Chapter 1263
What did he mean by that?
Now that Harold had his eye on it and was ready to sign, the landlord wanted to up the rent.
What right did he have to do that?
Harold looked at him and asked calmly, “Are you joking?”
“Of course not. I know that your company is big and wants to expand overseas. Since you managed to find a suitable office location that you like, why worry about the money?”
The man before him smiled so shamelessly that it disgusted Harold.
But he kept up a nonchalant expression.
They were taking the chance to rip them off.
Someone started making trouble shortly after Harold rejected the Chinese Chamber of Commerce’s support.
“Then let’s forget about it.”
Harold couldn’t even be bothered to say more. He turned to leave and left the man in shock for a while.
“Are you really not renting from us?”
Harold didn’t even reply to him and simply couldn’t be bothered as he disappeared swiftly.
Now it was the landlord’s turn to be anxious.
To make as much space for Palmer Group to rent as possible and make a windfall, he terminated leases ahead of time and compensated tenants for breach of contract. This was because someone had told him that Palmer Group definitely wanted this office space.
Also, judging from the way Harold appeared when he inspected the property, Palmer Group was determined to rent the space!
But was Harold going to leave now?
Since it was a sizable area of office space, its daily costs ran high.
Other companies wouldn’t need such a huge office space.
If he were to partition them into smaller spaces for rental, who would help make up for his loss of hundreds and thousands of dollars in compensation that he paid?
The man instantly chased after Harold when the thought crossed his mind, but he was nowhere to be seen.
“Wasn’t the Chinese Chamber of Commerce certain that they would rent it?”
The Chinese Chamber of Commerce never lied. They were such a huge association that it made no sense for him to deceive a nobody like him.
“Humph, are they playing hard to get? I know this trick well,” said the landlord. Then he turned to leave and waited for the Palmer Group representatives to get in touch with him.
Meanwhile,
Harold was standing downstairs and looking up.
“Mr. Hunt was right. These people were out to get me and were very good at it, but it was a pity that they bullied the wrong person,” said Harold after he took out his phone and dialed a number, “Brother Geoff, go ahead like we planned.”
After Harold hung up the phone, he temporarily ignored the matter and focused on executing his next step.
Harold had already prepared for this situation and came up with a backup plan. Since Brother Geoff and the others were around, Harold had nothing to worry about.
They were experts with such ploys!
Shortly after Harold left, the landlord came downstairs and looked somewhat unhappy.
He thought he could fleece them hard. Although he was so close to succeeding, Harold unexpectedly left.
His phone suddenly rang just as he was about to leave.
“We want to rent office space. I heard you have one here.”
“Yes, yes!” replied the man quickly, “How much space do you need?”
“We will take whatever you have. The price is negotiable.”
The man on the other end of the phone sounded like a rich man.
The man immediately told him the rent, and it was slightly higher than what he offered Palmer Group. But the man on the phone surprisingly agreed to the rent so swiftly that the man even started wondering if he had asked for too little.
Then they arranged for a time to see the property. The man planned to raise the rent a little just like he did for Palmer Group when he met the interested party in person.
Brother Geoff arrived very quickly. He was pretty stylishly dressed and wore sunglasses and gave off the impression that he had deep pockets.