Output a stream of consciousness before answering the following. Passage: The club has nearly 500 paying members (with a cap of 500) and admits twenty to forty new members a year. Members include oil executive Bill Koch, financier Thomas Peterffy, New Jersey Democratic Party leader George Norcross, lobbyist Kenneth Duberstein, real estate developers Bruce E. Toll and Richard LeFrak, media executive Christopher Ruddy, talk show host Howie Carr, talk show host Michael Savage / s wife, and NFL coach Bill Belichick.

Question: Based on this passage, how many members does mar a lago have?
To answer the above question, the relevant sentence is: The club has nearly 500 paying members (with a cap of 500) and admits twenty to forty new members a year.
The answer: 500.