Chapter 13 Choose the most expensive one
Lin Ruoyan couldn't come up with any good reason to convince her brother, nor could she prove that the Siheyuan would become a high-value fixed asset worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of yuan in the future. She could only play the emotional card and said softly, "Brother, Mengxi likes reading. I took him to the West D Book Building today, and he was very happy. Besides, it's such a large bookstore with multiple floors, and there are so many books that he can't finish reading them in a day or two. In the future, we will live nearby. He can walk there every day to read books, and he can also visit nearby attractions and museums. Maybe he will become more cheerful and make more friends."
When Lin Ruxu mentioned her taciturn nephew who was said to have autism, her heart immediately softened.
Seeing her brother's expression of concern for Mengxi, Lin Ruoyan struck while the iron was hot: "Also, I think the kindergartens and schools over there are pretty good. They're key demonstration schools at the district and municipal levels. The teaching staff is very strong, and the students are mainly children of people working in various ministries and the financial industry. If Mengxi can get to know his childhood friends there, it might be helpful for his future."
Twenty years later, this is the concept of circles. Lin Ruoyan thought that her brother, who has been in the business world for a long time, should understand the true value of the personal connections cultivated and accumulated since childhood.
Lin Ruxu was impressed by his sister's words.
There really isn't a good treatment for autism in China right now, but it's said there are treatments abroad. If he were to go abroad for treatment, his sister would definitely have to go with him, which would cost even more. He couldn't bear to see his family away again. Besides, his sister had already said she didn't want to go abroad and was more accustomed to the Chinese culture.
The key is the atmosphere of the circle in the X city district mentioned by my sister. The awareness of helping children to build personal connections in advance is very sensible and advanced.
Unlike the villa district, which is dominated by businesspeople and international entrepreneurs, the X City district is home to government offices and large state-owned enterprises. The kindergartens and schools are mostly populated by children of employees with official positions. My nephew has attended the same school since childhood, and with his future development in China, the close relationships he's cultivated and the connections he's built are truly remarkable.
Is my sister so far-sighted? Thinking deeply about this, Lin Ruxu has completely changed her previous attitude and supports her sister to buy the courtyard house there.
At least the courtyard house covers a large area, and it sounds like there is spacious space with houses and yards. As long as we spend some money on renovation and reconstruction, it will definitely be more comfortable than living in an old building, and it probably won't be unfair to my sister and nephew.
Since it was for his nephew's physical and mental health and future prospects, and his nephew also liked living in the city, why would he disagree? It was only five million, so it was a good investment.
Lin Ruoyan didn't dare to say it yet. Buying two houses would cost five million, not counting the real estate agent's fees. There were also transfer taxes, design and renovation plans, renovation and construction, and furniture and appliances. All in all, it would cost another one or two million.
The Prodigal System praised with delight: "Host, it's only the second day, and you've already spent over six million. You're truly the Prodigal Queen embryo chosen by this system."
Lin Ruoyan wasn't fooled by the sweet talk. She calculated that if she spent 100 million a month, she would have to spend over 3 million a day to make up the difference. Today was her second day here. The 6 million was just a mental calculation; she had only actually paid over 1 million, which was far from the target.
She suddenly felt unhappy and thought that she had to broaden her thinking and develop other efficient spending projects.
Fortunately, Wang Kui said that registering a company also requires handling fees, as well as the cost of renting an address for registration, which gave her new inspiration.
According to her brother's idea, she didn't need to rent an additional office building at all; she could just use the Lin Group's headquarters. The Lin Group, originally a business, currently occupied six floors of office space in a newly built high-rise office building in the eastern CBD of Beijing. There was definitely room for Lin Ruoyan to open a real estate company.
But how could Lin Ruoyan dare to mess with her brother's legitimate business? She didn't even rent a registered address. That was something shell companies did. A bunch of companies sharing a registered address meant they were just one cubicle, which was just deceiving.
If she wanted to rent an office, she would rent a proper office building of several thousand square meters.
I originally thought of renovating the courtyard house and using it as my office address, but after calculating the time, I realized that I couldn't shorten the renovation time for my own living comfort, and the company wouldn't be able to open for business either. So I had no choice but to give in and find an office building nearby.
She had already made up her mind: she would go look tomorrow and find a suitable place, either for rent or purchase. Besides being close to the courtyard, it had to be more expensive and larger. Ideally, it would be a stand-alone office building for greater privacy, or a high-rise office building with modern glass curtain walls, top-notch interior and exterior decoration, and with proper property management fees. Only then would it be able to accommodate the grandeur and scale of the real estate company she was setting up.
If you calculate it this way, renting or buying an office building, renovating it, and recruiting from scratch, this series of operations will definitely cost tens of millions.
But spending money this way still feels a bit slow. The faster way to spend money is definitely to buy land. Then making a deal can easily cost tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.
Beijing already has legitimate projects under tender, auction, and listing, but the prerequisite is that she has a legitimate real estate company. Even if she doesn't have the time to actually start a project during her lifetime, if she just keeps the land, the value will surely increase several times over in a few years, and her heirs will definitely make a profit.
Besides company matters, her next possible expense was, of course, to find a renowned architect to design a renovation plan for her courtyard house. She wouldn't hire a cheap renovation team that provided drawings along with the work; she wanted to hire the most expensive design firm, willing to spend hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars to create a beautiful design.
Lin Ruoyan had read a book about Li Yiqi and actor Wei Xu, who bought a house when they married. They hired a master architect to renovate it. The design alone cost 400,000 yuan, and the renovations cost another 1-2 million yuan. What was the master's name? He was said to be well-versed in feng shui and classical Chinese design aesthetics.
After thinking for a moment, she finally remembered that it seemed to be Professor Qiao Yichi.
This professor, who opened his own architectural firm and was among the first to be approved for private architectural firm qualifications when the government first opened up, is a true industry leader and a true master. He embraces a wide range of projects, particularly challenging and unusual ones.
However, Professor Qiao wouldn't normally undertake small, conventional projects like designing homes for ordinary people. He initially agreed to design Li Yiqi and Wei Xu's wedding room because he met Wei Xu while working as an architectural art director on a historical blockbuster. He only agreed because the actor asked, and because he admired the actor's character.
Then let's find this person to do the design. The design fee budget starts at one million, and the construction, decoration, furniture, etc. will cost about two million. This way, at least we can meet the daily spending target.
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