Chapter 111: Negotiation
When he woke up the next day, he found that Su Yi had already left. Although my heart was full of loss, I felt more sorry for her. I didn't take two days off when I was distressed, and I had to go back to work......
When Su Yi was leaving, he also left this paragraph in the memo on my mobile phone: Xiuwen, because I have to catch a plane, I will leave first, you can sleep well. But you have to remember for me, in these days when I am on a business trip, you are not allowed to go out and hook up with girls, if I know, you are good-looking...... Also, take care!
Seeing this passage left by Su Yi for me, I felt inexplicably funny, because the word hookup came out of her mouth, and I always sounded a little awkward, because it was too unsuitable for Su Yi.
I looked at the time, it was past ten o'clock in the morning, and I didn't know if she had boarded the plane. I quickly dialed Su Yi's phone, but there was a call reminder function on the other end of the phone...... I think she must have boarded the plane by this time.
Later, I sent her another text message: "It's time to Singapore, remember to message me back and report that you're safe." ”
After sending a message to Su Yi, I didn't feel sleepy, and the first thing I did after getting up and washing up was to contact the property management company on the other side of the commercial street, and wanted to discuss with them about the rent of commercial leasing and subleasing stores.
The person who answered my phone was a male manager surnamed Qin, and listening to his tone, he should be about 50 years old.
After hearing that Manager Qin wanted to rent a shop on the side of the commercial street, his tone was a little excited. I'll just take advantage of the situation and ask him to meet on the other side of the mall later.
After packing up, I wanted to rush to the commercial street as soon as possible. As soon as I got out of the door, I found Mo Zhenzhen walking towards me.
When she found me, she always looked at me with a look that I couldn't guess and didn't say anything.
"Are you in such a hurry, are you going?" After being silent for a while, Mo Zhenzhen broke this dilemma.
"I made an appointment to talk about something. ”
Saying that, I didn't want to pay too much attention to her, so I opened the car door. Because I don't know why she's always running to me lately.
"What are you talking about?"
I just wanted to close the door, but I saw Mo Zhenzhen walking quickly towards me.
"It's nothing, it's not important anyway!" I said, still aloof.
"Oh......" Mo Zhenzhen was stunned for a while.
"If you're okay, I'll go first. I pulled up my seatbelt and she stepped forward to block the door.
"What's wrong, what's wrong?"
"Anyway, I'm idle, I'm idle, why don't you take me with you!" Mo Zhenzhen looked at me with pleading eyes.
Looking at her big watery eyes, I remembered what happened to her this year, in fact, she was not better off than me.
got married, didn't cover the quilt yet, and divorced again. I've always seen her alone these days, and she was ...... last night My heart softened, in fact, her proposal was not excessive, and it was nothing to take her with me......
"Okay. I looked at her expensive clothes again: "If you don't want my car to stain your clothes, come up." ”
Mo Zhenzhen's original smile became dim because of my words......
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When he came to the commercial street, Manager Qin was already standing next to the seafood stall in the middle of the season with an old black briefcase.
Although the man in front of him was neatly dressed, his clothes and shoes were old. If he weren't the only one here, I wouldn't have known he was a manager.
Seeing me and Mo Zhenzhen walking together, he also stretched out his hand to me with a smile on his face: "You are Mr. Zhai!"
I also stretched out my hand: "Hello, Manager Qin!"
After a casual exchange of pleasantries with him, we immediately got to the point. The three of us walked around the shopping street and listened to him tell him that there are now 10 shops to sublease and 10 more to rent. In addition, each shop is connected to the second floor.
After visiting the shops in the shopping street, I also went straight to the point and talked to the property manager about the rent here.
"Manager Qin, how to calculate the rent and lease period of these shops. "I lit a cigarette and handed him one.
Manager Qin took a puff of cigarette and exhaled slowly, he smiled: "I won't tell you anything, I usually rent these shops to others for 100,000 yuan (lease period of one year), I think you seem to rent more than one shop, so I can give you a 20% discount, I don't make your money." ”
I stood on the balcony on the second floor and was silent for a long time, and only after a cigarette was finished did I smile and said, "Manager Qin, I won't hide it from you, I am very willing to rent your shops this time." It's just that...... The rent of 80,000 a year is still too expensive. ”
"Mr. Zhai, I can also see that you are not here to make a fuss, let me show you a report. With that, the property manager pulled out a document from his old briefcase.
He flipped through the report and continued: "You see, this report is the income of these shops in the commercial street in recent years, as well as rent and property management issues. Look at this store, in the two months of July and August alone, the net income reached 150,000, not counting other months, and this ......"
Manager Qin took the document and kept explaining to me the turnover and profitability of the ten subleased shops in July and August. The net income of each seafood shop is more than 150,000 yuan.
Although it is so much in just two months of income, there are big holes in this statement. I don't mean to say that this statement is forged, in fact, what Manager Qin said is not wrong at all, the profit of every seafood shop here in the commercial street in July and August can indeed reach more than 150,000 yuan, which is beyond doubt.
The only thing that makes me wonder is why this statement only has business conditions for July and August, and not for other months, for a very simple reason.
Because July and August happen to be the summer vacation, and it is also the peak tourist season, not to mention the traffic of the commercial street, even if it is some inconspicuous shops, almost thousands of businesses can be opened every day, or even more than that.
After this peak season, the traffic here will slowly decrease, and the daily business of the shops will gradually decrease. In addition, the shops here in the shopping street are rented for at least one year, which is why so many businesses have to sublease.
The reason is also very simple, after the peak season, these shops are basically closed for business. Not only is it a waste of time for them to open a shop in the off-season, but they also invest a lot of money in decoration. Instead of losing money in an empty store, they might as well sublet it out at a low price and find another job for themselves.
This is why the commercial street is so cold now, a few years ago, there was no food street, there was only one commercial street in Moon Bay, and people were vying for the rent of hundreds of thousands a year, because there was no competition from the food street, even in the off-season, the shops here in the commercial street could maintain daily expenses.
Now that there is an extra food street, even in the peak season, not many people are willing to rent it anymore, because opening a seafood restaurant can only make money in the peak season, and as for the off-season, it can only be closed. What's more, the profit of a food street in the off-season has already caught up with the profit of the peak season of the commercial street.
Therefore, staying in the commercial street can only outweigh the gains, and now it is the best way to transform the commercial street. It's just that you can't just make seafood here, you can't just do business for tourists, and you can't just make money for tourists.
That's why I want to rent these vacant shops......
But I can't listen to the manager's fools, I have to find a way to keep the rent as low as possible.......