“For the purpose of the seven of us, we’re putting Heavenly Entertainment and Heavenly Properties into one ‘corporate’ bucket,” I explained. “And the German government separately. We’ll all be council. Rita, Joshua, and Natalia will be corporate. Ally and Arthur will be Germany. Elijah and I will be both.”
“All subject to change and adjusting because some of these seem fairly light for us,” Joshua muttered as he pointed between Rita and himself.
Elijah and I shared a look and he snorted and I had trouble not laughing.
“How many properties are we up to?” Rita sighed.
“Six thousand is our best guess,” Elijah admitted, the others having an array of reactions to that news.
Arthur’s was the best as the bite he’d taken reaching the other side of the large conference room table when he’d choked on it.
“Yes, and some of them we’re probably losing from someone else buying taxes and blah, blah, blah,” I admitted. “ButI want some of what Arthur and Ally will do to kick back directly to you both. So just—yes, subject to change. Corporate was alwaysgoing to be the cover for what else we were doing and to make money.”
“We’re with you, child,” Ally said gently. “You’ve always had the vision and gotten us this far. Tell us what’s next and we’ll iron it out as we should.”
She was such a rock of confidence that it always helped me when I had to stand in front of six ancients and tell them how we were going to do things.
I started with Rita since we’d mostly discussed her already. “You will be acquisitions, construction, and property management. Acquisitions meaning handling of new clubs and properties any of the investigations bring in or anything else we develop, any companies we absorb, or any sort of assets will be for you to redistribute and handle.”
“So one ancient demon director for that and the list of what that entails,” she muttered, nodding along as she jotted things down. “I would think that could mean—do you mean talent as well?”
“Yes.” I chuckled when everyone else froze. “I’ll get back to that.”
“Of course you’d be so layered,” Elijah muttered, not sounding as if he was sure if it was a compliment or a slight.
“Construction—which you’ve already given that director position to Chun—means new construction, renovations, and anythingstructuralfalls under that. Inspections, roofs—however that works out, but the actual building shit is all that.” I even made my arms move, gesturing to the building around us as if that wasn’t clear enough which amused everyone.
So at least that was something.
“Last is property management,” I continued. “That means taxes, rents, utilities—whatever adulting we have to do for the clubs. Also, for these properties as Heavenly Properties—leases to rent them out, property management if we expand to allowour people or others to hire us to manage their investment properties, and everything that falls under that.”
“Condo board, tenant shit, customer service parts,” she muttered, nodding when I did and jotting it all down. “Good, that adds alotof potential jobs too. Especially with so many more now. I’m going to make Melissa junior director under the property management director. She is aces with all that bureaucracy.”
“There’s no one better,” I agreed. “As long as we keep making it clear that we’re putting ancients in the director positions—or at least officially—to shield our very loyal employees.”
“Yes, but also Melissa wouldn’t want the big title and headache,” Rita said with a smile. “She prefers the quiet and the efficiency of less meetings.”
That was also very true.
I focused on Joshua next. “You are interiors, vendors, and personnel, that is all personnel not corporate, dancers or security.”
“So much split on personnel is my only concern,” he admitted.
“Hear her out because I did and it makes sense,” Natalia cut in. “I thought so too, but—she’s right. It will be tricky to start, but then it will be—we’ve managed much worse dancing.”
I gave her a grateful look before focusing back on him. “Interiors is anything not handyman, painting, or contractor work. That’s Rita and under renovations. You are furniture—”
“Anything we outsource,” he muttered, already jotting down. “Poles. Lights are through that one company we have the contract with. Yeah, furniture, but also the safes and—stuff for the kitchen. Got it. Goes with vendors but also not because that’s also food, booze, and…” He slowly looked up at me and blinked. “Okay, I take back what I said about my job being small.”
I snorted and nodded. “Yes, you’re going to need to learn about paint, building materials, drywall—all the buying shit. Chu is going to—there will be crossover, but you’re the money and books guy. You always have been. Now you also get the personnel part. You’re going to be the HR for not just the club but the property people.”
“So we’re—yeah, makes sense,” Rita muttered. “And harder for anything to get by both of us if we’re back and forth. But also, there’s no need for two accounting and vendor departments just because they’re different types of vendors or yeah, HR.”
“Exactly,” I confirmed. “And Rita will be doing the onboarding more while you do the HR and managing so—”
“And that will tie into whatever you have planned with Ally and Arthur, but also to you getting more IDs for people and Elijah’s legal department,” Joshua said with a sigh.
“Also me,” Natalia chuckled, giving me a wink. “Hit me, you sexy woman.”
