Chapter 6

• My phone rings and Miss Stefany is calling.
• -Good morning, Miss Stefany.
• -Good morning Mr. Santos, I have good news, I got the house in Altos del Eden, it is the third best house in the place, the cost is $138,000 dollars.
• -Perfect, I want you to prepare the papers for the three properties, today I will make the payment.
• -In total it would be $1.038 million dollars, remember that we only accept business checks, cash or wire transfer.
• -Don't worry, I assure you that my check will be more than enough.
• -I will wait for you here, come as soon as possible.
• Ten minutes passed and I arrived at the indicated place, it was a beautiful villa.
• -Welcome Mr. Santos, I will show you the house.
• Stefany gives me a tour of the house showing me each space.
• -This is the reception, in front we have the staircase to the second floor, on the second floor we find the fully equipped kitchen area, a luxury island and top of the line appliances. Next is a wooden dining room for twelve people, this is the living room with its sofa set and over here an area for visitors. There you can see the maid's room with its own bathroom. On the second floor we find the 4 bedrooms, the master bedroom has a large bathroom, shower with temperature regulator, jacuzzi, a wolking closet and the other bedrooms have their own bathroom and a small closet. Over here we have a terrace.
• In the backyard as you can see there is a swimming pool and a barbecue area.
• - Do you like the house?
• -Yes, I like it, although it is not for me, did you bring the documentation?
• -Here is the promise of sale of the three properties, we just need to receive the payment so that our lawyers can take care of the due diligence.
• -He told me $1.038 million dollars.
• -That's right, but as I was saying, we do not accept personal checks.
• -Just tell me who the check is made out to and I will take care of it.
• -Inversiones Las Praderas S.A.
• I write the check and give it to her. Estefany analyzes the check and makes a call to her superiors, indicates that she is receiving a personal check, but with a bank insignia, gives them the contact number and hangs up the call.
• -My superiors are verifying that everything is in order.
• A few minutes later she receives a call, it didn't take long.
• -Mr. Santos, thank you for trusting us, we can proceed with the signing of the documents and I give you the keys to your apartment and the villa.
• -All good with the check.
• -That's right.
• -Then if so, receive this from me.
• I give you a check for $5,000 dollars.
• -All it takes is your name, and I want you to work for me.
• -For you, but you don't even know me.
• -I can see that you are a person with principles, from the first time you treated me with kindness in spite of my facades, you never refused my requests and that is something unique in you.
• -And what kind of work are you offering me?
• -I'm thinking of investing in real estate, I'm thinking of looking for places that are profitable, build luxury houses and sell them, but I need someone with experience.
• -And when would this job be.
• -If you want, we can start, you are in charge of looking for a large enough land to build at least 90 villas like this one, or even better, the cost doesn't matter.
• - And what would my salary be?
• -Tell me an offer.
• -$2,500 basic and 5% commission on the sale.
• -Deal.
• - Really, you don't even want to think about it or anything?
• -I don't have to think about it, consider yourself my employee now, I want you to get these papers in order and quit your job, if you have to work some days for me no problem, but in twenty days I want a proposal.
• -Okay, I'll leave everything in order in my job and I'll get to work on it. These are the keys, I just need the owner of this villa to contact me.
• -Do me a favor, can you call her, this is her number, her name is Isabel.
• -It's okay Mr. Santo, I called her.
• -Don't keep calling me Mr. Santos, just call me Javier.
• -I understand, Mr. San... -Excuse me, Javier.
• -Better, but treat me with more confidence, I'll leave and I'll take care of this for you.
• I leave the site, things were going quite well, I already have two potential business possibilities, but I need someone else to manage them. It's time to go looking for him.
• I take a cab and head out to the suburbs, the cab driver arrives at his destination and I ask him to come back in an hour. I arrive at the door of a house, knock on the door and an elderly lady opens it for me.
• -Good afternoon, ma'am, is Benito home?
• - Who is looking for him?
• -Javier.
• You're the good-for-nothing who was at boarding school with him.
• At that moment I see Benito appear.
• -Javier, is that you? It's been a long time!
• -Hello Benito, I came to see you because I wanted to talk to you about something important.
• I don't want that good-for-nothing in my house," was heard in the background.
• -Excuse my grandmother, let's go for a walk.
• -Okay.
• He closes the door and they start walking.
• -Tell me Benito, have you finished college?
• -Yes, I finished a few months ago, but I haven't found any job opportunity, that's why I had to go back to my grandmother's house, and you, are you still working at the same hamburger place?
• -Not anymore, I punched my boss in the face.
• -You know it's not easy to find a job, look at me, good training and nothing.
• -I want to offer you a job.
• -Don't give me another one of your dreams.
• -This is not a dream, you know you were like a brother to me in the orphanage, tell me, wouldn't you like to have your own house and earn well?
• -Of course I would like to, but that's very difficult.
• -Tell me where you would like to live.
• -I've always dreamed of having an apartment downtown.
• I take out my phone and dial Stefany.
• -Stefany, I need an apartment downtown, find me the best one.
• I hang up.
• -You want to impress me just for a phone call, don't play with me.
• -Have faith in me and you'll see, let's just wait.
• -But I don't think you came for me just to make a prank call.
• -I'm not joking, but that's not what I came for, I want to make you a job proposal.
• -What, you'll give me my dream job?
• -I assure you I will.