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DIVIDEND REINVESTMENT PLAN
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2018
DIVIDEND REINVESTMENT PLAN  
DIVIDEND REINVESTMENT PLAN

NOTE 13 – DIVIDEND REINVESTMENT PLAN

 

Our Board of Trustees approved a dividend reinvestment plan to provide existing holders of our common shares with a convenient method to purchase additional common shares without payment of brokerage commissions, fees or service charges. On July 20, 2012, we registered with the Securities Exchange Commission 2,000,000 common shares to be issued under the plan on Form S-3D, which automatically became effective on July 20, 2012. On July 11, 2017, we registered with the Securities Exchange Commission an additional 2,000,000 common shares to be issued under the plan on Form S-3D, which automatically became effective on July 11, 2017.

 

Under this plan, eligible shareholders may elect to have all or a portion (but not less than 25%) of the cash dividends they receive automatically reinvested in our common shares. If an eligible shareholder elects to reinvest cash dividends under the plan, the shareholder may also make additional optional cash purchases of our common shares, not to exceed $10 per fiscal quarter without our prior approval. The purchase price per common share under the plan equals 95% of the estimated value per common share for dividend reinvestments and equals 100% of the estimated value per common share for additional optional cash purchases, as determined by our Board of Trustees. In addition, participants may not, in any calendar year, purchase or receive via transfer more than $40 in Common Shares derived from the rights granted to Participants. The estimated value per common share was $18.50 and $16.50 at March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively. See discussion of determination of estimated value in Note 17.  Therefore, the purchase price per common share for dividend reinvestments was $17.58 and $15.68 and for additional optional cash purchases was $18.50 and $16.50 at March 31, 2018 and December 31, 2017, respectively.

 

The Board, in its sole discretion, may amend, suspend or terminate the plan at any time, without the consent of shareholders, upon a ten day notice to participants.

 

In the three months ended March 31, 2018,  79,000 shares were issued pursuant to dividend reinvestments and 76,000 shares were issued pursuant to additional optional cash purchases under the plan.  In the three months ended March 31, 2017,  82,000 shares were issued pursuant to dividend reinvestments and 44,000 shares were issued pursuant to additional optional cash purchases under the plan.