3. Notes Payable, Unsecured Notes and Credit Facility

The Company’s mortgage notes payable, unsecured notes, Term Loan and Credit Facility, both as defined below, as of March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, are summarized below (dollars in thousands). The following amounts and discussion do not include the mortgage notes related to the communities classified as held for sale, if any, as of March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, as shown in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets (dollars in thousands) (see Note 7, “Real Estate Disposition Activities”).

	3-31-14		12-31-13

Fixed rate unsecured notes (1)	$	2,600,000	$	2,600,000
Term Loan	250,000		—
Fixed rate mortgage notes payable - conventional and tax-exempt (2)	2,414,295		2,418,389
Variable rate mortgage notes payable - conventional and tax-exempt	1,010,883		1,011,609

Total notes payable and unsecured notes	6,275,178		6,029,998

Credit Facility	—		—

Total mortgage notes payable, unsecured notes and Credit Facility	$	6,275,178	$	6,029,998

(1) Balances at March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013 exclude $5,082 and $5,291 of debt discount, respectively, as reflected in unsecured notes, net on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

(2) Balances at March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013 exclude $111,702 and $120,684 of debt premium, respectively, as reflected in mortgage notes payable on the Company’s Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets.

In March 2014, the Company entered into a $300,000,000 variable rate unsecured term loan that matures in March 2021 (the “Term Loan”). At March 31, 2014, the Company had drawn $250,000,000 of the available $300,000,000, with the option to draw the additional $50,000,000 until March 2015.

The Company has a $1,300,000,000 revolving variable rate unsecured credit facility with a syndicate of banks (the “Credit Facility”) which matures in April 2017. The Company has the option to extend the maturity by up to one year under two, six month extension options for an aggregate fee of $1,950,000. The Credit Facility bears interest at varying levels based on the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”), rating levels achieved on the unsecured notes and on a maturity schedule selected by the Company. The current stated pricing is LIBOR plus 1.05% (1.20% at March 31, 2014), assuming a one month borrowing rate. The annual facility fee is approximately $1,950,000 based on the $1,300,000,000 facility size and based on the Company’s current credit rating.

The Company had no borrowings outstanding under the Credit Facility and had $52,300,000 and $65,018,000 outstanding in letters of credit that reduced the borrowing capacity as of March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively.

In the aggregate, secured notes payable mature at various dates from November 2015 through July 2066, and are secured by certain apartment communities and improved land parcels (with a net carrying value of $4,445,256,000 excluding communities classified as held for sale, as of March 31, 2014).

As of March 31, 2014, the Company has guaranteed approximately $289,697,000 of mortgage notes payable held by wholly owned subsidiaries; all such mortgage notes payable are consolidated for financial reporting purposes. The weighted average interest rate of the Company’s fixed rate mortgage notes payable (conventional and tax-exempt) was 4.5% and 3.4% at March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively. The weighted average interest rate of the Company’s variable rate mortgage notes payable (conventional and tax exempt), the Term Loan and its Credit Facility, including the effect of certain financing related fees, was 1.8% at both March 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013, respectively.

Scheduled payments and maturities of mortgage notes payable and unsecured notes outstanding at March 31, 2014 are as follows (dollars in thousands):

							Stated
	Secured		Secured		Unsecured		interest rate
	notes		notes		notes		of unsecured
Year	payments		maturities		maturities		notes

2014	$	12,753	$	—	$	150,000	5.375	%

2015	16,743		603,044		—		—

2016	17,874		16,255		250,000		5.750	%

2017	19,060		710,491		250,000		5.700	%

2018	18,413		76,928		—		—

2019	7,145		610,811		—		—

2020	6,205		50,824		250,000		6.100	%

					400,000		3.625	%

2021	5,985		27,844		250,000		3.950	%

					250,000		LIBOR + 1.45	%

2022	6,352		—		450,000		2.950	%

2023	6,596		—		350,000		4.300	%

					250,000		3.000	%

Thereafter	85,878		1,125,977		—		—

	$	203,004	$	3,222,174	$	2,850,000

The Company was in compliance at March 31, 2014 with certain customary financial and other covenants under the Credit Facility, the Term Loan, and the Company’s fixed-rate unsecured notes.