Yuan Yicong, who works in an Internet factory, finally had a long-awaited weekend, and his tired and sleepy body told him that he had to take a slow nap. But before seven o’clock in the morning, he was awakened by a sharp knock on the door. He opened the door, pulling his face in annoyance, and was greeted by a complete stranger who claimed to be the landlord. The landlord, without beating about the bush, came up and explained his intentions, saying that he had not received any money for two months and wanted to see how the tenant could solve the problem.
Yuan Yicong, wrapped in his pajamas and full of fog, explained to the stranger that he had already prepaid half a year’s rent on an eggshell. The visitor’s mouth fell open and he said, “Well, we’re all loaded in. After saying that, he took out his cell phone and showed Yuan Yicong some news. After reading them, Yuan Yicong’s heart thudded, he sighed, and let the real owner of the house into the house. He couldn’t think of any solution, so he called the customer service number as his first reaction, but the receiver was a repetitive and irritating beep. Then he dialed the so-called housekeeper’s WeChat voice again, and the housekeeper, who was usually quite thorough and timely, began to be vague, as if nothing related to the “home” was in his possession. Within the scope of management.
Three years ago, Yuan Yicong graduated from a media school in Beijing and joined the company where he works. At first, he rented a local friend’s house, which was very large, the rent was not high, and the living environment was quite comfortable, but the only thing was that it was too far away from the company. In order to reduce his commuting time and focus on his work, he started to look for an apartment near his company.
During that time, he spent a lot of time every day looking for properties, considering the price/performance ratio, and checking the location. He finally chose an open room on an eggshell under the bombardment of subway ads. The company’s main business is to provide a wide range of products and services, and to provide a wide range of products and services to customers. “Yuan Yicong paid the rent for half a year at once, and then lived in peace of mind for a year. I’m not sure how much I’m going to be able to do this.
But when the lease was almost up, his attitude changed a bit. According to the platform, if you choose to renew your lease, the rent of the property will go up partially, but the service fee will be reduced proportionally. Yuan Yicong did the math and found that the price was still essentially going up. The first is that it’s not a big price change, and the second is that it saves a lot of hassle. He paid the rent for another six months and moved in.
In the process of living there, the news started to have negative news about the platform, among which the most is “borrowed” users who bet on one pay one, and many young people who are new to society inexplicably He carried a financial debt. But since Yuan Yicong had paid the money for half a year in one go, he was able to do so with a certain amount of confidence. But on the weekend of the first snowfall, everything changed, and the fees were unrecoverable, and even the next place to settle was unknown. When people were posting the snowy scenes around Beijing, Yuan Yicong sent out a weak message: “I hope you don’t rent eggshells, it’s too much, the authorities better do something about it.
The company has been in the process of developing the new product for the past few years, and has been able to offer a wide range of products and services to the market. Yuan Yicong, who majored in media, was indignant and went online to look up some relevant materials and joined a human rights community in the process.
He thought his situation was bad enough, but in the community, he found that there are many people who are worse off than he is. Yun Xiao, who had rented a master bedroom in Jinsong, was evicted by her landlord that night, and it took her, a recent graduate, a long night to find a place to stay. When he returned the next day, he found a note on his door with a number on it. He dialed the number, and was told that the house was unlivable, and that the agent already owed them more than ten thousand dollars.
The number of people in the group doubled in two days, and the number of questions in the group chat grew to include a wide variety of encounters. But every member of the group can only stare blankly, because none of them know what means to defend their rights, and none of them know who to look for to defend their rights. Of course, the biggest problem for the young “hitters” is that they don’t have the energy or the time to do it themselves, so most of them just add a token amount of money. So most of them just add groups and pretend that they have tried to defend their rights, and that’s the end of it.
After several fruitless calls to the official phone number, Yuan Yicong also surrendered. It’s a great way to get the most out of your time, but it’s also a great way to get the most out of your time. The only thing is, it’s not an eggshell. Yuan Yicong never expected that such a thing could happen to a listed company. It’s also a great way to get the most out of the company’s products and services. “
The young generation who are working hard in the city do not have high demands on housing, and sometimes a bedroom of less than ten square meters can accommodate all their needs. In fact, in those small spaces that have been divided up, not only the necessities of life are placed, but also a certain degree of security is given to people living in foreign countries. Nowadays, this group of people has not yet achieved the goal of “happy work”, and the basic The desire to be “comfortable” is compromised. Faced with this dilemma, newcomers to society have no choice but to stand on their hands and grumble on social media.
Three to five years ago, there was a rapid growth of rental platforms with the support of capital. At that time, young people were convinced that the era of convenient, fast and beautiful rental housing was coming. But no one thought that underneath the seemingly elegant and warm decor, there were many unstable factors hiding: vicious bidding, seizure of the housing stock, lack of credit, etc. These should have been the expansion capitalists. These problems, which should have been borne by the expanding capitalists, were all coincidentally transferred to the younger generation. For these people, buying a house is a distant dream at the moment, and renting a house seems to be a dangerous game. ** life order is disrupted not to say, we had no doubt about the morality, contract and rights, but also in this silent intermediary escape incident, was dissolved. **
Admittedly, today is an age of packaging preferences, and business people are more willing than ever to talk about dreams, the future, and the many possibilities of life. The younger generation, however, does not seem to need the fanciful rhetoric, they just want a simple place to stay to store up the uncertainty, fatigue and pain of the metropolis. Many people, like Yicong Yuan, have chosen rental housing as a transitional stage in their lives, where they can accumulate their initial wealth while moving on to new goals. Unfortunately, on the way to progressing, they fell victim to the problem of renting an apartment.
After the weekend, Yuan Yicong took two days off and moved out of his eggshell apartment as quickly as possible, not wanting to cause trouble for his landlord, nor did he want to get into trouble again with all the trivial matters that followed. He sat on the bed in his new apartment, staring at the boxes full of moving items, and wondered how it had all come to this. He didn’t know how to smoke, so he lit up a cigarette and suddenly remembered that a similar thing happened a year or two ago: a bike-sharing company called Ofo took his 199 RMB deposit, and he’s still in the queue.
Yuan Yicong made a development yesterday: with the problems with housing and transportation, will food and clothing be far away? Where should we go when long term rental apartments are leaving? The winter in Beijing is too cold.
(Yuan Yicong, Xiao Yun, and Zhao Pu are all pseudonyms in this article)
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