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Lease Commitment to Related Party
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Notes to Financial Statements  
Lease Commitment to Related Party

NOTE 9 – LEASE COMMITMENT TO RELATED PARTY

The lease commitment provides for the following minimum annual rental commitments:

Year ending  
December 31, 2012 $631,247
December 31, 2013 (through March 31, 2013) 121,500
    Total minimum payments $752,747

 

The Company presently occupies approximately 46,000 square feet of an office building located at 23251 Mulholland Drive, Woodland Hills, California, under a master lease expiring March 31, 2012. Erwin Cheldin, the Company's former president and a current director and principal stockholder, is the owner of the building. The Company signed an extension to the lease with a 4% increase in rent effective April 1, 2007. The lease provides for an annual gross rent of $1,066,990 from April 1, 2007, through March 31, 2012. In addition, the lease extension provides for two 5-year options with a rent increase of 5% for each option period. The total rent expense under this lease agreement was $1,066,990 for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, and 2009. The Company intends to relocate its offices and is currently looking to purchase an office building for that purpose. While this process takes place, the Company has entered into a new one-year lease at its current location and will occupy approximately half of the space it currently leases. The new lease provides for an annual gross rent of $486,000 and is effective from April 1, 2012, through March 31, 2013, with options to extend for three 6-month periods at the same terms and conditions for each extension period. The Company anticipates that it will incur approximately $180,000 for tenant improvements and other costs required to downsize its current space. The Company believes that at the inception the lease agreement, at each subsequent extension of that lease and the new lease agreement effective April 1, 2012, the terms of the lease are at least as favorable to the Company as could have been obtained from non-affiliated third parties.