Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 85
After Jiang Ning stepped inside through the dust, she called out to a 28- or 29-year-old woman, “Hello, I’m here to buy a house. Can you show me around?”
Yang Meirong raised her head and was stunned for a moment, then pointed at her nose and said, “You’re calling me?”
Jiang Ning quickly apologized, “Sorry, I thought you were a staff member here.”
“I am, I am.” Yang Meirong hurriedly ran over with a notebook.
The towel factory where Yang Meirong originally worked had closed down, and no wages were paid for several months before the closure. She had finally found this job.
She had never done any sales work, so she wrote down all the necessary information in a small notebook and introduced it little by little.
It had been almost a month since she joined the company. She had not sold a house yet, and she didn’t get her previous salary from the towel factory, which made her look a little haggard and sad, and she exuded a sad aura.
“You want to buy a house?” She looked at Jiang Ning with some uncertainty.
“Is there a problem?” Jiang Ning was looking at the iron mesh bookshelf in the sales department. Hearing this, she glanced sideways at her.
Even though Jiang Ning was wearing the shabbiest clothes, Yang Meirong couldn’t treat the little girl in front of her as a child. She even felt like she was facing her leader. Her voice suddenly weakened, “No, no problem, where do you want to look? I’ll take you to the house next door.”
Jiang Ning put the book in her hand back on the bookshelf, looked at the house that had been built outside and the one that was under construction, and said, “Tell me about the houses that have been built and those that are still under construction here.”
Yang Meirong followed half a step behind her. “The houses that have been built here require a down payment.” Her voice couldn’t help but lower.
Without confidence, she said, “The down payment is eight thousand.”
In those days, if a household had a balance of two thousand yuan, that was a lot of money. Although the concept of a household with ten thousand yuan was from the 1980s, in the mid-1990s, some people had already become rich first, accumulating tens of thousands or even millions, but such people were very few. For ordinary people, ten thousand yuan was still a very huge amount. Even if they had the money, they would go to Huxi to buy a house. Why come to Hudong?
And people in the system who could afford it were waiting to be allocated welfare housing, let alone buying a house.
Thinking of something, she couldn’t help but raise her voice a little louder, “But the house is very big, and the price is only half of other houses. In the future, it will also be worth a lot more.”
A big house was definitely a big temptation for many people at that time.
Many people lived in houses that were divided into units and were very small in area. A family was crowded into a house with two bedrooms and one living room of 50 to 60 square meters. Some even only had 30 to 40 square meters, but three generations of the family were crowded together. Even the balcony was divided into rooms.
That was the case for Yang Meirong’s family. She knew better than anyone how much people desired big houses at that time.
If she hadn’t had no money and didn’t meet the conditions for zero down payment, she would have wanted to buy one.
Jiang Ning looked at her and said, “I see that when buying a house in other places, you can get a blue-printed household registration, and you can settle in the house directly. What about this place?”
Yang Meirong lowered her head deeply again.
“Come, see the house first.”
Yang Meirong quickly led her there.
It was tragic to say that because of the down payment problem, very few existing houses had been sold. That was why they put advertisements for buying houses with zero down payment opposite the train station.
No one wanted to come to Hudong to buy a house.
There was a saying in Shanghai that they would rather have a bed in the west of Shanghai than a suite in the east of Shanghai. It showed how desolate, messy, and chaotic Hudong was at that time.
Not to mention spending so much money to come to Hudong and buy such a house that had no other advantages except its size.
Apart from being big and cheap, she couldn’t say much about the house.
Jiang Ning was brought to the newly built building by Yang Meirong. The building was still in rough shape. When Jiang Ning looked at the quality of the house, Yang Meirong quickly said, “Don’t worry about the quality of the house. The subway line is definitely good and has been planned here.”
When it came to subway planning, Yang Meirong felt guilty again. The first subway line was opened in Shanghai in 1993, and the rest of the subway lines were still under construction. With the desolate scene around, she really couldn’t boast that the subway would reach there. But the manager said that the subway was really planned.
Jiang Ning looked up. Probably to increase the competitive advantage with other residential commercial buildings, the height was indeed as advertised. It was very rare to see such buildings even after more than ten years. It could be divided into two small duplexes.
In other words, she could buy a double-story house at half the price of other commercial houses.
Yang Meirong took her to see the large balconies and terraces that were added as gifts. At that time, the houses that some people lived in were not as large as the combined area of the balconies and terraces. The area of the terraces and balconies alone was 35 square meters.
Although in September 1995, the Ministry of Construction promulgated the rules for calculating the sales area of commercial housing and apportioning the public building area, it was not until December that the actual implementation began.
There were only two months left from then, which meant that if Jiang Ning wanted to buy a house, she had to hurry up and buy it before the rules for sharing the shared area got officially implemented.
She would leave Shanghai at noon the next day, so she didn’t have much time to waste.
She asked, “What if I want to buy the house with zero down payment?”
Yang Meirong said, “This requires proof of employment and income from your company, showing that you have the ability to pay, and the deposit in your bank account must not be less than 1,000 yuan.”
At that time, there were a lot of laid-off workers, their jobs were gone, let alone their wages, and their family expenses were all paid from their previous savings. It was already good to find a relatively stable job, let alone save a thousand yuan at a young age.
Of course, it was not that people didn’t have any savings, but their savings were quite little.
That was why no one was paying attention to their property so far. So they needed to advertise at the train station to trick out-of-towners into buying a house.
But for a foreigner to buy a house, they should be settling in Shanghai.
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