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Note 8 - Commitments
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2019
Notes to Financial Statements  
Commitments Disclosure [Text Block]
Note 
8
 – Commitments
 
Lease Agreements
 
The Company has entered into a new lease in Camarillo, California for its corporate headquarters beginning
June 1, 2019.
The facility is
9,910
square feet and is a
5
year and
two
-month lease, expiring
July 31, 2024.
The rent on this facility is
$9,910
per month with a
3%
step-up annually. Qualstar subleases a portion of the warehouse space to Interlink Electronics, Inc. (“Interlink”) and BKF Capital Group, Inc. (“BKF”) and is reimbursed for the space and other related expenses on a monthly basis. As described in Note
12,
Interlink and BKF are related parties.
 
Qualstar leases a
15,160
square foot facility located in Simi Valley, California. The
three
-year lease began
December 15, 2014
and has been renewed for an additional
three
years, expiring
February 28, 2021.
Rent on this facility is
$11,000
 per month with a step-up of
3%
annually. On
May 22, 2019,
Qualstar entered into a Standard Sublease Multi-Tenant (the “Sublease”), with Stillwater Agency, Inc., a California corporation (“Stillwater”), for the Simi Valley location, which previously served as Qualstar’s corporate headquarters location and principal executive office. The term of the Sublease commenced on
July 15, 2019
and ends on
February 28, 2021 (
the “Term”). The base rent under the Sublease is approximately
$12,886
per month. Stillwater is also responsible for approximately
nine
percent (
9%
) of certain operating expenses and taxes associated with the office building in which the leased premises are located. Prior to entering the Sublease, Qualstar subleased a portion of the warehouse space to Interlink and was reimbursed for the space and other related expenses on a monthly basis.
 
Qualstar also leases approximately
5,400
 square feet of office space in Westlake Village, California, that expires
January 31, 2020,
and will
not
be renewed. Rent on this facility is
$11,000
per month, with a step-up of
3%
annually. Effective
March 21, 2016,
Qualstar entered into a sublease agreement for the Westlake Village facility. The term of the sublease expires at the same time as the term of the master lease and the tenant pays Qualstar
$12,000
per month with a step-up of
3%
annually.
 
Effective
April 1, 2016,
a
two
-year lease was signed for
1,359
square feet for
$2,500
per month in Singapore, which has been renewed until
March 31, 2020.
This lease will
not
be renewed.
 
Such leases do
not
require any contingent rental payments, impose any financial restrictions, or contain any residual value guarantees.  Variable expenses generally represent the Company’s share of the landlord’s operating expenses.  The Company does
not
have any leases classified as financing leases.
 
The rate implicit in each lease is
not
readily determinable, and we therefore use our incremental borrowing rate to determine the present value of the lease payments. The weighted average incremental borrowing rate used to determine the initial value of right of use (ROU) assets and lease liabilities during the fiscal year ended
December 31, 2019
was
4.33%,
derived from borrowing rate quotes as obtained from the Company’s business bank. We have certain contracts for real estate which
may
contain lease and non-lease components which we have elected to treat as a single lease component.
  
Right of use assets for operating leases are periodically reduced by impairment losses. We use the long-lived assets impairment guidance in ASC Subtopic
360
-
10,
Property, Plant, and Equipment – Overall, to determine whether a ROU asset is impaired, and if so, the amount of the impairment loss to recognize.  As of
December 31, 2019,
we have
not
recognized any impairment losses for our ROU assets.
  
We monitor for events or changes in circumstances that require a reassessment of
one
of our leases. When a reassessment results in the remeasurement of a lease liability, a corresponding adjustment is made to the carrying amount of the corresponding ROU asset unless doing so would reduce the carrying amount of the ROU asset to an amount less than zero. In that case, the amount of the adjustment that would result in a negative ROU asset balance is recorded in profit or loss.   
 
At
December 31, 2019,
the Company had current and long-term operating lease liabilities of
$252,000
and
$453,000,
respectively, and right of use assets of
$676,000.
 
Future minimum lease payments under these leases are as follows, in thousands, (unaudited):
 
Years Ending December 31,
 
Minimum
Lease
Payment
   
Sublease
Revenue
   
Net Minimum
Lease
Payment
 
2020
  $
277
    $
(167
)
  $
110
 
2021
   
148
     
(26
)
   
122
 
2022
   
129
     
-
     
129
 
2023
   
133
     
-
     
133
 
2024
   
79
     
-
     
79
 
After
   
-
     
-
     
-
 
Total undiscounted future non-cancelable minimum lease payments
   
766
     
(193
)
   
573
 
Less: Imputed interest
   
(61
)
   
-
     
(61
)
Present value of lease liabilities
  $
705
    $
(193
)
  $
512
 
 
In the Company's financial statements for periods prior to
January 1, 2019,
the Company accounts for leases under ASC
840,
and provides for rent expense on a straight-line basis over the lease terms. Net rent expense for the years ended
December 31, 2019
and
2018
was
$164,000
and
$151,000,
respectively.
 
Other information related to our operating leases is as follows:
 
   
Year
Ended
December 31
,
2019
 
Weighted average remaining lease term in years
   
1.52
 
Weighted average discount rate
   
4.33
%
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
 
 
 
 
Operating cash flows from operating leases
  $
348
 
Operating cash flows from finance leases
   
-
 
Financing cash flows from finance leases
   
-