HOUSE OVERSIGHT 023284 Subject: To: Melanie Spinella <________________________> Radical but my preferred idea. . START from total scratch. there is absolutely nothing worth keeping in your family office except for heather , nothing at all . I remember when i bought my first house in order to renovate and jack robertson said forget it. knock it down start again, I could n't believe it. but he was right. Like your tax returns that were done in triplicate. TOM RICH ALAN. tom and rich were not really useful in the end. Alan was the only smart one. you should in my opinion Start a brand new office. hire cfo. bring joe over, heather and samantha, run parallel for 6 months and close down the mess of elysium forever, leave your kids a functioning operation professionally constructed and managed. NOT BY ME!!! LAst nov i laid out priorities IT , being the first nothing as of today. in July I said focus on airplane as a test. to examine procedure and proficiency, so far mostly a waste of resources time people etc. Only last week told debra owns 49 percent of plane. no IT to speak of. bens house unaccounted for. tax returns very very sloppy, . boat still argued as third home. . pilots bonuses?, structure unkown by all. cash sitlling at the same time loans outstanding. Phaidon, looks like close to breakeven in a few years. others totally unknown. Query, do you really want this ? : I m not sure how you both want to have an investment office and have cash flow being eaten by publishing and loans amounts outstanding increased by art. --interest rates will be going up.- . your plane will cost 10 million to refinance - so will boat if sold next year-. art space and regan , both needs more cash. with little return, taxes , art purchases. Part of radical solutition is to sell publishing.altogether. (are the children really interested.) . restrucuture plane from scratch. layers unncessary. simplify crazy structure s bank accounts trading accounts accounts payble. c