Chapter 96 Real Estate Developer Tactics

Back at the hotel, he took off his smothering gown, and his breathing became much easier. Al handed him his cell phone and pager, and there were already many missed calls on it.

Song Ya called back separately according to the degree of importance. Will Gardner has already contacted AW Investment Company. He suggested that Song Ya go to New Jersey and leave all the negotiation affairs to him, because there are black stars in society who spend money lavishly. Stereotype, if AW Investment Company finds that it can call the shots, maybe it will sit on the ground and raise the price.

The interests of both parties are the same, the lower the price is, the more the other party's law firm will earn, Song Ya agreed.

Old Qiao also called, and he asked Song Ya to go back to Chicago to find him, without saying the reason.

Then there was Mira, "I saw you on TV, and you did well in the interview." She imitated the adult's old-fashioned tone and said.

"Columbia originally suggested that I bring a female companion, but I refused." Song Ya flattered her.

"Well, well, not bad."

Mira was very satisfied. Like Song Ya, she had no success in this Grammy. Because William Morris had high expectations for her, she didn't want him to lower his status to attend the unnominated awards ceremony. Her movie will be closed in early March, and when that time comes to New York to record the album, there will be more opportunities for the two to meet each other.

After talking on the phone for a while, Song Ya coaxed the reluctant Mira to hang up.

The rest of the calls were congratulations from some acquaintances who saw the interview with him before the awards show on CBS, and he went back one by one to express his thanks.

The last call was from Halle Berry, and she was also the only one Song Ya didn't call back.

After finishing these things, he made a preliminary analysis of the fifth song, or the fifth and sixth songs obtained by Apocalypse. This song called 'Empire? State? of? Mind (Empire Heart)' has two The first version is a male and female chorus, the female singer is in charge of the chorus, using rhythm and blues and soul vocals, the male singer's rap part talks about his history of drug trafficking, black rental, etc., and then brags about his own Success, using a lot of stalks that Song Ya didn't understand, and pretended to be a member of the lame gang. The typical gangster rap style, it seems that the lyrics need to be changed a lot. Although the MV is simple but very interesting, Song Ya can tell at a glance that there is no World Trade Center in New York. What's going on? And there are words in the lyrics that the World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty are immortal, which is very strange. According to the feelings of Americans, shouldn’t they sing about the immortality of the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty?

The second version is the female singer who sang the chorus in the first version with piano solo and solo. The lyrics are normal and inspirational, and her singing skills are top-notch. He couldn't get his own album, and he was worried that he couldn't make up ten songs for the first album.

Now is not the time to study this carefully. The next day, he slept until noon, then went to buy a business suit, took Al with him, called Roberto Clivell who had greeted him, and went to a river. Bayonne, New Jersey, across from it, joins Hayden and DeLay.

"There used to be a lot of military industries and shipyards here, so the trade unions were very strong." Cadillac Wood drove to the downtown area of ​​Bayonne, Roberto Klevel introduced.

Indeed, here not far from New York there are traces of large-scale industry and heavy industry everywhere. Of course, it has gradually declined. Many factories have been closed or evacuated, and the land and factories have been transformed into residential areas.

Song Ya is not in the mood to care about these things. His attention is entirely on the Warren Brothers Synthesizer Company. If there is no accident, the hard work accumulated over the past year will basically be invested in it.

Roberto Clivell hasn't revealed his thoughts yet. It stands to reason that Song Ya's acquisition this time has nothing to do with his interests as a minority shareholder of the Warren Brothers Synthesizer Company. The ownership relationship of other assets of the company, they divested the land and factory buildings and sold them at a good price. The Warren Brothers and Roberto Clivell actually took the money and left the site first.

Will Gardner is going to arrive tomorrow. Song Ya met with the two white bosses of AW Investment Company and officially expressed his intention to acquire.

"No, I am not involved in the negotiations, I have entrusted this matter to Will Gardner."

The other party warmly invited him and Roberto Clivell to dinner. During the dinner, Song Ya was very tight-lipped, and he couldn't help but be careless with the business of several million.

"Those unionists are hard to deal with."

"Yes, what is that name, what is the deputy manager of Weiser? He is a cockroach. Last week, he organized a protest of nearly a thousand people, which scared the local councilors."

"Yes, APLUS, you have to be careful about that man after you buy the factory."

"We are posting money in it every day now!"

The two bosses of AW Investment Company sang together, but they did not hide their current predicament, but this is not surprising. After they split the company, they only sold the income from the land and factory buildings, offset the acquisition costs and assumed company debts, and made a profit. Now selling to Song Ya is mostly a net profit, and if you keep holding it in your hands and can't sell it, you will continue to lose blood.

Song Ya felt that it was wise for him to hang out with them for so long, and the other party was obviously eager to make a deal.

Roberto Clivell was very displeased with the Warren Brothers' stupid decision. He thought it was cheaper to sell, but this is how the capitalist society is. You lose money when you start a business, but others buy it and sell it to make money. That is the skill of others.

"Nearly a thousand people?" Song Ya was taken aback, "Isn't Warren Synthesizer Company only have thirty or so employees?"

"One employee, three or four family members, and suppliers' workers and family members, plus members and family members of the nearby trade union, and some idiots who came to join in the fun..."

After dinner, the two bosses took Song Ya to visit the Warren Brothers Synthesizer Company, a two-story old factory building, the equipment on the first floor is very old, and there are even old-fashioned cast iron machine tools from decades ago , there are no workers working, and all kinds of tools are thrown in a mess. Only a black security guard guarded the warehouse, and some unsalable synthesizers were packed in boxes printed with Warren Brothers Synthesizer Company, and some were just stacked in the corner, gathering dust.

The equipment on the second floor is much newer. Song Ya even saw a few computers in a small office. Two white men with hair like chicken coops and plaid shirts wearing thick glasses were typing on the keyboards on the screen.

"What is this?" Seeing the graphical interface on the screen, Song Ya felt a familiar feeling in her heart, so she simply walked in and asked directly.

"WINDOWS 3.0..."

A man in a plaid shirt replied: "It supports the new MIDI standard that came into effect this year. In the future, editing audio files can be done through this operating system. It is much more convenient, and it can be used universally on almost all MIDI devices that support the new standard."

He pointed to the synths and pedals connected by data cables, our company spent a fortune upgrading equipment, just to meet the new standards, unexpectedly...

"Still working? Andrew..." Roberto Clivell knew them, came in and greeted them with a smile, "And Hunter, you two, stop messing around, the company is bankrupt."

"We're just having fun." Hunter pushed his glasses with a shy smile, "The people who don't work are all in the conference room, so go find them."

Song Ya followed the two AW bosses into the large conference room, where about thirty employees in work uniforms were chatting together, most of them were white, and there were only two black faces. Song Ya stood in front of them, "Let me introduce, Mr. APLUS intends to buy the company, do you all know him? Maybe he will be your boss in the future." The boss of AW introduced himself to them.

"Whoever buys the company, we just have to work!" a middle-aged white man with short blond hair led the way and shouted.

Song Ya looked at him, it should be the cockroach deputy manager Wise of AW Company, that's right, the work clothes are clean, the voice is crisp, and he is very motivated.

"Yes, we have to work!" Everyone else shouted.

The first meeting could only end hastily, and Song Ya's status as a star could not make the workers bow down.

Today's mission is to come here and show off what Will Gardner calls the 'realtor's tactic'.

In the era of desegregation, black people flooded into white communities, which brought about the deterioration of community security, and naturally the housing prices in this area have been falling all the way. Naturally, there is no shortage of smart people in the capital society. When white owners find signs of black influx in the community, they will decisively sell their houses and move away immediately to avoid the loss of falling housing prices.

But the shortcoming of the capital society is that there are too many smart people. This stop-loss strategy was developed later. As long as a black family moves in, the white people will immediately start selling the house, and the house price will fall even harder, resulting in lower moving costs for black people. Instead, it poured in faster.

Later, the cunning capitalists also saw this. They would deliberately bring some blacks to move into white communities, and then create the illusion that blacks moved in on a large scale. Go, and then the blacks move out, the housing prices in the community rise, and the real estate developers make a lot of money from it.

Will Gardner asked Song Ya to show up first, and also used this "old" strategy. Many white people don't say anything, but they are very unwilling to work under the hands of black bosses. As long as they can force these people to agree to pay, Song Ya's acquisition plan can save a lot of money.

At present, the Warren Brothers Synthesizer Company has 35 employees. As long as more than half of the 18 people agree to pay the salary, and then get the local congressman, even Wyser can't stop it.