Chapter 53: Vacation Homes in Idaho
Jimmy angrily left his desk to teach Zhang Cheng a lesson. Jimmy's teammates know that Zhang Cheng is the one who uses Chinese kung fu to knock a person twenty feet into the air and can also pinch and blast steel pipes with his bare hands, but why should he stop Jimmy?
If Jimmy is not as good as a seventh-grade middle school student according to the level of American education, this is nothing, but usually Jimmy is not good on the baseball team, and it is not pleasing to the eye, and unconsciously, Jimmy has offended a fine light in the baseball team except for the captain.
Zhang Cheng saw that Jimmy was coming in a hurry, and he also got up from his seat to prepare to deal with it, and the rest of the people were waiting to see a good show.
Jimmy was tall and tall, and as soon as he reached the attack range, he smashed his right hook into Zhang Cheng's temple, Zhang Cheng stretched out his left hand and grabbed it, and with a "click" sound, Jimmy's wrist bone was crushed only two inches away from Zhang Cheng's head.
"Whoa!!" Jimmy, who was in pain, let out an amazing wail, which made the audience can't help but gag their ears.
Zhang Cheng flashed and hit Jimmy's lower abdomen with his right fist, and Jimmy rolled his eyes and fainted.
knocked Jimmy unconscious, Zhang Cheng returned to his seat and sat down, and then gave himself a reason: "It must be that I drank too much Coke and had osteoporosis." I didn't want to look at a very big person, so chaff inside. ”
"Papapa......" But it was Tess who took the lead in applauding.
For Americans, Chinese kung fu, like David's magic, is not a mysterious realm that ordinary people can enter, but they still know how to be a good audience after watching the performance and applauding.
"Xie Lu Xie, Xie Lu Xie." Zhang Cheng thanked him and said with a smile: "After drinking coffee, if you are not busy with homework in the afternoon, let's go to the jewelry store together." With a budget of $50,000 per person, I settle the bill. ”
"Wow." Jane, along with Tess and Jasmine, shouted together: "Chinese are really rich. ”
"It's only the price of an RV, it's not much. If you're happy, it's fine. Zhang Cheng is only responsible for settling the bill, and as for whether they will return the jewelry in full or keep it for wearing during the return period, it has nothing to do with Zhang Cheng.
After coming to the United States to study, Zhang Cheng realized that American college students are glamorous on the surface, but in fact, many (the highest period after the outbreak of the subprime mortgage crisis reached 90%) rely on student loans to go to college, although various regulations have now been introduced, such as the repayment amount after graduation and employment cannot exceed 10% of income, and it can be completely relied on if it has not been paid off 20 years after graduation.
However, this does not fundamentally solve the problem that the number of college students graduating from thousands of universities in the United States has been on the rise in recent decades, but the number of jobs has not increased, and even when the economic environment is bad, it will decrease massively, for example, now, many people cannot find satisfactory and high-paying jobs after graduation - now tens of millions of people in the United States can only live through temporary jobs through intermediary companies.
There are advantages to using temporary workers, first of all, there is no union for temporary workers, and if these companies in the United States use temporary workers, they don't have to worry about the union negotiating for a wage increase at every turn. In addition, if you use temporary workers, you don't need to insure them, which saves another money, and the most important thing is, of course, the low wages of temporary workers, and the operating costs of enterprises that use a large number of temporary workers through intermediaries will naturally fall - the capitalists have been urinating this since Marx's time.
There are also college graduates in this army of migrant workers, if someone told Zhang Cheng in the past that there are college students in the United States who can't find a good job after graduation and drive a taxi to Zhang Cheng can still shake it, and now Zhang Cheng can tell him: "There are still masters who are engaged in slaughtering." ”
The United States has a population of just over 300 million, and if this number suddenly doubles or triples, the owner of the White House will be able to commit suicide by swallowing a gun the next day.
After drinking coffee, Zhang Cheng and the others naturally went to Reno's jewelry store to make a big purchase, and the others also went their own way, leaving only the fainted black big Jimmy lying there alone.
Zhang Cheng went to the jewelry store to check out, but also to see the price of the jewelry, most of the inheritance left by his previous life was jade. It's also interesting to occasionally calculate the current value of your past life inheritance.
However, Zhang Cheng heard that the British royal family has tens of thousands of jewels looted from all over the world, and all of them are high-quality products, including the Star of South Africa, which is a real local tyrant.
Swiping out of the jewelry store, Zhang Cheng was a little satisfied, and then ordered the Mercedes-Benz RV he liked at the Auto Show in Reno, and this time it only took 20 days to get the car.
There was no class in the afternoon, so Zhang Cheng made an appointment with a real estate agent to see the land. This real estate agent is still the classmate that Jenny introduced to Zhang Cheng, and when he heard that Zhang Cheng was going to invest tens of millions of dollars to buy land, he naturally rushed over with the materials as quickly as possible. Real estate agents rely on commissions to survive, and the larger the transaction volume, the higher the commission relative to the broker.
After reading a few documents, Zhang Cheng asked, "Isn't there any commercial timberland in Nevada?" ”
If he had a choice, Zhang Cheng would certainly like to find a place closer to buy commercial forest land for investment. This feeling is a bit like the old rich man before liberation, who always felt that this land was a little unstable far from home.
The real estate agent shook his head: "Nevada is rich in sand and heat, and the limited water resources will be used for high value-added agriculture." Excluding land appreciation (which is still depreciating and canceling each other out), the net yield on commercial timber land is only about 5 to 6 percent per year. It is much lower than that of ordinary investment funds, but it is better than stability, and some wealthy and large funds are willing to invest in commercial timberland to hedge against high-risk investments. ”
"That's right." Zhang Cheng did not dare to invest in high-risk industries: "Show me all the ones in the western region." ”
"It's good." Regardless, the customer is God. God's reasonable requirements must be met, Nevada is rich in deserts, but there are still many woodlands or pastures in the entire western region to find a home. But if it's about 10 million yuan, it's only a handful.
The last real estate agent only doubled to three.
Zhang Cheng first looked at the most recent one, in Nevada's neighboring Idaho, about 800 kilometers away from Reno, near Idaho Falls City, this tree farm is about 3,500 acres of land, including woodland, hilly woodland, and a little mountain woodland, rivers and lakes.
Wildlife is abundant, with large deer for hunting, fishing, boating, and hiking. The trees planted are mainly oak and fir wood.
The only way in and out is a rough-worked dirt road, where the former landowner built a holiday villa with electricity and telephone, as well as the house of the forest farm manager and two houses where the workers lived.
The price of the 3,500 acres of land is only $11.2 million, but there is also a commission of about 200,000 yuan to be paid to the real estate brokerage company, and a few thousand yuan in legal fees - the transfer contract must always be read by the lawyer.
In addition to the expected return on investment of 6 percent per year, Zhang Cheng thinks it should be a good choice to find time to go there for a hunting holiday. If you want to hunt in Nevada, you can only go to the desert and start a tailsnake, which is too tragic.
Zhang Cheng pointed to the line of words introduced and asked: "There are many private and close services near the telephone and telephone?" What do you mean? ”
Real Estate Agent: "Call for calls." He couldn't just say that the call was illegal in Idaho. ”
"I see. That's it, you prepare the contract, and then I'll find a lawyer. Thank you for your hard work. Zhang Cheng thought that it seemed that his family was the first to choose Nevada to invest and settle down, and this piece of forest land was at most a holiday villa in the forest.
The real estate agent made a big order, and was naturally overjoyed, and said honestly: "Serving the dollar, it's not hard." ”