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I can imagine him… a “smecher” who managed to make money in God knows what way…<\/p>\n
I can imagine him… going to a very expensive central area, finding a land from his connections and managing to blackmail the owner, so as to sell it to him in the price he wanted…<\/strong><\/p>\n I can imagine him… searching for the cheapest possible architect, so as to design the project. It didn’t matter if the project looked bad, or that it had plenty of unnecessary common spaces. The architect was cheap…<\/p>\n I can imagine him… explaining that it didn’t matter if all the windows would have a wrong view, as in the end of the day the location was very nice.<\/p>\n I can imagine him… finding the cheapest possible labor… probably negotiating every work independently, tricking them after they finish, paying them less than agreed, changing people in every step, so as to keep the costs low…<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>I can imagine him… shouting to the workers to finish and to be cheap, without paying attention to the way they were constructing…<\/p>\n I can imagine him… installing less steel and cement, so as to save money. “There are buildings which were built with less steel and they are still standing”…<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>I can imagine him… buying materials that can look good in the eye, but maintain low expenses in his pocket…<\/p>\n I can imagine him… bragging to his friends about building a block “in his way”, avoiding high costs…<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>I can imagine him… receiving the building, without paying attention to the awful quality of finishings, the very bad distribution of spaces and the incredibly wrong placing of tiles etc…<\/p>\n I can imagine him… being proud of having a building in a very expensive area…<\/p>\n I can imagine him… asking the highest possible prices during 2008, without any discussion or will to negotiate…<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>I can imagine him… blackmailing the real estate brokers, offering them a small commission so as to sell or rent his place, refusing the sign the contract of collaboration (claiming probably that his word is enough…)<\/p>\n I can imagine him… getting a bit upset as his block remained empty most of he time, due to the prices and the quality of construction…<\/p>\n I can imagine him… swearing at the agents, accusing them of not being able to provide him any “serious client” for his building (translation of “serious client” in the language of “smechers”: Someone stupid enough, who doesn’t know anything about controls, quality etc, who will be fascinated by the location and he will pay a price triple than the real one)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>I can imagine him… hearing from an agent that a Greek wants to come and see the place, after he read the offer of 300 sq.m. for a “reasonable” price…<\/p>\n I can imagine him… thinking that the Greek must pay more, as he probably has money…<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>I can imagine him… changing his word (which always counts as contract) and informing at the last second that the available area will be 160 sq.m. and not 300 sq.m., but with the price remaining the initial one…<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>I can imagine him… waiting the Greek, having around him people who were almost afraid of him, treating him very nice, as he is the owner of such a “palace” in the heart of the city…<\/p>\n I can imagine him… being upset when the Greek came and left in 3 minutes, having realized that the place is very bad, the tiles are ready to become obstacles and the surface is very wrongly spread<\/p>\n But I can not imagine him making fun of me, informing his friends how he managed to trick one more guy, renting to him half of the promised area with the initial price.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>I also can not imagine myself becoming part of his “life frame”, having him as the owner of the new office I am searching for my company…<\/p>\n I prefer to imagine him upset, blaming the agent because he didn’t do his best to trick me (she is very serious, by the way).<\/p>\n And I prefer to imagine him in 12 months from now, staying with his empty building, searching for solutions to make some money eventually. Because who can stay with an empty place for 2-3 years? Not many…<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>PS.1. “Smecher” is the description of the man who finds ways to make money, “convincing’ the others in a smart way. Up to a point it can be even a compliment, over a point it is a polite description of a small crook.<\/p>\n PS.2. 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