Coquettish Rebirth

The name of the inserted organization is called "Times Square Alliance". In short, this alliance is a "ownership committee" composed of owners of various households in Times Square. At the same time, this "ownership committee" also has official People come in to instruct.What is the purpose of this "Times Square Alliance" stepping in?That is, they asked Jia Hongjian that if he wanted to buy the No. 1000 Times Square building, he must first agree to a prerequisite-after the purchase, the main load-bearing structure of the building should be reinforced, and then the outer wall should be beautified. Only if it is less than [-] million US dollars, and if Jia Hongjian agrees, then after he buys it, he will sell it in the future. The Times Square Alliance can also stand up and make a request. If the other party agrees, then the building can be sold Lose!To be honest, when Jia Hongjian heard about this, he was very upset-although repairing the house was something that should be done, when did someone force him to do it?

Then, Jia Hongjian realized that he wanted to enter Times Square and become the owner of a building. He did not simply pay for it. There were many rules. For example, on the one hand, there was a Branches, called the Times Square Advertising Alliance.What is this ad network doing?In short, it is to take away everyone's billboard management rights and sales rights, and then carry out unified advertising sales.This is your sister!When he came here to buy advertising time slots, he thought he had signed directly with the company under the old man Michael!He thought that advertising alliance was the name of the old man's own company!As a result, looking at it now, it turned out to be such a big organization!

Such a big pot meal organization.From a certain point of view, it is indeed a bit bad for Jia Hongjian - because Jia Hongjian's building is in a good location, so if they sell advertisements by themselves, the price must be one of the most expensive!After all, every New Year's Eve, the countdown and the opening of the big ball are in their building!If everyone sells it together, then it might become a big pot, and it will become everyone's average score. Why should Jia Hongjian follow the average score with a bad position?

"Because of unequal scores, some people will have low-price competition..." The Advertising Alliance answered Jia Hongjian's question in this way.Well, it is.On the one hand, such an alliance is a big pot of rice.On the other hand, it is to let everyone form a price alliance, so as not to say that they compete with each other, from this point of view.It's a bit like fighting against foreign groups.at the same time.Such an advertising alliance is only in Times Square.So there is no such thing as a monopoly—anyway, there are a lot of billboards in other places in the United States and even in New York. If you have the ability, don’t come to Times Square to advertise!

What about this advertising network, in addition to mandatory membership.In addition to not being allowed to buy a property if you don't join, it is also beneficial-as an organization that everyone spends money to support every year, it is indeed serving everyone.They will count the annual passenger flow, every year!Then use these passenger flows to conduct various analyzes, and finally use the analyzed figures to persuade the merchants to pay more!For example, the advertising alliance has now shown Jia Hongjian a piece of data—according to their statistics, by the beginning of 2000, and the entire year before that, that is, the entire year of 1999, the number of visitors to Times Square was around 5600 million !So, if advertising is carried out according to this number of people, if Jia Hongjian's building obediently joins the membership, then it can get about 1240 million US dollars in advertising revenue a year!And they still promise to sell it at this price!Of course, this price will have to pay taxes later, and then there will be a certain fee for the advertising network to operate or something...

Jia Hongjian thought for a while, no wonder the building in Times Square is sold cheaply. With so many conditions and outsiders wanting to intervene, if it is sold at an expensive price, especially if it is worth a billion dollars, someone will buy it. ?How can it be!Moreover, it is also restricted that repairs must be carried out after purchase, even if someone from the construction department has proved that there is nothing wrong with the main structure of the building!Of course, the main reason for the low price of this building is that the area of ​​the building itself is small, making it almost like a matchbox or a cigarette box, and the old man is probably not optimistic about the future, thinking that the risk is too great...

After thinking about it, Jia Hongjian said that we still have to buy it!Although there are many requirements and conditions, but after all, more than 1000 million US dollars per year?After paying the tax, why not spend tens of millions or one hundred million yuan a year?Not to mention anything else, just from the perspective of profit, then this investment is indeed worth it!And as the saying goes, do as the Romans do, and this Kata is not Jia Hongjian's territory. When he is in his territory, he must not follow his rules?However, although he said he wanted to do as the Romans do, Jia Hongjian was puzzled by one thing—he had thought about converting this building into a residence, but sometimes some old buildings may be restricted by the government for use or even for sale. of!

Needless to say, those that restrict trading are often cultural relics. It would be troublesome to change the owner, even if it is private!Then there are some century-old buildings and so on. Although there may be no restrictions on buying and selling, Jia Hongjian vaguely remembers that there was a post on the Internet in later generations, talking about an old building in the United States like an old castle or something, saying that it was for sale, and the price was not high. Expensive, about a million dollars or so, anyway, it is not exaggeratedly expensive!At that time, many domestic netizens said that buying a villa in China at this price is worse than buying a castle in the United States!As a result, I learned after popular science that the United States has many restrictions on ancient buildings, such as annual repairs, which must be paid for!Even if the new owner bought the house and land, but the building is not well repaired later, the government can take the new owner to court to lose money!

So it's completely bullshit to say something like "the wind and rain can enter but the king can't"!You must know that in the United States, even the lawns in front of the "one-story houses" where ordinary people live, they have to be cut!That's right!Even if the house is your own, even if the lawn is your own, but you have to cut it!Because if you don't cut it, it will be "unsightly", and then people in the whole community will be furious, and they will come to your door one by one to accuse you of not mowing the lawn!This is what the Chinese think.Mother's house was bought by Lao Tzu, and the lawn belonged to Lao Tzu. I don't care about your business if I don't repair the lawn?I lost the lawn in one fire, and if the police uncle doesn't arrest us, why do you care?But people can say that your lawn is not done, which affects the image of the entire community, which is affecting the appearance of the city!Damn!Who said America is a free country?There is no freedom in this country not to mow the lawn!

So at this time, of course Jia Hongjian had to ask about the rules carefully.After all, he does not live in the United States permanently, so how can he know the various "hidden rules" of the United States.As a result, when I asked, I found out that the money spent was not just the 1.5 million US dollars on the surface—the appearance of this building was also restricted by the entire alliance.At the earliest time of the year.The appearance of these buildings is similar to that of the Empire State Building, with cement exterior walls and the simplest windows.And now such a building has a glass curtain wall, why did it become like this?Because the "Professional Committee" requires everyone to keep pace with the times!Because Times Square is not the Empire State Building, Times Square is the best commercial center in the United States.That is the most concerned trend center in the world!So here must keep up with the times!So if the owner committee decides to change the exterior wall layout and decoration of each house.Then Jia Hongjian and the other owners must agree unconditionally.And invest in a remodel ASAP!

It feels like your sister has found a group of relatives, right?I feel that we have spent money and have not enjoyed the treatment of the uncle, but have become grandchildren.Not only to spend money but also to serve people?Of course, this feeling only lasted for a while, and Jia Hongjian soon figured it out, and he did this for everyone's benefit—after all, only bright colors can attract people!Just like when the New York government stipulated that Times Square must install a large number of billboards, the owner may wonder why your government is in charge of the billboards. Is it okay if I don’t put billboards?But I was really obedient and left according to other people's rules. After a long time, Times Square has indeed changed, and it is true that the income of the owners has increased!

But the only good news is that the owner's committee does not restrict owners from changing the use of their buildings, and they don't even care how many companies or brands are in the building.Even if Jia Hongjian was so full that he wanted to convert their Matchbox Building into a shopping mall, it would be fine, but the general rent floor must comply with the regulations of the property committee—also to prevent low-price competition among themselves. !

Regarding Jia Hongjian's idea of ​​changing the building into an apartment, the property committee said that they didn't care. Jia Hongjian himself liked to change it, but he couldn't change the appearance of the building in a big way, generally repair and beautify the design. After coming out, the construction can only be done after the nod of the industry committee.What about the others?But obviously people in the business committee seemed to think that what Jia Hongjian wanted to change was the kind of super high-end luxury apartment with one or a few households per floor, which was rented out for others to live in, not for himself.Jia Hongjian didn't bother to explain it too clearly. Anyway, the owner's committee had already talked about love, so why did he say so much?

Ever since, after agreeing to so many prerequisites, it was finally time to bargain.Jia Hongjian said, since the other party has so many prerequisites, even if the other party's $1.5 million is a reasonable price, he will feel uncomfortable if he doesn't cut it down!He is used to being an uncle, and when facing the most senior leaders in China, he can not dump the other party, he can show the other party's face, but when your sister comes to the United States, she still wants to be the grandson of the business committee?He is full of anger all over his body, he can't find a place to vent it!So this price must have become a vent!

Then, after entering the stage of bargaining, Jia Hongjian directly changed the asking price of 5000 million to 500 million!The angry old man Michael turned around and was about to leave!The old man didn't know the Chinese people's bargaining methods at all, that is, the intermediary company stopped him desperately, and the old man didn't make it in the end.Seeing this, Jia Hongjian raised the price a little bit higher, to [-] million US dollars... Then he said, whether he likes to sell it or not, anyway, he has the last bid, if he doesn't want to sell it, he will go Man, the girl in the hotel is about to wake up, and he has to go to the New Year's Eve with her! (To be continued..)