Rebirth 79: I opened a bank in the United States

Chapter 450 Hoarding building materials?

After walking around and going around for a day, Carter and Rick probably drew a blueprint in their hearts:
The general terrain of New Haven Bay is a bit like an inverted "U" shape.At the top of the U is the location of the old city, where Yale University is located. This is basically a model of a university town, and it is naturally a middle-class gathering area.

Then there are the left and right sides of the U-shape. On the left is the old port, which is closer to the city; can move to the right.Over time, there were more low-income groups, and it became a so-called slum area.
As for the north of the urban area, as well as the current West Haven area, it is still relatively barren for the time being.That kind of barrenness is different from the barrenness of Grande Island. The barrenness of Grande Island is more because it is at the junction of the middle-income area and the poor area.
Even without mentioning that the island is too small, there is no community development value.The American middle class is absolutely unwilling to live next to the poor!
It's like, you can hear most Americans complaining to you: Our taxes are too much, the tax types are too messy, and too complicated. But no American has any objection to this tax system!Even simply everyone voted to abolish this messy tax system.
The fundamental reason is that they themselves understand that these extremely complicated taxes are the firewalls that build their class!Being able to smile on the surface while excluding some low-class people who I don't like to get along with!

For example, property tax, which is very typical.The real poor, even if there is a rich relative, such as your second uncle’s third mother, his father passed away, and he has no children. Seeing your bones are strange, so he waved his hand and gave you a house in a rich area
Leaving aside the inheritance tax, let’s not talk about avoiding it. At least the threshold is not as scary as many Chinese people imagine.Generally, it is not a top mansion manor, but the value of the house cannot reach the inheritance tax threshold.

Then again, now you got the house.
Speaking with conscience, do you think the group of rich people around you wish they had a poor neighbor like you?
Naturally, I don't want to, but if they come out and drive people away, isn't it too impolite?The mask of hypocrisy still needs to be worn, so the property tax came into being!

The property tax varies from state to state, assuming it is 1% per year for a property worth $50.The annual tax payable is 5000 U.S. dollars, and they pay it easily, how about you?I'm afraid your annual salary is only seven or eight thousand, and five thousand is used to pay taxes. Can you still live? !

Before your actual income reaches a new level, even if you are given a luxury house, you will not be able to live in it!

This is America!
This is the United States that clamors for human rights and equality every day!

This group of rich people, uh, people with some money, don't want to have a group of poor ghosts around them.If their money doesn't come in to develop the Grande, or develop it, they won't be able to sell it
You said this ghost place, can it not be barren?Could it be that the group of people who live on relief and temporary work are expected to pay for the development of this place?
The West Haven area, and the North Haven area are different.These two areas are purely... well, they haven't developed there yet, the city is limited in size!

There is no place for development at all, there are disadvantages, but there is also the biggest advantage, which is easy to plan!There are no aborigines and no groups that benefited from that land to take care of. It can be said that the New Haven city government can do whatever it wants in these two areas!
"The development of Grand Island should be just a pilot project. As you can see here, the area is limited. Even after the investment, the effect is not ideal and the loss is not large. Let's get this small commercial pilot out first and level the ground , build an office building, take some nice photos and so on, and then use these things to attract business.”

"And there is another advantage here, that is, it is not directly bordered by the slums in the east. It is connected by a bridge in the middle, which means that it is easier to control. As long as the police room and security booth are set up on the bridge, it can basically be done. It’s also easy for the surveillance police who are not residents of the district to deal with, just stroll back and forth on Grand Avenue.”

"As long as they are walking on the avenue and passing by here, it doesn't matter. But if someone leaves the avenue and wants to turn, the police will step forward to question petty thieves who generally don't want to cause trouble. Seeing this scene, most of them will turn around Leaving, the cost of public security prevention and control is also very low! Plus, the scenery here is really beautiful, isn’t it?”

"If you ignore the weeds in front of you for a while, think about what it will look like after it is built. Surrounded by lakes, the scenery is pleasant. You are a company executive. Standing in front of your large French windows, you can see your own factory in the distance The products produced here are loaded onto the ocean liner and sent to all over the world. Downstairs is your life, and upstairs is your world!"

At the southern end of the island in the middle of the lake, Rick opened his arms, embracing the cool autumn wind.A shirt is rattling
If you don't look at the skewer of barbecue in his right hand and the wisps of smoke around him, this scene is indeed a bit beautiful.Just now, Carter just feels very funny:

"Okay, okay, you can sit down and eat something! You guy, it's a pity if you don't do real estate sales!"

Shaking his head helplessly, Carter admitted that he was a little moved by what he said.

But if you want to move, why are you still interested in the business of the airport? !How is the result?This still can't be done.
"In the final analysis, we are not sure whether New Haven is really planned and constructed in this way. If it is only the construction of Grand Island, then I don't need to bother at all."

"What? I didn't mean to tell you to run back to Georgia to bring in timber, but to pay attention to the price changes of various building materials nearby!"

I took a bite of the meat and slid it along the stick.
Rick pouted and shook his head frantically:

"New Haven hasn't had any development in the past [-] years. How sluggish the local construction industry and building materials market is? Think about it?! We have investigated this area! Now New Haven, construction There are only two companies in total! There are less than [-] workers, and there are still a large group of people who are busy with the modernization of the city hall and the construction of a municipal library on the side of the music academy."

"Oh, by the way, that library is also part of the LEAP project between Yale and the city of New Haven. They just build it, and the initial book support is provided by Yale University. Anyway, just wait and see, If we want to level the ground and build office buildings here, we must only rely on workers from New Haven, and there must be insufficient manpower!"

"There is a high probability that a construction company will be hired from New York or Boston for construction. The building materials needed must also be purchased from these nearby areas, and the prices in New York and Boston must be higher than those in the south."

"If you have a way to get a lot of low-priced building materials from the south, you can make a fortune here! And if you don't, it doesn't matter. I was thinking, can you buy some building materials in the front and wait until the Xingang University is developed. Building material prices Rise, then resell and sell.”

(End of this chapter)