In 2003, After dropping out of junior high school, Li followed relatives to the city to work, and worked as a barber for 12 years. In 2015, Ali and his wife decided to buy an apartment in order to send their 3-year-old son to school, taking nearly 300,000 yuan saved over 10 years.
After 1 month, two people with full money 320,000, bought a 90 square metre, the secondhand room of two rooms two hall, although be close small area, but because the location is bad, total price is not high also. At the beginning of 2018, my wife gave birth to a second child. With two more elderly people to take care of the children, the house became cramped and it was obviously impractical to buy another large one, so I had to trade small for large one.
This year, the real estate market in the small town is very hot, intermediary second-hand house prices every day in dilly Dally to go up, late a day to pay a lot of millions, without delay, A li hurriedly contact intermediary company.
The news from the agent was encouraging. Within three days, the house was sold for 1.15 million yuan — making more than 800,000 yuan in just three years. Mr. Li negotiated with his current landlord for 2,200 yuan a month until he moved out and began looking for a new house.
1
At that time, a regular customer in the shop just bought a new house, XX Washington, also be enclosed community, the double entry structure of two floors period room, each floor is more than 90 level, hand in work next year.
“Double entry? Amazing! It’s only a garden less than a terraced house. Isn’t it expensive?” Alex asked as he cut his hair.
“Not expensive, unit price is more than 9000 square metre, and fine decorate.”
“Impossible, now a lot of places blank want 10 thousand above, your fine decorate just this price, tease us to play!” At this price, the customers in the shop couldn’t sit still.
“Really, this project opened before the housing price in our city went up. The market was not good and the housing price could not be sold. Now the housing price in the city has gone up, but they have already reported the price to the HOUSING Authority and the housing price cannot be changed. But if you buy it now, it should make you pay more…”
Still have this kind of good thing, A li hastened to ask guests to the property address, the next day in the past. Within an hour, Li and his wife had booked a house, which was exactly the same as the customer said. The total price was 2.32 million yuan, including an extra 100,000 yuan in “optional room” on the basis of the original price. With a down payment of 30%, The contract was signed and the new house was bought, only waiting for delivery in March 2019.
That day, li very excited, from the sales center built a new house owners group, at the beginning of the group of three people, he is group manager, the other two are to introduce him to buy a house guests. In the course of a single morning, the crowd soon passed the hundred as they were being dragged back and forth. Ali let everyone change the remarks name to the room number, later we are neighbors, what can be exchanged between each other.
We often discuss the development progress together, and everything is in good order. By October, the decoration has been basically completed, leaving only the residential greening has not begun.
However, everyone’s dream of a mansion was soon shattered by a few photos.
On October 10, a landlord in the group stole into the scene of the decoration of the new house and took a few photos and posted them in the group. There was a lot of rubbish, except for the white walls in the photos, the rest of the decoration materials seemed to be of a very worrying quality. For example, in a photo, the stairs of indoor wooden structure are not only made in a rough way, but there is a thin layer of glass under the handrail, which is definitely a safety hazard for families with children. And decorate a style, use the words of owner in the group, it is “farmer rents a room style”.
The crowd exploded, and within minutes hundreds of WeChats were pouring out:
“This decoration doesn’t look anything like a model house.”
“Development business is a vampire, know cut corners, which will tube owners dead or alive.”
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At the beginning, he just joked about the poor quality of the decoration, but later he became more and more excited, venting his dissatisfaction with a full screen of dirty words. Finally, someone shouted a voice: “X fuck, to make, all to make, let them stop work, rectification, when the time comes not to put on the appearance of the model house, Lao Tze will not spare them, a gang of wicked shameless trifle!”
There was unprecedented unanimity, with words like “stop, fix,” flashing red and bleeding across the screen.
The next morning at 9 o ‘clock, more than 100 owners gathered at the gate of the building, to discuss with the development, Ali was among them.
Everyone gathered in the sales office and other company to the person in charge, can see more than an hour past, the person in charge of the shadow did not see, we decided to go to the building site behind the sales office to see.
Just the night before a heavy rain, muddy around construction sites, the owners a foot deep one feet shallow ground walk into their new home, a see was dumbfounded, live less than those of the photos of real house door model not only, decorate a style, and serious example room, decorate quality is can’t say more, everybody out of the cell phone to take photos “evidence”.
Probably is the company finally discussed out the countermeasures, the sales at this time just rushed to tell the owners, the person in charge of the company in Beijing, tomorrow by plane back, the day after tomorrow morning at 9 o ‘clock to ensure to the sales office and all owners interview.
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After going back, the owners immediately elected five owners including Ali as representatives, we also quickly summed up the core demands of the owners: first, the owners whose house type is seriously inconsistent with the model house, should get the corresponding compensation; Second, the decoration quality is too poor, the requirements of a complete shutdown rectification, redecoration.
At 9 o ‘clock in the morning of October 15, the person in charge of the company appeared, surnamed Li, wearing a pair of gold-rimned glasses, looking very polite.
He wrote down the owners’ demands and told everyone that he would report back to the Headquarters in Beijing immediately, and the headquarters would meet overnight to give the owners a solution, in two days or at the latest in a week.
To show his sincerity, he also left his cellphone number with the owners’ representatives, so they could call him whenever they had ideas. Seeing that Mr. Li seemed so sincere, the owners finally agreed to give the real estate company one week to reply.
In the following week, the owners were quiet, waiting patiently, and the construction site was still under normal construction.
Can wait until the time limit arrived that day, that Li Total did not contact owner representative at all however, a few owner representative discuss, the decision takes the initiative to dial the telephone of Li total, who knows the other side unexpectedly extremely impatient to say a sentence: “in meeting, in discussion.” Then he hung up the phone.
The property owners are exploding again.
“They don’t have the sincerity to talk about, this help turtle grandson is to make delay tactics, think hurriedly complete, hand over a house and everything will be all right, how can manage our owner’s appeal, son of a bitch!”
“If the shutdown, when the time to delay the delivery of the room, they want to compensate our money, they can’t shut down.
“Go make trouble and smash their sales office!” “The owners shouted.
The agitation of the extremist speech once again brush the screen, suddenly a landlord asked, “Our company is not a real estate company? Why is it a strange name?”
People realized that they hadn’t really paid attention to this issue before. It turned out that the so-called XX company was not a serious real estate company at all, but a Cultural and media company in Beijing. Because I came to the provincial capital to make a movie, I heard that the real estate in the surrounding cities was still in the depression, so I temporarily registered a subsidiary company and participated in the land auction of the government to do real estate business. All the business of the company is outsourced, “to put it bluntly, it is a leather bag company”.
“Sue him! Sue the government! Sue the HOUSING Authority!” “Shouted the owners.
“Certainly can’t Sue, the law has no regulation again project can’t outsource.”
“What then? Are you going to let their real estate company run amok?”
There was a wail in the crowd.
“It is useless just to make a noise here. Now we should go across the sea and show our talents. We should investigate all aspects with our heart, find out the irregularities of the real estate company, take these materials to Sue him and then go to the HOUSING Authority.
A few days later, an owner sent a message: “According to the process, our real estate company should finish the rough houses and wait for the HOUSING Authority to inspect them. Only after they pass the inspection can we carry out the interior decoration. But our building blank did not let the housing Authority inspection, directly decorated, this is illegal operation, if we go to the housing Authority, a permit, can absolutely let them stop rectification.
This words out, boiling in the group, A li also feel his house is saved, followed by everyone shouted: “redecorate, compensation!” Wife in the side looking at group information, ask A Li: “you say that the real estate company ask us to want more than 100,000, calculate to violate the rules?”
A language awakened dreamers, A force quickly put their money to make more things in the group said, immediately have several owners response.
After a night of discussion and analysis, the second day early in the morning, the owners of the building at the gate of the assembly, decided to go to the housing authority.
3
It happened to be Monday at 8 o ‘clock in the morning, and the troops marched to the URA. After a morning of hard work, the URA decided to file a case. A section chief surnamed Ye received the report materials submitted by the owners (with all the owners’ signatures attached) and prepared for investigation.
The results of the investigation did not come out in a few days, really as the owner said, the real estate company illegal operation, blank did not conduct acceptance, without authorization to carry out internal decoration, the real estate company was put on record by the Housing bureau, ordered to stop work for rectification. The shutdown is scheduled for November 26.
This time, real estate company finally willing to take the initiative to find the owner, a self-proclaimed can represent the head office of zhang total in WeChat lire a small group, only he and the 5 owners including ali representative.
This time finally got the word clear — redecorate according to model room, it is absolutely impossible to do. According to the company, the amount of money is too large for them to spend. And in this way, the house must not be delivered on time, liquidated damages accumulated over a long period of time, the number of more and more big roll, but also can not afford to lose, finally the real estate company only bankrupt run away.
“You see, our company was not in the real estate business before, that is, we started to test the water from your building, a lot of real estate did not do well enough, I’m really sorry… We are not a big real estate company, how can there be so much capital flow, when our company goes bankrupt, your new house is unfinished, can’t live in, finally both sides mutually lose is not good.” “Mr. Zhang urged the representative.
Owner representative people also know this situation, big private calculate the amount of liquidated damages for house delay delivery. In front of 3 months is the total price of every day 10 thousand of 3 compensation, the back is 10 thousand of 2, only A li, a day of default will be more than 600 pieces, more than 200 households on tens of thousands of, plus the renovation, it is really to compensate for the company went bankrupt. Alex’s heart wavered.
“And how exactly are you going to make it?”
“Five percent of the total value of the house, that’s what the company means. If you agree, sign the agreement with our company, and then we can all go to the Housing Authority to remove the materials accusing us, we can immediately resume work, and then deliver the room on time, and you can directly carry the bag to move into the new house in March next year, won’t everyone be happy?” The owner’s representative was silent. No one answered.
Sure enough, the feedback from the real estate company made the group fried again, and most of the owners were too low to accept the compensation.
Looking at the group in the “building” continuously, A li could not help but say 1: “true redecorate, they want to take out tens of millions, the company’s people said, certainly can’t take out. We are so consumed, when the time came to make room period, liquidated damages every day to tens of thousands of, finally must be dragged bankrupt, how do we do then?”
As soon as the message was sent, someone jumped out and quarreled with Alex. They swore at each other and swore all night. After the argument, alex resigned from the group manager and the owner’s representative.
Alex separately added a total WeChat, saying that he could accept the compensation plan offered by the real estate company, but only on the condition that he should return the money of the previous 100,000.
Zhang zong agreed, but not be to return 100 thousand cash, give him extra however a parking space, the parking space sells for 120 thousand outside, come and go, oneself get 20 thousand cheapness instead, A Li agreed. Zhang Always let him wait for news, a few days parking contract done, can sign a contract directly, as for compensation, the company put the agreement done, inform A li to go to the company to sign, compensation must arrive before the year.
The owners quickly split into two groups.
The Radicals never agreed to the compensation plan and demanded that it be redecorated. The “moderates”, a group of people whom the radicals called spies and traitors, agreed to the compensation plan and intended to sign a compensation agreement.
Gradually, another group, the “check-out” group, grew up. That day, an owner of a moderating faction in the group said, “This is not the way to waste, a handful of real estate companies down, they ran away, then we really have nothing, think, or sign.”
The radical group attacked the property owner and finally searched his and his family’s personal information and disclosed it in the group. The property owner could not bear it any more, so he just asked to check out and the property company agreed.
After all, there are only a few people who want to check out their houses. In recent months, the housing price in the small city has increased by nearly 2,000 yuan per square meter. It is really not cost-effective to check out your house now. Ten days before the 2019 Spring Festival, A real estate company paid more than 100,000 yuan of compensation into Ali’s account and signed a parking space contract. Although the house was poorly decorated, the matter was so far gone that He could barely accept the result.
“Calculate, decorate bottomless hole, which have what good with bad, almost went, the mainest is to want to live in oneself house, that talented person sureness.” Alex had persuaded himself that the matter of the new house was now settled.
4
After the Spring Festival, one after another, property owners have signed up for compensation, and a few radicals have been holding out. He would shout in the group, basically swearing refresh, scolding the real estate company, and finally bring the owner who has signed the agreement, scolding them for being cowardly and devoid of backbone.
With the human flesh of the past, signed the agreement of the owners are silent, but also in private are scolding. Ali even felt that if the real estate company did run away one day, it would be caused by the “mad dogs biting people”.
Alex couldn’t let go of the house until he handed it in. Seeing the house deadline is approaching, but the matter is still pending, he almost every day to the real estate company for a variety of reasons around, afraid that the company one day empty.
“When exactly are you going to start? Haven’t many of you signed an agreement to get you back to work?”
“The numbers are not up to the mark, at least 70 percent. The owner that you sign also mobilizes mobilization in the group, we also urgent, the contract is the delivery period of March 31, have not returned to work on March 20 now, certainly cannot deliver the room, arrive In April, we really want to compensate breach of contract damages, will drag the dead.” Zhang always complained.
A Li is nasty, really drag estate company bankrupt, that is not what all have no? He quickly joined several owners who had signed up for compensation, and they all decided that they had to speak up and wake up the radicals.
At this point, the owner group no quiet day, you come and I go, lip gun and tongue war, scold ancestor 18 generations, also have reason, analysis of the current situation — finally, more and more owners realize that signing compensation agreement is the only way to solve the current dead situation, slowly, to sign more and more owners.
One day in April, Zhang told Li that more than 90 percent of the owners had signed up and that he would go to the HOUSING Authority to apply for a resumption of work. Ali felt that his efforts have finally paid off, a person silly happy for a long time.
In the evening, ali asked zhang zong, the housing authority there how, zhang zong after a long time just back to him a WeChat, “solve, in solve.” There was no more, and Alex had a vague sense that something was wrong.
Everyone in the group asked urgently what was going on with the URA, but no one could answer.
Not long after one night, a new customer came to the store to wash his hair, Alex chatted as usual, “It seems that you should not like a business, should be eating government food yo, Did I guess wrong?
“The boss is very good, this all let you see at once, I live authority of.”
Alex’s eyes lit up when he heard the word “URA”. “URA, what a nice unit… I want to ask you something. Have you heard of the building in XX Washington?” Alex hesitated, but could not help asking.
“How do you know about Washington? You bought a house with them too?”
Alex nodded helplessly.
“Oh…” The guest paused.
The guest said that he was a small clerk and the town was not big, so he happened to understand this case.
“More than 90 percent of our owners have signed an agreement allowing the real estate company to resume work. We don’t Sue them, so why don’t you let the real estate company resume work?” Eric asked.
“We told them to stop working, not because you sued him, but because you reported them for operating illegally in the building. Your report is true and we told them to stop. Therefore, it has nothing to do with the owner. How can an agreement agreed to resume the work be useful?”
“Well, well, what now?” Alex was tongue-tied and his face was white.
“Decoration knocked out all, let us check the blank, qualified on the resumption of work.”
“That get how much money, real estate company is not to want to be forced to run away, that now can let real estate company boss seek a relation, accommodation, you give dismiss a case?” Alex asked eagerly.
“Everything was all right before the case was filed. Now that it’s filed, do you think it’s possible? Now everything is into the computer, layer upon layer reported to the public, even if he found what big leaders to pressure us, we do not dare to withdraw ah. Now that information is so transparent, if anything happens later, it’s the person who signed the paper. I don’t know the others. If I were asked to sign it, I would never have done it. It would be too great a responsibility for me to bear.”
Alex said no more, but his back felt cold, his legs felt weak, and he could not hold the scissors.
“Boss, you also really enough unlucky, in the city so many real estate, how do you choose to buy his house.” The guest spoke no more, but closed his eyes and raised his mind.
Alex didn’t answer. He felt empty, like a zombie.
5
The news that the URA would not “remove the case” soon spread among the owners, and the crowd roared again.
Owners began to blame and abuse each other, it seems that all this has become a dead end, no one can untie, we are just vent through this way.
Suddenly an owner of the words, attracted everyone’s attention, “we this real estate, now make such appearance, how to finally seem to be the fault of our owners, because our owners sued the real estate company, make now the real estate can not check? How did we suddenly become the culprits when we were the victims?”
The new house is right in front of you. Why can’t you live in it
One language awakens dream middleman, other owner also responded to come over.
“Yes, clearly is a real estate company against the rules, blank acceptance directly decorate, this is wrong in them, and the housing authority is not right? Why the real estate company in broad daylight, dare to blatantly illegal decoration, our city on such a big fart place, the Housing authority did not know?” Other owners said.
“Go check, there must be something fishy going on between the real estate company and the HOUSING Authority!”
A few days later, the information of one owner in the group caught the attention of all the owners again. He told everybody that he learned from the many information in the real estate company a leader, a year ago just resign from live built bureau in the city, and real estate companies also mentioned before, they are not blank acceptance, because want to catch time limit for a project, is not is not clear process, “through this relationship must be a real estate company, let live built bureau to turn a blind eye, don’t test blank save time limit for a project, internal someone anyway, finally have to pass. Did not expect to be our owners finally stir up a hornet’s nest, everything on the table, their so-called relationship is not useful.
“No wonder there are so many county-level cities around the provincial capital, but the real estate companies are buying land to do real estate in our area. They are from the Housing Bureau.”
“Go, go to the city hall! Call in the housing company, the HOUSING Authority and put them in front of the government and see what they say.” One of the owners jumped out. “Rightness! To make!” Once again, the group swipes the screen.
The next day, in the city government’s letters and visits office, the staff called the person in charge of the Housing Authority and the person in charge of the real estate company to sit down together.
Owners have raised questions about the property company’s involvement with the AUTHORITY. The AUTHORITY’s representative promptly denied this, admitting that an employee resigned last year but that the authority had no power to interfere with where he took his post. As for some people living in the bureau because of his relationship, to the real estate company opened a back door, he asked the owners to show evidence, without evidence is nonsense; Of course, the real estate companies on the scene also firmly denied that they had given benefits to THE HOUSING Authority, but repeatedly stressed that, as previously said, it was my first time to do real estate, and I was not familiar with the process, which led to the major flaw in the decoration of this rough house without acceptance.
For a moment, the three parties quarreled bitterly.
“Houses are the foundation for the livelihood of our people. The municipal government, in conjunction with the Housing Authority and real estate companies, must come up with ways to solve this problem on the basis of legality.” Finally, said the director of the Letters and Visits office.
The letters and visits office also made the developer promise that if any owner wanted to check out, he would do so immediately. But who wants to leave? The price of the house had nearly doubled in the year they had been together, and Alex wasn’t going to check out anyway.
But then something interesting happened. The construction site began to resume work, and the greening began again. Does this mean that the government has acquiesced to developers’ violations? A Li is still holding out hope, in owner group and everybody communicated this news in time.
But soon the reality hit him once again, the owners group of someone told everyone, it is useless to resume work, the bureau of housing construction can of course turn a blind eye, but want to get the real estate certificate, you must check the blank, this is the regulation, even if all the residential area has been done, the blank has not been tested, the same also can not get the real estate certificate.
After that, some news came out from the group that the real estate company had found a better company with strong background and could deal with the HOUSING Authority and offered to sell the whole building to the company, but it didn’t go away for a long time.
Then there are those who say that the bosses of real estate companies have come up with a way to turn all the owners into partners in the development. Without buyers, the URA would not have to inspect the blanks. Alex listened to unreliable, as expected soon heard no follow-up.
“Be a person Zha so bitter yo, you again his mama be willing to stem, also uncertain which day to pour musty, this really make what son evil oh!” A li feel oneself to collapse, from a li last time to live in the construction bureau xiao Li haircut has been two months long, the site has been completed, the interior decoration, green residential area is good, poor delivery, Lin bao checked in.
But it is unclear when the owners will be able to move in.
One night after work, Alex and his colleagues went to have a late night snack. They drank two more glasses of wine, which made them a little drunk. Once his family fell on the bed. I haven’t been to the new house yet. I’m going to check on them. They have people in the sales office so I can rest assured that if they run away, it’s all over.”
“You are crazy! This is all night, developers are not run away from work also closed, you see a ghost yo. “Roared his wife, running after him.
Ali this just realize oneself of laughable, just want to turn around to lie on the bed, the wife again add a sentence: “you so everyday have what son use, house property card again have no, again live not to go in, before but live in own house, but now rent a house instead, this all be what son matter, ah……”
Alex fell to the ground. He really can’t figure out how to rely on a pair of hands to survive, how on this unfortunate matter. “The straw that breaks the camel’s back often comes unannounced.” On this day, one of Ali’s guests accidentally said this sentence, that moment, he felt that his new room is the straw, the top of his head.
Afterword.
For most of the year, Alex felt that it was only a matter of time before the real estate company ran away, even though he had to report there once a day.
Unexpectedly, on October 8, 2019, a text message was sent to his mobile phone:
“Hello, Li Li, the owner of XX Washington, the X-X-XXX property you purchased in our company has passed the inspection and acceptance of the Housing Authority. Please come to XX Washington on October 18 for the relevant matters of house acceptance.” The information is signed by the original real estate company.
A Li froze on the spot in situ.
At first, he didn’t tell anyone except his wife about the message, because he couldn’t believe it himself. Until everyone in the group said they had received the message and they all went to the sales office to verify the authenticity of the message, he suddenly felt as if he had won a 5 million prize.
Later, he also knew from live built bureau xiao li that things wrong – under the municipal government’s supervision and monitoring, live built bureau finally found the solution, the building has more than 30 sets of houses did not sell, they let the real estate company to decorate the house all broken, become a semifinished product, live built bureau in the name of sampling inspection, acceptance of these houses is blank.
Alex and his family finally got their house for good.
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