Acquisitions, Dispositions and Other Significant Transactions

The Company completed dispositions, through sales and lease terminations, of 139 communities during the period from January 1, 2016 through September 30, 2017, including three communities disposed of prior to June 30, 2016. The Company's condensed consolidated financial statements include resident fee revenue of $4.0 million and $115.1 million, facility operating expenses of $3.3 million and $87.4 million, and cash lease payments of $0.9 million and $27.5 million for the 136 communities for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and September 30, 2016, respectively. The Company's condensed consolidated financial statements include resident fee revenue of $96.6 million and $361.1 million, facility operating expenses of $74.4 million and $272.6 million, and cash lease payments of $26.8 million and $82.4 million for the 139 communities for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and September 30, 2016, respectively.

The foregoing transactions, and the Company's assets held for sale as of September 30, 2017, are described below.

Dispositions and Restructurings of Communities Leased from HCP

On November 1, 2016, the Company announced that it had entered into agreements to, among other things, terminate triple-net leases with respect to 97 communities, four of which were contributed to an existing unconsolidated venture in which the Company holds an equity interest and 64 of which were acquired by the Blackstone Venture described below. In addition to the formation of the Blackstone Venture, the transactions included the following components with respect to 33 communities:

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The Company and HCP, Inc. ("HCP") agreed to terminate triple-net leases with respect to eight communities. HCP agreed to contribute immediately thereafter four of such communities, to an existing unconsolidated venture with HCP in which the Company has a 10% equity interest. During the three months ended December 31, 2016, the triple-net leases with respect to seven communities were terminated and HCP contributed four of the communities to the existing unconsolidated venture. The triple-net lease with respect to the remaining community was terminated during January 2017. The results of operations of the eight communities are reported in the following segments within the condensed consolidated financial statements through the respective disposition dates: Assisted Living (six communities), Retirement Centers (one community) and CCRCs-Rental (one community).

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The Company and HCP agreed to terminate triple-net leases with respect to 25 communities. During the three months ended September 30, 2017, the triple-net leases with respect to two communities were terminated. The Company’s triple net lease obligations with respect to the remaining 23 communities either have been terminated, or are expected to be terminated, during the three months ended December 31, 2017. Following the termination of the Company’s triple net lease obligations for these communities, the Company will continue to operate certain of these communities on an interim basis, and such communities will be reported in the Management Services segment from and after termination of such triple net lease obligations. The Company's condensed consolidated financial statements include resident fee revenue of $18.0 million and $18.1 million, facility operating expenses of $14.8 million and $14.6 million, and cash lease payments of $2.6 million and $4.9 million for the 25 communities for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and September 30, 2016, respectively. The Company's condensed consolidated financial statements include resident fee revenue of $54.9 million and $54.6 million, facility operating expenses of $44.7 million and $44.0 million, and cash lease payments of $8.1 million and $14.7 million for the 25 communities for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and September 30, 2016, respectively.

Formation of Venture with Blackstone

On March 29, 2017, the Company and affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate Advisors VIII L.P. (collectively, "Blackstone") formed a venture (the “Blackstone Venture”) that acquired 64 senior housing communities for a purchase price of $1.1 billion. The Company had previously leased the 64 communities from HCP under long-term lease agreements with a remaining average lease term of approximately 12 years. At the closing, the Blackstone Venture purchased the 64-community portfolio from HCP subject to the existing leases, and the Company contributed its leasehold interests for 62 communities and a total of $179.2 million in cash to purchase a 15% equity interest in the Blackstone Venture, terminate leases, and fund its share of closing costs. As of the formation date, the Company continued to operate two of the communities under lease agreements and began managing 60 of the communities on behalf of the venture under a management agreement with the venture. The two remaining leases will be terminated, pending certain regulatory and other conditions, at which point the Company will manage the communities; however, there can be no assurance that the terminations will occur or, if they do, when the actual terminations will occur. Two of the communities are managed by a third party for the venture.

The results and financial position of the 62 communities for which leases were terminated were deconsolidated from the Company prospectively upon formation of the Blackstone Venture. The results of operations of the 62 communities for which leases were terminated were reported in the following segments within the condensed consolidated financial statements through the formation date: Assisted Living (47 communities), Retirement Centers (eight communities) and CCRCs-Rental (seven communities). The Company's interest in the venture is accounted for under the equity method of accounting. Under the terms of the venture agreement, the Company may be entitled to distributions which are less than or in excess of the Company's 15% equity interest based upon specified performance criteria.

Initially, the Company determined that the contributed carrying value of the Company's investment was $66.8 million, representing the amount by which the $179.2 million cash contribution exceeded the carrying value of the Company's liabilities under operating, capital and financing leases contributed by the Company net of the carrying value of the assets under such operating, capital and financing leases. However, the Company estimated the fair value of its 15% equity interest in the Blackstone Venture at inception to be $47.1 million. As a result, the Company recorded a $19.7 million charge within asset impairment expense for the three months ended March 31, 2017 for the amount of the contributed carrying value in excess of the estimated fair value of the Company's investment.

Additionally, these transactions related to the Blackstone Venture required the Company to record a significant increase to the Company's existing tax valuation allowance, after considering the change in the Company's future reversal of estimated timing differences resulting from these transactions, primarily due to removing the deferred positions related to the contributed leases. During the three months ended March, 31, 2017, the Company recorded a provision for income taxes to establish an additional $85.0 million of valuation allowance against its federal and state net operating loss carryforwards and tax credits as the Company anticipates these carryforwards and credits will not be utilized prior to expiration. See Note 12 for more information about the Company's deferred income taxes.

Dispositions of Owned Communities and Assets Held for Sale

The Company began 2017 with 16 of its owned communities classified as held for sale as of December 31, 2016. During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company completed the sale of three communities, and during the three months ended September 30, 2017, the Company entered into an agreement to sell an additional community, which is classified as held for sale as of September 30, 2017. As of September 30, 2017, 15 communities were classified as held for sale.

As of September 30, 2017, $106.4 million was recorded as assets held for sale and $50.4 million of mortgage debt was included in the current portion of long-term debt within the condensed consolidated balance sheet with respect to the 15 communities held for sale. This debt will either be repaid with the proceeds from the sales or be assumed by the prospective purchasers. The results of operations of the 15 communities are reported in the following segments within the condensed consolidated financial statements: Assisted Living (12 communities) and CCRCs-Rental (three communities). The 15 communities had resident fee revenue of $12.2 million and $12.8 million and facility operating expenses of $10.9 million and $11.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2017 and September 30, 2016, respectively. The 15 communities had resident fee revenue of $37.6 million and $39.0 million and facility operating expenses of $33.2 million and $33.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and September 30, 2016, respectively.

The closings of the sales of the unsold communities classified as held for sale are subject to receipt of regulatory approvals and satisfaction of other customary closing conditions and are expected to occur during the next 12 months; however, there can be no assurance that the transactions will close or, if they do, when the actual closings will occur.

Other Lease Terminations

During the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company terminated leases for 14 communities otherwise than in connection with the transactions with Blackstone and HCP described above. The Company recognized $4.9 million and $11.3 million net loss on facility lease termination for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017, respectively, primarily from the write-off of assets subject to terminated lease agreements. The results of operations of the 14 communities are reported in the following segments with the condensed consolidated financial statements through the respective termination dates: Retirement Centers (one community), Assisted Living (12 communities), and CCRCs-Rental (one community).