On October 11, 2006, I contacted Guo Tianhua, an agent from Haofangyuan Real Estate Brokerage Company. Audio file 03820061011.wav.
"Hello, we are the reporters who contacted you on the phone before."
"Oh, please sit down, please sit down. You want to ask us about a client, right? We cannot disclose this matter originally. We have a confidentiality agreement, and their information..."
"We don't want to ask for Mr. Zhang Dongliang's personal information. We just want to know who he is renting to and whether there are any special circumstances."
"This is also something we need to keep secret..."
"But we got some clues from previous interviews. Mr. Zhang's tenants are concentrated in the group of young women, and the turnover of tenants is very high. A resident reported to us that one of his tenants There have been unusual behaviors. When your company selects housing, does it review the landlord's situation?"
"Of course we will review this. We will review the landlord's identity information, his property information, etc... "
"Is that all there is? This landlord rents to young women in particular. He is a middle-aged and elderly man. Have you not had any doubts?"
"It's not that they all rent to young women. His most recent tenant was a man, and he rented to a family before..."
"How old is the wife in that family?"
"Huh? This..."
"So, did you realize something was wrong only after our request for an interview?"
"No, no... Oh, this matter... To be honest, I have doubted it. I have also contacted those who have vacated the lease. The contract we signed is a three-party contract, but it is not all a three-party contract. Some people have been introduced by us, and When the landlord met, he left us alone and negotiated directly with the landlord. The landlord would also bypass us and cancel the original contract. This would require them to pay some liquidated damages, but it would be much cheaper than if we signed a three-party contract. We It’s also very helpless. We could have supervised some things, and we would have helped protect our rights, but now... "
"You mean, none of Mr. Zhang's previous tenants signed a three-party contract? You don't know the personal information of those female tenants?"
"Yeah, so this situation..."
"But we have investigated through some channels, and your company has this information. Since Mr. Zhang first signed a contract with you in 2001, he has signed a total of five tenants through you. Among these five tenants, There were several young women.”
"Ah, yes, yes... there are two of them... I have contacted them. When the contract was terminated, they both negotiated, but when signing the contract, they had to go through us. Mr. Zhang came and said that the original tenant left Yes, I have contacted that Miss Luo."
"Is it Miss Luo Jia?"
"Yes, it's her. I contacted her and called her. She said that the sound insulation of the house was not good and the quality was not good. She was worried about living there, so she decided to change the house."
“Is there something wrong with the quality of the house?”
"No, this should not exist. This house was built about 20 years ago, almost 30 years ago. The house is aging, but there is absolutely no quality problem. The entire community is in good condition. The most problems are the corridor lights and Water pipes, everything else is fine.”
"What quality issue did Miss Luo respond to?"
"It's just soundproofing. She goes to work early and goes to bed early at night, but the soundproofing of the room is not good, so she is a little uncomfortable living there. She says she can hear the sounds from the neighbors, upstairs and downstairs, and is a little upset. But..."
"But what?"
"Well, I personally guess that this, this may be an excuse."
"Then what do you think is the real reason?"
"Oh, that's what you suspected... I heard from Ms. Zhu who was renting a house at the back. She took the initiative to report the problem to us. She wanted to complete the subsequent rental agreement through us, and everything about the rent was done through us. Come to hand it over and change the door lock. I was thinking... um... "
"Has she reported to you that landlord Zhang has a problem?"
"Well... After reflecting for a while, she said that she moved away not long after. I also asked that Mr. Zhang didn't do anything substantial, nothing like that... He just called frequently and often didn't Talking. Maybe it’s that kind of thing... Hey, if you change someone, a young and good-looking landlord, the situation will be different, right? But we can’t discriminate in this matter... "
"Our investigation found that Zhang Dongliang terminated his contract with your company for a period of time in 2003."
"yes."
"What did he do with the house during that time?"
"How to deal with it... I don't know about this... He said he lives alone and relatives are coming from his hometown. That should be it... It's been a while, and I don't remember this very clearly."
"During that period, before and after, did Zhang Dongliang have any special performance?"
"You... did you find something? What did you find?"
"What's your answer? Did you notice any special behavior of Zhang Dongliang before and after that?"
"I... this... you suddenly asked this... this all happened in 2003, three years ago... I..."
"Mr. Guo, please think carefully."
"I asked this suddenly, and I also... What did he do? Did he do something to the girl who rented the house? Don't scare me. Our agency is a serious business, no, really not... We are completely I don’t know. We can’t monitor what their landlords and tenants do. We just check the qualifications beforehand, and afterwards, if there are any problems afterwards, we can help mediate. The rental situation here has always been very good, there are no disputes, no People said they would call the police and go to court. This matter... "
"Mr. Guo, please don't be nervous. We know that you may not know about Zhang Dongliang's affairs..."
"I really don't know!"
"Okay. You really don't know. We hope you can provide some clues. Please carefully recall that in 2003, it should be around the summer of 2003, when Zhang Dongliang and you were talking about terminating the contract and signing the contract. Is there any difference this time?"
"No! No indeed! Nothing strange at all—"
"What did you think of?"
"I... I remembered that at that time, when you said it, there was no one, but later, one of them rented a house, and one named Ai. When that Miss Ai rented a house, Zhang Dongliang... Zhang Dongliang was very strange... He came to ask I, can you cancel the lease, can you not rent it to that Miss Ai? Later, I don’t know how they negotiated, and that Miss Ai moved out."
"Did Miss Ai say anything?"
"No, she has not contacted us."
Update 15.