novellhall Chapter 64 Park Rentals
Chapter 64 Park Rentals
With Fan Bingbing's help, Xu Jingxing's studio has successfully gained another powerful member.
Now things are much better. Gu Ling and Yang Siwei's combined salary is 3500 yuan plus 3500 yuan.
Every day I wake up to find I owe 233.333... yuan in wages.
In my previous life, I worked in a mine office until I was forty, and my take-home pay was only 4500.
What a lonely life.
After leaving the fast food restaurant, Yang Siwei made an appointment to start work next Monday. Then she continued to recruit people, saying that she wanted to stand firm in her last post.
Xu Jingxing expressed his approval of this dedication.
Following Yang Siwei's suggestion, the office building in the 798 Art District was a separate building located further inside. An office was specially set up for investment promotion. Following the signs downstairs, Xu Jingxing knocked on the door of the investment promotion office on the second floor.
After knocking on the door for a while without hearing any response, Xu Jingxing thought no one was inside. Just as he was about to go ask someone, the office door was opened.
A middle-aged man, still yawning, pushed open the door, looked Xu Jingxing up and down, and seeing that he still looked like a student, his face immediately fell, showing his displeasure at being disturbed from his sweet dream.
"You've come to the wrong place. Go submit your resume next door," the middle-aged man said irritably.
To facilitate the management of tenants, Seven Star Group has specially hired some people with property management expertise to maintain these businesses.
Initially, the plan was to have some factory workers and external hires participate in management. However, after a period of implementation, it was found that key positions were occupied by some incompetent internal personnel. Externally hired professionals had limited management authority and no room for promotion. In less than two years, most of them left.
Actually, if these internal people can be managed well, there isn't much of a problem.
After learning relevant management experience from external hires, they might then do things like discarding someone after they've served their purpose. This might not earn them a good reputation, but the power will still be firmly in the hands of their own people.
But when these "insiders" actually got down to business, it was a complete case of outsiders managing insiders. The park management was in complete chaos, merchants were full of complaints, and even the rent accounts started to have discrepancies between the two sets of books.
After the police took some people away, the management learned from their mistakes and implemented a sweeping change, kicking out all the insiders and hiring professionals to manage the park. It was only last year that the park gradually returned to normal.
Recently, the property management office in the park held a job fair as graduation season approached.
When the people in the investment promotion office saw Xu Jingxing, they thought he was a college student applying for a job.
Although the management of the park has been outsourced, the right to attract investment is still held by Qixing Group.
"I'm here to rent a house."
Seeing that the middle-aged man was about to close the door, Xu Jingxing explained.
Upon hearing that Xu Jingxing had come to rent a room, the man immediately changed his expression, put on a smile, and hurriedly invited Xu Jingxing into the house.
After pouring a glass of water, the middle-aged man took out his business card from the table and handed it to Xu Jingxing.
"Hello, boss, my name is Liu Hui. I'm mainly in charge of investment promotion in our park. Could you tell me what projects we're planning to undertake? That way, I can recommend some suitable locations for you."
As he spoke, Liu Hui looked Xu Jingxing up and down again.
In their line of work, knowing how to treat people differently is a fundamental skill.
Xu Jingxing was wearing a black Versace shirt that Fan Bingbing had bought for him today, with a large Medusa logo embroidered on the chest in the form of sequins.
Although Liu Hui didn't understand these brands, he knew that the boss's son often wore clothes with this pattern, and he heard that a single shirt from him cost almost as much as two months of his salary.
Therefore, Liu Hui immediately defined Xu Jingxing's character.
He must be some rich kid who started his own business right after graduating from university.
The businesses involved are nothing more than a few types: bars, coffee shops, and recently, there's been a trend of things like quiet bars, dance bars, and so on.
With a casual move, some people can rent anywhere from 500 square meters to as much as 2000 square meters at once.
In short, none of them lasted more than six months before their fathers dragged them home by the ears.
Most people didn't even want the remaining rent money; once Liu Hui tidied up and sublet the place, the money went right back into their own pockets.
Thinking of this, Liu Hui looked at Xu Jingxing as if he were staring at a piece of moving gold, just short of taking a bite to test its quality.
"I'm planning to open a personal studio," Xu Jingxing said slowly.
"A personal studio?"
Upon hearing this, Liu Hui was taken aback, clearly this was not what he had imagined, but he quickly recovered, "Is it an art gallery or photography?"
Whether it's a gallery or a photography studio, the space required is definitely not small. Although the vacancy rate is not high, the commission alone can make a fortune.
"Neither," Xu Jingxing shook his head. "It's just a studio for artistic creation or something."
"Approximately how large an area are you looking to rent?"
Liu Hui looked utterly disappointed.
Generally, people who want to rent this type of property don't need a very large area, and many people end up not even being able to pay their property management fees.
Those who are involved in the arts either make a lot of money or they lose everything, and some even have to put money out of their pockets.
"Less than 100 square meters, around 70 or 80 square meters would be best," Xu Jingxing replied.
"This..." Liu Hui looked constipated. "I'm sorry, but we're no longer renting out spaces under 500 square meters to individuals in the park."
"You won't rent anything smaller than 500 square meters?"
"Yes, for easier management, we don't rent it out anymore."
"But when I came here, I saw a lot of small rooms with signs saying 'For Rent' or something."
"Those are the houses you mentioned that we rented out to others, and they then partitioned them off themselves."
Liu Hui silently put away the teacup in front of Xu Jingxing, his meaning all too clear: he was telling Xu Jingxing to leave.
"So you're a sub-landlord, right?" Xu Jingxing said. "Wouldn't that be incredibly chaotic?"
"Once we rent it out, we can't control how they operate it."
Liu Hui looked at the property management office next door with a displeased expression. "We don't have management rights either. We're only responsible for renting it out. It's definitely easier for us to manage tenants with large areas like this."
Liu Hui smiled. "Collecting rent from ten people is much easier than collecting rent from a hundred, isn't it?"
He stood up and continued, "Why don't you go out and look around some more? There are phone numbers on the listings of any houses for rent that you can contact."
When Xu Jingxing arrived, he noticed the rental listings and called to inquire. Although they offered various sizes of space, the prices were significantly higher than direct rentals.
He calculated that a 100-square-meter apartment would cost at least 5,000 yuan more if rented from a sub-landlord.
This deal isn't very worthwhile.
Seeing that Liu Hui was quite resolute and there was no room for negotiation, Xu Jingxing had no choice but to take his leave and leave the office building.
After wandering around outside and asking some sub-landlords, each one acted as if they had never seen money before, and the fees they asked for were all exorbitant. After going around in circles, Xu Jingxing returned to the Qixingji office building.
However, this time Xu Jingxing had already prepared a red envelope.
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