Business and Property Management Agreements with RMR

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2023

Property Management Fee [Abstract]

Business and Property Management Agreements with RMR

Business and Property Management Agreements with RMRWe have no employees. The personnel and various services we require to operate our business are provided to us by RMR. We have two agreements with RMR to provide management services to us: (1) a business management agreement, which relates to our business generally; and (2) a property management agreement, which relates to our property level operations.

Pursuant to our business management agreement with RMR, we recognized net business management fees of $3,951 and $4,710 for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Based on our common share total return, as defined in our business management agreement, as of March 31, 2023, no estimated incentive fees are included in the net business management fees we recognized for the three months ended March 31, 2023. The actual amount of annual incentive fees for 2023, if any, will be based on our common share total return, as defined in our business management agreement, for the three year period ending December 31, 2023, and will be payable in January 2024. We did not incur an incentive fee payable to RMR for the year ended December 31, 2022. We include business management fees in general and administrative expenses in our condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).

Pursuant to our property management agreement with RMR, we recognized aggregate net property management and construction supervision fees of $6,319 and $6,128 for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Of these amounts, for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, $3,733 and $4,226, respectively, were expensed to other operating expenses in our condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) and $2,586 and $1,902, respectively, were capitalized as building improvements in our condensed consolidated balance sheets. The amounts capitalized are being depreciated over the estimated useful lives of the related capital assets.

We are generally responsible for all of our operating expenses, including certain expenses incurred or arranged by RMR on our behalf. We are generally not responsible for payment of RMR’s employment, office or administrative expenses incurred to provide management services to us, except for the employment and related expenses of RMR’s employees assigned to work exclusively or partly at our properties, our share of the wages, benefits and other related costs of RMR’s centralized accounting personnel, our share of RMR’s costs for providing our internal audit function and as otherwise agreed. Our property level operating expenses are generally incorporated into the rents charged to our tenants, including certain payroll and related costs incurred by RMR. We reimbursed RMR $6,347 and $5,966 for these expenses and costs for the three months ended March 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. We included these amounts in other operating expenses and general and administrative expenses, as applicable, in our condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).

Management Agreements Between Our Joint Ventures and RMR. RMR provides management services to our two unconsolidated joint ventures. We are not obligated to pay management fees to RMR under our management agreements with RMR for the services it provides regarding the joint ventures. The joint ventures pay management fees directly to RMR.