Ribsey

Sold.

Still for sale.

The property's yours.

Noted!

Featuring a great view of the Del Perro Beach and Pier, plentiful parking with easy acess to main city roads and the Great Ocean Highway. Starting Bid: $450,000 Buyout: $800,000 Full pictures: ((OOC)

Sold for $17,000.

2008 Karin Asterope Ideal as a first car or a cheap, no drama transport for commuting. Modest tuning work from Karin Performance installed, low mileage and well serviced. * Windows have since been changed to a legal tint. * Starting at $15,000. Contact Information (( OOC Stats ))

Sold!

Yup! Will message you.

Small apartment in Pillbox Hill (opposite the DMV). Great central location in the city with easy access to Mission Row LSPD, Legion Square Fleeca bank and the various bars & clubs in the area! Perfect first home for somebody finding their feet in Los Santos! Starting: $40,000 Buyout: $70,000 (( PINFO ))

Sold!

Then it's all yours tonight.

Either of you still interested?

Bump!

Leading bid.

1986 Vapid Uranus Well maintained daily driver with just over 2,100 miles on the clock. Starting at $40,000. (( OOC ))

Yep!

250k - open to negotiating.

Credit: Nikki Kalawai Facebrowser page. Talking Gruppe 6 Emilia Russo Following a discussion with IRONGATE Solutions' Director Adriaan Pretoria, LSNN spoke with the Chief Executive Officer of Gruppe 6 Corporate Security. Gruppe 6 have the distinction of being the state's most perceivable security company. Whether it's their headquarters on Elgin Avenue in Strawberry, the common sight of their liveried vehicles or their forest green uniforms on patrol. However they are also notable for their detractors who tend to label them as militants who overstep their duties. For an inside perspective of the situation, LSNN invited Hawaiian born Nikki Kalawai to its offices for a discussion and insight into the company. On a fundamental level Nikki claims that the company is in "the best state it's been the last few months" and their contracts are growing daily. She claims this is from an increasing advertising campaign, making them more "easily reachable than ever before, people have understood that there's one trusted company out there that they can work time". A sentiment that appears to have grown exponentially among the LS population is that Gruppe 6 in particular are mall cops and/or failed police/military applicants that are not to be trusted. "Our protection officers are trained to not give in to such provocations. Additionally, having the will to become a police officer is not a bad thing, this stimulates people more to dig into the field work. We're always happy when our employees resign and join the police department. Their will to become a police officer is a positive side to the whole work aspect. It means they are interested in what they do, and do it with pleasure. We're trying to avoid hiring people who are just here for the pay. Of course we recruit enough supervisors to make sure the whole 'into the work' aspect doesn't get out of hand. It has happened before, and it will keep happening. We're doing our best to keep it to a minimum, it's just one of the things that happen in the security field." Leaning further into this point, Nikki shared Gruppe 6's need for a large amount of protection officers to maintain their 24/7 availability across 50 clients, ranging from the city government, auto shops, trucking yards, residential homes and businesses such as the Busch Corporation and CBet. At the time of our meeting the company had 38 officers in its employ. These are overseen by a patrol operations director, sales managers, firearms instructor and recruitment staff. Gruppe 6 maintains a simple hierarchy, something Nikki implies as essential when quizzed on the comments made by Adrian Pretoria: "We all have to agree that a security company with 5 people will have more control in them. They're mainly people who know each other on a personal level. , their control between each other is much easier. We employ a lot of people, our recruitment team is working heavily on the recruitment aspect. Having 30-40 people in your lists is not an easy thing to maintain. Consider filtering out bad candidates, then supervising them to make sure they're doing their job right, combined with training them as well it's not an easy task." Pressing her on Adriaan's view of the sector's current status, she said: "The easiest thing to do in the security field is to step into the shoes of a fallen company. Gruppe 6 could've taken over the Executive Security spots within a day. We didn't. While we did gain a few venues, we never directly aimed at it. Gruppe 6 has never aimed at competing in the night club venues. Gruppe 6 aims at offering a reliable, trusted, affordable service for the normal person, for their home, or business. This is why we have never considered Executive Security as a 'competitor'. Their patroling aspect has proven a failure and they scrapped it, focusing only on their venues. With that said, statistically, yes, a 5-10 man team is easier to manage and keep a good track of. A 5-10 man team however cannot service even a single of our patrol clients. It's different view points. Gruppe 6 is the only company with equipment that nobody else has." Given their presence, Nikki's follow-up expressed confidence in the future of the company by affirming that "we have about 70% space to grow at the moment". Furthermore Gruppe 6 appear to be prepared for expansion, as Nikki puts "with the equipment we have, we have the space already to accommodate a lot more staff". However Nikki ensures to mention that the company's focus is on balancing quality and quantity due to the need of 24/7 coverage, otherwise this leads to services which are paid despite not being fulfilled, taxing the company's reputation in the long-term and leading to failure. "We try not to recruit everyone who pops up at our station." Gruppe 6's new livery on display at their headquarters at 250 Elgin Avenue in Strawberry. Digging further into unfavorable topics, Nikki was pressed on the arrest of then-CEO Richard Hampton at the start of 2020. Through a Freedom of Information request his charges were revealed to be Fraud, Forgery, Tampering with Evidence and Obstruction of Public Duty. She had this to say: "I cannot speak much about this because I have not been in the position I am at right now. Barry Bogan has bought out the shares together with the at-the-time called Diamond Corporation. Gruppe 6 has had a dark two months at that time, in which I was already holding a director position in the company. The leadership was not doing well enough and showed lack of interest. This has caused them to step down, at which time I have bought out all shares from both parties and acquired 100 percent share ownership. About the Richard Hampton case, I'm not familiar too much. All I know is that it's related to a FD event. And about an employee of G6 being arrested for carrying a firearm there. The charges were later dropped by a judge." Worth nothing here that while heading SecuroServ at the time Nikki later bought the company from its previous owners, The Diamond Corporation. Of the accusation that Gruppe 6 knowingly works with businesses that express racist or anti-Semitic, Nikki expresses "we're in the security field we end up kicking people out off properties, detaining criminals until the police arrival and so on." According to her, the company serves a variety of people and enforces a strict zero tolerance on racist sentiment. The Patrol Operations Director, Galen Hawkins, a former warden of a state prison, handles any complaints against field employees. Nikki claims that his professionalism and experience is ideal for his position and together with herself, they decide on how to proceed with each complaint. Their standard approach is to only act upon accusations once they have been proven, otherwise a verbal warning may be issued to the accused security officer. To minimize issues among the company's ranks Gruppe 6's recruitment has a policy in which it abstains hiring those with any criminal charges on their record, especially those that would prohibit them from obtaining a weapons license as outlined in Section II of the LSPD's PF License Usage Regulations. They also conduct regular background checks on all employees to ensure their records "are not compromised without us knowing". While Gruppe 6 has (and continues) to hire employees without a current weapon license, they are all subject to the same policy. With all this being said, does Nikki see any challenges in the future for Gruppe 6 and its future? "Gruppe 6 continues as is. We continue at increasing our staff and our clients. Our clients directly dictate the officers' pay - the more clients, the higher pay. We are absolutely self-funded. This also motivates officers to keep their performance at best. We do not see any challenges at the moment. The market is all clear for us without any competition in our field. The future is as open as a field." Further Reading: View into the Security Sector lsnn.gta.world

Forgot this was even coming out. Definitely snagging this off Steam in the near future.

Amen. Well done to you too.

Inside Executive Security Emilia Russo Former Executive Security officer now Director of IRONGATE Security Solutions shares future plans and his insight into the uncertain state of the security sector. Over 10,000 miles away from Johanessburg, Adriaan Pretoria toured the West Coast with his siblings Veerle De Vries and Mathias Vorseter, all in search of a new home. Their native Afrikaans now exchanged for our own local flavor of English. With both of us in casual garb ideal for a beach-side rendezvous we met on a balmy Saturday afternoon on the fringe of Chumash. Minutes into our introductory small talk it became clear Adriaan was a man harboring senitments over the "bittersweet memory" of his home, a "beautiful and Godless place" where the "horrors contrast beautifully with the nature". He mused that even with the societal conflict, at least the ocean connects him to his home and the people there will share the same view he looks out at. Eventually settling into Los Santos Adriaan claimed a position in Holly Ambrose's Executive Security firm in January. At some point he was given the role of a Senior Security Officer, seeing himself responsible for managing probationary officers and help shepherd their staff around to the venues they were once responsible for. Adriaan believed Executive Security flourished by committing to its ethos of "not being the biggest, but the best". By his account ES surpassed their largest rival, Gruppe Six, all as part of the "American dream of business". However managerial issues saw the company collapse, leaving "at least thirty people" without a job and "above 15" establishments were left without security. In this subsequent "job sinkhole" Adriaan laments how the company endured various scandals only to see itself spread too thin. The exact details are unknown to him, but he describes it as unfortunate since Holly Ambrose is "one of Los Santos' finest businesswomen with a heart of steel, Executive Security was her child, and it died in her arms". Holly was a key figure in Adriaan's life, introducing him to the family-like bond of its staff. He saw her as "not only a leader, but a close friend" and adds "she's kind, down to earth and is a professional whiskey drinker". Once Executive folded their prior contracts were all open to the competing firms, including Gruppe Six. From his personal experience Adriaan views them as lacking competency among their ranks, yet acknowledges they have the opportunity to step up and take the reigns as the state's leading firm, if they are not "knee-capped by the arising firms". With Gruppe Six's public legal controversies their task becomes an uphill battle against public opinion. Adriaan displaying his lighter side by indulging the #suittrend on Facebrowser. Looking forward Adriaan aims take the helm of the splintered sector with IRONGATE Solutions. He fears that the quality of protective services will plummet drastically, meaning unified security will be absent. With this comes "interior security" where "people will slap on a Guard Card and call themselves a guard for the evening" and regards to conduct that "all it takes is a security guard to think he's a peace officer, when in reality he's not". Together with his business partner and IRONGATE Chief Marketing Officer Alyx Rodriguez they have succeed in landing contracts with the prestigious Diamond Casino, The Vault nightclub and The Crypt alternative club within two days of founding their business. At the time of our interview Adriaan shared that their initial idea of "simply dominating the entirerity of the sector in a full blitzkrieg fashion" gave way to "staying suited to the higher end of town, be known as not the biggest but the best security firm, one that people can trust in". Lastly, the man who took a humble reaction to a compliment of his polite demeanour imparted upon me that he tries hard to remain personable in a city that does its best to drain a person of their redeemable qualities, also adding that "I question myself, but don't we all? That's the only way to know if we're still fully there." lsnn.gta.world

It should stay as a lease vehicle, and to be frank your reasoning is weak and comes across like a need to recreate your Need for Speed fantasies.