The store is done, Xiao Yifei's mind to buy a house in Los Angeles is up again, and the reason for buying a house is that in addition to the convenience of his parents in the future, there is one more reason, he can't always stay in a hotel when he comes to inspect this tasting room.

So he picked up the phone:

"Hey, Concubine Yue, I'm Xiao Yifei."

"Yo, Boss Xiao, do you have something good to take care of me again? Is it a matter of looking for a store in Los Angeles, wrapped up in my sister. ”

"No, I've already found the store."

"Is that to help negotiate with the owner? No problem......"

Xiao Yifei had no choice but to interrupt her:

"No, I've already bought the house."

"Oh, that's a decoration, isn't it?"

"I was asking if you have a familiar agent in Los Angeles?"

"What do you mean, is there something wrong with my sister?"

Xiao Yifei Khan:

"No, I want to buy a house in Los Angeles, do you have a reliable agent?"

"I don't need to introduce people, I can do it."

"Aren't you in San Francisco?"

"You forgot, my sister's brokerage card is valid all over California, and all the listings are in the database. Tell us what you want first."

Xiao Yifei felt that his parents' house should wait for them to come over and look at it together, and now he wants to buy his own house. He doesn't live with his parents, so if he wants to have any ideas, he will definitely be talked about by his mother all day long.

"A house of a few million is fine, and the rest of the requirements don't matter. Of course, it's better to have a newer house, not older than me. ”

"Which area?"

"It's safer, the location is better, and the specific area doesn't matter."

"Okay, I got it. You wait for me to buy a plane ticket to ensure that you can buy a satisfactory house. ”

After saying that, he hung up the phone. Xiao Yifei shook his head, he did intend to let Concubine Yue be a broker at first, but he was worried that she was not familiar with the situation here, since she said that the listings could be found on the Internet. Let's see what house she finds first. Let's take a look around the neighborhood yourself. Since you can find a shop, you might be able to find a house as well.

Xiao Yifei drove around the flat area of Beverly Hills, looking for a house with a sign for sale. Along the way, Xiao Yifei found that this place is really good, one after another villas, there are lawns and green trees in front of the door. There is also a small garden from time to time.

At this time, a striking billboard on the side of the road caught his eye.

A beautiful woman leaning next to a Ferrari sports car, with a beautiful face, full breasts, and slender legs, the perfection of which makes even those who have always been pretentious stars pound. The advertising slogan next to it is: Ferrari makes the perfect car, we make the perfect beauty.

Guessed it, this is an advertisement for a plastic surgery hospital. Some people may not know that the best place in the world for plastic surgery is Beverly Hills.

Los Angeles is known as the plastic surgery capital of the world, and the handsome men and women here are favored by angels, and their love for beauty is especially strong. As a luxury city within a city in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills has the world's top medical aesthetic professional institutions and a professional team of beauty experts. With exquisite technology and cutting-edge equipment, we provide the highest level and safest beauty and plastic surgery services for beauty lovers around the world. The senior plastic surgery experts here are the "queen" team of the world's biggest celebrities.

One month before the Oscars every year. Celebrities are vying to quickly "retouch" their bodies and looks here to ensure that they can appear in the perfect youthful state possible. Hollywood stars spend $100 million a year on plastic surgery.

Here Schwarzenegger has had his chin trimmed, Julie has at least trimmed her lips, and Syllabyrone has been skinned to remove wrinkles. None of these superstars are immune, let alone others. Michael Jackson once said when someone talked about his nose surgery: "In Hollywood, 100% of people have had plastic surgery. ”

But if the Chinese want plastic surgery. It is better to find a Chinese doctor because of the aesthetic differences. Once the communication is not smooth, it is easy to produce a situation that is not as good as before. For example, Americans don't have single eyelids. If you have to find a foreign doctor to pull a double eyelid, the effect is even worse than a single eyelid.

Fortunately, Xiao Yifei felt that his appearance was okay, so he shouldn't have to patronize them.

The transportation from San Francisco to Los Angeles is really convenient, more than two hours later, Xiao Yifei has not visited the entire flat area of Beverly Hills, Concubine Yue arrived, Xiao Yifei drove to the Canon Garden he bought.

"Look, this is my choice, what do you think?"

Concubine Yue looked around, and then went to the dessert shop next to her to buy a dessert.

"Do you want to, I rushed over without even eating lunch."

Speechless, you said so, I'm embarrassed either.

"Yes, although the desserts in this place are expensive, they taste really good."

"Sister Yue, let me ask you how about the store I bought?"

"As you can tell from this dessert, the location is very good, you are in good luck. I picked a good store in Union Square, and I found another one here. Why don't you help me pick one, and my sister will also charter my wife at the moment. ”

Xiao Yifei was completely speechless.

"How can you tell from the dessert?"

"You see, the taste is good and the price is expensive, which doesn't mean that it is very rich, there must be many customers, and the grade must be high. If your wine is a neighbor with it, the first impression you will give to your customers is that it is tall. ”

"Sister Yue, when I was just shopping, I saw a sales sign hanging at the door of a house, I looked at it from the outside, and I thought it was okay."

"Okay, let's take a look, I also found a few sets, this set is not suitable to see what I was looking for."

Xiao Yifei drove her to No. 626 Elm Street in the flat area of Beverly Hills, which is an ordinary two-story villa, which looks very similar to the traditional German wooden frame style from the outside, that is, the beams of the house are not hidden, but also deliberately exposed, so that the exterior wall of the house is exposed wood.

The greenery in the front yard can be seen, in addition to the parking apron and driveway, that is, the lawn, there are two tall green trees on both sides, the others are a few maple trees and a few evergreens, and in particular, there is a palm tree that is much taller than the house. If the weather is better, take a picture of it, and that's the standard photo in Los Angeles: blue sky, white clouds, palm trees.

Concubine Yue brought the phone number on the sign to the other party's agent and reported her economic certificate number. Soon the other party gave her the password to get the key after verification, and Xiao Yifei entered the room.

The interior of the room is relatively ordinary, all of which are conventional, bedrooms, study rooms, gyms and so on, and it can be seen that the interior has been specially cleaned and tidied up. Xiao Yifei felt that it was acceptable. What is more distinctive is that it has a large glass-roofed terrace, where you can sit comfortably and relax without being disturbed by wind and rain.

Think about sitting here on a rainy day, holding a cup of hot coffee and watching the raindrops fall on the roof. It then flows into a stream of water, flows through the glass, and falls onto the backyard lawn. If there is a girlfriend sitting next to you, it must be very romantic for the two of them to be in a daze together.

Come to the backyard. Xiao Yifei is even more satisfied here, in addition to a 5-meter-wide and 12-meter-long swimming pool, there is also a badminton court. Of course, because of these two things, the area of the lawn has been greatly reduced, only more than 60 square meters, and it is more suitable to have an ordinary BBQ party. The green area is small. It is also suitable for lazy people like Xiao Yifei, so as not to invest too much energy in this area.

Overall, the house is pretty much the same as Danville's. Just asked about the price, it was actually 6 million, and Xiao Yifei immediately knew the difference between Beverly and Danville.

Xiao Yifei just drove the car less than 20 meters away, but he passed through an intersection, passing a total of two households, and found that 704 on the side of the road also had a sales sign.

There are more trees in the front yard of this house. The lawn area is also much larger. It is also a small two-story building, very ordinary American architectural style. The off-white roof has a red brick stacked wall appearance. A tall palm tree emerges from behind the house. It's funny to make a basketball hoop on the garage wall. The badminton court of 626, the family's basketball hoop, it seems that everyone loves sports.

Concubine Yue got the key very smoothly, the interior of the room was basically the same, and Xiao Yifei didn't find anything particularly dissatisfied. In addition to a swimming pool in the backyard, there is a lawn. Concubine Yue said that the swimming pool was very similar to enlarged broad beans, but Xiao Yifei felt that it was more like a pig's kidney.

Overall, this house is more suitable for a family of several people in the United States, with more activity space in the backyard, and a higher tree wall from the surrounding neighbors, which is more private. Standing in the backyard, from all angles, the neighbors could see that the windows in the backyard were just blocked by the trees.

It seems that the former owner may be a small actor, or he is a family* who values it very much. Xiao Yifei thought that the former head of the household did not have a particularly beautiful daughter or wife with a particularly good figure, otherwise he would not have paid so much attention*.

Next, under the command of Concubine Yue, Xiao Yifei went to Irvine, Long Beach, Soft Honey and other places where there are many Chinese, but Xiao Yifei was not very satisfied with the houses he could see, either it was too far away from the wine tasting house, or the greenery of the house was not very good, I don't know if it was Xiao Yifei's preconceived psychological factors, he still thought Beverly's two suites were good.

Xiao Yifei decided that it would be better to choose between those two sets, but he didn't know which one was better:

"Sister Yue, which of those two suites do you think is better?"

As an intermediary, Concubine Yue really can't say this, but as a friend, she can't help but express her opinion, but fortunately she has a way:

"I don't know, but you can buy both."

Xiao Yifei was speechless, you don't have to do this if you want to earn commissions.

"What am I buying two sets for?"

"I researched the real estate market in Los Angeles and realized that now is a good time to start."

"No matter how good the time is, I'll only have one room."

"Investment, you can rent out another set."

When it comes to real estate investment, this is Concubine Yue's specialty, and she began to gush about Xiao Yifei about the rental market here in California.

We are in two situations at home and abroad. In our country, what we pay attention to is the rise in housing prices, and the original homeowners will sell at a higher price to make a profit. As a result, the occupancy rate is low and the vacancy rate is high. But the United States is different, because the rental market is mature, the occupancy rate is high, the vacancy rate is low, and the occupancy rate can reach more than 9%. There is no tenure of ownership, and the homeowner does not rely on the rise in housing prices, but on the rent to slowly obtain income.

The ratio of the annual rent of a house to the house price is called the rent-to-sale ratio of the house, which is an important indicator of whether the house price is reasonable. In the United States, the average residential rent-to-sale ratio is 6% to 12%, which means that the house will generally pay for itself in 10 to 20 years, and then as long as the house does not become a dilapidated house, the rent earned is your profit. There are still many houses built here in the United States that were built at the beginning of the last century. It's like the "haunted house" of Old Lady Karin next to the winery, which continues to bring big money to the landlord.

Xiao Yifei calculated that a house is 6 million, and the annual rent is more than 300,000 yuan according to the 6% rent-to-sale ratio, and the property tax is 60,000 yuan. You can get almost 250,000. It's just a rent of 30,000 yuan a month, doesn't it mean that the annual income of the middle class is only 50,000 yuan, so isn't it two months' rent is the annual income of the middle-class family, can this be rented out?

"The profit seems to be okay, but can I rent it out?"

"You listen to me give you an analysis, and you have to determine the class you want to go out to. You've got this suite in Beverly. The object of rent should be the small rich who earn millions of dollars a year. Or maybe it's Ryan's kind of person. ”

Xiao Yifei was curious:

"They are willing to spend 30,000 yuan to rent a house, why not buy a house themselves, I believe that more than 400,000 in Los Angeles can still find a house, and since they can pay the rent, the mortgage can also afford it."

"You're still not familiar with the American mindset of city dwellers. They have a lot of work mobility, and every now and then they want to come to a 'the outside world is so big, I want to go out for a walk'. If they rent an apartment, they will change jobs if they don't like it, and maybe they will jump to other cities or other states. In addition, the bank mortgage review is very strict, and many people can't meet the conditions, or how did the subprime mortgage come about. ”

Xiao Yifei nodded. She seems to have a point.

"And this is Beverly, and it's full of wealthy people, and you say lawyers like Ryan. Or accountants, plastic surgeons, etc., these neighbors are all potential customers. ”

Xiao Yifei continued to nod.

"And although it is an economic crisis now, there is another benefit, such as the fact that the assets of those who used to live in tens of millions of mansions in the mountains have shrunk. can't afford to live in a luxury house, so aren't these second-class houses in the Ping area a good transitional house for them? ”

"Okay. You convinced me, just a rental hassle isn't it? ”

"I know there's a path that works best for people like you. You can entrust the rental and management of your home to an agency. ”

"Intermediaries? What else do they care about? ”

"Our firm also manages the rental."

"And how much do they charge?"

"It's generally 10% of the rent. Although the fee is expensive, you don't have to worry about anything else, such as tenant selection, house maintenance, and management. Even if you give permission, they will help you evict the tenants of Rippi and pay the rent to your account on a monthly basis. ”

Xiao Yifei felt that this was not bad, otherwise, if the tenant called and said that the water pipe had burst, then Xiao Yifei would have to rush back from Napa to find someone to repair it.

Xiao Yifei could guess her intention by saying this:

"Do you have a reliable agent to recommend you?"

"You're right, I just know that there is a private agency with a very good character, and his wife is my classmate and Chinese."

Seeing Xiao Yifei's somewhat worried look, she continued:

"Don't look down on private intermediaries, if it weren't for my poor connections, I would want to jump out of the firm and become a private intermediary."

"Okay, then I'll have to wait until I buy the house first."

After some discussion, referring to the recent transaction prices of similar houses around the city that Concubine Yue obtained, the return price of Xiao Yifei for these two houses added up to exactly 10 million. Obviously, this price exceeds the other offers that the seller has received so far, and it also meets the homeowner's bottom line, and they get a response from the other party to accept the offer on the same day.

After careful consideration, Xiao Yifei still chose to live in 704 by himself, he didn't want his wife to swim in the backyard and worry about being photographed by neighbors, or talking about what kind of figure he was.

Concubine Yue introduced her classmate and his wife to Xiao Yifei, who also met the burly private intermediary Grace and his Chinese wife Song Juan, as well as their two mischievous children.

Grace knew that 626 would be handed over to him to act as an agent for the rental management business, and seeing that there would be more than 30,000 management fees a year, he happily took over the house inspection work, and handed over the legal paperwork to Walter's lawyer. As soon as the check is signed, Xiao Yifei can be regarded as a charter company.

However, Grace pointed out a small trouble for him, that is, the furniture in 626 needs to be dealt with.

It turns out that the United States is the opposite of us. In our country, renting a house is about having all the furniture and electrical appliances, and the more tenants can move in, the better it is to rent. But if you buy a second-hand house, you should pay attention to emptiness, and it is best for you to be a clear water house, so that the new owner can decorate and decorate the new house according to his own wishes.

But the United States pays attention to buying a house with a bag to move in, which Xiao Yifei knows that the Danville he bought was originally moved in with a bag. They are particular about renting empty houses, and it is said that their tenants all bring their own furniture and electrical appliances, and there are too many things in the house, and they can't put their own things. The interior of the 626 that Xiao Yifei bought is complete with furniture and electrical appliances, and it can be moved in with his bag. But now that it's going to be rented, these furniture and appliances need to be moved out.

It may be a trouble for others, but it is not much of a problem for Xiao Yifei, because he has space. In addition to the machinery, the interior of Isis Space is dedicated to these messy things. So he turned 626 into an empty house in a few moments. If Grace hadn't said that the kitchen and refrigerator didn't have to be moved, he might have even taken the dishwasher out and got rid of it. Then he picked out some furniture and decorations and put them in 704, and he planned to bring back Danville and Beehill to see if they could be used.

The next day, Grace also praised Xiao Yifei for the fast moving company he was looking for, and guessed that it must be a Chinese compatriot who was looking for him, and shouted that Xiao Yifei would introduce him to him, and he would find these people when he had a job in the future.

Xiao Yifei could only ask Cang Tian speechlessly, he didn't know where to find such a team of fast-moving workers. (To be continued)