176 MB
Indie
, Simulation
, Strategy
, Early Access
Added
4 weeks ago
Updated
1 hour ago
CSF + Goldberg
About the Game
Family Office Simulator is a deep, aspirational wealth-building strategy sim that puts you behind the desk of your own private family office.
Acquire income-producing real estate, manage debt and liquidity, build operating entities, hire staff, structure trusts, and grow a family institution designed to last beyond one founder.
Built around a polished desktop OS interface, Family Office Simulator lets you operate through the apps and workflows of a modern financial office: banking, mail, property management, accounting, brokerage, HR, foundation management, and more.
This is not just a clicker or idle tycoon. It is a strategy simulation about the machinery behind wealth: capital, leverage, cash flow, reputation, governance, succession, and time.
Build a Real Estate Empire
Source deals through a commercial real estate marketplace
Review cap rates, NOI, financing needs, debt service, and cash required to close
Negotiate offers with counter-party logic
Acquire, operate, refinance, and sell multifamily, storage, commercial, and NNN properties
Navigate market cycles including boom, stable, correction, and crash environments
Run a Multi-Entity Family Office
Form and manage LLCs, operating companies, holding structures, trusts, and philanthropic vehicles
Track cash flow, P&L, debt, payroll, taxes, reserves, and software subscriptions
Build an HQ and expand staff capacity as your office grows
Use governance, reputation, and capital structure to shape the long-term direction of the institution
Hire and Manage Your Team
Recruit leasing, maintenance, accounting, operations, and executive staff
Manage payroll, benefits, and quarterly payroll taxes
Respond to staff-generated decisions that affect rent, expenses, vendors, tenants, and office performance
Build the team your growing portfolio needs
Operate Like a Real Family Office
Use a full suite of in-game apps: Banking, Mail, Property Management, Accounting, Brokerage, HR, Foundation, and more
Make monthly decisions with financial consequences
Manage philanthropy through a Legacy Foundation and Donor-Advised Fund
Review your progress through monthly reports, year-end summaries, and long-term institutional milestones
Plan for succession as your founder ages and the family office grows beyond one generation
Authentic. Aspirational. Deep.
Family Office Simulator is built for players who want more than a simple tycoon game. It is for players who want to understand and operate the systems behind wealth creation: acquiring assets, managing capital, protecting liquidity, building teams, and turning personal wealth into a lasting institution.
If you have ever wondered how a family office actually works, now you can run one.
FEATURE LIST
Realistic multi-entity wealth management
Full property acquisition and operations pipeline
Multifamily, storage, commercial, and NNN property modeling
Banking, debt, refinancing, and liquidity management
HR, payroll, and staff lifecycle systems
Trust, succession, and philanthropy systems
Market cycle engine
Monthly simulation with real financial consequences
Accounting, P&L, cash flow, reserves, and capital structure tracking
Negotiation, decision systems, and staff-driven events
Authentic software-style UI across all apps
Save/load with migration support
Steam Cloud support
Ambient office atmosphere and polished desktop OS
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
On the site: Build 25189182
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Another Family Office Simulator update is live.
A few players were still running into two frustrating AcrePilot problems after the last closing update:
• a valid property purchase could still fail with the generic “authoritative state” message; and
• Preview / Continue to Financing could sometimes appear to do nothing.
They turned out to be two separate issues hiding behind similar symptoms.
ACREPILOT CLOSING / 1031 EXCHANGE CREDIT
I found a closing case involving an in-game 1031 exchange credit.
The acquisition itself could debit the correct cash, apply the exchange credit, and produce consistent balances, but one final settlement-journal check was still expecting only the gross cash-to-close movement.
That meant a perfectly valid closing could get rejected after a prior qualifying property sale.
That has been corrected.
The game now reconciles a legitimate exchange credit as part of the completed settlement while still requiring the player to have enough cash to fund the purchase before any credit is applied.
FINANCING SCREEN
I also found a separate financing-access problem.
A valid checking balance could occasionally contain a tiny internal decimal representation difference after normal gameplay. The amount displayed to the player was correct, but the financing screen could reject that value before Preview Financing or Continue to Financing even opened.
That has been corrected too.
Current checking balances are now safely interpreted to the cent for this purpose, while purchase prices, historical transactions, settlement evidence and other financial authority remain strict.
EXISTING SAVES
Existing saves are supported.
If you were stuck on an AcrePilot closing or clicking Preview / Continue to Financing did nothing:
• update the game;
• reopen the same save;
• try the same deal again.
You should not need to withdraw from the negotiation or start a new campaign.
One of the reports included an especially useful reproduction sequence: start Standard, assume the inherited mortgage, sell the inherited property, advance, and then attempt another acquisition. I was able to reproduce that failure and verify the corrected path through Steam before release.
Thank you again to everyone who sent exports, screenshots and exact reproduction steps.
Those saves have been incredibly useful for finding the weird states that are almost impossible to manufacture intentionally.
If something is still stuck after this update, please let me know. Keep the save if you can — I would much rather investigate another edge case than assume it is the same one.
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A few players were still running into two frustrating AcrePilot problems after the last closing update:
• a valid property purchase could still fail with the generic “authoritative state” message; and
• Preview / Continue to Financing could sometimes appear to do nothing.
They turned out to be two separate issues hiding behind similar symptoms.
ACREPILOT CLOSING / 1031 EXCHANGE CREDIT
I found a closing case involving an in-game 1031 exchange credit.
The acquisition itself could debit the correct cash, apply the exchange credit, and produce consistent balances, but one final settlement-journal check was still expecting only the gross cash-to-close movement.
That meant a perfectly valid closing could get rejected after a prior qualifying property sale.
That has been corrected.
The game now reconciles a legitimate exchange credit as part of the completed settlement while still requiring the player to have enough cash to fund the purchase before any credit is applied.
FINANCING SCREEN
I also found a separate financing-access problem.
A valid checking balance could occasionally contain a tiny internal decimal representation difference after normal gameplay. The amount displayed to the player was correct, but the financing screen could reject that value before Preview Financing or Continue to Financing even opened.
That has been corrected too.
Current checking balances are now safely interpreted to the cent for this purpose, while purchase prices, historical transactions, settlement evidence and other financial authority remain strict.
EXISTING SAVES
Existing saves are supported.
If you were stuck on an AcrePilot closing or clicking Preview / Continue to Financing did nothing:
• update the game;
• reopen the same save;
• try the same deal again.
You should not need to withdraw from the negotiation or start a new campaign.
One of the reports included an especially useful reproduction sequence: start Standard, assume the inherited mortgage, sell the inherited property, advance, and then attempt another acquisition. I was able to reproduce that failure and verify the corrected path through Steam before release.
Thank you again to everyone who sent exports, screenshots and exact reproduction steps.
Those saves have been incredibly useful for finding the weird states that are almost impossible to manufacture intentionally.
If something is still stuck after this update, please let me know. Keep the save if you can — I would much rather investigate another edge case than assume it is the same one.
Another Family Office Simulator update is live.
This one took longer than I wanted.
After the August 31 AcrePilot hotfix, a few players were still able to hit the same generic “authoritative state” error even though they had enough money to close the deal. Once I started tracing those saves, it turned out there were a couple of deeper issues underneath that same message.
The biggest one involved mortgage history.
A property could be acquired with financing and then later be legitimately paid off, refinanced, reach maturity, or be sold. The game was still treating some of that original acquisition mortgage information like the old loan had to remain active forever.
That could make a completely valid later AcrePilot closing fail, or make Close Month fail after something like an early mortgage payoff.
That has been corrected.
I also found a separate closing edge case involving checking balances with cents. A valid cash balance could pass the actual economics of the deal but still get rejected by one of the settlement safety checks because of how the balance was being represented internally.
That has been corrected too.
This update covers:
• Early mortgage payoff followed by Close Month
• Mortgage maturity and balloon payoff
• Refinancing and replacement loans
• Selling a financed property and later buying another property
• Later all-cash and financed acquisitions
• NNN all-cash and financed closings
• Existing saves with older acquisition and mortgage history
• Valid checking balances that include cents
• Save, quit, relaunch and continued month-close behavior after these actions
I tested this against the actual player saves that helped uncover the problem, along with previous-public saves and a much wider packaged-build regression matrix.
Existing saves are supported. You do not need to start a new game.
If you were stuck on an AcrePilot closing, update the game and try the same save and deal again. You should not need to withdraw from the negotiation or start over.
Same thing if paying off a mortgage was causing the next month to fail — update the game and try that save again.
And as always, if something still does not work after the update, please tell me. At this point I would much rather have somebody send me a save for something that turns out to be fine than have a real edge case sitting out there that I do not know about.
Thank you to everyone who sent screenshots, saves and exact reproduction steps on this one. They made a huge difference.
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This one took longer than I wanted.
After the August 31 AcrePilot hotfix, a few players were still able to hit the same generic “authoritative state” error even though they had enough money to close the deal. Once I started tracing those saves, it turned out there were a couple of deeper issues underneath that same message.
The biggest one involved mortgage history.
A property could be acquired with financing and then later be legitimately paid off, refinanced, reach maturity, or be sold. The game was still treating some of that original acquisition mortgage information like the old loan had to remain active forever.
That could make a completely valid later AcrePilot closing fail, or make Close Month fail after something like an early mortgage payoff.
That has been corrected.
I also found a separate closing edge case involving checking balances with cents. A valid cash balance could pass the actual economics of the deal but still get rejected by one of the settlement safety checks because of how the balance was being represented internally.
That has been corrected too.
This update covers:
• Early mortgage payoff followed by Close Month
• Mortgage maturity and balloon payoff
• Refinancing and replacement loans
• Selling a financed property and later buying another property
• Later all-cash and financed acquisitions
• NNN all-cash and financed closings
• Existing saves with older acquisition and mortgage history
• Valid checking balances that include cents
• Save, quit, relaunch and continued month-close behavior after these actions
I tested this against the actual player saves that helped uncover the problem, along with previous-public saves and a much wider packaged-build regression matrix.
Existing saves are supported. You do not need to start a new game.
If you were stuck on an AcrePilot closing, update the game and try the same save and deal again. You should not need to withdraw from the negotiation or start over.
Same thing if paying off a mortgage was causing the next month to fail — update the game and try that save again.
And as always, if something still does not work after the update, please tell me. At this point I would much rather have somebody send me a save for something that turns out to be fine than have a real edge case sitting out there that I do not know about.
Thank you to everyone who sent screenshots, saves and exact reproduction steps on this one. They made a huge difference.
A small but important AcrePilot hotfix is now live.
Two players reported that they had enough cash to complete an acquisition, including cash they had drawn from their line of credit, but the deal could still fail at closing with a generic “authoritative state” error.
I tracked it down.
The problem was not that LOC-funded cash had been intentionally disallowed. Older Banking and LOC transactions could exist without some of the newer transaction-identification data, and the new acquisition settlement safety checks were being too strict about that older history. The closing correctly refused to make a partial transaction, which protected the save, but it also meant a perfectly valid deal could get stuck.
That is fixed.
• Existing saves with those older Banking/LOC transactions can now complete valid acquisitions normally.
• LOC-funded cash is still valid cash for closing. There was no intentional change removing that strategy.
• Older transaction history is preserved rather than being rewritten just to satisfy the newer checks.
• New Banking transfers, LOC draws, and LOC repayments now receive safer transaction identities before balances are changed.
• AcrePilot now gives more specific explanations when a negotiation or closing action genuinely cannot proceed instead of dropping into the generic error message for known situations.
I also ran the affected public-save pattern through both an all-cash acquisition and a financed acquisition, including save, quit, relaunch, repeated-action protection, and month-close behavior.
No new game is required.
If you were stuck on an accepted AcrePilot deal, update the game and reopen that existing negotiation. You should be able to continue the closing without withdrawing from the deal or starting over.
Thanks to Nerdmillion and robbiebonnett1234 for reporting this so quickly. This was exactly the kind of edge case that is hard to see until a real save history runs into a new system.
And if anyone still gets stuck after this update, please tell me. Screenshots are useful and saves are even better.
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Two players reported that they had enough cash to complete an acquisition, including cash they had drawn from their line of credit, but the deal could still fail at closing with a generic “authoritative state” error.
I tracked it down.
The problem was not that LOC-funded cash had been intentionally disallowed. Older Banking and LOC transactions could exist without some of the newer transaction-identification data, and the new acquisition settlement safety checks were being too strict about that older history. The closing correctly refused to make a partial transaction, which protected the save, but it also meant a perfectly valid deal could get stuck.
That is fixed.
• Existing saves with those older Banking/LOC transactions can now complete valid acquisitions normally.
• LOC-funded cash is still valid cash for closing. There was no intentional change removing that strategy.
• Older transaction history is preserved rather than being rewritten just to satisfy the newer checks.
• New Banking transfers, LOC draws, and LOC repayments now receive safer transaction identities before balances are changed.
• AcrePilot now gives more specific explanations when a negotiation or closing action genuinely cannot proceed instead of dropping into the generic error message for known situations.
I also ran the affected public-save pattern through both an all-cash acquisition and a financed acquisition, including save, quit, relaunch, repeated-action protection, and month-close behavior.
No new game is required.
If you were stuck on an accepted AcrePilot deal, update the game and reopen that existing negotiation. You should be able to continue the closing without withdrawing from the deal or starting over.
Thanks to Nerdmillion and robbiebonnett1234 for reporting this so quickly. This was exactly the kind of edge case that is hard to see until a real save history runs into a new system.
And if anyone still gets stuck after this update, please tell me. Screenshots are useful and saves are even better.
Another Family Office Simulator update is live.
This one is mostly about making the office easier to run and making AcrePilot negotiations behave like something the game actually remembers instead of something you have to keep track of yourself.
COMMAND CENTER
The desktop has been reorganized around the new Command Center.
Instead of feeling like a loose collection of apps, the office now has a clearer operating view that surfaces things like dated obligations and unread mail while organizing your available tools as the family office grows.
This is also the direction I want to keep pushing the game visually — less “collection of screens” and more like you are actually sitting at the center of an operating family office.
ACREPILOT NEGOTIATIONS
Acquisition negotiations are now persistent.
If you leave AcrePilot to review financing, switch apps, save and reload, or come back later, the game now preserves the actual negotiation you were in rather than making you remember where things stood.
• Seller counters, your last offer, round count, and accepted terms stay attached to the same negotiation.
• Reviewing financing or pausing to do research does not silently use another negotiation round or reroll the seller.
• Negotiation History now keeps durable records of completed, withdrawn, and failed negotiations.
• Extremely low opening offers now warn you about the risk before they are actually submitted. You can revise the offer or knowingly submit it anyway.
• Accepted purchase prices stay locked through financing and closing.
• If a property closing has already been reserved for the current period, Close Month now stops you from accidentally advancing past it until you complete or release that closing.
• Fixed an annoying offer-entry bug where a valid offer could occasionally be rejected if it was entered and submitted immediately.
Negotiation consequences are still real. Sellers can reject an offer or walk away. The difference is that researching a deal should be safe, while an actual negotiation decision should have a clear and lasting consequence.
UNIT TURN CHOICES
Basic, Standard, and Premium Unit Turns now explain the tradeoff before you approve the work.
You can compare cost, project duration, and the modeled lease-up support each scope provides:
• Basic: no additional lease-up support
• Standard: +5 percentage points to the monthly placement attempt after completion
• Premium: +10 percentage points
That support improves the probability of placing a tenant; it does not guarantee one, and total placement probability remains capped at 95%.
You can also choose the scope for the current approval without silently changing the property's normal default.
QUALITY & UI POLISH
• The tenant-row action in Rent Roll now says View instead of the ambiguous Open.
• Negotiation History handles larger numbers of records much more cleanly and lets you reach older records without crushing the cards into unreadable columns.
• Important single-action milestone cards now use the normal gold primary-action treatment.
• Improved keyboard focus and modal spacing, including high UI-scale cases.
• AcrePilot returns to the top of the selected offering when you re-enter it, and several detail views received readability and spacing cleanup.
Existing saves are supported. No new game is required.
A lot of this update came directly from watching where players were getting confused, losing context, or asking perfectly reasonable questions about what a button or choice actually did.
As always, keep that stuff coming. If something makes you stop and say “why the hell does it work like that?”, I want to know about it. 😄
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This one is mostly about making the office easier to run and making AcrePilot negotiations behave like something the game actually remembers instead of something you have to keep track of yourself.
COMMAND CENTER
The desktop has been reorganized around the new Command Center.
Instead of feeling like a loose collection of apps, the office now has a clearer operating view that surfaces things like dated obligations and unread mail while organizing your available tools as the family office grows.
This is also the direction I want to keep pushing the game visually — less “collection of screens” and more like you are actually sitting at the center of an operating family office.
ACREPILOT NEGOTIATIONS
Acquisition negotiations are now persistent.
If you leave AcrePilot to review financing, switch apps, save and reload, or come back later, the game now preserves the actual negotiation you were in rather than making you remember where things stood.
• Seller counters, your last offer, round count, and accepted terms stay attached to the same negotiation.
• Reviewing financing or pausing to do research does not silently use another negotiation round or reroll the seller.
• Negotiation History now keeps durable records of completed, withdrawn, and failed negotiations.
• Extremely low opening offers now warn you about the risk before they are actually submitted. You can revise the offer or knowingly submit it anyway.
• Accepted purchase prices stay locked through financing and closing.
• If a property closing has already been reserved for the current period, Close Month now stops you from accidentally advancing past it until you complete or release that closing.
• Fixed an annoying offer-entry bug where a valid offer could occasionally be rejected if it was entered and submitted immediately.
Negotiation consequences are still real. Sellers can reject an offer or walk away. The difference is that researching a deal should be safe, while an actual negotiation decision should have a clear and lasting consequence.
UNIT TURN CHOICES
Basic, Standard, and Premium Unit Turns now explain the tradeoff before you approve the work.
You can compare cost, project duration, and the modeled lease-up support each scope provides:
• Basic: no additional lease-up support
• Standard: +5 percentage points to the monthly placement attempt after completion
• Premium: +10 percentage points
That support improves the probability of placing a tenant; it does not guarantee one, and total placement probability remains capped at 95%.
You can also choose the scope for the current approval without silently changing the property's normal default.
QUALITY & UI POLISH
• The tenant-row action in Rent Roll now says View instead of the ambiguous Open.
• Negotiation History handles larger numbers of records much more cleanly and lets you reach older records without crushing the cards into unreadable columns.
• Important single-action milestone cards now use the normal gold primary-action treatment.
• Improved keyboard focus and modal spacing, including high UI-scale cases.
• AcrePilot returns to the top of the selected offering when you re-enter it, and several detail views received readability and spacing cleanup.
Existing saves are supported. No new game is required.
A lot of this update came directly from watching where players were getting confused, losing context, or asking perfectly reasonable questions about what a button or choice actually did.
As always, keep that stuff coming. If something makes you stop and say “why the hell does it work like that?”, I want to know about it. 😄
Another Family Office Simulator update is live.
This one is a broad quality and clarity pass built around a simple rule: the game should explain the decision before it takes your money or asks you to commit.
ACREPILOT AND FINANCING
• AcrePilot listings now include improved Offering Briefs with clearer operating, yield, asset-class, and risk context.
• You can now Preview Financing before submitting the first seller-facing offer.
• Enter a hypothetical purchase price and compare all-cash and eligible lender options without beginning a negotiation.
• Financing previews now show cash to close, remaining checking, interest rate, amortization, monthly and annual debt service, DSCR versus lender minimum, origination fees, recourse, prepayment terms, CMBS lockouts, balloon maturity, leverage, and exact eligibility blockers.
• Preview Financing is read-only. Returning to the offer keeps your proposed price, does not submit anything, and does not remove the listing.
HR AND STAFFING
• HR now shows the estimated salary, benefits, employer payroll tax, and loaded annual cost before you open a role.
• Property Manager hiring now includes the current outside-management comparison when one is available.
• Direct Search and Recruiting Agency options now explain exactly when their fees are charged and what each search is expected to produce.
• Employee workload is now distributed more fairly across available same-role staff instead of favoring roster order.
• HR now retains employee workload history so you can review what each employee actually handled over recent closes.
• Employee retention risk now explains the factors driving the displayed risk instead of leaving the percentage unexplained.
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
• Tenant-level rent and renewal controls have been cleaned up and made easier to understand.
• Occupied-rent previews now show the proposed rent, timing, market comparison, expected monthly and annual change, eligibility, and move-out exposure before confirmation.
• Renewal and Routine Delegation statuses are clearer, including why an action requires owner review.
• Fixed a Routine Delegation text-overlap issue that could appear with longer messages and larger UI scaling.
Existing saves are supported. No new game is required.
Thank you to everyone who keeps sending saves, screenshots, and detailed explanations when something feels confusing or wrong. A lot of this update came directly from those reports.
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This one is a broad quality and clarity pass built around a simple rule: the game should explain the decision before it takes your money or asks you to commit.
ACREPILOT AND FINANCING
• AcrePilot listings now include improved Offering Briefs with clearer operating, yield, asset-class, and risk context.
• You can now Preview Financing before submitting the first seller-facing offer.
• Enter a hypothetical purchase price and compare all-cash and eligible lender options without beginning a negotiation.
• Financing previews now show cash to close, remaining checking, interest rate, amortization, monthly and annual debt service, DSCR versus lender minimum, origination fees, recourse, prepayment terms, CMBS lockouts, balloon maturity, leverage, and exact eligibility blockers.
• Preview Financing is read-only. Returning to the offer keeps your proposed price, does not submit anything, and does not remove the listing.
HR AND STAFFING
• HR now shows the estimated salary, benefits, employer payroll tax, and loaded annual cost before you open a role.
• Property Manager hiring now includes the current outside-management comparison when one is available.
• Direct Search and Recruiting Agency options now explain exactly when their fees are charged and what each search is expected to produce.
• Employee workload is now distributed more fairly across available same-role staff instead of favoring roster order.
• HR now retains employee workload history so you can review what each employee actually handled over recent closes.
• Employee retention risk now explains the factors driving the displayed risk instead of leaving the percentage unexplained.
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
• Tenant-level rent and renewal controls have been cleaned up and made easier to understand.
• Occupied-rent previews now show the proposed rent, timing, market comparison, expected monthly and annual change, eligibility, and move-out exposure before confirmation.
• Renewal and Routine Delegation statuses are clearer, including why an action requires owner review.
• Fixed a Routine Delegation text-overlap issue that could appear with longer messages and larger UI scaling.
Existing saves are supported. No new game is required.
Thank you to everyone who keeps sending saves, screenshots, and detailed explanations when something feels confusing or wrong. A lot of this update came directly from those reports.
Today's Family Office Simulator update improves how occupied-rent changes account for recent rent history and makes the risk shown to players more consistent with the actual economic burden on a tenant.
### Occupied Rent Risk
* Recent rent increases are now evaluated cumulatively over a rolling 12-month period.
* Repeated small increases can no longer avoid move-out risk simply by staying below the risk threshold one increase at a time.
* The game now accounts for the tenant's provable recent signed-rent history when evaluating a new proposal.
* The move-out risk shown in the preview is the same risk preserved through the pending proposal, save/reload, and eventual effective rent change.
* Existing saves are supported. Older tenants begin tracking this history prospectively rather than being assigned invented historical rent changes.
### Rent Reductions
* Reducing a tenant's rent does not create cumulative move-out risk.
* Prior rent history is still preserved so lowering rent cannot erase earlier increases before a later increase.
* Rent-reduction previews now show the signed dollar change correctly.
### Property Management Clarity
* Rent-change previews now provide clearer context when recent increases are contributing to move-out risk.
* Improved spacing and presentation around rent-risk warnings and actions.
No new game is required.
Thank you to everyone continuing to send detailed reports during Early Access. Player feedback directly helped identify and validate the cumulative rent-risk issue corrected in this update.
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### Occupied Rent Risk
* Recent rent increases are now evaluated cumulatively over a rolling 12-month period.
* Repeated small increases can no longer avoid move-out risk simply by staying below the risk threshold one increase at a time.
* The game now accounts for the tenant's provable recent signed-rent history when evaluating a new proposal.
* The move-out risk shown in the preview is the same risk preserved through the pending proposal, save/reload, and eventual effective rent change.
* Existing saves are supported. Older tenants begin tracking this history prospectively rather than being assigned invented historical rent changes.
### Rent Reductions
* Reducing a tenant's rent does not create cumulative move-out risk.
* Prior rent history is still preserved so lowering rent cannot erase earlier increases before a later increase.
* Rent-reduction previews now show the signed dollar change correctly.
### Property Management Clarity
* Rent-change previews now provide clearer context when recent increases are contributing to move-out risk.
* Improved spacing and presentation around rent-risk warnings and actions.
No new game is required.
Thank you to everyone continuing to send detailed reports during Early Access. Player feedback directly helped identify and validate the cumulative rent-risk issue corrected in this update.
Another update is live.
This one is mostly focused on three player-reported issues that were small on the surface but had some pretty important logic underneath them.
Property Manager lease renewals
Routine residential lease renewals handled by an in-house Property Manager no longer depend on the random lease-negotiation event happening first.
If you have renewal delegation enabled, the lease is inside your policy limits, your Property Manager is fully onboarded, and the team has the capacity to handle it, the PM can now take care of the routine renewal at month close.
If the rent is outside your policy, the team is overloaded, the PM is not ready, or something else needs your attention, it still comes back to you. I don't want the game magically making decisions your staff does not actually have the authority or capacity to make.
This also fixes an expiration-order issue that could let an otherwise eligible fixed lease fall into month-to-month status before the routine renewal path got its chance.
Older heirs now start with age-appropriate development
A family or adopted heir created at an older age could previously enter the game with essentially newborn-level competencies because their development only started after they were added to the save.
That is corrected. Older newly created heirs now receive deterministic age-appropriate prior development based on their age, education and potential, while still respecting their individual ceilings. Being older does not automatically make somebody a great successor.
Existing saves also have a conservative correction where the game can actually prove that an older heir came through the affected path. If the historical evidence is ambiguous, the game leaves it alone rather than guessing and potentially rewriting legitimate progress.
False “Market Update — Stable” emails
A player sent me a save showing something that looked pretty strange: the taskbar already showed the economy as Stable, but the game later sent an email announcing a change to Stable anyway.
The save helped us track down the exact cause. Older/fresh state could effectively be treated as Stable by the game while the underlying cycle field had not yet been explicitly stored. When that field later became Stable, the game could mistake that initialization for an actual economic transition.
Fresh games now begin with an explicit Stable market state, and supported older saves normalize safely. Stable-to-Stable will not generate a fake market-change notice or incorrectly trigger the accompanying market-cycle education.
Real Boom, Stable, Correction and Crash transitions still work normally.
I also put the combined update through the full regression suite, packaged-runtime testing and a private Steam build before pushing the exact same build live. I know I have been moving pretty fast with these updates, but I have zero interest in fixing one thing and breaking three others in the process.
Thanks again to everybody sending screenshots, saves and detailed reports. The saves especially have been ridiculously helpful because they let me prove what actually happened instead of guessing from the outside.
Keep them coming.
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This one is mostly focused on three player-reported issues that were small on the surface but had some pretty important logic underneath them.
Property Manager lease renewals
Routine residential lease renewals handled by an in-house Property Manager no longer depend on the random lease-negotiation event happening first.
If you have renewal delegation enabled, the lease is inside your policy limits, your Property Manager is fully onboarded, and the team has the capacity to handle it, the PM can now take care of the routine renewal at month close.
If the rent is outside your policy, the team is overloaded, the PM is not ready, or something else needs your attention, it still comes back to you. I don't want the game magically making decisions your staff does not actually have the authority or capacity to make.
This also fixes an expiration-order issue that could let an otherwise eligible fixed lease fall into month-to-month status before the routine renewal path got its chance.
Older heirs now start with age-appropriate development
A family or adopted heir created at an older age could previously enter the game with essentially newborn-level competencies because their development only started after they were added to the save.
That is corrected. Older newly created heirs now receive deterministic age-appropriate prior development based on their age, education and potential, while still respecting their individual ceilings. Being older does not automatically make somebody a great successor.
Existing saves also have a conservative correction where the game can actually prove that an older heir came through the affected path. If the historical evidence is ambiguous, the game leaves it alone rather than guessing and potentially rewriting legitimate progress.
False “Market Update — Stable” emails
A player sent me a save showing something that looked pretty strange: the taskbar already showed the economy as Stable, but the game later sent an email announcing a change to Stable anyway.
The save helped us track down the exact cause. Older/fresh state could effectively be treated as Stable by the game while the underlying cycle field had not yet been explicitly stored. When that field later became Stable, the game could mistake that initialization for an actual economic transition.
Fresh games now begin with an explicit Stable market state, and supported older saves normalize safely. Stable-to-Stable will not generate a fake market-change notice or incorrectly trigger the accompanying market-cycle education.
Real Boom, Stable, Correction and Crash transitions still work normally.
I also put the combined update through the full regression suite, packaged-runtime testing and a private Steam build before pushing the exact same build live. I know I have been moving pretty fast with these updates, but I have zero interest in fixing one thing and breaking three others in the process.
Thanks again to everybody sending screenshots, saves and detailed reports. The saves especially have been ridiculously helpful because they let me prove what actually happened instead of guessing from the outside.
Keep them coming.
Today’s update focuses on several player-reported clarity and usability issues.
What changed:
• Monthly advisor emails now preserve the correct positive or negative sign for Net Checking Change.
• Lease-renewal messaging now correctly distinguishes between changing rent and simply renewing a valid lease at its current signed rent.
• Completed Annual Reports can now be reopened anytime from Accounting → Annual Reports, including reports from prior completed years that are already saved.
• The Settings control on the desktop taskbar is now clearly labeled Settings instead of relying on a small unlabeled icon.
• Settings now includes a proper Quit to Desktop option with confirmation. The game saves before quitting, and if that save fails, the game remains open rather than closing anyway.
Existing saves should continue to work normally.
A lot of these changes came directly from player reports about small things that made the game harder to understand or navigate than they needed to be. Thanks, as always, for continuing to point these out while Family Office Simulator is in Early Access.
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What changed:
• Monthly advisor emails now preserve the correct positive or negative sign for Net Checking Change.
• Lease-renewal messaging now correctly distinguishes between changing rent and simply renewing a valid lease at its current signed rent.
• Completed Annual Reports can now be reopened anytime from Accounting → Annual Reports, including reports from prior completed years that are already saved.
• The Settings control on the desktop taskbar is now clearly labeled Settings instead of relying on a small unlabeled icon.
• Settings now includes a proper Quit to Desktop option with confirmation. The game saves before quitting, and if that save fails, the game remains open rather than closing anyway.
Existing saves should continue to work normally.
A lot of these changes came directly from player reports about small things that made the game harder to understand or navigate than they needed to be. Thanks, as always, for continuing to point these out while Family Office Simulator is in Early Access.
Another deeper property-economics update is now live.
This one started with a pretty simple player question: if I buy a property well, improve the operations, and then move through different market cycles, is the game actually recognizing what happened to that property?
The old valuation model wasn't doing that clearly enough, so I went deeper than just changing the number on the screen.
WHAT CHANGED
PROPERTY VALUATION
Owned-property values now respond to both the property itself and the market around it.
For multifamily and self-storage, valuation now considers a blend of actual signed rents and stabilized market income instead of treating market rent as the whole story.
Vacancy matters. Rent performance matters. Operating expenses matter. Market cap rates matter.
Most importantly, your negotiated purchase price is now treated as what it should be: historical acquisition cost. It no longer becomes the permanent anchor that determines what the property is worth years later.
Property Management now shows a valuation breakdown so you can see the major pieces behind Indicated Market Value and Current Value instead of being handed a mystery number.
NNN valuation is also more lease-aware. The remaining lease term matters, rents move toward market as a lease approaches expiration, and vacant NNN properties use the same leasing environment that actually governs their chance of finding a tenant.
MARKET VALUE RECOGNITION
Indicated Market Value is the current appraisal-style target.
Current Value is the recognized value used by the rest of the family office.
Current Value now moves toward the indicated value over time instead of getting the old random monthly noise and large separate market-cycle jumps.
That recognized Current Value remains the value used for net worth, refinancing, sale offers, reporting, progression and other downstream systems.
PROPERTY TAX BASIS & DEPRECIATION
While working through the valuation system, I found a separate accounting problem that needed fixing too.
Qualifying capital improvements were reducing your cash, but their cost was not being properly included in depreciation and adjusted tax basis.
That has been corrected.
Qualifying property CapEx now:
• increases adjusted tax basis;
• receives its own depreciation treatment beginning when the project is completed;
• reduces future taxable disposition gain through the proper adjusted-basis calculation; and
• remains separate from market value.
Accounting > Tax Strategy now includes a Property Tax Basis & Depreciation table showing original cost, capital improvements, depreciable basis, accumulated depreciation, 1031 adjustments, transition credits and adjusted tax basis.
Property-sale previews and settlements now use that same adjusted-basis authority.
New 1031 exchanges also carry the deferred gain into the replacement property's tax basis rather than treating purchase price as a fresh tax basis.
Existing saves are supported. The migration does not go back and rewrite closed historical tax years, prior cash, old Annual Reports or transaction history.
REGIONAL CAP RATES
I also corrected a quieter AcrePilot issue.
Persistent listings and Board Counsel comparisons now continue to respect the selected region's cap-rate environment as market cycles change. The regional component could previously disappear from those comparisons after a listing had been generated.
THANK YOU
This update came out of some extremely detailed player questions, screenshots and save-file testing.
That kind of feedback is exactly what Early Access is for. If the game is going to model real financial systems, I want the numbers to have understandable causes rather than just moving because the game says so.
As always, keep the weird edge cases coming.
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This one started with a pretty simple player question: if I buy a property well, improve the operations, and then move through different market cycles, is the game actually recognizing what happened to that property?
The old valuation model wasn't doing that clearly enough, so I went deeper than just changing the number on the screen.
WHAT CHANGED
PROPERTY VALUATION
Owned-property values now respond to both the property itself and the market around it.
For multifamily and self-storage, valuation now considers a blend of actual signed rents and stabilized market income instead of treating market rent as the whole story.
Vacancy matters. Rent performance matters. Operating expenses matter. Market cap rates matter.
Most importantly, your negotiated purchase price is now treated as what it should be: historical acquisition cost. It no longer becomes the permanent anchor that determines what the property is worth years later.
Property Management now shows a valuation breakdown so you can see the major pieces behind Indicated Market Value and Current Value instead of being handed a mystery number.
NNN valuation is also more lease-aware. The remaining lease term matters, rents move toward market as a lease approaches expiration, and vacant NNN properties use the same leasing environment that actually governs their chance of finding a tenant.
MARKET VALUE RECOGNITION
Indicated Market Value is the current appraisal-style target.
Current Value is the recognized value used by the rest of the family office.
Current Value now moves toward the indicated value over time instead of getting the old random monthly noise and large separate market-cycle jumps.
That recognized Current Value remains the value used for net worth, refinancing, sale offers, reporting, progression and other downstream systems.
PROPERTY TAX BASIS & DEPRECIATION
While working through the valuation system, I found a separate accounting problem that needed fixing too.
Qualifying capital improvements were reducing your cash, but their cost was not being properly included in depreciation and adjusted tax basis.
That has been corrected.
Qualifying property CapEx now:
• increases adjusted tax basis;
• receives its own depreciation treatment beginning when the project is completed;
• reduces future taxable disposition gain through the proper adjusted-basis calculation; and
• remains separate from market value.
Accounting > Tax Strategy now includes a Property Tax Basis & Depreciation table showing original cost, capital improvements, depreciable basis, accumulated depreciation, 1031 adjustments, transition credits and adjusted tax basis.
Property-sale previews and settlements now use that same adjusted-basis authority.
New 1031 exchanges also carry the deferred gain into the replacement property's tax basis rather than treating purchase price as a fresh tax basis.
Existing saves are supported. The migration does not go back and rewrite closed historical tax years, prior cash, old Annual Reports or transaction history.
REGIONAL CAP RATES
I also corrected a quieter AcrePilot issue.
Persistent listings and Board Counsel comparisons now continue to respect the selected region's cap-rate environment as market cycles change. The regional component could previously disappear from those comparisons after a listing had been generated.
THANK YOU
This update came out of some extremely detailed player questions, screenshots and save-file testing.
That kind of feedback is exactly what Early Access is for. If the game is going to model real financial systems, I want the numbers to have understandable causes rather than just moving because the game says so.
As always, keep the weird edge cases coming.
Another small Family Office Simulator update is live.
A player caught sellers occasionally doing something that was, frankly, impressively bad negotiating. 😄
In certain late-round purchase negotiations, you could raise your offer and the seller could respond with a “final offer” that was actually lower than the amount you had already offered them.
That obviously doesn’t make much sense.
What changed:
If the seller’s modeled willingness to accept a deal reaches or falls below your current standing offer, the seller will now accept your existing offer instead of countering back at a lower price.
Normal seller concessions, rejections, walk-aways, final offers, financing, and closing economics are otherwise unchanged.
This was a narrow negotiation-logic correction rather than a rebalance of property prices or financing.
Thanks to Actinguy2 for posting the exact negotiation sequences that made this one nice and reproducible.
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A player caught sellers occasionally doing something that was, frankly, impressively bad negotiating. 😄
In certain late-round purchase negotiations, you could raise your offer and the seller could respond with a “final offer” that was actually lower than the amount you had already offered them.
That obviously doesn’t make much sense.
What changed:
If the seller’s modeled willingness to accept a deal reaches or falls below your current standing offer, the seller will now accept your existing offer instead of countering back at a lower price.
Normal seller concessions, rejections, walk-aways, final offers, financing, and closing economics are otherwise unchanged.
This was a narrow negotiation-logic correction rather than a rebalance of property prices or financing.
Thanks to Actinguy2 for posting the exact negotiation sequences that made this one nice and reproducible.
Small but important financing update today.
CMBS loans in Family Office Simulator are intended to trade some flexibility for longer-term, non-recourse commercial financing. The game already enforced the CMBS lockout when refinancing or paying off a mortgage directly, but I found a separate property-sale path that could still settle the mortgage during that same lockout period.
That was inconsistent, so it has been corrected.
WHAT CHANGED
• Properties with an active CMBS loan lockout can no longer be voluntarily sold and settled before the lockout expires.
• Refinance and direct mortgage payoff remain blocked during the same lockout period, so all three voluntary exit paths now follow the same rule.
• Property Management now clearly explains when a property is under a loan lockout and shows the exact month and year the lockout ends.
• CMBS is now expanded as Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities where the restriction is explained, rather than assuming everyone already knows the acronym.
• Catherine Hale’s closing email now gives you a short explanation of CMBS financing when you close with a CMBS loan, including:
- what CMBS financing is;
- why early voluntary exit flexibility is restricted;
- the exact lockout end date;
- which actions are unavailable during the lockout; and
- that the normal modeled prepayment-penalty schedule may still apply after the lockout expires.
• Existing post-lockout prepayment penalties and normal sale/refinance/payoff behavior remain intact.
This update does NOT change CMBS interest rates, LTV limits, DSCR requirements, loan terms, or the length of the existing 24-month lockout.
This was one of those things I wanted to get right because if the game is going to model and teach real financial concepts, the rules in the game need to match what the game tells you.
As always, thank you for the reports, questions, and feedback. They continue to help me find places where Family Office Simulator can be more accurate and easier to understand.
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CMBS loans in Family Office Simulator are intended to trade some flexibility for longer-term, non-recourse commercial financing. The game already enforced the CMBS lockout when refinancing or paying off a mortgage directly, but I found a separate property-sale path that could still settle the mortgage during that same lockout period.
That was inconsistent, so it has been corrected.
WHAT CHANGED
• Properties with an active CMBS loan lockout can no longer be voluntarily sold and settled before the lockout expires.
• Refinance and direct mortgage payoff remain blocked during the same lockout period, so all three voluntary exit paths now follow the same rule.
• Property Management now clearly explains when a property is under a loan lockout and shows the exact month and year the lockout ends.
• CMBS is now expanded as Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities where the restriction is explained, rather than assuming everyone already knows the acronym.
• Catherine Hale’s closing email now gives you a short explanation of CMBS financing when you close with a CMBS loan, including:
- what CMBS financing is;
- why early voluntary exit flexibility is restricted;
- the exact lockout end date;
- which actions are unavailable during the lockout; and
- that the normal modeled prepayment-penalty schedule may still apply after the lockout expires.
• Existing post-lockout prepayment penalties and normal sale/refinance/payoff behavior remain intact.
This update does NOT change CMBS interest rates, LTV limits, DSCR requirements, loan terms, or the length of the existing 24-month lockout.
This was one of those things I wanted to get right because if the game is going to model and teach real financial concepts, the rules in the game need to match what the game tells you.
As always, thank you for the reports, questions, and feedback. They continue to help me find places where Family Office Simulator can be more accurate and easier to understand.
Another AcrePilot update is now live.
This one addresses a problem several players uncovered after the regional-market changes.
The $250K Grind start is supposed to be hard. Depending on the region and market cycle, however, it could also leave a player waiting far too long before the normal market produced a first property that had any realistic chance of satisfying both cash-to-close and lender underwriting.
I did not want to solve that by making the banks easier, giving the player free money, or guaranteeing a starter deal.
Instead, I went back into the underlying property market.
WHAT CHANGED
SMALLER COMMERCIAL ASSETS
The normal AcrePilot market can now naturally produce a smaller tail of commercial properties:
• Small Apartment Complexes can now include 5–7 unit properties.
• Self-Storage Facilities can now include 25–49 unit properties.
These are not special discounted “starter” properties.
They use the same regional pricing, cap-rate environment, market cycles, lender rules, and negotiation system as the rest of AcrePilot.
This is also not exclusive to The Grind. These properties are part of the ordinary market and can appear in any campaign.
Harder markets such as Mountain West and Sun Belt remain harder. Boom markets remain more difficult than weaker markets. And there is still no guarantee that a financeable deal will be sitting there in January.
The goal is simply to make sure “Hard Mode” means difficult decisions and limited capital — not spending years waiting for the property generator to finally give you something remotely actionable.
FINANCING IS NOW MUCH CLEARER
AcrePilot financing now shows more of the actual transaction economics before you commit:
• Down Payment
• Origination Fee
• Cash to Close
• Current Checking
• Remaining Checking After Close when applicable
• Interest Rate
• Monthly Principal & Interest
• Cash-on-Cash Return
• DSCR
A loan option now needs to satisfy BOTH:
• lender underwriting; and
• your actual cash-to-close requirement.
If a financing tier fails because of cash, DSCR, or both, the game now tells you why.
If no financing option can close, AcrePilot identifies the closest available option and explains what is preventing it from working.
All Cash is also visibly unavailable when you do not actually have enough cash to complete the purchase.
BETTER HARD-MODE GUIDANCE
The Grind setup now gives clearer information about regional entry costs.
A lower-cost market can make smaller assets more accessible, while a higher-cost market may require substantially more patience or capital before cash-to-close and lender DSCR line up.
The bank-selection descriptions have also been cleaned up so they describe the differences the game actually models.
Financing analysis now reflects the current market cycle rather than always describing the market as Stable.
EXISTING SAVES
Existing properties and existing AcrePilot listings are not being rerolled or rewritten.
If you continue an existing save, you will begin seeing the revised property distribution as new listings enter the market through the normal AcrePilot lifecycle.
HARD MODE IS STILL HARD
This update is not intended to make The Grind easy.
You can still:
• find a property you cannot afford;
• have plenty of cash but fail DSCR;
• have a property support the debt but lack enough cash to close;
• choose leverage that leaves very little liquidity;
• wait for a better opportunity;
• make a bad deal.
Those tradeoffs are intentional.
What I wanted to remove was the situation where certain regional starts could become an extended waiting game because the underlying ordinary market rarely generated assets at a scale the $250K office could ever realistically reach.
THANK YOU
Special thanks to Actinguy2 and Reedtanguerra for putting a ridiculous amount of time into testing the hard start across different regions and sharing the actual numbers from their runs.
That testing made it very clear where the line between “hard” and “the market isn't giving the player a meaningful decision” had started to break down.
As always, keep the feedback coming.
Family Office Simulator is better because of it.
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This one addresses a problem several players uncovered after the regional-market changes.
The $250K Grind start is supposed to be hard. Depending on the region and market cycle, however, it could also leave a player waiting far too long before the normal market produced a first property that had any realistic chance of satisfying both cash-to-close and lender underwriting.
I did not want to solve that by making the banks easier, giving the player free money, or guaranteeing a starter deal.
Instead, I went back into the underlying property market.
WHAT CHANGED
SMALLER COMMERCIAL ASSETS
The normal AcrePilot market can now naturally produce a smaller tail of commercial properties:
• Small Apartment Complexes can now include 5–7 unit properties.
• Self-Storage Facilities can now include 25–49 unit properties.
These are not special discounted “starter” properties.
They use the same regional pricing, cap-rate environment, market cycles, lender rules, and negotiation system as the rest of AcrePilot.
This is also not exclusive to The Grind. These properties are part of the ordinary market and can appear in any campaign.
Harder markets such as Mountain West and Sun Belt remain harder. Boom markets remain more difficult than weaker markets. And there is still no guarantee that a financeable deal will be sitting there in January.
The goal is simply to make sure “Hard Mode” means difficult decisions and limited capital — not spending years waiting for the property generator to finally give you something remotely actionable.
FINANCING IS NOW MUCH CLEARER
AcrePilot financing now shows more of the actual transaction economics before you commit:
• Down Payment
• Origination Fee
• Cash to Close
• Current Checking
• Remaining Checking After Close when applicable
• Interest Rate
• Monthly Principal & Interest
• Cash-on-Cash Return
• DSCR
A loan option now needs to satisfy BOTH:
• lender underwriting; and
• your actual cash-to-close requirement.
If a financing tier fails because of cash, DSCR, or both, the game now tells you why.
If no financing option can close, AcrePilot identifies the closest available option and explains what is preventing it from working.
All Cash is also visibly unavailable when you do not actually have enough cash to complete the purchase.
BETTER HARD-MODE GUIDANCE
The Grind setup now gives clearer information about regional entry costs.
A lower-cost market can make smaller assets more accessible, while a higher-cost market may require substantially more patience or capital before cash-to-close and lender DSCR line up.
The bank-selection descriptions have also been cleaned up so they describe the differences the game actually models.
Financing analysis now reflects the current market cycle rather than always describing the market as Stable.
EXISTING SAVES
Existing properties and existing AcrePilot listings are not being rerolled or rewritten.
If you continue an existing save, you will begin seeing the revised property distribution as new listings enter the market through the normal AcrePilot lifecycle.
HARD MODE IS STILL HARD
This update is not intended to make The Grind easy.
You can still:
• find a property you cannot afford;
• have plenty of cash but fail DSCR;
• have a property support the debt but lack enough cash to close;
• choose leverage that leaves very little liquidity;
• wait for a better opportunity;
• make a bad deal.
Those tradeoffs are intentional.
What I wanted to remove was the situation where certain regional starts could become an extended waiting game because the underlying ordinary market rarely generated assets at a scale the $250K office could ever realistically reach.
THANK YOU
Special thanks to Actinguy2 and Reedtanguerra for putting a ridiculous amount of time into testing the hard start across different regions and sharing the actual numbers from their runs.
That testing made it very clear where the line between “hard” and “the market isn't giving the player a meaningful decision” had started to break down.
As always, keep the feedback coming.
Family Office Simulator is better because of it.
Current Release
Build 25189182
Uploaded Sep 09, 2026
System Requirements
OS
Windows 10 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i3 / AMD Ryzen 3 or equivalent
RAM
4 GB RAM
GPU
Integrated graphics
How to Install
1
Download all files
2
Extract the .ZIP file to a folder (use WinRAR or 7-Zip)
3
Run Family Office Simulator.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
Download
Direct link available
Archive password
Needed when extracting (WinRAR / 7-Zip) — not a site login.
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