators in the city.
However, Xiao Qin would not ask such a question. She happened to have two courtyards that she could not sell, and was thinking about promoting them.
Lin Ruoyan brought her son with her and did not wander around randomly. She first listened to Xiao Qin's introduction to the houses she had. She did not consider ordinary houses at all and only looked at courtyard houses.
Xiao Qin took us to see two places on the way. One of the courtyards had only one entrance, but it had always been occupied and the property rights were clear. The transaction could be completed after the land certificate was obtained. Someone had already made a reservation for it.
There was another large compound with a lot of illegal construction. Lin Ruoyan looked at the location and knew it would be demolished sooner or later, so she put it aside for now. She wanted to buy a fixed asset for her son to live in for more than ten years.
So in the end, Xiao Qin used his trump card, which was the two difficult courtyards back to back.
These two courtyards that have not been sold are next to each other, near West D. One is entered from the south alley, and the other is a storefront facing the street in the north alley.
The place at the entrance of the alley on the south side is a large square courtyard with three entrances. It was previously requisitioned by a certain unit. Later, the owner of the courtyard was rehabilitated, and the house deeds and land deeds were returned. The unit also vacated the house immediately, but the owner did not move back, and the house has been abandoned ever since.
Now, apart from a few towering trees growing randomly in the yard, the dirt ground and roofs are all covered with grass, and all the houses are either collapsed or about to collapse. It is a terrible sight.
But this yard is big, and the land deeds and house deeds all have single and complete ownership rights. It is the first batch of private property returned and the procedures are very formal. It is much simpler than those where many households are crowded together and the ownership rights are mixed and unclear.
So the owner wanted to buy the house for four million. If he wanted to buy it in parts, he would have to go through various paperwork. The owner was not in Beijing and had already applied for a green card in the United States. It would be very troublesome to travel back and forth to China, so he only wanted to sell it as a whole. If he could pay the full amount at once, he could get another 100,000 yuan off.
But for ordinary people, this kind of house is not habitable at all. It costs money to demolish and rebuild it. No one's money comes from the wind. These days, four million is enough to buy a villa of several hundred square meters in the best villa area in Beijing.
Lin Ruoyan was immediately captivated by the location and the three-story building. The dire situation of the weed-covered, dilapidated tiled house wasn't a problem. They could just hire a professional team to demolish the old house, carefully design and rebuild it, adding modern amenities to the quaint exterior. This would be the prototype of a luxurious Siheyuan mansion in the core urban area worth hundreds of millions of yuan in the future.
There was too much grass in the yard and there was no place to step. In fact, there was no need to look at it. It was so dilapidated that it was all garbage. Xiao Qin took Lin Ruoyan and just walked around the outside of the house, took a general look, and briefly talked about the owner's situation, the area of the yard and the house, and the selling price.
Seeing that Lin Ruoyan didn't ask anything, Xiao Qin felt a chill in his heart and hesitated whether he should move on to the next project.
Unexpectedly, Lin Ruoyan said seriously, "Buy this, four million in full. No need to give me a discount. Just sign the contract as soon as possible."
Xiao Qin hadn't even said a single word of the embarrassing words he had prepared. He thought he had misheard. What? Miss Lin just said she wanted to spend four million to buy this shabby yard?
The Prodigal System was also a bit surprised, but the host's extravagant spending was very consistent with the original book's setting, so it praised him unconscionably: "Well done, host! Spending four million on such a piece of junk not only achieved your first major achievement of extravagant spending, but also caused your brother to worry, making him worry about you and clean up the mess."
After several back-and-forth exchanges with the system, Lin Ruoyan was certain that the prodigal system couldn't sense her true thoughts, which reassured her. From now on, she could fully exploit the loopholes in the prodigal system's rules to satisfy her own selfish desires.
She was currently playing coy, explaining to the system, "Look, this yard is very expensive. It needs to be cleaned up and rebuilt after purchase. I also plan to pay a famous architect to design it, renovate it, and install some expensive furniture and appliances. These are all expensive projects. I'm just sitting there and spending money to get it done once and for all."
The prodigal system was instantly delighted. Although four million was still a long way from the monthly goal of spending one hundred million, the host's vision and speed in spending money, as well as the subsequent planning to fill a series of holes with money, were worthy of praise.
After Xiao Qin confirmed again and again that Lin Ruoyan wanted to buy the house, he was ecstatic. At that time, the agency fee was 1.5 points from both the buyer and the seller, which meant that Xiao Qin could eventually earn a commission of 120,000 yuan. After completing this deal, he would not have to worry about not opening the business for a year.
She asked politely, "Ms. Lin, are you looking at another courtyard?"
"You just said that the other courtyard is not far away, why not take a look at it?" Lin Ruoyan had gotten out of the car and walked for such a long time, it would be worth it to take a look at it.
She also noticed that her son seemed quite interested in this desolate little courtyard. In the small southern city, her adoptive parents' home also had a courtyard, though it was just an ordinary bungalow, not as large or elaborate as a siheyuan. The yard was casually planted with trees and flowers, and whenever he went out, he would see neighbors. It was completely different from the empty space in the large villa, where no one was visible.
Perhaps my son prefers this down-to-earth hustle and bustle of the city. Standing at the gate of this courtyard, you can see the West D Book Building, which is just over ten minutes' walk away. If he lives here, it will be much more convenient for my son to go reading in the future.
The more Lin Ruoyan looked at the yard, the more satisfied she became.
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