Buying a house had become a bit urgent, but making a down payment was absolutely feasible. However, she was currently part of the group with no stable job, and the bank would not lend to her.
The price of a second-hand house in the community where she now lived had to be at least 1,500 yuan. The Liu Family’s house was sold for 1,500 yuan.
Being close to West Lake, even though they were old houses, they were situated in a school district and in a good location near hospitals and schools. To tell the truth, at a price of one thousand and five hundred, it really wasn’t high. She hadn’t asked the landlord, but she would ask later if the landlord was interested in selling the house.
The house she lived in was not big, just a one-bedroom, one-living-room apartment, less than sixty square meters. The auntie living across from her had a two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment, about eighty square meters.
If calculated at 1,500 yuan per square meter, sixty square meters would also need ninety thousand yuan, plus all the miscellaneous expenses needed for property transfer. Or the owner might demand a lump sum of one hundred thousand yuan.
Unexpectedly, her landlord had no intention of selling the house, but the family living above Aunt Wang wanted to sell theirs—an eighty-two square meter, two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment with a rather large living room. The selling price was 1,600 yuan per square meter. Although this price was higher than that of the Meng Family’s, it matched the situation of this community. The Liu Family sold theirs cheaply because they urgently needed money. Gong Mingxia estimated this apartment, including all the expenses and the fact that the owner was giving away furniture and appliances for free because they were moving abroad, and found that the price was really good.
Gong Mingxia couldn’t help but be tempted, but what should she do without so much money at hand?
Borrowing money was absolutely out of the question, so the only option was...
Gong Mingxia recorded two more songs, and these tracks were pop songs from the future Japan and South Korea. This time, she did not choose the previous record company but mailed them to two other record companies with potential for growth.
Within five days, she had a response. Not only did they agree to her guaranteed signing fee, but they also brought the money to her door, and coincidentally, they met each other.
Fortunately, the tracks were not the same; otherwise, there might have been a fight. However, this also indirectly raised their caution. The two parties negotiated together, precisely because she wanted to see how much they were willing to offer.
In the end, she pushed them to raise the price to seventy-thousand yuan per song, meaning that the two companies together provided just enough for her to buy the apartment upstairs.
However, because of this, she went against her original intention to only earn money from two songs per year, so she planned to release only one next year and not any more this year. This was also to avoid being too opportunistic, as this year was all about buying the house, which was a rare opportunity.
By securing three guaranteed contracts all at once, and with a percentage of five percent after passing the guarantee threshold, whether they would give her a profit share or not, for the opportunistic Gong Mingxia, it was all profit.
With these 140,000 yuan, Gong Mingxia immediately approached the second floor’s landlord to buy their house.
This action shocked Aunt Wang greatly. Gong Mingxia said apologetically, "I’ve contacted all the relatives and friends I could and have borrowed such a large amount of money. As you know, I don’t have a formal job and can’t get a loan, so I could only borrow, and I wrote IOUs for each lender. I have to pay interest to each, but for my child to go to school, I have to give it my all."
Aunt Wang didn’t doubt the truth of her words, because if she hadn’t borrowed the money, where else could she have gotten such an amount?
Although she didn’t know how much the child could earn daily, a hardworking child’s luck is generally not too bad. So, with Aunt Wang serving as a mediator, they managed to lower the price to one hundred and thirty thousand yuan. After half a month of haggling, the property was finally transferred to Gong Mingxia’s name. Content originally comes from novel⸺fire.net