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Commitments and Contingencies
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Commitments And Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies

Note 10. Commitments and Contingencies

The Company is a party to certain legal actions arising in the normal course of business. Management does not expect there to be adverse consequences from these actions that would be material to the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Under various federal, state, and local laws, ordinances, and regulations, an owner or operator of real estate may be required to investigate and clean up hazardous or toxic substances, or petroleum product releases, at its properties. The owner may be liable to governmental entities or to third parties for property damage, and for investigation and cleanup costs incurred by such parties in connection with any contamination. Generally, the Company’s tenants must comply with environmental laws and meet any remediation requirements. In addition, leases typically impose obligations on tenants to indemnify the Company from any compliance costs the Company may incur as a result of environmental conditions on the property caused by the tenant. However, if a lease does not require compliance, or if a tenant fails to or cannot comply, the Company could be forced to pay these costs. Management is unaware of any environmental matters that would have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

The Company’s executive offices are located at 44 South Bayles Avenue, Port Washington, New York. The terms of the lease, which will expire in February 2021, provide for future minimum rents of $0.1 million in 2021.

The Company is the lessee under several ground lease and its executive office lease agreements. In accordance with the adoption of the new lease accounting standard (see Note 2 – “Issued and Adopted Accounting Pronouncements”), the Company recorded right-of-use assets and related lease liabilities for these leases as of January 1, 2019. As of December 31, 2020, the Company’s weighted average remaining lease term is approximately 30.7 years and the weighted average discount rate used to calculate the Company’s lease liability is approximately 5.7%. Rent expense under the Company’s ground lease and executive office lease agreements was approximately $1.8 million, $1.7 million and $1.1 million for 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.

The following table represents a reconciliation of the Company’s undiscounted future minimum lease payments for its ground lease and executive office lease agreements applicable to right-of-use liabilities as of December 31, 2020:

 

2021

 

$

1,113,000

 

2022

 

 

1,112,000

 

2023

 

 

1,112,000

 

2024

 

 

1,114,000

 

2025

 

 

993,000

 

Thereafter

 

 

28,554,000

 

Total undiscounted future minimum lease payments

 

 

33,998,000

 

Future minimum lease payments, discount

 

 

(19,921,000

)

Right-of-use liabilities

 

$

14,077,000