Office of the Director
Wakefield Enterprises is a privately held family company. We do not accept unsolicited inquiries, acquisition proposals, or offers of outside capital. The below is offered in the spirit of candor, not invitation.
The company is presently not accepting new matters. Tenants, operators, advisors, and counterparties of record should direct correspondence through their standing channel of contact — in most cases, the office clerk at Kettleman Road, in person on Tuesdays or by post.
Introductions of a potential counterparty are accepted only from a counterparty who has stood with the company for more than a decade. We do not respond to cold correspondence of any kind. Letters addressed to "the owner" are returned, unopened, with the office's compliments.
The company does not maintain a press function and declines, as a matter of long-standing policy, to comment on its holdings, counterparties, or operating results. An informal exception is made for the county agricultural extension office and the state sustainable forestry registry.
The office is staffed Tuesday through Thursday, year-round, and Fridays between Memorial Day and the close of the grain harvest. Correspondence is read on Tuesdays and Thursdays, in the mid-morning, before the walk-through of the day's outstanding matters. Between trustees' meetings the pace is deliberately slower.
The office of the director is based at Kettleman Road, in the upper Midwest. Properties under administration lie within a four-county radius of the company's historic seat.
The company is closed to outside investment. It has never syndicated a holding, never raised a fund, and has no plans to begin. We have found that the absence of outside capital is, on the whole, the source of most of our better decisions.
The company's standing rule: a matter worth our time can be opened over coffee at the Kettleman Road office, with a counterparty who has known us for at least a decade sitting across the table. We thank you for your patience with an approach that has served us for seventy-three years.