INVESTMENT IN UNCONSOLIDATED REAL ESTATE VENTURES

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2019

Equity Method Investments and Joint Ventures [Abstract]

INVESTMENT IN UNCONSOLIDATED REAL ESTATE VENTURES

2018 Joint Venture

As of December 31, 2019, the Company's unconsolidated real estate venture, formed in September 2018 with an affiliate of Heitman America Real Estate REIT LLC (the "2018 Joint Venture"), in which the Company has a 25% ownership interest, owned and operated a portfolio of 103 self storage properties containing approximately 7.7 million rentable square feet, configured in over 63,000 storage units and located across 17 states.

2016 Joint Venture

As of December 31, 2019, the Company's unconsolidated real estate venture, formed in September 2016 with a state pension fund advised by Heitman Capital Management LLC (the "2016 Joint Venture"), in which the Company has a 25% ownership interest, owned and operated a portfolio of 72 properties containing approximately 4.9 million rentable square feet, configured in approximately 40,000 storage units and located across 13 states.

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the 2016 Joint Venture sold to the Company one self storage property for a gross sales price of $4.1 million. See Note 11 for additional details about the Company's acquisition of the self storage property from the 2016 Joint Venture.

The Company's investments in the 2018 Joint Venture and 2016 Joint Venture are accounted for using the equity method of accounting and are included in investment in unconsolidated real estate ventures in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets. The Company’s earnings from its investments in the 2018 Joint Venture and 2016 Joint Venture are presented in equity in earnings (losses) of unconsolidated real estate ventures on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations.

The following table presents the combined condensed financial position of the Company's unconsolidated real estate ventures as of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018 (in thousands):


	December 31,
	2019		2018
ASSETS
Self storage properties, net	$	1,835,235	$	1,894,412
Other assets	22,413		50,915
Total assets	$	1,857,648	$	1,945,327
LIABILITIES AND EQUITY
Debt financing	$	989,182	$	956,357
Other liabilities	20,487		16,516
Equity	847,979		972,454
Total liabilities and equity	$	1,857,648	$	1,945,327

The following table presents the combined condensed operating information of the Company's unconsolidated real estate ventures for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018 and the period ended December 31, 2017 (in thousands):


	Year Ended December 31,
	2019		2018		2017
Total revenue	$	162,827	$	94,507	$	54,747
Property operating expenses	49,845		30,229		18,463
Net operating income	112,982		64,278		36,284
Supervisory, administrative and other expenses	(10,818)		(6,397)		(3,921)
Depreciation and amortization	(79,556)		(40,930)		(29,192)
Interest expense	(39,936)		(20,718)		(11,389)
Loss on sale of self storage properties	(806)		(820)		—
Acquisition and other expenses	(1,971)		(1,188)		(1,146)
Net loss	$	(20,105)	$	(5,775)	$	(9,364)

The combined condensed operating information in the table above only includes information for the 2018 Joint Venture following the acquisition of the Initial 2018 JV Portfolio in September 2018.