Chapter 75 Buying a House

Samantha officially bid farewell to the town where she lived for many years, and moved to Los Angeles with Natasha.

The Los Angeles Police Department welcomes Samantha's arrival. After all, she is a beautiful woman and has a relationship with her superiors. No matter what, it will not embarrass her.

Being able to use her identity as a woman to maintain the security of Prosperity Town, Samantha also has enough social skills. Considering her new life in the future and her need to take care of her 'two' daughters, she decided to focus on family. , and finally chose a clerical position.

She and Natasha rented an apartment to live in, and slowly became familiar with the new life in Los Angeles.

On the other hand, the new life and new goals rekindled Charlie's ambitions. He took the initiative to ask to go to the homicide team with heavier work and be responsible for the handling of front-line cases.

Bella has nothing to say about this. Charlie just wants to be a policeman and wants to fight criminals. Can she still stop her from going?

A new sheriff will be rehired here in Fox Township. Charlie will hand over the job in Fox Township, and he will also complete a series of tasks such as proposing, getting married, saying goodbye to old friends, and buying a new house in Los Angeles.

Buy a house first or get married first? In the East, you must buy a house first, and in the West... In fact, you also need to buy a house in the West! If you don't have a house, the ghost will live with you!

Young people will consider renting a house. Charlie and Samantha are relatively old-fashioned characters. They think the family is more comfortable living in their own house, and besides, it is not that they have no money.

Working in Los Angeles, of course, is to buy a house in Los Angeles. The LAPD on the police badge is not fake. The two rely on the police station and can contact people from all walks of life in the society. After a few calls, the real estate agent will come to They market their house.

There must be people who deceive the police these days, but if there is no particularly big entanglement of interests, ordinary people will not have nothing to do when they are full and have nothing to do, and come to deceive the police.

Charlie and Samantha were indeed newcomers, but with the help of their colleagues, they screened out a few options to choose from.

Bella has nothing to do here, just waiting for the university to start, and Natasha is doing transfer affairs. Occasionally she disappears for a while, but Bella has a tacit understanding and pretended not to see, and even helped a few calls. cover.

On weekends, the family of four would drive out to see the house.

The first choice was a villa in Santa Monica. The former owner of the villa was an old acquaintance of Bella. It was Adrian, an optics doctor who was defeated by her and then shot by his wife.

This villa has a very high-tech architectural style. It has been completed in less than five years. Dr. Adrian has died. His younger brother put the house on the market for 3.9 million!

Although Natasha likes the style of the house very much, the family of four still shouts 'can't afford it, can't afford it', even if they can buy the house, the future property tax will drag down their family, with their Income situation, simply can not afford to live in such a house.

The family circled around Los Angeles halfway, solved the lunch problem at the fast food restaurant at noon, and continued to watch in the afternoon.

Near Hancock Park in Los Angeles, they followed the real estate agent here to see today's fourth house.

"Wow! Such a big house?" Natasha, who was the first to get off the car just stopped, looked at the mansion more than ten meters high and covering an area of ​​more than 800 square meters, and couldn't help but exclaimed.

Bella also took off her sunglasses and rubbed her face to wake herself up a bit. She looked at the mansion carefully. It felt like...

The real estate agent was a middle-aged woman named Marcy. After she saw a family of four getting out of the car, she immediately introduced them.

"This house was built in 1922 by Charles Montgomery, a famous surgeon in Los Angeles at the time, for his wife Nora. Maybe you think the house is a bit old, but it's not, you can come in and have a look.

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The real estate agent pointed to the interior decoration: "Look, it's all Tiffany lamps, the interior layout and decoration are Victorian style, if I want to say, this place is really very tasteful and stylish, living here, for two Definitely a good choice for a police detective."

"Detective?" A slightly puzzled voice sounded not far away, this was a serious-looking middle-aged man with deep eyes.

The real estate agent's attitude towards him was not so enthusiastic, but he still introduced to both parties: "Doctor Harmon, this is Detective Charlie Swan who came to see the house. This is his fiancee and two daughters. Detective , this is Dr. Harmon who is selling the property, the house he bought six months ago, and now, now... for some personal reasons... to sell."

It can be seen that the doctor named Harmon is quite hesitant to sell the house to the police detective. He shook hands with Charlie with a smile, and then led them around, looking at several rooms in the room.

There are many furnishings in the interior, just like being in some ancient European castle.

Gorgeous lamps, exquisite oil paintings, and gorgeous carpets all add color to the whole house.

"Is this painting authentic?" Natasha asked Bella, pointing to a painting, in which a graceful woman was holding a human head.

Natasha is good at modern scientific knowledge and the use of various high-tech items, but her achievements in literature, history and art are really not high, and these are Bella's strengths.

She raised her eyes and looked: "It's the famous painting of the French symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, the Thracian girl holding the head of Orpheus."

Seeing that the eyes of the real estate agent and Dr. Harmon lit up, she added: "It should be a fake. I remember the real one in the Musée nationale Moreau in Paris."

The eyes of several people seemed a little dim, and the fakes were worthless!

"Doctor, can you ask why this house is so cheap?" Charlie couldn't help asking.

The price of a house of the same level is 2 million two blocks away, and the price of the house in front of me was 400,000 six months ago, which is only one-fifth of the average transaction price of such houses, which is really low. Outrageous, now that Dr. Harmon is selling it again, he has cut the original price by a third, and now it can be sold for only 260,000.

To be honest, such a low price, not to mention two police detectives, even ordinary people would have doubts, it is abnormally low.

Dr. Harmon's wife is a very American housewife, but when several people called her Mrs. Harmon, there was obvious resistance in her expression.

The distance between the couple is also a little far from each other, even if Bella, who has been following the rear of the main force, observing the layout of the house like soy sauce, can see that there is a huge rift between them.

"Detective, I have to say we were deceived by this damn real estate agent before!" Mrs. Harmon said angrily.

Her husband tried to stop it with his eyes, but when Samantha looked over, he quickly turned his head.

"There's something eccentric in this house, there's something wrong with it, one of our previous owners died in the house, and there could be...maybe...maybe dead."