{"id":604,"date":"2008-10-14T11:55:20","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T09:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/en\/?p=604"},"modified":"2014-03-12T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:41:14","slug":"gossiping-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iliaspapageorgiadis.ro\/english\/2008\/10\/14\/gossiping-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gossiping 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A really successful businessman\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunday afternoon, in Radu Beller area, Bucharest. The coffee places are half full, thus lots of parking lots are available. A young guy leaves driving his Maybach (I guess he wanted to feel more secure, this is why he bought a 600.000 euro car \u2013 hopefully not by leasing\u2026) and now there are three available parking places. Two seconds after, a big Mercedes illegally turns left and now it is in front of the three parking plots. After mature thought (I guess), the driver chooses to reject all three and to park his car exactly where is the line of pedestrians, blocking it. He also makes sure that half of the car will be on the pavement and that the rest of the cars will not be able to pass very easily. This brave gentleman steps down. He has the style of the perfect, successful businessman. A characteristic haircut, expensive sunglasses and casual clothes, which are very discreet (this means that the size of the brand is not covering half of the t-shirt, it\u2019s just 10 centimeters long). He enters in the coffee shop, walking slowly and checking around, if there are any women and if they are looking at him. He chooses the seat next to the window, so as to have guaranteed maximum visibility. Then he searches in the place and finds something to read. As a serious businessman, I guess he wants to be informed for the world economic credit crunch, but for the beginning he will start with something lighter, \u201cLibertatea\u201d and \u201cClick\u201d newspapers. There he will be able to spot the next \u201cdifficult to get\u201d ladies that he will target to. He stops reading for a while.\u00a0Probably his wise mind is thinking now, with 1.000.000 turns per second. He looks around patrolling the area, no woman is looking at him. He keeps thinking, I guess the answer to a critical question like \u201chow much should be the budget for this one?\u201d or \u201cdon\u2019t tell me I\u2019ll have to buy a car to this one too, so as to have her\u201d. He orders the most fashionable coffee available and returns to his thoughts (he doesn\u2019t like to drink it, but it\u2019s trendy). The newspaper\u2019s pages are big, if they weren\u2019t, for sure he would have noticed the disabled lady who was trying for five minutes to enter on the pavement with her wheel chair. But she should not worry. If she will not make it until he will go, he will give her 100 \u2013 200 ron and for sure she will be happy, she should know he is generous. (If any of you, ever, watch me behaving like this guy, PLEASE COME AND THROW WATER ON MY FACE, I will owe you a big favour).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe best offers of the market\u201d (or the majority of the people is still sleeping\u2026)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> \u201cMISTER ILIAS, I have for you the best offers of the market\u201d. \u201cGood, it is the first time I hear this, let me see what you got\u201d. \u201cThis is a property in the centre of Bucharest (he says all the details) and I have it in the price of 6,5 million euro, owner\u2019s price always\u201d. \u201cBut the real one is not even half\u201d. \u201cIt is not my fault, mister, this is what the owner wants\u201d. \u201cOk, I understand his problem. But how can I propose to my clients a price like this, I don\u2019t have stupid investors, I was never lucky and intelligent enough to find\u201d. \u201cThis is the price and the owner said that if he will not find anyone to buy, he will keep it until he will find, in worst case scenario he will give it to his children when he dies\u201d. \u201cGood. In this case transmit to him that if he will die before me, I will be present at the funeral, I can even make a speech\u201d. \u201cYou know, I have something else very good. Popesti Leordeni, which means Bucharest. A land where you can build Ground Floor plus 7 floors and a price of ONLY 200 euro \/ sq.m.\u201d. \u201cBut why someone to buy there with this price now?\u201d. \u201cBecause he can build Ground Floor plus seven floors\u201d. \u201cAnd who will go to live there, in this period?\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know, many other blocks were raised in the area, plus there are people around who ask for 250 \u2013 300 euro \/ sq.m., so it is a real bargain\u201d. \u201cThe developers you mention\u2026 did they also buy with 200? Or the bought with\u2026 2 and now the stupid foreigners should come and pay 200, so as to make the owner multi millionaire?\u201d \u201cYou know, the price can be slightly negotiable\u201d. \u201cGood, in this case we can offer 5% more from the biggest offer that the owner has\u201d. \u201cBut now he doesn\u2019t have any\u201d. \u201cExactly. When and if he will ever have, we will pay 5% more\u201d. \u201cBut like this we will not make any deal\u201d. \u201cYou mean that like this we can not trick any investor I represent? I agree with you, I never did this and especially now I have no reason to start doing this\u201d. \u201cYou are not serious, you will never do business in Romania\u201d. \u201cIn all our previous meetings, you were saying so many compliments to me. Now, you realized that I am not serious. You are right. And thank God you found out now, better late than never\u201d. (Too bad for these people, they still don\u2019t realize in what trouble they have entered into, this is why they will suffer more\u2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The 5 million euro villa (with the rent of 3.000 euro \/ month)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> \u201cIlia, you see this villa across the street?\u201d \u201cYes, ofcourse I see it, even my age doesn\u2019t help, I can still look at 20 meters distance. But I see it empty, what happened?\u201d \u201cIt was rented by a friend of mine, soon he will enter in it\u201d. \u201cThis was a restaurant, I had met one of the owners too in the past and he was telling me how much money he has and that he has the restaurant mainly for him and his wife to eat lunch\u201d. \u201cThat\u2019s old. He lost quite a lot of money and now he was almost begging my friend to rent it, for 3.000 euro per month\u201d. \u201cImpossible, he was telling me that he had an offer of 5 million last year, as the location is super central, in an area with very high added value\u201d. \u201cDid you believe him?\u201d \u201cNo, but you know\u2026 some hundreds of sq.m., here\u2026 they cost something. As we mention the case, after few months I remember that they were in trouble with money\u2026\u201d \u201cand now you see the result\u201d. (I can not say I feel pity for this kind of people. I am just sorry for their families, as they will suffer due to the choices of an arrogant brainless guy \u2013 and this breed in Romania is not under extinction, you can find plenty)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u201cMister Ilias, I will resign, I can not work after 18.00, my boyfriend doesn\u2019t let me\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A big (huge) salary. An excellent environment. A clear explanation for what she was supposed to do. A potential to start a new business together, in which she would be the director and in three years partner. All conveniences for whatever she needed. No, they were not enough, as I had the \u201cridiculous\u201d demand to ask her to finish her tasks before leaving, to be responsible for what she is doing, not to forget critical papers of our company anywhere in the office and not to tell her boyfriend to come to pick her up every day at 17.30, because he didn\u2019t like to wait. She punished me exactly as I deserved, she agreed with my brother that she would stay until the end of October and to me she announced that she will stop \u201cin three days maximum\u2019. It is not needed only to be a good person, but also it is important for someone to behave like a professional and not like a diva. (If I ask all the business people I know, they will tell me the same stories, so I am not alone\u2026 is it a relief? Nope)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A really successful businessman\u2026 Sunday afternoon, in Radu Beller area, Bucharest. The coffee places are half full, thus lots of parking lots are available. 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