The 3 - 5 years in the real estate contract may be also a rough timetable for SEO's plans. Within that time most of our unproven resources should be hopefully proven reserves.
After that ERHC is ready to be changed into billions of cash or swaped into shares of another company.
After that (3 - 5 years) we would not need further office space )
Let the ERHC baby elephant grow to a big & strong one before he is sold !