Chapter 305 [A Flock of Rookies]
I inquired about the owner of the house, who was actually the owner of a wine shop, who died in a car accident three years ago, because his son was unable to repay the loan, and the remaining loan from the American bank that issued the loan was recovered from his own property, ready to be auctioned off, which is the right of the bank granted by law.
Because this is how the loan contract was signed back then, it is important to have such information, and after nine o'clock more and more cars appeared on both sides of the street, and at half past nine the Bank of America vehicles appeared, and a few young people walked down the door of the property.
As soon as he saw the bank staff coming, all the people who participated in this auction opened their car doors and walked down, and Yang Nianzhong looked at the good guy coming, full of thirty people.
The auctioneer in charge of this auction at Bank of America was a young man in his 30s, wearing a suit and leather shoes, and he began to smile before he spoke, looking at the group of bidders and saying loudly.
"Good morning, everyone, the weather is good today, the temperature is neither cold nor hot, since everyone has gathered, then I have nothing to say, follow me to the room to take a closer look, and then we will gather in the living room to participate in this auction."
There is nothing to say to follow along, Yang Nianzhong's group walked at the back of the crowd, opened the gate of the manor, and walked in Yang Nianzhong took a closer look at the manor, and the environment was quite good.
Because Westerners are very open and like to be free, the houses you see in any neighborhood in the United States are basically open. In other words, there is no courtyard wall, and there is no iron gate, but this manor is different not only has a two-meter-high courtyard wall, but also an iron gate.
The two-meter-high courtyard wall protects the entire acre of land, and some native trees are planted on both sides, but the lawn looks a bit miserable and has a lot of weeds. It seems that it has not been taken care of for a while, and an acre sounds like a lot of area, but it is actually not that big, and a distance of dozens of meters has already reached the gate of this property.
The bank staff opened the door, and the group of bidders rushed in, and entered the living room to take a look. The living room is very clean, and there are photos on the walls, oil paintings, and all kinds of ornaments.
The sofa, coffee table, telephone, and TV in the living room are all available, and there is not even dust on it, and it seems that the bank has already asked the cleaning company to clean it.
Don't look very clean, but Yang Nianzhong's sensitive nose smells a musty smell, which proves that this property has not opened the doors and windows for ventilation and drying for a long time. I can't say anything, it has already begun to mildew, and the area of the living room is very large, reaching hundreds of square meters, which is very common in the United States.
The property has two floors, and there is a wine cellar on the lowest floor, because the owner of the property used to run a wine shop, and the wine cellar is very large. Viewed from above, the second floor has a bedroom with a living room, a washroom and a study bathroom, and even a small living room, and a kitchen, guest room, and storage room on the first floor.
Follow the stairs on the side of the storage room, and go down to the ground, which is where the wine cellar is located, and after opening it, Yang Nianzhong began to use his special function to observe the wine cellar. It covers an area of about 200 square meters, and is surrounded by wooden shelves for red wine, but there is not a single bottle of red wine on the shelves.
The house is made of bricks and stones, and the very strong wine cellar is also made of bricks and stones, and there is nothing strange about other places, but Yang Nianzhong looked closely at the two walls of the wine cellar and saw the long-awaited secret location.
The walls on both sides of the cellar are hollowed out at intervals to create a closet-like thing to store the most precious wines, because these are small closet-like storage spaces. Every once in a while, between three and four meters, one or two, three or three, but when you get to the inside of the cellar, it starts to change again.
The walls were all the same, the storage space was the same brick and stone, but the little closet-like wine cellars were gone, four in all. This is a bit interesting, that proves that these four disappeared small cellars were hidden by the original owners, why should they be hidden? Only its owner knows.
And this group of bidders, although there are many experts in this area, they don't have anything in their hands, the space detector, but Yang Nianzhong's special function, not only can see the color of the metal, but also the density of the object.
With the naked eye alone, you can see the abnormalities in the wine cellar, which is a signal to Yang Nianzhong, who automatically used his perspective eye to observe the left and right walls of the wine cellar.
Sure enough, I saw four separate spaces, and there were some cylindrical objects in them, some large and some small, which looked like a bottle of red wine, and those that looked like a bottle of champagne.
Yang Nianzhong saw something strange, but he didn't squeak, the special function is related to his own life and death, and there are some competitors around him, it is impossible to proclaim that he has seen something strange all over the world, but he followed the crowd to the living room, and then sat in the last row.
It doesn't take more than 40 minutes from the time you enter the door to the time you visit the whole house, and as soon as ten o'clock arrives, they will officially start, and then the staff will hand out three envelopes to everyone. The old bidders all know what these three envelopes are for, and those rookies who have not participated in the bank auction have also found relevant records in the information sent by the bank.
Don't look at the number of people reaching more than 30, but only 15 people have received the envelopes issued, which proves that the other 15 people are the assistants brought by these people, among which Yang Nianzhong brought up to two people, it seems that there is more than one smart person.
Yang Nianzhong took the three envelopes and began to discuss with Griffin John how much the bidding price should be in the first round. The property is worth $3.5 million, and the starting price is 30% of the market price, which means that the starting price is more than $1.05 million.
Yang Nianzhong is a little uncertain about participating in such an auction for the first time, because he is afraid that the price he writes will not be in the top ten, and he will not be eliminated for the first time. Therefore, Yang Nianzhong plans to write a fifty percent price, that is, half of the market price of $3.5 million is $1.75 million. After writing your price, you put the card in a black envelope, and after five minutes, the staff comes to collect the envelopes and place them in front of the auctioneer.
The auctioneer opened one envelope after another, and the smile on his face became more and more, he was an auctioneer specially hired by Bank of America, and he participated in such auctions not 50 times but 100 times.
I didn't expect that there were so many rookies in the auction he participated in this time, and the first envelope he opened was Yang Nianzhong, who actually offered $1.75 million, almost more than one percent higher than others.
For others, the most is to give forty percent, only a few give thirty percent of the real price, after careful screening there are really two, veterans into the second auction.
And these two veterans, when they wrote the price, they were actually 30% of the real price of the property, and 1.05 million US dollars actually entered the second round of auctions.