Rebirth of the Entrepreneurship Era

In Xu Yiyang's impression, the most prosperous period of Yingzhou Children's Palace was from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s.

At that time, the Children's Palace often held various youth cultural and sports activities, which had a great influence

By the end of the 1990s, the Children's Palace began to decline, and later became a gathering place for training classes.

Yingzhou Youth happens to be near the No. 1 Middle School, and it is close to the city center. The location is even better than No. 1 Middle School.

So, after the last get out of class in the morning, Xu Yiyang took his sister and rode to the Children's Palace to find out about the situation.

In Xu Yiyang's impression, when he was in elementary school or even junior high school, the Children's Palace was extremely lively during the holidays.

But now, the Children's Palace, which is in the winter vacation, seems very deserted.

The Yingzhou Children's Palace has four floors. Except for the hall and a few small classrooms on the first floor, it is surrounded by shops.

Bottom shops include bookstores, stationery stores, calligraphy supplies stores, and sporting goods stores. Basically, they are all businesses that mainly serve young people.

Except for the ground floor shop, the other small classrooms on the first floor are basically vacant.

The siblings went up to the second floor, and there were various training classes on both sides of the stairs.

On the left is a taekwondo gym, and through the glass windows, five or six children can be seen practicing inside.

Xu Yishan said: "This is the only Taekwondo gym in Yingzhou. The fees are very expensive. It costs 400 yuan for 12 classes, and it costs more than 100 yuan to buy clothes!"

Xu Yiyang nodded: "That is indeed quite expensive..."

The class price is more than 30 per class, which is indeed not low in this year.

Moreover, for taekwondo clothing, it's a lot to order in bulk from the south for a maximum of ten or twenty yuan, and it's too bad to sell it for more than one hundred.

At this stage, this kind of training class should be sold as a novelty. Once there are more people, the price will inevitably drop, and once the heat passes, a large number of people will die.

Next to the Taekwondo Hall is a dance training class. According to the advertisement posted outside, it mainly teaches Latin dance to teenagers, but there seems to be no students.

Opposite the two training classes is a studio with a large area, which is almost the sum of the taekwondo hall and dance training class.

There are obviously more students in the studio than in the taekwondo class and dance class, and many of the people who learn to paint are about the same age as Xu Yiyang.

Xu Yiyang was a little surprised at first, but after thinking about it carefully, he immediately understood the reason.

In order to reduce the difficulty of the college entrance examination, many high school students will choose the cultural and sports route. In addition to sports specialties, the most common categories are painting and music.

The studio is blessed with such an important element as the college entrance examination, so the source of students is naturally indispensable.

Going up to the third floor, more than half of the area is leased to a gym. In addition to the equipment part, there is also a boxing ring in the gym for boxing and Sanda training.

The rest of the area was empty, about the size of a classroom and a half, with rental advertisements and telephones posted on it.

Xu Yishan looked through the window, and said pleasantly, "Brother, this place is huge, a little bigger than the electronic classroom!"

Xu Yiyang nodded, smacked his lips and said: "Next to it is the jingling gym, and there are students learning boxing. It is impossible to have a good class next to them."

So, he pointed to the fourth floor and said to Xu Yishan, "Go up to the next floor and have a look."

When we reached the fourth floor, there was a piece of red advertising paper pasted on the place facing the stairs, and it was written with a black brush: "Fourth floor, 500 square meters for rent, can be divided or rented as a whole, contact number..."

Xu Yishan immediately said excitedly: "Brother, this floor is vacant, you can rent a place here!"

Xu Yiyang nodded: "It looks good, let's go and have a look at the layout."

There are five rectangular rooms on the left and right sides of the fourth floor. On one side are two large rooms, both about 130 square meters, and on the other side are three rooms, with an area of ​​about seventy to eighty square meters.

Although the five rooms are empty,

But the doors and windows are in good condition, the floor tiles are in good condition, and the walls are clean, which is better than that of ordinary schools.

Xu Yiyang fell in love with this place at a glance.

There are two large classrooms of 130 square meters, each of which can easily seat 150 or 60 students.

If he wins one of them, he can double the number of students in a class.

In this way, the utilization rate of each class hour can also be doubled.

And, it didn't cost much to remodel the place.

It is enough to buy dozens of sets of double tables and chairs, a blackboard, a stereo, a computer, and a projector.

Since there is no need for hard decoration, it does not take too long to renovate, and it can be opened as soon as the things arrive.

So Xu Yiyang immediately wrote down the phone number, went downstairs to find an IC phone booth, and called the other party.

It was a man who answered the phone. Xu Yiyang stated that he wanted to rent a shop in the Children's Palace, and asked directly, "How big do you want?"

Xu Yiyang said: "I want the biggest one, what's the cost?"

The man said: "The largest one is 134 square meters, 9 meters wide, and nearly 14 meters long. It is suitable for dance training. The minimum rent is one year, and the monthly rent is 1,500."

1500 a month?

The rent was so cheap that Xu Yiyang couldn't believe it.

Such a good location, how can it be so cheap?

Thinking of this, Xu Yiyang deliberately asked: "Are there any restrictions on the use of our Children's Palace?"

"Of course there is."

The other party blurted out: "There is a requirement in the city. The Children's Palace can only be used for education and training related to teenagers, as well as hobby-related industries, and nothing else is allowed. And it can't be purely for selling things. It should mainly serve teenagers."

Xu Yiyang suddenly realized.

No wonder it's so cheap, it turned out to be of limited use.

It seems that although this place is contracted to a private person, it still bears the sign of Children's Palace after all, so the business has to be done around teenagers.

If you do something that has nothing to do with teenagers in the Children's Palace, it will definitely not look good.

With so many restrictions on use, it is understandable why the price is cheap.

Since there are many restrictions, the price of 1,500 may not be really cheap.

Xu Yiyang then said: "Brother, I am sincerely renting, but your price is a bit high."

The other party said: "I don't want to tell you those fake things. To tell you the truth, someone on my whole floor has already taken a fancy to it. Give me 3800 in January. I also want to save trouble. It is best to rent out the whole floor, so If you want to split the rent, the price will not be cheap, if the big room is less than 1500, then I might as well just rent it out in one go, otherwise I will rent out the rest slowly, and the time wasted is also my loss."

1,500 yuan a month for 134 square meters, 3,800 yuan a month for more than 500 square meters, obviously the latter is more suitable.

Of course, he didn't understand the current market conditions, so he speculated that the price quoted by the other party must still have some water.

So Xu Yiyang said: "How about this, brother, I want the whole floor, 3000 per month."

"You're making trouble!" The other party said angrily, "I've been paid 3800, you give me 3000?"

Xu Yiyang smiled lightly and said: "They are all in business, and we all know in our hearts that the quotation is a little watery. It is still unknown whether the whole renter you mentioned exists or not, but I will not come with you Yes, I am downstairs in the Children's Palace right now, if you want to rent, I will sign the contract with you now and pay immediately after signing."

The other party fell silent for a while, and after a while, he said, "Well, I won't talk nonsense anymore, 3600 per month."

Xu Yiyang said: "3200."

The other party said: "Brother, there is no business like you, 3500, really can't lose a cent!"

Xu Yiyang said: "Then 3300."

"Forget it." The other party might be a little angry, and said directly: "Let's not talk, let's go and look elsewhere."

Xu Yiyang felt that it was almost done, and said: "Well, I will pay you 3,300 for half a year at a time, and the total is 19,800. I will round it up for you, 20,000. If you can, you can sign a contract and pay at any time."

As he said that, Xu Yiyang added: "I'll pay you for half a year at a time, and you can deposit the money in the bank to earn interest for a few more months. It's much more cost-effective than monthly payment, and it saves trouble."

The other party was obviously attracted by the condition of paying every six months. After thinking about it, he said, "Oh my brother, you can add another 50 every month, and leave some cigarette money for my brother."

Xu Yiyang said: "Brother, the bank is opposite the Children's Palace. Come here now, and I will directly withdraw the money to you."

The other party was silent for a moment, and said, "Okay, you wait for me at the gate of the Children's Palace, and I will ride a motorcycle there."