Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2015

Accounting Policies [Abstract]

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

a) Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation

These consolidated financial statements of the Company have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“US”).  These consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company, its wholly-owned subsidiary ARP, and its subsidiary special purpose entities, ARP Pledgor, LLC, ARP Borrower, LLC, ARP Pledgor II, LLC, APR Borrower II, LLC and AHIT-Valfre, LLP. All significant intercompany transaction and balances have been eliminated. On June 24, 2015, the Company’s fiscal year-end is changed from January 31 to December 31.

b) Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with US generally accepted accounting principles in the United States requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. The Company regularly evaluates estimates and assumptions related to the useful life and recoverability of long-lived assets, and income taxes. The Company bases its estimates and assumptions on current facts, historical experience and various other factors that it believes to be reasonable under the circumstances, the results of which form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets and liabilities and the accrual of costs and expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources. The actual results experienced by the Company may differ materially and adversely from the Company’s estimates. To the extent there are material differences between the estimates and the actual results, future results of operations will be affected.

c) Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all highly liquid instruments with maturity of three months or less at the time of issuance to be cash equivalents. 

d) Income Taxes

The Company accounts for income taxes using the asset and liability method in accordance with ASC 740, “Income Taxes”. The asset and liability method provides that deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for the expected future tax consequences of temporary differences between the financial reporting and tax bases of assets and liabilities, and for operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using the currently enacted tax rates and laws that will be in effect when the differences are expected to reverse. The Company records a valuation allowance to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount that is believed more likely than not to be realized.

The Company plans on electing to be taxed as a Real Estate Investment Trust (“REIT”) for federal income tax purposes beginning in 2016. REITs are generally not subject to federal income taxes if the Company can meet many specific requirements. If the Company fails to qualify as a REIT in any taxable year, the Company will be subject to federal and state income tax (including any applicable alternative minimum tax) on our taxable income at regular corporate tax rates, and the Company may be ineligible to qualify as a REIT for subsequent tax years. Even if the Company qualifies as a REIT, the Company may be subject to certain state or local income taxes, and if the Company creates a Taxable REIT Subsidiary (“TRS”), the TRS will be subject to federal, state and local taxes on its income at regular corporate rates. The Company recognizes the tax effects of uncertain tax positions only if the position is more likely than not to be sustained upon audit, based on the technical merits of the position. The Company has not identified any material uncertain tax positions and recognizes interest and penalties in income tax expense, if applicable.

e) Investment in Real Estate

The Company allocates the purchase price to tangible assets of an acquired property (which includes land and building) based on the estimated fair values of those tangible assets. Fair value for land and building is based on the purchase price for these properties.

Property/SFRs acquired not subject to an existing lease are accounted for as an asset acquisition, with the property recorded at the purchase price, including acquisition costs. We incur costs to prepare our acquired properties to be rented. These costs are capitalized and allocated to building costs. Costs related to the restoration or improvement of our properties that improve and extend their useful lives are capitalized and depreciated over their estimated useful lives. Expenditures for ordinary repairs and maintenance are expensed as incurred.

Depreciation is computed on a straight-line basis over the useful lives of the properties (building and improvements – 27 years).

f) Accounts Receivable

Accounts receivable represent the amount of rent receivables and interest receivable from promissory notes receivable invested by the Company, net of any allowance for amounts deemed uncollectible. The Company assesses these balances for collectability on a quarterly basis. 

g) Impairment of Long-lived Assets

The Company continually evaluates the recoverability of the carrying value of its real estate assets using the methodology prescribed in ASC Topic 360, Property, Plant and Equipment. Factors considered by management in evaluating impairment of its existing real estate assets held for investment include significant declines in property operating profits, annually recurring property operating losses and other significant adverse changes in general market conditions that are considered permanent in nature. Under ASC Topic 360, a real estate asset held for investment is not considered impaired if the undiscounted, estimated future cash flows of an asset (both the annual estimated cash flow from future operations and the estimated cash flow from the theoretical sale of the asset) over its estimated holding period are in excess of the asset’s net book value at the balance sheet date. If any real estate asset held for investment is considered impaired, a loss is provided to reduce the carrying value to its estimated fair value.

h) Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The carrying amounts reported in the consolidated balance sheets for accounts payable and accrued liabilities, amounts due to/from related parties and notes payable are reasonable estimate of fair value because of the short period of time between the origination of such instruments and their expected realization and if, applicable, the stated rate of interest is equivalent to rates currently available.

Fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. Valuation techniques used to measure fair value maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs. The Company utilizes a three-level valuation hierarchy for disclosures of fair value measurements, defined as follows:

Level 1 Financial assets and liabilities for which values are based on unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in an active market that management has the ability to access.

Level 2 Financial assets and liabilities for which values are based on quoted prices in markets that are not active or model inputs that are observable either directly or indirectly for substantially the full term of the asset or liability (commodity derivatives and interest rate swaps).

Level Financial assets and liabilities for which values are based on prices or valuation techniques that require inputs that are both unobservable and significant to the overall fair value measurement.  These inputs reflect management’s own assumptions about the assumptions a market participant would use in pricing the asset or liability.

The Company does not have any financial instruments that are required to be measured and recorded at fair value on a recurring basis.

i) Non-controlling Interest

Limited partnership units in AHIT-Valfre that are not owned by the Company are presented as non-controlling interest in the equity section of our consolidated balance sheets.

Our limited partners do not have the right to share in the net income or losses of AHIT-Valfre but have the right to convert all or part of their partnership units to common shares of the Company on a one-for-one basis following the one-year anniversary of issuance. At the time of redemption, we have the right to determine whether to redeem the non-controlling limited partnership units of AHIT-Valfre for cash, based upon the fair value of an equivalent number of shares of our common stock at the time of redemption. Consequently, the limited partnership units are classified as permanent equity. As of December 31, 2015, there were 300,026 limited partnership units outstanding in AHIT-Valfre. These units were issued in connection with our acquisition of certain real estate properties. (See Note 6).

j) Revenue Recognition

Rental income for property leases is recorded when due from residents and is recognized monthly as it is earned. The Company leases single-family residences that the Company owns and manages directly to tenants who occupy the properties under operating leases, generally, with terms of one year. The Company performs credit investigations on prospective tenants and obtains security deposits. Sales and the associated gains or losses of real estate assets are recognized in accordance with the provisions of ASC Topic 360-20, Property, Plant and Equipment – Real Estate Sale. The specific timing of a sale is measured against various criteria in ASC 360-20 related to the terms of the transaction and any continuing involvement in the form of management or financial assistance associated with the properties. If the sales criteria for the full accrual method are not met, the Company defers some or all of the gain recognition and accounts for continued operations of the property by applying the finance, leasing, deposit, installment or cost recovery methods, as appropriate, until the sales criteria are met.

k) Stock-based Compensation

The Company records stock-based compensation in accordance with ASC 718, Compensation – Stock Based Compensation and ASC 505, Equity Based Payments to Non-Employees, using the fair value method. All transactions in which goods or services are the consideration received for the issuance of equity instruments are accounted for based on the fair value of the consideration received or the fair value of the equity instrument issued, whichever is more reliably measurable. Equity instruments issued to employees and the cost of the services received as consideration are measured and recognized based on the fair value of the equity instruments issued.

l) Recent Accounting Pronouncements

The Company has implemented all new accounting pronouncements that are in effect and that may impact its consolidated financial statements and does not believe that there are any other new accounting pronouncements that have been issued that might have a material impact on its financial position or results of operations.