Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

Chapter 695: The Current Situation of the Sloth Apartment

Pei Qian felt the pressure on his body increase sharply, seeing this message.

He did not think that the money would reach his accounts so rapidly!

Pei Qian even felt that it wasn’t realistic.

Other film and television companies were praying to the stars and the moon every day to get their money back. However, Pei Qian was the exact opposite. He could not wait for the money to be paid in the next cycle.

However, there was no other way, right? He could not possibly send the money back and tell them to send it to him at a later date, right?

That would be too shameful.

If that was the case, he had to quickly put the matter of buying buildings onto the agenda again.

With this sum of money, 50 million yuan would be used to buy a building, and the remaining 50 million yuan would go to games and movies first. This would be relatively safe.

Pei Qian had been procrastinating a little just like most people. However, his procrastination has been completely cured in terms of spending money.

Especially with such a large sum of money in the account, Pei Qian didn’t dare to delay it for a minute and had to spend it quickly.

Delays would likely cause major events, and Pei Qian dare not take such a risk.

Wouldn’t it be the end if it was delayed because of procrastination, and the final wave couldn’t be spent?

He had decided to go with Sloth Apartments 2.0 previously so, this time, he would buy a building directly for storage space.

Because of the special calculation method of the system, fixed assets would be converted to system funds at 10%, so Pei Qian’s buying building model was actually a very stable way of spending money.

Everything was good except for some side effects.

This cycle only had four months, and the initial system funds had 10 million yuan more. Pei Qian wanted to set aside the advance amount, and can use 5 million yuan of them as the ‘fixed asset occupation quota’. The conversion was equivalent to buying a building for about 50 million yuan.

Pei Qian decided to go to the office of the Sloth Apartment to learn about the current status of the Sloth Apartment project and, at the same time, finalize the plan to buy a house.

He might no longer consider the loss of rent, but he couldn’t possibly allow Liang Qingfan free play.

...

Pei Qian reached the office of Sloth Apartments after 20 minutes.

After the success of Sloth Apartments, the core team expanded and also rented dedicated office space.

The location was a high-end office building in the CBD of downtown Jingzhou, far away from other departments of Tengda.

As to why rent this place...

Very simple. There were two reasons: the first was that the place is more expensive and the rent is higher; the second was to stay away from other departments of Tengda, especially those departments of Tengda Life.

Pei Qian was very afraid that these departments would launch some combined event without sound and would stab him hard in the back.

It was not necessarily useful if they were far away from each other since they could use chat software to communicate, but it would be better than just being close and coming up with combined events out of nowhere.

Pei Qian took the elevator to the 27th floor of the building. He couldn’t help but smile and nod when he saw the layout of the office area of Sloth Apartment.

Good, suits the Tengda spirit very well!

The huge space was extremely empty. There were just a few lonely desks in total, and people were far away from each other. They could probably only hear each other by shouting.

Pei Qian had no doubt that there would be echoes when he shouted since this place was so empty.

Close observation would reveal that this place obviously had a different layout of Tengda headquarters.

The Tengda headquarters might be very spacious as well, but it was still more serious. The large desks were equipped with dual-screen monitors, keyboards and mouses, etc. Compared with the conventional company, it had only become a high-end office environment.

However, the office space of the Sloth Apartments had a strong artistic atmosphere.

The tables and chairs were not the serious kind of office desks and chairs. They were all kinds of tables and chairs in the art area and leisure area. They looked artsy.

The employees are not working on heavy desktop computers. They are all looking at light notebooks. There was also a coffee bar next to them. There was a dedicated person responsible for supplying coffee and beverages to the entire company.

In addition, some artworks were also arranged in the company, which was very stylish.

Pei Qian felt like giving Liang Qingfan a compliment, seeing this more exaggerated per capita area than Tengda headquarters.

“Boss Pei!”

Liang Qingfan was originally designing on the computer, but he quickly stood up and greeted Boss Pei when he arrived.

Pei Qian looked around: “Well, this office area is well-arranged.”

Liang Qingfan smiled and nodded: “Of course, Boss Pei, these are also designed in accordance with the minimalist style, which also helps to enhance the concentration and attention of the designers.

“Now, the minimalist style has become the representative style of our Sloth Apartments. It is especially suitable for architects and designers that require concentration, imagination, and creativity. That’s why I decorate this office space in this way.

“Also, these artworks are specially purchased. The quantity is not large, but it is definitely just right and will not overwhelm you.

“Unfortunately, this place is rented. We should be able to do better if we build our own building.”

Pei Qian’s eyes lit up.

Build their own building?

That’s a great idea!

Tengda Group building its own buildings for its own use would never generate any profit. It seemed to be a good way to spend money.

Pei Qian hadn’t had this idea before mainly because the company’s financial conditions did not allow it.

However, this could really be considered now.

However, he must choose a suitable time to build his own building. On the one hand, he could not settle with a card. On the other hand, he must ensure that there was still room for loss after the fixed assets were converted into initial funds.

If one billion was spent on building an establishment and the system funds are converted into 100 million, wouldn’t that be the end and leaving it impossible for him to lose money?

Pei Qian nodded: “Well, I also have this intention. It is indeed time to build a Tengda Group headquarters.

“But this matter is not in a hurry, we still have to think about it long-term. When you are not busy at work, you can start with a simple design and estimate the price. I will consider it.”

Liang Qingfan was taken aback but quickly nodded. “Okay, Boss Pei!”

As expected, Boss Pei would make it big.

Other bosses may not put the construction of the company’s headquarters building on the agenda so quickly. After all, building a building would put a lot of pressure on the company’s cash flow. There was no lack of companies that were not careful and built a building until it went bankrupt.

Many bosses try to make do with the office location as much as possible. Anyway, the office environment would not affect the boss who lived in the villa.

Liang Qingfan mentioned it in the passing and didn’t expect Boss Pei to actually consider it seriously!

Obviously, President Pei was completely different from other bosses.

Boss Pei only headed to the company for one or two days a week, but he had been working hard to create a better office environment for employees.

Boss Pei was still not satisfied when Tengda’s office environment had far surpassed most companies.

Tengda’s office conditions were much better than those of many companies whose assets were much higher than Tengda.

This kind of employee-oriented spirit was really touching!

Liang Qingfan and Pei Qian casually found a place by the window to sit down. They were on a high floor, and the entire CBD scenery was unobstructed.

Someone next to him brought coffee; Pei Qian tasted it, and it was good. It should be the same brand used by Fish-Catching Internet Cafe.

“How’s the situation in Sloth’s Apartment recently?” Pei Qian asked.

Liang Qingfan smiled and said, “Everything is going well, Boss Pei.

“Many architects and designers took the initiative to find us after the success of the sloth apartment model. Of course, I also took the initiative to dig a few talents to prepare for future business expansion.

“Sloth Apartment has three main business areas now.

“The first is to do high-end customization for clients.”

“The extreme simplicity style is very popular so many customers are coming to us for the ultimate simplicity style. Therefore, in addition to the general plan on our own website, we are half-selling and half-gifting to everyone, and we will also make special decoration customization for some customers.

“All of these newly recruited designers can be on their own. Each is responsible for a project. I am responsible for checking and ensuring that every plan is made in line with the style of the Sloth Apartments.

“This is not very profitable, but no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat. Moreover, this customized business is also good for continuing to expand the popularity of Sloth Apartments.

“Secondly, as Mr. Pei, you said before... set up a ‘Sloth Apartments Brand Cooperation Investigation Group’.

“We have arranged regular anonymous spot checks by the inspection team to ensure that these companies—including various brands such as furniture, decoration, and housing companies that we cooperate with—are not engaging in small actions that will adversely affect the brand of Sloth Apartments.

“Of course, some cooperating brands do not want to accept our supervision, and they are basically big brands. However, we will never compromise like what Boss Pei said.

“Anyway, there are so many brands to cooperate with anyway. We can always find a brand with good quality, as long as we put in the effort.

“Moreover, the inspection team can also cooperate with our high-end decoration customization business to ensure quality and reputation.

“Finally, it is the main business of Sloth Apartments, which is the rental business.”

“We are already preparing for the Sloth Apartment 2.0 model according to your previous instructions. We added some storage space to make the 2.0 model more practical for ordinary people while maintaining the minimalist style.”

Pei Qian nodded slightly after listening to Liang Qingfan’s report.

Well, it was similar to what he estimated before.

The Sloth Apartment model had been successful, and it would be impossible to make it fail again. The only way was to stop the loss.

“I’ll give you another 50 million yuan to buy a new building to make it the model of Sloth Apartment 2.0.

“Well... this time, you buy a slightly more popular real estate. You can choose where to buy it. It’s best to buy a place with little appreciation potential.”

The wild appreciation of the Sloth Apartments scared Pei Qian very much. If it hadn’t been for the completion of the last special task of the last cycle, Pei Qian might have suffered a lot.

Pei Qian was originally inclined to buy houses located in a biased position, with strange layouts and poorly decorated houses picking up garbage. However, he forgot that once these places became popular, the appreciation potential would be the greatest!

Take this for example: the two buildings in Binhu District were originally leaky and cracked. The house prices were too low. As a result, when the Sloth Apartments was renovated, the house prices instantly shot up.

Therefore, Pei Qian didn’t have any particularly big requirements this time. He hoped that the value of the house he bought would have less appreciation potential. It would be best if the Sloth Apartment did not appreciate at all after the renovation—that would be the most perfect.

As for what kind of house has little appreciation potential...

Pei Qian did not know either and, therefore, allowed Liang Qingfan to decide for himself.