Chapter 130: The Loser
Chen Danying said this, but her heart was beautiful, she lowered her head and didn't look at Lu Xi's hot gaze, flipped through the exquisite housing information, and looked forward to the good time of the two of them here in the future.
I don't know what Chen Danying was thinking, Lu Xi took a set of housing information and opened it twice, and asked, "How about this?" It's just that the house is a little older, built in 1928. ”
Chen Danying shook her head, took out a set of housing information from the bottom and handed it to Lu Xi, and said, "I like this, the decoration is modern, the scenery is good, but it is much more expensive than others." ”
The house selected by Chen Danying was built in 80 years and is located in the southeast corner of Mercer Island, covering an area of about 2,300 square meters and a living area of 882 square meters, which is the largest of the seven houses.
The house is divided into three parts, with the main building in the middle of the two floors, with beautiful views of Lake Washington and the perennial summit of Mount Rainier in the distance from the bedroom and living room windows.
Behind the right of the main building is a two-story annex building, and behind the left is a three-car garage, there is a large lawn in front of the main building, and in the left front of the lawn is the dock and private dock, and the top of the dock is a 30-square-meter observation deck, which can be walked up from the two steps of the lawn to enjoy the afternoon sun and a view of the lake.
The house is also very private, with the neighbors on the left and right being separated by a distance of 10 meters, and the rear is a double carriageway, with decades-old trees on the left and right, making the environment extremely elegant.
When looking at the house, Xing Bin said that this house was only bought by a rich third generation last year, spent nearly one million dollars to renovate, lasted a year, just completed in July this year, and before moving in, it was sold because of the capital turnover, the price was 2.17 million US dollars, which is twice the price of several other houses, and it can be said that it is the most luxurious mansion in the houses for sale on Mercer Island now.
The median price of real estate transactions in the United States this year is 150,000 US dollars, and it will rise in a straight line in the next few years, and it will rise to 250,000 US dollars before 06.
At present, this lake-view house is priced at 2.17 million US dollars, the price seems to be very high, but the future appreciation potential is huge, and it will be multiplied several times in a few years, but Lu Xi bought a house to live, the R&D center is set up in Seattle, and overseas companies will also be set up here in the future.
Chen Danying likes this house, Lu Xi thought about it carefully, and said: "Then we will buy this set, I will take you to buy a house in the afternoon, and then buy furniture after the transfer, and you will be able to live in it almost in October." ”
Seeing that Lu Xi had made a decision, Chen Danying shook his head again and said, "It's too expensive, I'll take a look at something else." ”
Lu Xi took the other housing information, didn't let her look at it again, and said, "That's it." ”
Chen Danying pursed her lips, took out a copy of the information from his hand, and muttered, "I knew that I would choose this set." ”
Lu Xi took it and looked at it twice, and said: "The old house in 1928 has to be renovated after being bought, and the cost is about the same, and it will take more than half a year to move in." ”
Chen Danying looked at the listing information sullenly and didn't know what he was thinking, Lu Xi smiled and said, "Don't be burdened, let's look forward to a better life in Seattle first." ”
Seeing that Lu Xi came over to make a mistake, Chen Danying opened his outstretched hand coquettishly, looked out of the car a few times, and saw no one passing by, so he deliberately raised his face and asked, "What is your relationship with that woman?" ”
Lu Xi was stunned for a moment and said, "Which woman?" ”
Chen Danying reached out and pinched the back of Lu Xi's hand with jealousy, and said, "8848 that." ”
Looking at her serious appearance, Lu Xi felt helpless and explained: "The manager of 8848, we are in competition, she wants to find out the news from my mouth, and now the media is making waves without wind, and besides, our old comrade Lu has already criticized me......"
Seeing that Lu Xi deliberately pretended to be pitiful after speaking, Chen Danying snorted: "Forget it, if you mess with flowers everywhere, I can ignore you, you looked at Saoirse yesterday and your eyes were squinting, and you are not allowed to look at girls like that in the future." ”
Lu Xi smiled awkwardly and said, "Saoirse is just a little girl, and her figure is not as good as yours." ”
Saoirse is a typical academic bully, she went to college at the same age as her little sister, and her little sister is only in her first year of high school, except for her white face and delicate and beautiful, Saoirse is only slightly taller than her little sister, far inferior to the current Chen Danying.
Chen Danying threw Lu Xi a roll of his eyes, and sighed slightly: "I said that you wouldn't have anything to do with that fox-like woman, but my mother didn't believe it." ”
Lu Xi suddenly patted his head, and then he knew why she looked at him with that kind of look when she sent his aunt to the plane two days ago, and said with a wry smile: "You have to help me say a few more kind words." ”
Chen Danying's beautiful eyes blinked, and she showed a smug look again, and said, "You can explain it yourself, so I don't care about you." ”
"Isn't that the more you explain, the more you can't explain it...... let's let the two of us say it." Lu Xi sighed, "This is also the reason why I don't want too many people to know my identity now, I don't want to always expose people, I just want to be a low-key person and do things in a high-profile manner." ”
Looking at Lu Xi, Chen Danying nodded knowingly, stopped laughing at him, and said, "I'll call my mother when I have time." ”
Lu Xi nodded and glanced at his watch with a smile, and proposed: "Then let's go buy a house, and if we buy it early, we can live in it one day earlier." ”
"Wait a minute, I'll call Saoirse." Chen Danying pushed the car door and walked down, and when she looked back, she frowned again and said with a slight smile: "Last night, she was crying and calling her mother in her sleep!" ”
Lu Xi couldn't help but shake his head, I really don't know if Chen Danying has such a little roommate in the stall, whether it is a good thing or a bad thing.
Watching Chen Danying walk into the dormitory building, Lu Xi stuffed the pile of housing information into the storage box, and after thinking for a while, he called the little sister, the little sister is the same age as Saoirse, most children of this size are still growing up under the wings of their parents, and the little sister is studying alone, I don't know if she will wake up crying at night after her mother returns to China.
After making a phone call, Lu Xi knew that his worries were completely unnecessary, in the morning, the little sister had just come back from pulling the seventy-year-old landlord Jones and his wife to play, and the little sister who didn't even know how to play Chinese chess was playing chess with Mrs. Jones at this time, and she could be heard on the phone playing with the old lady in English that she was not very proficient in.
hung up the phone and waited for more than ten minutes, only to see Chen Danying pull Saoirse down from the upper floor, the two sat in the back, Saoirse looked at Lu Xi in front of him twice, and then went over to whisper to Chen Danying, both of them with a snickering smile on their faces.
I don't know what Saoirse said, Lu Xi started the car, glanced at Chen Danying in the rearview mirror, then looked at Saoirsa, and said with a smile: "You're not afraid that the two of us will sell you?" ”
"I'm cowardly, don't scare me." Saoirse said this, but there was no trace of fear on her face.
Chen Danying didn't ask Lu Xi to tease Saoirsa, she covered her mouth and smiled: "Saoirse said that you are more ugly than in the photo, and you are not as handsome as Bezos." ”
Lu Xi didn't mind at all, and said with a smile: "Westerners' aesthetic concepts are different from our Orientals, they think that girls with angular faces are more beautiful, and you are ugly in their eyes, and Saoirse can't be regarded as a beauty in their Westerners' aesthetic concepts." ”
I couldn't understand what Lu Xi was talking about in Chinese, Saoirse tilted her head and said to Chen Danying: "Chen, I want to learn Chinese from you, and I will go when you return to China next year, you take me to see the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, and the Terracotta Army, okay?" ”
No one can predict what will happen next year, Chen Danying responded with a smile, asking Lu Xi to drive carefully and not look back from time to time.
The school is not far from Xing Bin's real estate agency, only ten minutes' drive, and when the three of them arrived, Xing Bin was already waiting at the door excitedly.
In the morning, he took Lu Xi to see seven houses, even if Lu Xi took the information and went to the bank to make a certificate, Xing Bin didn't have much hope, there are countless people who look at the house every day, and only a very few can make a deal, and he relies on this very few to live quite nourishingly.
As the company's ace broker, this order is made, the seller takes 5% of the commission of 6%, and he can personally get 1%, more than 20,000 US dollars, which is equivalent to the annual income of many families.
Xing Bin pulled the car door and came up, first looked at the two beautiful girls behind him, and secretly said that the life of rich people is different, and then he smiled: "Real estate in the United States has been appreciating in value for more than ten years, and Mr. Lu bought this house first, but he didn't live in it, and the price would increase in a few years, and he could make some money by changing hands." ”
Lu Xi knew the market of American real estate in the next few years, and said with a smile: "I just bought it for my own use." ”
Xing Bin smiled and said, "The owner heard that someone had bought a house and was already waiting for us there." ”
Remembering that Xing Bin said that the guy was a rich third generation in the morning, Lu Xi asked with a smile: "The homeowner has the money to spend millions of dollars to renovate, how can the capital turnover be ineffective?" ”
Xing Bin said with a smile: "In this part of the United States, some people get rich overnight, and some people go bankrupt overnight, last year Smith came to buy a house and drove a Bentley, surrounded by bodyguards, and this year he came to sell a house, driving a broken Buick that is about to be scrapped, alone, and the loser always has the game of ruining the family property, God knows what he has done this year." ”
There are many people who don't know how to operate and can only spend money lavishly, and there are also many people who have ruined their ancestors' inheritance and live on the streets.
Xing Bin smiled again and asked, "Which line of work does Mr. Lu do?" In his impression, Seattle has not yet made such a generous Chinese youth.
Lu Xi replied: "I'm also a loser." ”
Although it is his own money, the dividends will be 8 million US dollars, deducting 20% of the personal dividend income tax, leaving only more than 6 million US dollars, and for his parents and little sister in Yaojiang Real Estate planning of the eight riverside villas, reserved two sets, now only 6 million in his hand, spending one-third to buy a house, it can really be said that he is a loser, but he loses his own money.
Xing Bin smiled awkwardly, and while the two were talking, the car drove onto the pier, and the four of them took a speedboat to the lakeside villa.
The houses on the shores of Mercer Island are all built on a hilly area, and from the pier you look from low to high, with a patchwork of docks, lawns, main buildings and annexes at the back.
Chen Danying had only seen the pictures in the album, and when she went up to the pier and saw the panorama, she couldn't help but cover her mouth in surprise, and Saoirse couldn't close her mouth with a rare and strange look.
Lu Xi ignored them, walked a few steps forward, looked up and saw a white young man who was slightly older than him and had a lonely look suddenly appeared on the balcony of the living room of the main building, and asked Xing Bin: "That's the loser Smith you are talking about, right?" ”
Xing Bin squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully, nodded in response, and walked a few steps forward to greet Smith.
Lu Xi beckoned Chen Danying and Saoirse behind him to follow, and as soon as the three of them walked onto the stone path on the side of the lawn, they saw Smith on the terrace suddenly show a swaggering attitude, and asked loudly: "Mr. Xing, can you really afford this house with these people?" ”