Chapter 73 Save as much as you can
Coming to the door of the villa marked with the house number "24B" on Oak Avenue, Su Mu saw the red Ferrari 512BBi supercar with a familiar license plate again, and it was parked on the side of the road, looking cool.
It can only be said that it is too coincidental, probably because the surrounding population is too small, the housing prices near Stanford University are relatively high, and in most places in Silicon Valley, the land is still the price of cabbage, the kind that opens a company and gives away land, in recent years, it has been crazy to attract high-tech companies to settle in, and even exempt some corporate taxes and give subsidies.
It is a two-storey villa, white with red, with a large green grass at the door, a flower bed by the window, an unknown purple flower growing in it, and a chimney standing tall.
When he was very young, Su Mu dreamed of living in such a house, clean, beautiful and spacious, there were too many people in Chinatown, noisy and dirty, his house was usually clean, but it was only clean, not beautiful.
The rent of $600 a month is very high for him, usually only about $150 per month, and counting the money for food, renting a small room in Chinatown, $100 rent is enough, and there are even lower prices.
In recent years, it has been stimulated by the rising rich, and countless people have rushed to the Silicon Valley area to dig gold, and the number of houses is not enough, resulting in a sharp increase in housing prices and rents, especially the housing prices near Stanford University, which are ridiculously high.
$600 a month, based on the calculation of four people sharing a house, the rent for a month is about $2,400, which is about the same price as the real estate agency seeing, which is quite reasonable.
Su Mu hadn't seen the room yet, and he didn't feel very comfortable thinking that his parents only planned to give him $400 a month for living expenses, and if he lived here, he would have to pay a part of it upside down.
If it was before this summer vacation, it would definitely not be so extravagant, but now that there is money in the bank card and thousands of dollars in cash on him, in the foreseeable future, the Qugou supermarket can also bring some profits to Sumu.
He decided to look at the room first, and then decide whether he could live or not, and in the morning at the school gate, he also got a windfall from the hands of a loser surnamed Wang, and he began to have money in his pocket, so he didn't have to panic as before......
"Every month we will hire a housekeeper to help clean the room twice, once at the beginning of the month, once in the middle of the month, just cleaned two days ago, it is very comfortable to live, you and my cousin are in the same school, right? It's not far from your school, a friend and I will stay here for a while, we should live for a while, we have found a job, it's not far from here, we don't want to move out when we get used to it, so we will stay here." ”
James said that his hair was the same as Daniel's, all blonde, his eyes were blue and beautiful, and his personality looked quite good, pushing open the door and introducing Su Mu.
After looking at the interior decoration, it is very luxurious in Su Mu's opinion, more beautiful than Du Zhong's house, the living room is on the left side of the door, near the fireplace, and there is a large TV, and the beer cans on the table have not been cleaned up.
People who can afford to buy such a house generally do not lack money for decoration, with wooden floors on the floor, wooden handrails on the stairs, sunset shining through windows, and air conditioners hanging on the walls.
On the way, James had already helped to introduce that the water and electricity bills needed to be paid equally, and this part didn't cost much, Su Mu nodded and told him: "The house is very beautiful, I can also help with cleaning, where is the room that can be rented to me?"
"Second floor, I'll take you to see it now. ”
James smiled: "If you help us clean, we can pay a hundred dollars less in rent, and we have to pay housekeeping anyway, and once a month is a bit long, mainly to help take out the garbage and so on." Dirty laundry can be taken to a nearby dry cleaner, and the Mexican housekeeper we hired is a bit lazy and not worth the $300 a month. ”
Su Mu must also bear part of the cost of three hundred dollars, dozens of dollars, plus the monthly rent, which means that he can save one hundred and seventy-five dollars, he nodded decisively: "Then let me clean up, I like to do housework, but your room is tidied up by yourself, I mean if you don't want me to enter your room." ”
Typical poor people's way of thinking, if you can save money, you would rather have more physical strength, the Su family has been poor for too long, almost since Su Mu was born, until Su Mu won the lottery, his consumption concept is difficult to change in the short term, six hundred dollars feel expensive, five hundred dollars is a lot more comfortable, and he has already expressed his desire to share a house with them.
"I don't care, George should too. James pointed to the young man who was going downstairs and said, sure enough, it was the one Su Mu had seen who seemed to have found a job at IBM.
When the other party saw Su Mu, he was stunned and asked, "We met in the bus in the morning, right, you sat in the front row of us?" I'm George, I just heard that someone is coming to rent a house, but I didn't expect you to be so young." ”
"I've probably seen you, but I'm familiar with you. Su Mu said ambiguously, he had not directly identified himself to James before, and now it was not easy to tell George directly that he knew them, and introduced himself: "Leon Sue, you can call me Leon or Sue, you can ...... it."
Most college students in the United States are adults, their parents pay for their tuition, and students with good grades apply for their own scholarships, and their living expenses are generally earned by themselves.
This is an unwritten unspoken rule, mainly to exercise the ability to live independently, and it has little to do with the family's money.
When a child reaches adulthood, most parents will use a car as a gift to congratulate them on their adulthood, and as for what kind of life they will have in the future, it is the children's own business.
So from James, he heard that he could save the cost of hiring a housekeeper to clean the house every month, and George was very happy, and welcomed Su Mu to help them clean the house, and said that they would help together.
After going upstairs, Su Mu saw the room that was ready to be rented, most of the things were packed away, leaving only some dirty clothes, the sheets were a little dirty, they must be changed, from the window you could see the plane tree and the road, desks, beds, wardrobes, etc., desk lamps and electric fans were also there, and there were also a bunch of computer-related books, the Stanford University students who used to live here should be in the same department as George and James.
The area is quite large, about twenty square meters, with a separate bathroom, the kind that can take a bath, the ground is a wooden floor, I don't know how many times better than Su Mu's own room.
James looked at the room, scratched his head and said, "It's a mess, isn't it, just clean it up, and he doesn't need anything." If you have the ability to sell them, you should be able to make about $300, but the price of a second-hand bookstore is not high, and that guy has money, so he doesn't want to bother. ”
After reading these textbooks, Su Mu felt that he could read them first and then sell them, and said: "I rented this room, how about I invite you to eat after selling it......?"