Real Estate Investments

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2017

Real Estate [Abstract]

Real Estate Disclosure [Text Block]

(3)  Real Estate Investments –

On February 3, 2016, the Company purchased a Dollar Tree store in West Point, Mississippi for $1,535,714.  The Company allocated $232,977 of the purchase price to Acquired Intangible Lease Assets, representing in-place lease intangibles, and allocated $283,495 to Acquired Below-Market Lease Intangibles.  The Company incurred $55,479 of acquisition expenses related to the purchase that were expensed.  The property is leased to Dollar Tree Stores, Inc. under a lease agreement with a remaining primary term of 9.7 years (as of the date of purchase) and annual rent of $107,500.

The Company owns a 40% interest in the Sports Authority store in Wichita, Kansas. On March 2, 2016, the tenant, TSA Stores, Inc., and its parent company, The Sports Authority, Inc., the guarantor of the lease, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.  In June 2016, the tenant filed a motion with the bankruptcy court to reject the lease for this store effective June 30, 2016, at which time the tenant returned possession of the property to the owners.  As of June 30, 2017, the tenant owed $19,366 of past due rent, which was not accrued for financial reporting purposes.  The owners have listed the property for lease with a real estate broker in the Wichita area.  While the property is vacant, the Company is responsible for its 40% share of real estate taxes and other costs associated with maintaining the property.  The annual rent from this property represented approximately 19% of the total annual rent of the Company’s property portfolio.  The loss of rent and increased expenses related to this property decreased the Company’s cash flow.  Consequently, beginning with the third quarter of 2016, the Company reduced its regular quarterly cash distribution rate from $0.1313 per Unit to $0.0946 per Unit.

On March 31, 2017, the lease term expired for the Starbucks store in Bluffton, Indiana.  Effective April 1, 2017, the Company entered into a lease agreement with a primary term of six years with The Cellular Connection LLC, a cell phone retailer that was subleasing the property from Starbucks Corporation.  The tenant is scheduled to pay annual rent of $39,156 during the base lease term.  As part of the lease transaction, the Company will pay a tenant improvement allowance of $30,000 that will be capitalized and depreciated.