hollywood billionaire

Chapter 138 One57

The reason why Han Yi made up his mind to go to New York to buy another property, in the final analysis, was due to the pair of wings Xu Yiru and Zhao Youzhen.

If it weren't for the ten times reward they gave with three pieces of jewels in Las Vegas, Han Yi, who was "poorly cash-strapped", would definitely not be able to think about it.

But now, Han Yi has obtained a disposable cash of US$3329.6 million, plus the remaining US$982.7 million in Chase’s private bank account, the total amount he can use for personal consumption has reached US$4312.3 million .

With $4300 million in hand, what's the first thing to do?
Of course, let this number jump up a little bit.

In the future, there will be more and more things to do, and the stalls will spread wider and wider, and the cash flow in hand must keep up with the speed of development, so as not to appear stretched.

In the past few months, Han Yi has been trying to spend in various amounts and categories.But unfortunately, only a very few can get more than double the reward.

It may be that Han Yi is too hard to please, or it may be that he really lacks interest in things outside of him.The luxury goods spent on himself, whether it is watches, suits or cars, can only return a few tens of percent.Only the Ferrari 250 GT SWB, which is similar to my own experience and has a strong spiritual resonance, can reach the 100% reward ratio.

As for spending money on other people, there are only two successful cases so far, one is Xiao Xu and the other is Xiao Zhao, but it is a pity that neither of them is the kind of girl who can be plucked by Han Yi infinitely.Regarding the matter of asking Han Yi to spend money for them, Xu Yiru and Zhao Youzhen's attitudes were surprisingly the same—you can eat, buy milk tea, and go shopping in the supermarket. If you spend more than this order of magnitude, you are all welcome.

why?
For meals and drinks, they can return invitations at any time.

For example, that day Han Yi brought Xu Yiru a Trader Joe's, and within a few days, Xiaoru brought a lot of Whole Foods organic soaps and shampoos to Stella Della Road, causing Han Yi to grieve every day I am using this "natural cleanser" that doesn't even make bubbles.

As for Zhao Youzhen, this Korean girl is even more impatient. On the day Han Yi brought two bags of Whole Foods to her apartment to condolences to her, Youzhen had to drag her along and walk six streets to the Westwood business district south of UCLA, and treat him to dinner. A Boiling Crab as a "formal dinner".

It's not that she wants to eat!It's for paying back!

Although helpless, Han Yina, the two girls who pay special attention to maintaining independent femininity and never accept gratuitous gifts, really have no choice.

Because he really didn't know how to refute their good style.

"I beg you, ask for money, I'm waiting to get the reward"?
"Shut up and take my wallet"?
After nearly a month of planning and a week of secret implementation, all kinds of pretexts and excuses moved Mama Han out, which made Xu Yiru and Zhao Youzhen accept Hai Rui Winston's high-end jewelry with great pain.It is estimated that it is absolutely impossible to copy it again in a short time.

Therefore, Han Yi, whose shortcuts were blocked, could only continue to question his heart.

What else can make him have strong enough positive emotions to break through the 100% reward limit?
The last time I did this on myself was when I took pictures of No. 864 Stella Della Road, the top mansion in Bel-Air.

The purchase price of 3950 million U.S. dollars bought him 1.4 million U.S. dollars of Parkway Capital Fund.

350% return rate.

Although the reward was money that could only be used for business investment, it was still a very positive signal.

It seems that this kind of dream-level consumption that transcends the ordinary, and he didn't even dare to think about it in his previous life, can give him a doubled sense of pleasure, satisfaction, sense of accomplishment, and the actual bonus.

Of course, Han Yi knew very well that buying another property in Los Angeles, even if the amount was higher, would not achieve the effect of 864 Stella Della Road.After all, eating a cheeseburger for the first time might be considered a novel experience, but eating it the second time, it's only a meal.

Now that he's had a cheeseburger, he'll have to treat himself to a new sandwich.

And in which city was the most delicious sandwich he had ever eaten?

new York.

This was originally his favorite metropolis, bar none.

Just imagine, if you can buy a whole luxury apartment with a clear view in the city you love, with Central Park in the north, the Empire State Building in the south, the Hudson River in the west, and Brooklyn in the east, then...

The goosebumps rising up layer by layer and the tingling scalp let Han Yi know that he had found the most suitable consumption target.

There is no doubt that neither Xiaoru nor Yuzhen can take the trip to buy a house in New York with them.

After all, the 22-year-old fresh graduate first bought the $4000 million Bel Air Manor in just one quarter, and then threw in more than $300 million to build a career. The two girls, whose relationship was not confirmed, bought more than [-] million high-end jewelry as a meeting gift... No matter how you look at it, they are already three indigestible miracles.

If the two of them knew that they still had 4000 million spare cash to buy a house in New York...

Not even Jeff Bezos would spend money like this.

Therefore, Han Yi used the same rhetoric to Xu Yiru, Zhao Youzhen, and Madison Bill who didn't have the energy to rehearse without chatting with him every day - to go to New York to deal with the family property issue.

Vague enough and private enough.

"I can't help it this time."

Carrying her schoolbag and walking on Trusdale Parkway leading to the ANN teaching building, Xu Yiru bit her lower lip, lowered her head and stared at her phone, hesitated for a while, and then added something with her fingertips fluttering.

"But you should let Sister Youzhen go with you, it can help you."

Han Yi, who was sipping orange juice on the plane, suddenly felt that the drink in his hand was sour.

He smiled and shook his head, patted the non-existent dust on his legs, stood up, raised his mobile phone and took a 360-degree surround video in the cabin.

"It's better to do things at home by yourself."

Don't worry about affecting other passengers, because he is the only passenger on the plane.

Yes, in order to fully experience the experience of purchasing assets, keep the current self high all the time, and get the strongest positive feedback layer by layer, Han Yi did not choose the usual first-class ticket, but directly booked a ticket. Private charter.

The last time he visited New York, Blade's all-round considerate service from the ground to the sky left a good impression on Han Yi. Therefore, for this trip, Han Yi also directly contacted Blade through Olivia to plan the itinerary of the private jet. to this New York company.

However, Blade does not routinely fly private jets on the Los Angeles-New York route.In fact, considering various factors such as passenger flow and profitability, BladeOne, Blade's private charter service, only opened seasonal regular routes between New York and Palm Beach, a resort for rich people on the East Coast.

Every year from November to April, when wealthy New Yorkers migrate south in droves, BladeOne will open private jet seats to these high-end customers at an average price of $2750 per seat, with a single flight limited to [-] seats.

Therefore, if you want to travel from New York to other cities, you must make an appointment in advance for personalized customized services.

In other words, in order to book a Bombardier CRJ200 between Los Angeles and New York, Han Yi had to pay the round-trip price for 16 seats in one go.

Even with the round-trip discount and the Chase Private Bank customer discount, the final price quoted by the Blade came to $78000.

In 2016, the median annual income of American households was only $57617.

June is the off-season for BladeOne's private charter business, so Han Yi can still board the plane as scheduled even if he only made a reservation two days in advance.But the fly in the ointment was that because of time constraints, the capacity of LAX's private jets was already full, and Han Yi had to go north from Bel Air to meet his private crew at the general airport in Van Nuys.

The vast majority of private jets that take off and land over Los Angeles originate and end at the two runways of Van Nuys Airport.Therefore, although the facilities seem rather simple, those customers who will often use this airport don't care about the so-called terminal building, or whether there are Starbucks and Subway in the terminal building.

He was driven to the door by Feamu Derwig and entered the private terminal. After sitting on the white fabric sofa for a few minutes, the Bombardier CRJ200 that will be completely at Han Yi's disposal for the past two days slowly slid down to him. in front of.

Yes, that's right, literally in front of you.It was about tens of meters away from the floor-to-ceiling window in front of Han Yi.

Han Yi, who picked up his backpack and walked towards the tarmac, subconsciously looked back at the "Flexjet" Logo on the LCD screen of the terminal building.

If I guessed correctly, Blade should have rented the terminal of this company.

Maybe even the plane and crew are leased.

So next time...do you want to contact Flexjet?

Or, just buy your own private jet?

Judging by the emotions I feel now, the reward multiples that can be obtained by buying a private jet should not be much lower.

From boarding the plane with only a few dozen steps, Han Yi thought to himself when he saw the four female flight attendants who were obviously better than ordinary commercial airliners in all aspects.

As cheesy as it may sound, the feeling that every step of the way, from stepping through the gate to landing on the plane, is all about making the experience perfect for yourself...it's awesome.

Not only that, the meal prepared by Blade for Han Yi today is also claimed to be tailor-made by BladeOne restaurant according to his preferences.Of course, Han Yi knew very well that at least during the voyage from Los Angeles to New York, Blade should have entrusted Flexjet's LA local kitchen to do the meal service.

But what does this matter?

As long as the glass of orange juice in front of me is only slightly worse than the one in the lobby bar of the Marriott Hotel, as long as the croissant I just ate is comparable to the smoked salmon and the appetizer at The French Laundry.

Smiling and nodding, Han Yi continued to reply Xiaoru's message after watching the red-haired flight attendant take away the plate in front of him.

"I forgot when I went to New York last time. Next time we have a chance to hang out together, we'll make this one...it's much more convenient."

I took another photo of the cabin and sent it over, emphasizing once again that I am alone.

"Hmph, who wants to go out with you again."

In Xu Yiru's voice, there was an equal amount of feigned dislike and unconcealed joy. I don't know how she managed to mix the two emotions together so well.

"There is no rest time between Spring and Summer, and I feel like I can't learn anymore."

Xu Yiru, who just happened to walk in front of the Tommy Troy statue, stretched and yawned.

"Especially, Summer's class actually has an early nine, Yaoshou."

"The class I choose, I have to finish it when I fall asleep."

Han Yi's humorous reply made Xiao Ru cover her mouth and chuckle.

"There are a total of twelve students in the class of the institute. If you close your eyes, the attendance points will be gone."

"That's right, the professor should always be staring at the best-looking one."

"Ouch—"

Xiao Ru put the phone to her mouth, with a sweet smile and a waxy voice.

"Is your mouth so sweet today?"

"The main reason is that the time to go to New York is too short this time, and I may not have time to buy you Dean & Deluca, so I praise you and make it up."

"You don't need to buy it for me, I haven't finished drinking the...coolant you had last time."

"What coolant, concentrate!"

"Okay, next time I come to my place, I'll make you drink coolant." Xu Yiru said to himself.

"You have a motorcycle."

Han Yi imitated Xu Yiru's tone and said this abruptly.

"I've turned on the airplane mode, and I'm taxiing, right now... Oh, no, it seems that I don't need to turn it on."

"If you don't drive it, I will drive it." Xiaoru hummed twice, "It's time for class, let's talk later."

After finishing speaking, she had already sat in the classroom, and with a narrow smile on her face, she put the mobile phone with a full signal, and was still sending out Han Yi's news one by one, back into her schoolbag.

Not only because of this number one obedient student in Tianzi, he would never be distracted by other things during class.

Also because it is really pleasant to bully Yi Yi once in a while.

When Xiao Xiao finished class and spoke to Han Yi again, the latter had already flown over the Great Lakes.Private jets typically fly a little further north than regular commercial flights between Los Angeles and New York.The large airliners of Delta Air Lines or American Airlines can pass directly over Indiana and Ohio, and enter the airspace of New Jersey and New York from Pennsylvania.In order to avoid the nearly non-stop relay of 23 flights in the air, the private plane needs to circle over Michigan, pass through Canadian airspace, and directly enter the New York state border.

Similar to the situation in California, due to temporary reservations, Blade was unable to coordinate the parking slots of the JFK general aviation terminal for Han Yi's flight, so the plane could only fly in Tetborough, which is under the jurisdiction of New Jersey. This is also a general airport with private charter flights and business charter flights as its main business.

Traveling across state lines may sound like a hassle, but Teterboro Airport is only 12 miles from downtown New York.Take I-80 and turn to I-95 N, enter Manhattan from the George-Washington Bridge, and then go down the Hudson River along the West Side Highway to the exit of West 56th Street, perfectly avoiding all the traffic arteries in New York, waiting for Han Yi to take it When the Mercedes-Benz S550 provided by the hotel arrived at the destination, it took less than 10 minutes for the entire ground journey.

Looking down at the gray carpet with the four words PARK HYATT NEW YORK written under his feet, Han Yi walked quickly into the front lobby on the first floor under the welcome of the concierge manager, went to the lobby on the third floor and took the elevator again, skipped the check-in process and entered directly Sky Terrace Suite on the 19th floor facing the Central Park side.

The Sky Terrace Suite is not the best room type in the Park Hyatt New York. There are three higher-standard suites above it, the Carnegie Suite, the Presidential Suite and the Royal Suite.However, Han Yi, who is quite familiar with New York, has never had a good impression of Park Hyatt, which in his mind is the world's most flashy Park Hyatt. Zhao Youzhen, who has lived here once in person, is also very difficult to give praise against his will.

why?
It is true that it is adjacent to Central Park, but the hotel rooms only reach the 25th floor. In Manhattan, which is full of tall buildings, this is no different from flat ground.Whether it was the Royal Suite or the Sky Terrace Suite where Han Yigang stayed, the view of the Central Park was completely blocked by the JW Marriott Essex House in the front row.

Park Hyatt himself was aware of this criticized shortcoming, so he took an apartment on the 59th floor of the same building and made it into a Manhattan sky suite separated from the hotel.It does have unobstructed panoramic views of Central Park, but it's nearly three years away from its official opening. Han Yi, who moved in in the middle of 2016, can only cross all the buildings on West 19th and 58th Streets on the terrace on the 59th floor, and glimpse a small part of the incomplete Central Park.

However, Han Yi, who has always been very strict with the landscape of luxury hotels, didn't care too much this time.

Because the reason why he chose to stay at the Park Hyatt Hotel in New York was not for its scenery, but for its location.

When I came to New York this time, all the houses to see were directly above the Park Hyatt Hotel.

Oh, yes, forgot to introduce...

57 West 157th Street, where the Park Hyatt New York is located, is officially called One57.

The 1st to 25th floors are managed by Park Hyatt, the most high-end brand under the Hyatt Group, with a total of 210 rooms.The 26th to 90th floors are all residential units, with only 135 units, an average of two units per floor.

"Started construction in 2009 and completed in 2014, here is the starting point of Billionaire's Row."

Ryan Selhunter, who had lunch with Han Yi at a table for two by the window of The Living Room restaurant in the Park Hyatt Hotel, introduced that with him on the real estate TV reality show "Million Dollar Real Estate in New York" and personal The tone is the same in the YouTube channel’s luxury real estate introduction video.

Now 32 years old, with short silver-gray hair as his symbol, he is not only a well-known reality show host, but also a genuine luxury real estate agent.Since entering the industry in 2008, in the 8 years of working time, Ryan Selhunter has successfully established himself as the most popular TV station through in-depth cooperation with Bravo TV station and frequent appearances on CNN, CNBC, FOX, ABC and CBS. The real estate agent favored by the billionaire has also made his real estate agency SERHANT the partner—even the exclusive partner—of most luxury real estate in Manhattan.

A considerable part of the apartments in One57 that are still on the market, especially those favored by Han Yi, are assets exclusively managed by Serhant.In fact, Ryan Selhunter has not personally watched many times in the past two years, because he not only needs to shoot reality shows and make content for his YouTube channel, but also talks about a new project with Bravo in recent months. A spin-off of the real estate show.These itineraries alone are enough to keep him busy.

But today is different.

"awesome."

Han Yi put down his silver fork and patted his palms lightly twice.

"It's a wonderful feeling... I feel like I'm in New York, and I feel like I'm at home watching your YouTube channel."

"Haha, many customers say that."

Ryan Selhunter grinned, spread his hands and smiled.Unlike his Beverly Hills counterpart, Brandon Williams, Ryan Selhunter took a nuanced, caring, human approach.The wording is very large, the tone sounds particularly exaggerated, and there are often pauses and sentence breaks to heighten and exaggerate the dramatic effect, but Ryan Selhunter's way of speaking does not arouse disgust.

Eight years of hard work is enough to make an elite real estate agent more lovable than a late-night talk show host.

"Sometimes, some clients who have already bought a house from me will make an appointment with me to see the house a few more times. According to them, they just want to watch my free offline reality show for a few more hours."

"Maybe I came here for this reason too." Han Yi wrinkled his nose and replied jokingly.

"Any reason, any time, I welcome."

Although he responded in this way, Ryan Selhunter knew very well in his heart how terrible purchasing power this young Asian who looked more like a college student had.

The top luxury housing market is very small, Manhattan in New York, Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, Palm Beach in Miami, Presidio Heights in San Francisco... There are only so many ultra-high-end residential areas in the federal territory, which can manage tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars Brokers in dollar real estate are also rare.

Although the main battlefield is in New York, Ryan Serhant's SERHANT firm provides real estate brokerage services across the country and even the world. He is naturally familiar with the transactions on the West Coast, especially the Platinum Triangle. 3950 Stella Della Road, which was sold for US$864 million, is still the transaction price ceiling in the Platinum Triangle this year so far.You know, located in the core area of ​​Holmby Hill, the Delphine House of the department store tycoon Bloomingdale’s has a transaction price of 864 US dollars less than that of No. 75 Stella Della Road.

If everything moves forward according to the historical trajectory, in the second half of this year, Han Yi's name will be sold by Barbra Streisand to the dream estate of Detroit Pistons owner Tom Gores for US$1 million, and the price of US$9000 million Owl Forest Manor, which was sold, squeezed to the third place.

It is not difficult to find out the recent developments of Yi Han who bought a house under his real name. There is only one "Yi Han" who can match this kind of financial resources-the one who jointly acquired 1.9% of UTA shares with Parkway Capital for US$41 million.

Without searching any further, Ryan Selhunter can conclude that Han Yifei's visit to New York this time is definitely not a casual pastime.

If you really just want to be led around New York by real estate reality show celebrities to open your eyes, how could the goal be so clear?
Han Yi, who contacted Serhant through the concierge department of Chase Private Bank, even flatly rejected the list of classical luxury houses in the Upper East Side offered by the other party.

One57 on West 57th Street was the only investment he was interested in.

Just like purchasing in a supermarket, people wandering around will start to look at the first shelf, but those customers with a clear plan and budget will only go straight to the target booth.

For this kind of high-roller with a clear attitude and ready wallets, no matter how busy Ryan Selhunt is, he has to clear the appointment and squeeze out an afternoon to get the 3% from the entrusted seller today. Broker pip value.

"Then, Mr. Han..."

Thinking of this, Ryan Selhunter wiped the corner of his mouth and cut to the chase.

"While visiting One57 later, which listing should we start with? I'll ask my colleagues to communicate with the apartment and prepare first."

"We do the opposite of Drake, he climbs up from the bottom and we go down from the top."

Han Yi pointed to the ceiling above his head and said.

"I prefer an efficient way of doing things. Start with what you like the most. If you are tempted, just start directly. So..."

"Let's look at the set on the 79th floor first."

(End of this chapter)