Chapter 99 Renting a House
On Sunday morning, Shi Lei took the initiative to contact Zhang Meimei and confirmed that she was at home today, so he didn't have to go there.
Halfway through the phone call, Shi Lei could clearly hear Zhang Jingliang shouting on the phone, as if she was yelling at her mother that she would rather she go to work, and she wanted Shi Lei to teach her lessons. As a strict lawyer, Zhang Meimei obviously had many doubts about this, and Shi Lei was also a little guilty after all, so he didn't dare to say more and hung up the phone.
There is a real estate agency opposite the school, and Shi Lei pushed the door in. The staff of the agency seemed a little listless, probably because most of the students renting houses near the school use the method of campus network announcement, which makes their business bleak, so that seeing Someone came in and lost the enthusiasm to welcome them.
"Hello, sir, do you want to buy a house or rent a house?" He managed to be polite, but his tone was completely unmotivated, and he didn't look like he wanted to close the deal.
"Let's rent a house, I don't look like I can afford a house, right?" Shi Lei laughed at himself.
The other party forced a smile, and was even less hopeful about the deal. Seeing that Shi Lei is only around 20 years old, it is no surprise that he is a student of Wu University. Even if a student rents a house through an intermediary, he will not rent a very good house, and the intermediary fee is only half of a month's rent. Two or three hundred is not bad, there are a lot of contracts before and after, and I am too busy to die.
"Sir, what kind of room do you need? Shared rent? Are there any requirements for the size and orientation of the room? Are you living alone, or are there other circumstances?"
Hearing what the agent said, he knew that the other party had already classified Shi Lei as a co-tenant. The commission of this kind of contract really made people not so energetic.
Shi Lei shrugged and said: "Don't you have that kind of apartment-style housing here? I don't want to share with others, I still hope to have a separate space. As for the number of occupants, it should be one person now, but it is possible that my Girlfriends will move in too."
Hearing that he wanted to rent alone, the agent finally raised his voice a little bit, and said, "The apartments around here are not cheap, the minimum cost is two or three thousand. In fact, rent an older one, that is, an older apartment." Two bedrooms and one living room, the price is about the same, at most one or two hundred yuan higher. Would you like to think about it, sir?"
Shi Lei shook his head without hesitation, and said: "I hope it's better to be a hotel-style apartment, so that the relationship between the people who live in it will be relatively simple, and the people who come in and out will not be too complicated."
"Well, the price of serviced apartments is not low. The serviced apartments nearby are all furnished and delivered, and the landlord needs to add all kinds of daily necessities, such as home appliances, sofas, beds, etc., and the prices are basically in the It's more than three thousand." The smile on the intermediary's face became more and more comfortable. Shi Lei didn't seem to express any surprise when he mentioned the rent of two to three thousand before, nor did he have the slightest unbearable situation. If he can really sell a rent of three thousand There are too many rental contracts, at least there are more than a thousand agency fees, and he can divide it into three or four hundred yuan.
"Ignore the price first, let me talk about my requirements first. Because I live alone, even if my girlfriend agrees to move in in the future, there is actually no difference, right? So, I don't want a house that is too big, For one person, it’s too big to clean. I hope the decoration will be better. It’s better not to have the uniform and refined decoration when the apartment is delivered. It can even be said that the more luxurious the decoration, the better, and the higher the grade of furniture and appliances, the better. , it will be more comfortable to live in this way.”
The intermediary was stunned, and said hastily: "In this case, the price will be even more expensive. I remember that there are two such houses, but it seems that the monthly rent is more than 5,000."
Shi Lei smiled calmly, and said: "I said before, don't worry about the price, as long as the price is within the normal range, there will be no big problem."
This time, the intermediary finally came to the spirit, the higher the contract turnover, the higher his commission. If a contract with a monthly rent of more than 5,000 yuan can be concluded, the agency fee will reach more than 2,500 yuan, and his commission can be almost 1,000 yuan.
"Wait, I'll look for it for you first." As he spoke, the agent began to search on the computer in front of him. It is best to find such a house. You only need to enter a price range and set it above 5,000 yuan. It is difficult to find more than 20 or 30 houses. Shi Lei's request was met.
Not too long ago, the agent said: "Single-room, there are two sets, both of which were redecorated by the landlord later, and they were all redecorated last year, relatively new, one of them has not been lived in, and the owner has renovated it. He was transferred to another place, and felt that it was too wasteful to be vacant for more than half a year, so he decided to rent it out, requiring high-quality tenants, and he didn’t want the tenants to damage any facilities in the house.”
Shi Lei nodded, and said, "What about the other one?" He was still more interested in this one in his heart.
"The other set has been renovated for a whole year. At the beginning, it was because a foreigner wanted to rent his house, but he thought the decoration was too bad. He spent more than 200,000 yuan in a month to redecorate the house. Again. The foreigner signed a three-year contract with him, but he was returning home after only one year of living. Although he paid the landlord two months' rent, the landlord was still very dissatisfied. After all, it took him two months to renovate the house. More than 100,000 yuan, really counting, it took three years to barely earn back before the renovation. Therefore, the landlord requires the contract to be signed for at least two years, and the deposit is also higher, requiring half a year's rent as a deposit."
Shi Lei frowned a little when he heard that, it was tantamount to passing on the mistakes made by the previous tenant to the next tenant, and it would be more difficult for such landlords to communicate.
"How big are the two houses? How is the decoration?"
The agent was secretly pleased when he heard that, Shi Lei only cared about the area and decoration, and didn't talk about the price at all, that is to say, the price doesn't matter, so it's easy to handle.
As long as you don't care about money, the house is not a problem.
"As for the decoration, the condition of the two sets is not too different, and the area is also similar. One is fifty-three and the other is fifty-six. After deducting the shared area, it can be considered almost the same. How about it, you can look at these two sets for yourself The decoration situation." As he spoke, the intermediary turned the computer screen in the same direction, faced Shi Lei, and introduced him attentively.
There are many photos of the two suites, and the agent guarantees that they were all taken on the spot a few days ago. There is absolutely no falsification or any beautification, and it is completely the actual situation.
Regarding the situation of these two suites, Shi Lei is basically quite satisfied.
More than 50 square meters, due to the relatively low occupancy rate of hotel-style apartments, the area in the suite is roughly equivalent to a business room in a five-star hotel, which cannot achieve the effect of a real one-bedroom and one living room, but the overall space is still relatively large. spacious.
Moreover, the decoration of the two suites is a typical modern minimalist style, the details are well done, but it will not look too exaggerated.
There are also some details of furniture and home appliances in the photos, Shi Lei looked carefully, one is a full set of Philips, the other is a full set of Siemens, both are very good brands.
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