"A cheap house?" The saleswoman failed to catch his meaning at first.
She stood there blankly for a moment before asking, "You want to buy a house?"
Yan Xiao neither confirmed nor denied it, saying he was just asking.
The saleswoman thought for a moment, then said, "Actually, there is one. We just got the listing, and it's a really good deal."
With that, she asked Yan Xiao to wait,
then returned to her desk and tapped away at her computer. Soon, the printer began whirring.
The saleswoman stood up,
collected the printed documents from the printer, and handed them to Yan Xiao.
Yan Xiao took them and looked over the pages, nodding involuntarily. She really is professional, he thought.
The reason he thought that
was that the saleswoman had printed out information on more than just one house for him.
There were three.
One cost a little over four million, while the other two cost over five million.
With his current assets, if Yan Xiao wanted to buy a house outright without selling his current home, the one priced at just over four million was his only option.
That was because
buying a house involved more than paying for the property itself. There were also taxes, agency fees, and all sorts of other expenses.
"Why is this one so much cheaper than the other two? Is the location bad?" Yan Xiao asked casually.
"No, that's not it." The saleswoman shook her head. "It's because the primary school this house is zoned for isn't very good."
After a pause, she continued, "Actually, the schools those other two houses are zoned for are only average too. It's just that this one has the worst school of the three."
Once she explained it that way,
Yan Xiao understood.
This world was just