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Jeffrey,
I am certainly glad that you have thick s=in and care little about what the press says. I am sorry that you ha=e to appear tolerant against intolerance.
From al= appearances, you fulfill the challenge of Kipling when he said:
"If you can talk with=crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk=with Kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much."<=div>
The Ba=ton Development Group, Inc.
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Annapolis, MD 21401
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The Barton Development Group, Inc.<=span>
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=ow are you
thanks for filling me in
My Extraordinari=y Talented, Outrageous Friend,
Thank you for asking how I am doing. The short=answer is very well. I hope that you are in good health and continue to use your special talents to make the world a better place and f=r your somewhat unique amusements.
The longer answer to your question is that at the en= of 2014 I closed down the office of Landmark, transferred all of the assets to=pay all of the major creditors, except me, and found myself as broke as I was wren you first called me that Friday after Thanksgiving, with my only remaining assets, a large capital loss, my reputation, and my energy.
Since then, our luck has been better than even an op=imist like me would expect. Being free of the $500,000 a day I was fined by the OTS, after several years they abandoned t=is fine, which was initiated strictly to ensure that I had no opportunity to finance any new developments, I became involved with an extraordinary, larg=, important real estate development in Oklahoma City and two others in the 0.=. area.
The bad news is that my dear friend and good partner= Aubrey McClendon, was killed in a single car accident on March 2nd of t=is year and the development with great potential is now either delayed or abandoned. The good news is that our involvement in a 1,000 acre development on Deep Creek Lake in western Maryl=nd is in the process of being financed and should be underway sometime this summer. Our second project is a 405 acre development in Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, that is probably the =rettiest piece of property I know of in the U.S. that is zoned and developable.Q=A0 Its business plan is now underway and we should be in the financing mode this fall. My impression is that there is a tremendous amount of money on the sidelines, but the top 5% or 10% that control it are terribly frightened of losing money they don't need, while the 90% to 95% of the citizens =re continuing their daily labors somewhat frightened that they are not certain where next month's or next year's mortgage payment is comin= from.
On a lighter note, Donald Trump recently bought our development in Ireland, Doonbeg Golf Club. It has been rated the first or second best resort in Europe. To-date;to my surprise, he is managing it reasonably well, probably because he is presently devoted to an endeavor th=t amuses him.
Jeffrey, I want you to understand that I am extreme'= pleased and not at all melancholy about my present circumstances. Whe=ever I get an opportunity, I always visit those assets I helped create and almost without exception, I wish I had bee= smarter, but generally satisfied that I made a positive contribution and on= much higher than normally done by my competitors, because I am fortunate th=t the labor focus of my life has not attracted the best and the brightest.
When good fortune brings you to the D.C. area, pleas= let me know. I always enjoy understanding your activities and do so with amazement and amusement.
=erry