DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS
DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS	NOTE 1 - DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (the “Company”) is a self-managed hotel investment company that was organized on June 30, 2010 as a Maryland corporation. The Company holds both general and limited partnership interests in Summit Hotel OP, LP (the “Operating Partnership”), a Delaware limited partnership also organized on June 30, 2010. On February 14, 2011, the Company closed on its initial public offering (“IPO”) of 26,000,000 shares of common stock and a concurrent private placement of 1,274,000 shares of common stock. Effective February 14, 2011, the Operating Partnership and Summit Hotel Properties, LLC (the “Predecessor”) completed the merger of the Predecessor with and into the Operating Partnership (the “Merger”). Unless the context otherwise requires, “we” and “our” refer to the Company and its subsidiaries. While the Operating Partnership was the survivor of and the legal acquirer of the Predecessor in the Merger, for accounting and financial reporting purposes, the Predecessor is considered the accounting acquirer in the Merger. As a result, the historical consolidated financial statements of the Predecessor are presented as the historical consolidated financial statements of the Company after completion of the Merger and the related transactions (collectively, the “Reorganization Transaction”). Summit Hotel OP, LP, the Operating Partnership subsidiary of the Company, filed a Form 15 on December 12, 2013 to voluntarily suspend its duty to file periodic and other reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and voluntarily deregister its common units of limited partnership interest the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). As a result of filing the Form 15 with the SEC, the Operating Partnership is no longer required to file annual, quarterly or periodic reports with the SEC. The filing of the Form 15 by the Operating Partnership does not impact the registration of the Company’s common stock under the Exchange Act or the Company’s obligations as a reporting issuer under the Exchange Act. At December 31, 2013, our portfolio consists of 88 upscale, upper midscale and midscale hotels with a total of 10,908 guestrooms located in 22 states. The hotels are leased to subsidiaries (“TRS Lessees”) of our taxable REIT subsidiaries (“TRSs”). We indirectly own 100% of the outstanding equity interests in all but one of our TRS Lessees. We indirectly own an 80% controlling interest in the TRS Lessee associated with the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in San Francisco, CA which we acquired in early 2013 through a joint venture.

NOTE 1 - DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS

Summit Hotel Properties, Inc. (the “Company”) is a self-managed hotel investment company that was organized on June 30, 2010 as a Maryland corporation. The Company holds both general and limited partnership interests in Summit Hotel OP, LP (the “Operating Partnership”), a Delaware limited partnership also organized on June 30, 2010. On February 14, 2011, the Company closed on its initial public offering (“IPO”) of 26,000,000 shares of common stock and a concurrent private placement of 1,274,000 shares of common stock. Effective February 14, 2011, the Operating Partnership and Summit Hotel Properties, LLC (the “Predecessor”) completed the merger of the Predecessor with and into the Operating Partnership (the “Merger”). Unless the context otherwise requires, “we” and “our” refer to the Company and its subsidiaries.

While the Operating Partnership was the survivor of and the legal acquirer of the Predecessor in the Merger, for accounting and financial reporting purposes, the Predecessor is considered the accounting acquirer in the Merger. As a result, the historical consolidated financial statements of the Predecessor are presented as the historical consolidated financial statements of the Company after completion of the Merger and the related transactions (collectively, the “Reorganization Transaction”).

Summit Hotel OP, LP, the Operating Partnership subsidiary of the Company, filed a Form 15 on December 12, 2013 to voluntarily suspend its duty to file periodic and other reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) and voluntarily deregister its common units of limited partnership interest the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”). As a result of filing the Form 15 with the SEC, the Operating Partnership is no longer required to file annual, quarterly or periodic reports with the SEC. The filing of the Form 15 by the Operating Partnership does not impact the registration of the Company’s common stock under the Exchange Act or the Company’s obligations as a reporting issuer under the Exchange Act.

At December 31, 2013, our portfolio consists of 88 upscale, upper midscale and midscale hotels with a total of 10,908 guestrooms located in 22 states. The hotels are leased to subsidiaries (“TRS Lessees”) of our taxable REIT subsidiaries (“TRSs”). We indirectly own 100% of the outstanding equity interests in all but one of our TRS Lessees. We indirectly own an 80% controlling interest in the TRS Lessee associated with the Holiday Inn Express & Suites in San Francisco, CA which we acquired in early 2013 through a joint venture.