Chapter 491: Cedar

Speaking of Atletico Madrid, they came to Canada to escape the summer is actually just an incidental purpose, and the real reason is to examine their overseas industries. Although it is possible to manage these overseas assets well in China with the help of a convenient network, it is also necessary to come out and visit once in a while.

For the purpose of reinvestment and risk diversification, as well as the kind of land complex in the bones of the Chinese people, there are more and more land and real estate in the name of the boss Ma who is not bad for money in his pocket. There are still restrictions on the right to use and land requisition in China, and his behavior is very restrained and cautious, but there are no such problems abroad, and 10,000 acres of land like Cedar Farm are bought piece by piece, anyway, the money lying in the bank is just a number, far from becoming a real land forest and farmland.

Of course, compared to the identity of "landlord", Atletico Madrid is actually more like a "landlord".

Their clickhome company (clickhome) is mainly engaged in chain rental housing business, owning hundreds of large and small properties in more than 30 cities around the world, providing users with one-stop online rental services that are "more free than hotels and more trouble-free than offline".

In fact, the first customers of CH are all employees of Bee and Jiajing who go abroad under the two groups, and out of the mentality that fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, Atletico Madrid took out several farms in Oceania as a rest place for Bee and Jiajing staff to go abroad for errands and vacations, and with more and more properties under the name of Atletico Madrid, the company's business has gradually expanded.

And not only have the houses bought by Atletico Madrid and his family joined the management list, but other shareholders and executives of the company and the rich people in their circle of friends have also taken out a lot of real estate to CH for operation, which is equivalent to turning the company into a "real estate bank".

However, since the rapid development of Airbnb in recent years, the development speed of the CH company is much slower, the former has been established for only 6 years and now has tens of millions of users and more than 500,000 houses, just like its nickname "eBay in the housing market", the former is actually a C2C e-commerce platform that allows landlords and tenants to make transactions on the Internet, and CH is more like a B2C e-commerce company, which is the kind of single e-commerce that all goods are self-operated.

Although this practice severely limits the scale of CH's business expansion, it also avoids many of the troubles encountered by the former in its operation, such as the expansion of propaganda photo parties and neighborhood conflicts, and the housing provided by CH is obviously much more high-end. It seems that the Chinese people do not have the resentment of the ownership of the land in the real estate certificate, including Boss Ma, everyone gives priority to those properties with complete land when buying properties overseas, including many villas and apartments to buy the whole house, which naturally facilitates the company's operation and management.

Fortunately, there are not many people in this group who are as interested in country villas as Atletico Madrid, and the real estate they choose is basically in popular cities, otherwise if they are handed over to the CH company, they are all country villas and even historical castles like cedar villas.

However, this is not going to happen, after all, no one is stupid, everyone knows that in terms of the potential for value-added alone, there is no way to compare a country house with those properties around the big city, unless the villa has some historical and cultural plus, or the property around the city has a deduction like the bankrupt city of Detroit.

And even in the Detroit area, where house prices plummeted and even sold for $1 were mostly in some urban areas with a high proportion of blacks, the prices of the surrounding satellite cities did not have much of an impact because of the Detroit bankruptcy.

In fact, it is a satellite city, these surrounding cities have no affiliation with Detroit, they either belong to Wayne County, Michigan (Waynecountry), or belong to the neighboring Oakland County (Oaklandcountry), when Detroit City because of the rich and middle-class moving to flee and the tax base shrinks, and even unable to operate street lights and other public facilities, the surrounding cities instead because of the population transfer and eat a lot of money, ushered in the number of population and average income of both growth, housing prices of course。

According to some conspiracy theories, Detroit's bankruptcy is actually the dumping of the blame by the white rich.

As a motor city, the automobile industry deserves to be the largest economic pillar of Detroit, and after the rise of Japanese cars and European cars in the 80s, the American muscle cars emphasizing horsepower have also entered a dead end, and the crumbling automobile industry has naturally shaken the financial situation of the city of Detroit.

As for Detroit's $18 billion debt at its peak, after declaring bankruptcy, it will naturally get preferential treatment for reduction, after all, the debt is mainly not promised to let people die to show you, and then it will really be a chicken and an egg. And then those who need a pension from the city, those who have already bought the relevant bonds, are all in the cup.

In the same way, there are also domestic investors who rush to buy "shoe houses" and "one-yuan houses".

The reason why these houses are sold so cheaply is entirely because of the real estate tax system in the United States, where the house has to pay taxes and taxes in hand, and the object of taxation is the assessed housing price, which is linked to the surrounding housing prices, which on the one hand increases the maintenance cost of nail households, and on the other hand, it also allows local governments to benefit from the rise in urban development housing prices.

However, when the city goes downhill, the property tax will also play a role in pushing again, as long as you hold the house, you have to pay taxes, in order to reduce the cost of living, you naturally have to sell the house at a low price, and then roll to other cities for development.

This is also the reason why Atletico Madrid does not look down on the "shoe house" in Detroit, first, it is difficult to buy and rent out the original 1.8 million people in the city with only 700,000 people, and there are too many empty houses; PF is the common name of three famous woods in North America, SP milk ce spruce, Pine black pine and FIR fir have very large reserves in North America, especially Canada, wood components and plywood made of these three kinds of wood are large and cheap, and naturally become the first choice for North American people to build houses.

Interestingly, the main tree species in Atletico Madrid's cedar farm is also SPF, but there is only one cedar.

Cedar, a world-renowned and domestically common evergreen ornamental tree, is native to central and western Asia, and is home to the warm temperate zone from the Himalayas to the Mediterranean. The reason why this forest farm is named a cedar farm is completely a bad taste of the two of them.

At first, Tang Jiayi looked at the wrong picture, and subconsciously shouted, "Isn't this Cedar?" and was heard by Atletico Madrid, so he arranged a prank. Later, when Mrs. Ma arrived here, she learned that there was only one cedar tree on the entire farm of more than 10,000 acres, and the only cedar was the result of a guy surnamed Ma specially looking for someone to plant it, and he specially asked people to make a small garden near the entrance of the farm like in China, and planted a real cedar in it.

Atletico Madrid didn't do this to comfort homesickness, and a single cedar tree alone is not enough to create an atmosphere similar to that of a domestic campus. Tang Jiayi thought that this was actually a silent mockery, and in response to this, she used the hostess right to change the name of the place to "Cedar Farm", and the corresponding villa became Cedar Villa.

In fact, from an investment point of view, it is not a good deal for Atletico to buy a cedar villa, after all, the same amount of money is used to buy an urban apartment building or a single-family house, which can be easily rented out to obtain rental income, and can also obtain value-added income from the development of the city's economy, while the cedar villa in the wilderness does not have these two benefits.

And by October at the latest, the family of six will return to China with their entourage, and then the place will quickly desert, and they will have to find someone to help take care of the house, avoid theft, animal damage, and prevent water pipes from freezing and bursting in winter.

However, for Atletico Madrid, owning a big house that looks beautiful is more to match his current identity, after all, it is also a money-burning goods, and the Cedar Villa is more comfortable to live in than those castles!

Living in an ancient building that is hundreds or thousands of years old may sound like a compulsory thing, but the reality is quite the opposite.

There are many reasons for a poor living experience, starting with design. After all, buildings of different eras have different functional tendencies, and the design of ancient buildings is naturally incompatible with modernity and humanity. For example, the tall towers with conspicuous spires around the castles in Europe were naturally not designed to house the boudoirs of princesses and nobles in case they encountered a master of window climbers like Romeo, but to place archers as a defensive fulcrum.

Although castles built after the Artillery Age, such as Neuschwanstein Castle, no longer deliberately emphasize the attribute of a war fortress, but emphasize more ornate and romantic, as a building one or two hundred years ago, its design ideas are inevitably limited by the times, and it will certainly not be very comfortable to live in.

In addition, what is even more embarrassing is that these ancient castles are now cultural relics of various countries, although there is no prohibition on buying and selling, but on the one hand, most of the owners regard them as pearls in their palms and will not sell them easily, and secondly, the increasingly stringent cultural protection regulations have made very troublesome restrictions on the transaction and renovation of such houses, and it is a fantasy to want to live comfortably in them.

Although owning the "ancestral castle" is a very compelling and face-saving thing, but Atletico Madrid's own family knows their own affairs, and their Ma family's genealogy is completely compiled by experts, and there have never been any cattle and nobles in their ancestors, so they are also not interested in the so-called aristocratic style. Instead of buying an old castle and sitting there, it is better to design a new "ancient castle" from scratch.

And he was most fortunate that the builder of this cedar villa, who had seen it as a hero, did the most complicated work of building the house for him.

Although this cedar villa adopts the Victorian style as a whole, the details of the design are not deliberately retro, but the gorgeous and complex Victorian style has been cleverly cut to make it better integrated with modern facilities such as various modern appliances.

That guy is obviously also a wonderful person, in the mountains and forests, he still remembers the convenience of modern technology.

However, in this way, the cost of the whole project and the maintenance cost have become quite touching, but fortunately, the excess cost was carried by the previous owner, and Atletico only need to bear the somewhat high maintenance costs of the villa. The forest road leading to the villa is also the lifeline of the entire cedar forest farm, and the artery for transportation and electricity is connected to the outside world, and even if the farm relies on the direct drinking water system built by the nearby river, its pumping station and purification system also need electricity.

After spending tens of millions of dollars to buy this forest villa, Atletico spent another sum of money to build a backup power system with batteries and generators, and he also greatly upgraded the communication system and security system.

When these raccoons approached the courtyard wall of the villa, they were actually discovered by the security system long ago, but for some reasons, they were not immediately driven away or even attacked. This is the scene where four raccoons climbed into the yard as if they had entered a no-man's land, and went straight to the pond with the smell of fish in the air, causing a lot of harm.

As for the reason for doing this, it is to pull the relationship.

Fighting wits and courage with the animals that "invaded" the house is the daily life of a considerable number of European and American people, and Superma was immediately "warmly welcomed" by the raccoons as soon as he came to North America, and immediately pulled into the relationship between him and the North American people.

However, these two have no idea of immigrating, let alone going abroad to participate in politics, so they are naturally insensitive to these movements.

However, Tang Jiayi found him a better way to exercise.

"Boom!" As Tang Jiayi pulled the rope, the hanging plastic bucket immediately flipped over, dumping a large ball of white ice water on the head of Ma Jing, who was walking below, and some of the water balls bounced off the shoulders of the latter's head, crossed a parabola and fell to the ground, and then bounced up again, obviously not ordinary water droplets.

This can also be seen from the shivering movements of Atletico Madrid's spirit, which fell down with a mixture of ice and water, and the ice cubes in it had to bounce off the ground several times before they were gone.

Tang Jiayi went to watch the video playback first, and then nodded with satisfaction, "Ma Cheap, your performance is really perfect!"

"You are Hongguoguo's revenge, you wait!"

"Ah, wait, there seems to be some problems with the video angle, why don't we do it again http://m.piaotian.net?"