Chapter five hundred and sixty-one people do not offend me, I do not offend others
Early that morning, Fangyuan was preparing to go out to find a decoration team to decorate the house on Yabao Road.
The phone rang, and Fangyuan quickly went over to pick it up.
The call was from Lao Cao.
"Old Cao, why are you calling me at this time?"
"Fang Yuan, it's like this. It's not a big deal. It's just that a tenant wants to quit."
"Retirement? What's going on?"
You should know that the houses that Fangyuan rented out through Lao Cao are all in Houhai.
Nowadays, houses in Houhai are hard to come by, not to mention the high cost of land. Under such circumstances, someone actually wants to cancel the lease, which makes Fangyuan puzzled.
In fact, it wasn't just Fangyuan who couldn't figure it out, Lao Cao couldn't figure it out either, otherwise he wouldn't have called Fangyuan.
Because there is no need to worry about renting the house there, he can just return it and rent it out again.
But after much deliberation, he still called Fangyuan because he was worried that there were other problems.
"I don't know what's going on. Shouldn't I call you and let's go take a look together?"
"Okay, I understand, I'll go there now."
"Okay, I'll come over too, and we'll meet at the bridge." Lao Cao said.
"good."
After hanging up the phone, Fangyuan frowned, then took the car keys and went out.
Fangyuan lives very close to Houhai, and it only takes a few minutes to reach Houhai.
Arriving at Qiaotou, Fangyuan stopped the car and waited in the car because Lao Cao hadn't arrived yet.
However, Lao Cao didn't let Fangyuan wait for long. In just ten minutes, Lao Cao also arrived.
Lao Cao parked his car behind the Fangyuan car and got out of the car.
Fangyuan could see it clearly in the rearview mirror and opened the door and got out of the car.
"Fangyuan."
"Yeah!" Fang Yuan nodded and asked, "That room?"
"That's it." Lao Cao said, pointing to a restaurant next to the bridge.
"This one!" Fangyuan was surprised, because this location can be said to be one of the best locations among the houses in Fangyuan.
How could it be possible to cancel the lease of such a location? If Fangyuan found such a location to do business, there would be no reason why he would not cancel the lease.
This location alone is worth tens of thousands of dollars a year. This means subletting it to others. Even if you don't want to do it, you can still get a lot of benefits by subletting it to others.
"Old Cao, are you sure this is here?" Fang Yuan looked at Old Cao and asked.
"Sure, this is it."
"Okay then!" Fangyuan glanced at his watch and said, "It's still early, the shops haven't opened yet, so just wait!"
"Um!"
The two of them got in the car and prepared to wait in the car. It was so cold outside, so it was better to be in the car.
After waiting for almost an hour, many shops were open, but there was still no movement in this shop.
Fangyuan glanced at his watch, turned to Lao Cao and said, "It's almost ten o'clock now, even restaurants should be open!"
"Yes! What is going on?" Lao Cao also asked doubtfully.
At this time, a middle-aged man walked up to the bridge and looked around.
"Here we come." After speaking, Lao Cao opened the car door and got out.
Fangyuan also quickly followed down.
"Boss Cao." The middle-aged man looking around saw Lao Cao getting out of a car and ran over to say hello.
"Boss Du, what's going on?" Lao Cao asked.
The middle-aged man whom Lao Cao called Boss Du quickly looked around and said, "This is not the place to talk. Let's find a place to talk!"
"Then get in the car!" Lao Cao pointed to the jeep driven by Fangyuan.
"This..." Boss Du looked around again, feeling a little embarrassed.
Seeing this situation, Fangyuan said: "Let's go, let's find a place to talk!"
Lao Cao probably also saw that Boss Du had something to hide, so he nodded and said, "Okay then!"
Boss Du got into Lao Cao's car, and then the two cars left Houhai.
Lao Cao was now very familiar with the city and quickly found a teahouse. Of course, this teahouse was not in Houhai.
After ordering a pot of tea, the three of them entered a private room.
The waiter soon brought the tea in. Lao Cao quickly poured out three cups of tea, first handed one cup to Boss Du, and then handed another cup to Fangyuan.
Then he looked at Boss Du and said, "Can you tell me what's going on now?"
"Boss Cao, I can't continue my business." Boss Du said with a wry smile.
"Uh! Why? Your position is so good, why can't you do it?" Lao Cao looked at Boss Du and asked.
"Alas!" Boss Du sighed and said, "It's just because the location is so good that I can't do it."
Hearing what Boss Du said, Lao Cao glanced at Fangyuan, and Fangyuan happened to also go to see Lao Cao.
This is the first time I have heard that it is impossible to do business because of the good location. Not only Lao Cao, but also Fangyuan, a person from later generations, has heard of such a thing for the first time.
Who doesn’t want to find a good location for doing business? And the rent is not much more expensive than other places.
If you say it's because the place is good but the price is too high, you can't make that much money at all, it's okay to say that such a thing doesn't exist at all.
Others don't know it, but Fangyuan and Lao Cao know very well that in this position, as long as the food is passable and not particularly unpalatable, it is easy to make three to five thousand yuan a month by removing the mess.
"Boss Du, do you think your logic makes sense? You must know that when I rented the house to you, the price was not high."
"Uh!" Boss Du was stunned for a moment, and immediately knew that Lao Cao had misunderstood, and said quickly: "Boss Cao, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I can't make money, or that the business is not good, but that someone won't let me do it.
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"I won't let you do it! What's going on?" Lao Cao asked in surprise.
"It's like this. I've been doing well here. I've made some money since I opened the business. But since half a month ago, people have been coming to the store to cause trouble."
"I'm going to cause trouble in your store! Isn't it because others are jealous of your great business?"
Hearing what Lao Cao said, Boss Du smiled bitterly and said, "I thought so too at first. I thought someone was seeing my business going well, so they came to cause trouble, but that's not what happened."
"Oh! What's going on?"
"Someone gave me a message a few days ago, saying that someone has taken a liking to this place."
"You've fallen in love with this place? What do you mean?" Fang Yuan frowned and asked.
"Someone wants to use this place, so I asked me to give it up." At this point, Boss Du looked at Lao Cao sheepishly and said, "I'm really sorry, Boss Cao, at first I thought it was you...
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"It's okay, just keep talking."
"Later I found out that someone wanted to buy this place from me, and I realized that it couldn't be you, because I rented this house from you."
"Want to buy the house here from you? You rent it, how do you sell it?"
"I said the same thing, saying that this is not my house and that I rent it. If not, someone would ask me to move out."
"Fang Yuan, it seems that this matter is not simple?" Lao Cao turned to Yuan Yuan and said.
"Yeah!" Fangyuan nodded, then looked at Boss Du and said, "Well, you can close the house first! Just say that you have returned the house. As for the rent during the closing period, I will waive it for you."
"Ah! This..." Boss Du turned his head and looked at Lao Cao.
Lao Cao spread his hands and said, "You don't have to look at me. Although I rented the house to you, it belongs to him and he can make the final decision."
"Ah! That's it! Let me think about it."
"Don't worry! I will definitely solve the problem for you, otherwise your losses will be too great."
The loss that Fangyuan is talking about is of course decoration. You must know that when opening a hotel, the decoration cost is often higher than the rent, especially for such a slightly higher-end hotel.
"Are you telling the truth?" Boss Du asked with his eyes shining.
To be honest, he didn't want to move, even if it was closed for a few months. It would be difficult to find such a good place after moving here.
And just like Fangyuan said, if he moves out, he will suffer a huge loss. Not to mention whether Fangyuan will refund the remaining rent to him, even if he does, the renovation losses will be huge.
"Of course it's true, you don't need to doubt this." Fangyuan said firmly.
"Boss Du, you may not know, but let me tell you this! More than 90% of the houses on both sides of the river belong to Boss Fang. Do you think he will make fun of you?"
"No way!" Boss Du looked at Fang Yuan in surprise.
"It's absolutely true. I don't think I need to lie to you." Lao Cao said to Boss Du again.
"Okay, I believe you, then I will close the door and wait until you solve the problem before I open it again."
"Yeah!" Fang Yuan nodded, then looked at Boss Du and asked, "Have you met him?"
Boss Du quickly shook his head and said, "No, someone always delivers the message to me every time."
"Okay, I get it." After Fangyuan finished speaking, he turned to Lao Cao and said, "Go back and put a rental house on the door, and leave your phone number."
"Yeah! I'll get it done in a minute."
The reason why Fangyuan still left Lao Cao's phone number was because he was rarely at home. If he left his home phone number, he might not be able to receive it.
Lao Cao is different. Even if he is not at home, his wife is at home. He will wait for Lao Cao to receive the call and then call Fangyuan while he is at home.
"Okay, that's it. I want to see who brings the trouble to me." Fang Yuan said with the corner of his mouth raised.
Boss Du was not familiar with Yuan Yuan, so he didn’t think much about it, but Lao Cao was different!
Lao Cao was so familiar with Fangyuan that he shuddered when he saw Fangyuan raise the corners of his mouth.
In fact, not only Lao Cao, but also people who are familiar with Fang Yuan, when they see him like this, they are probably no better than Lao Cao.
The three of them chatted for a while and drank a pot of tea before leaving.
Fangyuan didn't have time to get the information about the house rental, so he had to leave it to Lao Cao, and he was a little intentional.
He just deliberately lets others not know that this house belongs to him.
Fangyuan is such a person. I will not offend others unless they offend me. If someone offends me, I will offend them.
After leaving the teahouse, in the next few days, Fangyuan found a decoration team, which was a private decoration team.
Similarly, it is also a decoration company established to enjoy the benefits brought by reform and opening up. Of course, it is still a decoration team for the time being.
The main reason why Fangyuan found this decoration team was that there were many people in this decoration team. There was no other way because they had too many houses.
Although it is said that no major installation is required, it will take a long time just to scrape the roof and install the doors and windows.
With so many houses, if there were few people, it would probably be impossible to finish them in a year. This is why Fangyuan found this house.
Of course, he could also find more decoration teams, but that would be too troublesome, and Fangyuan is a person who doesn't like trouble.
After paying a deposit of 50,000 yuan, Fangyuan signed the contract. It is probably the first time that the decoration team has seen such a large amount of money!
The place has been inspected, the deposit has been paid, and all work and materials are contracted. It can be said that Fangyuan does not need to worry at all.
He only needs to accept it after the decoration is completed.
In the past few days, Fangyuan called Lao Cao every night to ask if anyone was looking for him.
I don't know what happened, but those people seemed to disappear suddenly.
I used to go to Boss Du every day to trouble him, but now that Boss Du is closed, there is no movement from him.
This made Fangyuan feel very abnormal. Of course, this abnormality was not about this incident, but about those people.
But Fangyuan is not in a hurry. When it's time to jump out, the other party will definitely jump out, and he will only lose a little bit of rent.
Fangyuan doesn't care about the rent at all.
But one thing is that Fangyuan hopes that the other party will jump out quickly, because he wants to solve the problem quickly and then devote all his energy to Yabao Road.
Albemarle Road is the top priority. It can be said that for now, nothing is more important than Albemarle Road.
But if the other party doesn't show up, Fangyuan can't do anything about it! He can't let others investigate! I guess that would be more troublesome than the other party jumping out on his own.
The Chinese New Year is relatively late this year. It’s almost mid-February when the Chinese New Year is over, so spring starts relatively early this year.
No, within a few days after the decoration contract was signed, the decoration team moved in and started decorating.
Although the weather is still a bit cold, the decoration team will first decorate the interior of the house, which means scraping the big white. This does not have too many requirements on the weather.
Another week passed in the blink of an eye. Fangyuan had just arrived home that evening. Before he could sit down and take a rest, the phone rang.
Fangyuan quickly picked up the phone.
"Hey! I'm Fangyuan."
"Fang Yuan, I am Lao Cao, someone called me."
"Oh! When?" Fangyuan asked
"I called this afternoon."
Fangyuan frowned and asked, "How do you say that?"
"The other party wants to meet and talk about the house. Do you think I should go and meet first, or..."
"No, I'd better go with you!"
Fangyuan didn't trust Lao Cao to go alone. Judging from the other party's style of doing things, it was not a good thing. How could Fangyuan let Lao Cao take risks alone.
"Okay then! I will go to your house to find you tomorrow morning, and then we will go there together."...
