Star Tycoon

Chapter 34 Collection Price

The next morning, Tian Ersan went out early.

Seeing the three old women coming to work again, Tian Ersan inquired about the neighborhood.

"Who owns these houses next to mine? Can you contact them?"

An elderly woman working said, "The three rooms on the south side belong to my son-in-law."

Upon hearing this, Tian Ersan squatted down and asked, "Is this house for sale or not?"

Grandma Li's family is from the county, but they are not wealthy. The old street has been in decline for more than 20 years, and the few thousand yuan from that time is not worth much now.

Family members either go out to work or run small businesses in the county. They wouldn't want this kind of dilapidated house for their children's weddings or schooling.

"How much will you pay me?"

Tian Ersan smiled and said, "It's definitely more than what they'll get for demolishing the house across the street. They'll get 700 yuan per square meter for demolishing the house across the street. My house, with its three rooms in front, yard, and back building, is only two or three hundred square meters."

"One square meter costs 700, ten square meters costs 7,000. Look at this dilapidated house, it only has three low rooms. Each room is at most 20 square meters, and the three rooms together only amount to 60 or 70 square meters."

"They'll only give me 50,000 yuan at most when the land is demolished, but if they sell it to me, I'll give them 60,000 yuan!"

Grandma Li looked dazed and thoughtful, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "I have to ask."

Tian Ersan casually said, "Go ask around. You won't be shortchanged on your wages today. If you don't believe me, go ask around in Luxili and see how much other people pay for a nice house, and how much your shabby house is worth."

"Okay!" Granny Li quickly got up and went home, intending to make a phone call to ask.

At this moment, Granny Xu, who was sitting and working nearby, said, "I also have a house nearby, with a big yard. Do you want it?"

Tian Ersan casually asked, "East side of the road or west side? The west side is going to be demolished, I don't want it."

Grandma Xu quickly said, "It's in Ludongli, just a few steps away from us, in the back, four rooms away from your building."

Tian Ersan recalled that there weren't many good houses near the entrance, but there were quite a few buildings behind them.

There were shops in front of the building, and building a house would interfere with business. The building was later heightened to accommodate more students and make more money.

However, after the street fell into disrepair, many wealthy people went to the county to buy apartment buildings with elevators, leaving behind only the less affluent.

Now, ten or twenty years later, there aren't many buildings being built anymore.

Tian Ersan doesn't have enough funds and can't afford to buy a house.

"You can just wait for your multi-story house to be demolished and redeveloped; I can't afford to buy it."

Grandma Xu quickly said, "Just give whatever you think is fair. I heard that some people who were being relocated didn't give money, refused to sell their land and sign contracts, and even beat someone to death."

Tian Ersan never expected that group of people to be so unscrupulous.

Upon hearing this, Grandma Li became even more frightened. She quickly went home, picked up her four- or five-year-old mobile phone, and called her daughter.

"That house is really dilapidated, let's just sell it, so we don't have to see those bastards again."

Upon hearing this, the daughter said, "Even the most dilapidated three-room house by the roadside would cost over ten thousand yuan, how could it only be sixty thousand?"

Grandma Li said, "I don't know. You tell me whether you'll sell it or not."

The daughter quickly said, "Chengcheng needs money for school and money for his wedding. The price of an apartment in the county center with an elevator is already 4,000 yuan per square meter. Those three rooms will cost at least 150,000 yuan!"

Grandma Li didn't know how much it cost, but she knew other things.

Do you still remember staying at Gao Fang's house on the same street when you got married?

The daughter asked, "How much did they sell their house for?"

Grandma Li said anxiously, "They've taken over! They pried open the door and moved in without even asking. There was a demolition incident in Luxili where someone was beaten to death. This place is so chaotic, I don't want to live here anymore." Upon hearing this very negative news, Grandma Li's daughter, son-in-law, and grandson all came to inquire about the situation.

There are many acquaintances on both sides of the road, and after asking each other and finding out the truth, they are even more worried.

Especially after learning that the land acquisition price was only 700 yuan per square meter, no one wanted to sell their homestead.

Besides the residential land, there is also dry land, with less than 30,000 yuan per mu.

Tian Ersan rode his electric scooter out to buy food and saw demolition workers already working at the intersection on the west side of the road, 900 meters away.

The excavator has already demolished the outer wall of the rural courtyard. This is the road leading to the county from the crossroads. Many people usually pass through here. There are also vendors selling vegetables and breakfast along the roadside, as well as many restaurants serving mutton and dog meat.

The restaurants are all old and run-down, and the buildings are all 20 or 30-year-old houses that have been rented out for years to make money.

Tian Ersan met the breakfast stall owner who was closing up shop.

"Are the breakfast items sold out?"

The shopkeeper said, "There's still some left."

Tian Ersan quickly paid for breakfast for eight people.

If you can't finish it, you can eat it at noon.

"How come the demolition is happening so quickly?"

The boss, used to this, said while busy working, "Let's demolish a few houses first, ruin their businesses, and then it'll be easier to take back the land."

After getting a bowl of tofu pudding, the owner continued to grumble.

“After that, not many people came to this street. I think the supermarket at the intersection is not doing well either. It takes three or four years to build houses in the county. In those three or four years, people have left.”

"You mean demolish so many houses? Can everyone live there? Most people in the county have gone out to work, so there aren't many people left to begin with."

Tian Ersan smiled and said, "Who can say for sure about these things? Boss, are you not going to set up your stall here anymore?"

The boss said, "The workers nearby need to eat too, right? Let's hold on for a few more days and see. If it doesn't work out, we'll find another place."

After buying the food, Tian Ersan didn't say anything more and went back to eat.

There is no shortage of breakfast stalls or restaurants in the county.

There are plenty of people who can cook, and there are also many mobile vendors riding tricycles, carrying buckets of mixed noodles, tofu pudding, zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), porridge and the like, hawking their wares everywhere.

In small towns, people earn their money through hard work, and there are many who work hard but still can't make any money.

When Tian Ersan returned with the food, Granny Li was already waiting for him.

"Boss, my daughter said it has to be 150,000, otherwise she won't sell it."

"Then I won't buy it." Tian Ersan smiled and said in a friendly manner, "I'll just rent it for a month. Anyway, the house is just sitting idle. I'll rent three rooms for six hundred yuan and I'll even clean the house for you. It's a good deal."

Grandma Li said anxiously, "Aren't you going to buy it?"

Tian Ersan smiled sincerely, "They're about to demolish the houses, who would still buy them here? When I went to the intersection to buy food just now, all those restaurants and shops at the intersection had been bulldozed. The perfectly good houses have been turned into rubble. If you don't believe me, you can go and see for yourself."

Renting is worse than buying. Dilapidated houses in small towns have no investment value, especially in bad locations, where nobody wants them.

Grandma Li quickly called her daughter and son-in-law again.

Unfortunately, Tian Ersan still chose to rent a room, and in the end, Grandma Li's son-in-law earned six hundred yuan with tears in his eyes.

After shipping the goods in the morning, Tian Ersan asked several old women to clean the three rooms while he went out to look for business.

(End of this chapter)