Chapter 1 Arriving at the City of Dawn

Arriving at the main entrance of the City of Dawn residential area, Manager Yang from the sales office was already waiting outside.

"President Pei, welcome, welcome!"

"I never expected our humble community to catch your eye! I'm truly flattered."

Faced with the enthusiastic Manager Yang, Pei Qian was too embarrassed to reveal the truth.

He was entirely here for the bizarre layout of this apartment.

Pei Qian had discovered this apartment by chance. He immediately fell in love with it after seeing the floor plan and asked Assistant Xin to contact them, confirming today as the day to view the property.

With Tengda's current reputation in Jingzhou, the sales office naturally attached great importance to it and arranged for Manager Yang to receive him.

"President Pei, shall we have some tea first, or go straight to the apartment?" Manager Yang asked.

As soon as Pei Qian got out of the car, his eyes never left the peculiar cylindrical building: "Let's see the apartment first."

Manager Yang nodded: "Okay, this way, please."

Pei Qian followed Manager Yang into the community, his eyes scanning the surrounding residential buildings.

The entire City of Dawn residential area had many residential buildings, and most of them were square and with very normal layouts, no different from other normal communities.

Only this building, this proudly cylindrical residential building, was so unconventional.

It was located in the center of the entire community, and the words "City of Dawn" were on the top of the building, which showed its lofty status in this community.

If someone who didn't know the truth came for the first time, they might really be fooled.

But Pei Qian had done enough research.

This building was one apartment per floor, with an area of ​​248 square meters, 5 bedrooms, 3 living rooms, and 4 bathrooms. There were 12 floors in total, and the floor height was higher than that of ordinary residential buildings, reaching 3.6 meters.

If you looked at it from the floor plan, it looked a lot like the circular mosaic pattern that appeared when the TV station didn't have a program.

Before, Pei Qian had checked posts online and saw many bizarre apartment layouts, such as runway layouts, sewer layouts, toilet layouts, warship layouts, and so on.

Eye-opening and breathtaking.

Pei Qian's heart was itching, and he especially wanted to buy them, but unfortunately, these posts did not mark the names of the communities where these apartments were located, making it impossible to find them.

Moreover, most of them were probably not in Jingzhou.

As a second-tier city, Jingzhou's housing prices were not high compared to the rest of the country, and developers were not very short of land, so the probability of creating such bizarre apartment layouts was not high.

Generally speaking, it was only in those super first-tier cities where every inch of land was precious, and when the space utilization rate was squeezed to the extreme during construction, would there be various bizarre apartment layouts.

However, hard work paid off. After searching repeatedly, he finally found this 360-degree lighting "Never-Setting Sun" apartment near the company.

This type of apartment seemed not to be an isolated case. Many other cities, such as the Imperial Capital and the Magic Capital, also had them, and the area ranged from over 200 square meters to over 400 square meters, with the circle getting bigger and bigger.

As for why…

Who knows?

Maybe the big boss of the developer thought that the local tyrants would like this kind of apartment…

The characteristic of this type of apartment was that it looked beautiful, but it was not practical at all.

From the perspective of scenery, it was indeed good, but imagine, if the living room, bedroom, study, etc. of a house were all irregular shapes, how painful would that be?

Such an apartment type meant that the space utilization rate would be very poor. It was said to be more than 240 square meters, but in actual use, it might not be much different from a normal apartment type of 200 square meters.

What's more, no matter how good the scenery was, you would get tired of it after watching it for three days. Most people buy houses to live comfortably and for practicality.

The original price of such an apartment was about 15,000, but because it didn't sell well, it had now dropped to 12,000, but even so, the price of an apartment was about 3 million.

For ordinary local tyrants, wouldn't it be better to spend 3 million to buy a proper large flat?

To simply summarize the current situation of this apartment, it was that local tyrants looked down on it, and literary youths couldn't afford it.

The other buildings in the entire community had already sold out, except for this building, which still had sales information hanging on the Internet.

If the price was reduced too much, the developers would be unhappy; if the price was reduced too little, the buyers would be unhappy.

So, it was stuck in an awkward position.

However, it perfectly met Pei Qian's needs.

Having unique needs and not having to compete with others was also a kind of happiness!

Manager Yang led Pei Qian to the model room on the upper floor and began to use eloquent and flowery language to boast about how awesome the view was and how grand the entire apartment layout was.

Of course, Pei Qian didn't listen to a word, because he knew very well that 90% of it was just nonsense.

Of course, he didn't need to argue with Manager Yang about this, after all, it wasn't him who was going to bargain, it was Assistant Xin.

Pei Qian strolled around a little and felt pretty good.

After all, this was an apartment of over 240 square meters, with windows all around, and it was well-decorated. No matter what, it was better than the ordinary rented house he lived in now.

The reason why this apartment didn't sell well wasn't because its quality was poor or there were inherent flaws, but mainly because of the apartment layout, which resulted in a very low cost performance.

Considering the same price range, there were too many better choices.

The more vigorously Manager Yang introduced it, the more Pei Qian became certain that this apartment seemed to be really difficult to sell.

In that case, he had to buy it!

Manager Yang and Pei Qian's needs took a turn and magically aligned again.

Half an hour later, Manager Yang, who had been talking until his mouth was dry, stopped to drink some water while observing President Pei's expression.

He couldn't see anything.

On the one hand, President Pei seemed to have completely seen through his sales tactics and knew the situation of this apartment well; on the other hand, President Pei seemed to be very interested in this apartment…

Two contradictory expressions appeared on President Pei's face at the same time, so Manager Yang didn't know what he was thinking.

Pei Qian thought for a moment and asked, "So far, how many households have moved into this twelve-story building?"

Manager Yang's heart instantly "thumped."

Bad!

President Pei asked such a sharp question right away!

In fact, this apartment had only sold three units so far, accounting for a quarter of the entire building.

Moreover, these homeowners all regretted it and wanted to sell their apartments second-hand.

What was President Pei's intention in asking this question?

Could it be that he had already seen through the current situation of this apartment, deliberately asked this question, and was hinting to me that this apartment was unpopular, so he wanted to take the opportunity to lower the price?

Manager Yang struggled a little, but he didn't dare to lie, because this kind of thing couldn't be concealed.

"President Pei, please rest assured that we have a relatively sufficient supply of apartments. You can also choose a different floor…"

Manager Yang decided to take a roundabout approach.

Pei Qian frowned: "I'm asking how many units have been sold specifically."

Manager Yang realized that he couldn't fool him, so he had to tell the truth: "Three units."

"President Pei, our apartment is originally positioned as high-end, so it's normal for ordinary people not to be able to afford it. These three homeowners are all successful people in Jingzhou. Of course, they are far from being comparable to you, but…"

Pei Qian raised his hand and interrupted Manager Yang.

"Please inform these three homeowners that I intend to buy their three units as well. I hope they can move out as soon as possible. I can help them with moving expenses."

Manager Yang: "?"

He was stunned for a moment: "Uh, President Pei, our new apartments on other floors are all for sale, you don't need to…"

"Wait, President Pei, you mean…"

Manager Yang showed an extremely shocked expression. He had correctly understood the meaning of President Pei's words, but he didn't dare to confirm it.

Pei Qian nodded: "That's right, I want this entire building!"

Manager Yang was dumbfounded, and tears flickered in his eyes.

At this moment, President Pei's figure seemed to be radiating light, making him think of a savior.

…

…

Afternoon.

Pei Qian was leisurely drinking tea in the office, and Assistant Xin returned.

It seemed that after an afternoon of negotiations and discussions, the three parties had initially reached a consensus.

"President Pei, those three families were originally very dissatisfied with this apartment layout, so they all agreed. With this money, they can change to a new apartment, and they are happy to do so."

"You said that you hoped they could move out as soon as possible, so we have uniformly arranged a moving company for these people and reimbursed them for their accommodation expenses at the hotel while they are looking for a house."

"As for the price, the average price of the apartment is 12,000, 248 square meters, 12 floors. Since we are paying in full, the purchase price has been discounted by 10%, and the change has been rounded off. The final price is 32 million."

"If you think there is no problem, then we will go with this price."

Pei Qian nodded. He always had 100% trust in Assistant Xin's bargaining ability.

Buying such a building for 32 million, the apartment type was indeed a bit poor, but it couldn't be said to be a loss.

Half of the money earned from the movie was still left, and Pei Qian didn't spend it all.

The reason was simple, he had to see if his ideas could work and whether Sloth Apartments could successfully lose money.

After confirming, he could spend the remaining money together.

In addition to this, in Pei Qian's plan, there was also a good way to burn money, which was the soft decoration of the apartment!

This building was considered a fixed asset, and after being depreciated by 10%, there was still 3.2 million, which would affect the settlement.

Pei Qian expected that the total fixed assets in his hands during this cycle would be at most 90 million. If it exceeded 100 million, it would not be so convenient to create a loss.

However, the money spent on the soft decoration of the apartment could be spent at will!

For example, some more expensive furniture, decorations, appliances, etc., these would not affect the settlement.

Of course, Pei Qian didn't dare to overdo it, such as arranging a full set of top-level luxury furniture. If he did that, this place would be too easy to become famous, and he might attract all the local tyrants in Jingzhou, which would be a big risk.

Ming Yun Private Kitchen was a lesson from the past.

Therefore, Pei Qian's goal was to spend as much money as possible on soft decoration without attracting attention, while taking the opportunity to raise prices, reaching a perfect balance.

This balance, simply put, was: the rich look down on it, and the poor can't afford it.

It was best to let Sloth Apartments be stuck in this awkward position!