-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, NsHatGZXuSS1HhiYZSGokjo0f4MJLOWevDNOWTqnJSpzHpVgu1JO3VENPOsCvqF1 WkixWBBOCE8Go5r5dxf53A== 0001010412-08-000285.txt : 20090105 0001010412-08-000285.hdr.sgml : 20090105 20080923164938 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001010412-08-000285 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: CORRESP PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20080923 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: CASTLE GROUP INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000918543 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: HOTELS & MOTELS [7011] IRS NUMBER: 990307845 FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: CORRESP BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 500 ALA MOANA BLVD. STREET 2: 3 WATERFRONT PLAZA, SUITE 555 CITY: HONOLULU STATE: HI ZIP: 96813 BUSINESS PHONE: 8085240900 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 500 ALA MOANA BLVD. STREET 2: 3 WATERFRONT PLAZA, SUITE 555 CITY: HONOLULU STATE: HI ZIP: 96813 CORRESP 1 filename1.htm The Castle Group, Inc

The Castle Group, Inc.

500 Ala Moana Boulevard

3 Waterfront Plaza, Suite 555

Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

(808) 524-0900



Mr.   Daniel L Gordon, Branch Chief

Ms. Kristi Marrone

Division of Corporate Finance

Securities and Exchange Commission

Washington DC 20549



September 23, 2008



RE:  The Castle Group, Inc.

        Form 10-KSB for the Year ended December 31, 2007, filed April 15, 2008

        Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2008, filed May 6, 2008

        File no. 000-23338


Dear Mr. Gordon and Ms. Marrone:


This letter is in response to your letter dated September 5, 2008, which we received on September 11, 2008,  regarding certain questions relating to The Castle Group, Inc.‘s above referenced Forms 10-KSB and 10-Q filings.  


Form 10-KSB for the year ended December 31, 2007


Note 1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, Page 35


Income Recognition, Page 37


In future filings please disclose your arrangement with the owner of the rental unit whereby you either pay a fixed amount of rent or a percentage of the gross room revenues generated by the rental unit. Also, please disclose that the Company only records the difference between the gross room rental and the payments made to the unit owners as Revenue Attributed from Properties.


Response


We will modify future disclosure regarding Income Recognition to ensure that the reader understands that we pay a portion of gross room revenues generated by the rental unit or hotel  to the property owner and that the Company only records the difference between  the gross room rental and the payments to owners as Revenue Attributed from Properties.




Item 8A(T) Controls and Procedures- Status of response


We are currently completing an updated review of internal controls over financial reporting for the period ending December 31, 2007, as well as the associated management report on financial reporting.  We estimate that this process with take several more days.  We plan to provide your office with an updated version of management’s report on internal control over financial reporting and associated disclosure relating to the effectiveness of disclosure controls and procedures as of December 31, 2007, which will be included in an amended form 10-KSB by October 15, 2008.  We would appreciate an extension until that date to provide that information.

 

In regard to the above referenced filings, the Company hereby acknowledges the following:


- that the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in the filing;


- the staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments does not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and


- the Company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the Untied States.


Sincerely-


/s/Rick Wall


Rick Wall

Chief Executive Officer, Acting CFO

and Chairman of the Board of Directors

The Castle Group, Inc.

 



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