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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
Annual Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006
Commission File Number 1-12928
AGREE REALTY CORPORATION
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
     
Maryland   38-3148187
(State or other jurisdiction of
Incorporation or organization)
  (I.R.S. Employer
identification No.)
     
31850 Northwestern Highway
Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334
   (248) 737-4190
(Registrant’s telephone number,
Including area code)
Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
     
Title of each class   Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, $.0001 par value   New York Stock Exchange
Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:
None
(Title of Class)
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.
YES o       NO þ
Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the act.
YES o       NO þ
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 OR 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.
YES þ       NO o
Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (Section 229.405 of this chapter) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K. þ
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer or a non-accelerated filer. See definition of “accelerated filer and large accelerated filer” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):
Large accelerated filer o                      Accelerated filer þ                      Non-accelerated filer o
Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).
YES o       NO þ
The aggregate market value of the Registrant’s shares of common stock held by non-affiliates was approximately $261,801,558 as of June 30, 2006, based on the closing price of $33.97 on the NYSE on that date.
At February 28, 2007, there were 7,750,496 shares of Common Stock, $.0001 par value per share, outstanding.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE: The information required by Part III, Items 10-13 is to be incorporated by reference from the definitive proxy statement for our May 2007 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and which is to be filed with the Commission not later than 120 days after December 31, 2006.
 
 

 


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
             
 
  Part I        
 
           
  Business     4  
 
           
  Risk Factors     6  
 
           
  Unresolved Staff Comments     11  
 
           
  Properties     11  
 
           
  Legal Proceedings     17  
 
           
  Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders     18  
 
           
 
  Part II        
 
           
  Market for Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Stockholder Matters     18  
 
           
  Selected Financial Data     18  
 
           
  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations     20  
 
           
  Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk     26  
 
           
  Financial Statements and Supplementary Data     27  
 
           
  Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure     27  
 
           
  Controls and Procedures     27  
 
           
  Other Information     30  
 
           
 
  Part III        
 
           
  Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant     30  
 
           
  Executive Compensation     30  
 
           
  Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management     30  
 
           
  Certain Relationships and Related Transactions     31  
 
           
  Principal Accountant Fees and Services     31  
 
           
 
  Part IV        
 
           
  Exhibits, Financial Statements and Schedule     31  
 
           
        34  
 Bylaws of the Company
 Third Amended & Restated Line of Credit
 Amendment No.10 to Business Loan Agreement
 Subsidiaries of Agree Realty
 Consent of Virchow Krause & Company, LLP
 Consent of BDO Seidman, LLP
 Section 302 Certification of Chief Executive Officer
 Section 302 Certification of Chief Financial Officer
 Section 906 Certification of Chief Executive Officer
 Section 906 Certification of Chief Financial Officer

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Part I
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
     We have made statements in this Form 10-K that are “forward-looking” in that they do not discuss historical facts but instead note future expectations, projections, intentions or other items relating to the future.
     Forward-looking statements, which are generally prefaced by the words “anticipate,” “estimate,” “should,” “expect,” “believe,” “intend,” and similar terms, are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other facts that may cause our actual results or performance to differ materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking statements. Many of those factors are noted in conjunction with the forward-looking statements in the text. Other important factors that could cause our actual results to differ include:
    Our inability to effect the development or acquisition of properties on favorable terms.
 
    The effect of economic conditions. If an economic downturn occurs, any corresponding decrease in disposable income could result in consumers being less willing to purchase goods from our tenants which could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations. Our financial condition and results of operations could also be adversely affected if our tenants are otherwise unable to make lease payments or fail to renew their leases.
 
    Our inability to obtain long-term financing at interest rates that will allow us to offer attractive rental rates to our tenants in order to continue the development or acquisition of retail properties leased to national tenants on a long-term basis.
 
    Actions of our competitors. We seek to remain competitive in the development of real estate assets in the markets that we currently serve. With regard to our acquisition of properties, we compete with insurance companies, credit companies, pension funds, private individuals, investment companies and other REITs, many of which have greater resources than we do.
 
    Failure to qualify as a REIT. Although we believe that we were organized and have been operating in conformity with the requirements for qualification as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code, we cannot assure you that we will continue to qualify as a REIT.
 
    Changes in government regulations, tax rates and similar matters, For example, changes in real estate and zoning laws, environmental uncertainties and natural disasters could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.
     Other risk uncertainties and factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected are discussed in the “Risk Factors” section of this Form 10-K.
     We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events discussed in or incorporated by reference into this Form 10-K might not occur.
     References herein to the “Company” include Agree Realty Corporation, together with its wholly-owned subsidiaries and its majority owned operating partnership, Agree Limited Partnership (Operating Partnership), unless the context otherwise requires.

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Item 1. BUSINESS
General
     Agree Realty Corporation is a fully-integrated, self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT) focused primarily on the development, acquisition and management of retail properties net leased to national tenants. We were formed in December 1993 to continue and expand the business founded in 1971 by our current President and Chairman, Richard Agree. We specialize in developing retail properties for national tenants who have executed long-term net leases prior to the commencement of construction. As of December 31, 2006, approximately 89% of our annualized base rent was derived from national tenants. All of our freestanding property tenants and the majority of our community shopping center tenants have triple-net leases, which require the tenant to be responsible for property operating expenses including property taxes, insurance and maintenance. We believe this strategy provides a generally consistent source of income and cash for distributions.
     At December 31, 2006, our portfolio consisted of 60 properties, located in 15 states containing an aggregate of approximately 3.4 million square feet of gross leasable area (GLA). As of December 31, 2006, our portfolio included 48 freestanding net leased properties and 12 community shopping centers that were 99.7% leased with a weighted average lease term of approximately 11.5 years. As of December 31, 2006, approximately 67% of our annualized base rent was derived from our top three tenants: Borders Group, Inc. (Borders) — 32%, Walgreen Co. (Walgreen) — 22% and Kmart Corporation (Kmart) — 13%.
     We expect to continue to grow our asset base primarily through the development of retail properties that are pre-leased on a long-term basis to national tenants. We believe this development strategy provides attractive returns on investment, without the risks associated with speculative development. Since our initial public offering in 1994, we have developed 47 of our 60 properties, including 35 of our 48 freestanding properties and all 12 of our community shopping centers. As of December 31, 2006, the properties that we developed accounted for 82.3% of our annualized base rent. We focus on development because we believe, based on our historical returns we have been able to achieve, it generally provides us a higher return on investment than the acquisition of similarly located properties. We expect to continue to expand our tenant relationships and diversify our tenant base to include other quality national tenants.
Growth Strategy
     Our growth strategy is to continue to develop retail properties pre-leased on a long-term basis to national tenants. We believe that this strategy produces superior risk adjusted returns. Our development process commences with the identification of a land parcel we believe is situated in an attractive retail location. The location must be in a concentrated retail corridor and have high traffic counts, good visibility and demographics compatible with the needs of a particular retail tenant. After assessing the feasibility of development, we propose to the tenants that we execute long-term net leases for the finished development on that site.
     Upon the execution of the leases, we purchase the land and pursue all the necessary approvals to begin development. We direct all aspects of the development, including construction, design, leasing and management. Property management and the majority of the leasing activities are handled directly by our personnel. We believe that this approach enhances our ability to maximize the long-term value of our properties.
Financing Strategy
     The majority of our indebtedness is fixed rate, non-recourse and long-term in nature. Whenever feasible, we enter into long-term financing for our properties to match the underlying long-term leases. As of December 31, 2006, the average weighted maturity of our long-term debt was 13.4 years. We intend to limit our floating rate debt to borrowings under our credit facilities, which are primarily used to finance new development and acquisitions. Once development of a project is completed, we typically refinance this floating rate debt with long-term, fixed rate, non-recourse debt. As of December 31, 2006, our total debt was approximately $68.8 million, consisting of approximately $48.3 million of fixed rate debt at an average interest rate of 6.64% and approximately $20.5 million of floating rate debt, consisting primarily of the credit facilities, at an aggregate weighted average interest rate of

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6.35%. We intend to maintain a ratio of total indebtedness (including construction and acquisition financing) to market capitalization of 65% or less.
     We may from time to time re-evaluate our borrowing policies in light of the then current economic conditions, relative costs of debt and equity capital, market value of properties, growth and acquisition opportunities and other factors. There is no contractual limit or any limit in our organizational documents on our ratio of total indebtedness to total market capitalization, and accordingly, we may modify our borrowing policy and may increase or decrease our ratio of debt to market capitalization without stockholder approval.
Property Management
     We maintain a proactive leasing and capital improvement program that, combined with the quality and locations of our properties, has made our properties attractive to tenants. We intend to continue to hold our properties for long-term investment and, accordingly, place a strong emphasis on quality construction and an on-going program of regular maintenance. Our properties are designed and built to require minimal capital improvements other than renovations or expansions paid for by tenants. At our 12 community shopping centers properties, we sub-contract on-site functions such as maintenance, landscaping, snow removal and sweeping and the cost of these functions is generally reimbursed by our tenants. Personnel from our corporate headquarters conduct regular inspections of each property and maintain regular contact with major tenants.
     We have a management information system designed to provide management with the operating data necessary to make informed business decisions on a timely basis. This computer system provides us immediate access to store availability, lease data, tenants’ sales history, cash flow budgets and forecasts, and enables us to maximize cash flow from operations and closely monitor corporate expenses.
Agree Limited Partnership
     Our assets are held by, and all of our operations are conducted through, Agree Limited Partnership (Operating Partnership), of which we are the sole general partner and held a 92.00% interest as of December 31, 2006. Under the partnership agreement of the Operating Partnership, we, as the sole general partner, have exclusive responsibility and discretion in the management and control of the Operating Partnership.
Headquarters
     Our headquarters are located at 31850 Northwestern Highway, Farmington Hills, MI 48334 and our telephone number is (248) 737-4190. Our web site address is www.agreerealty.com. Agree Realty Corporation’s SEC filings can be accessed through this site.
Major Tenants
     As of December 31, 2006, approximately 67% of our gross leasable area was leased to Borders, Walgreen, and Kmart and approximately 67% of our total annualized base rents was attributable to these tenants. At December 31, 2006, Borders occupied approximately 29% of our gross leasable area and accounted for approximately 32% of the annualized base rent. At December 31, 2006, Walgreen occupied approximately 8% of our gross leasable area and accounted for approximately 22% of the annualized base rent. At December 31, 2006, Kmart occupied approximately 30% of our gross leasable area and accounted for approximately 13% of the annualized base rent. No other tenant accounted for more than 10% of gross leasable area or annualized base rent in 2006. The loss of any of these anchor tenants or the inability of any of them to pay rent would have an adverse effect on our business.
Tax Status
     We have operated and intend to operate in a manner to qualify as a REIT under Sections 856 through 860 of the Internal Revenue Code. In order to maintain qualification as a REIT, we must, among other things, distribute at least 90% of our real estate investment trust income and meet certain other asset and income tests. Additionally, our charter limits ownership of the Company, directly or constructively, by any single person to 9.8% of the total

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number of outstanding shares, subject to certain exceptions. As a REIT, we are not subject to federal income tax with respect to that portion of its income that meets certain criteria and is distributed annually to the stockholders.
Competition
     We face competition in seeking properties for acquisition and tenants who will lease space in these properties from insurance companies, credit companies, pension funds, private individuals, investment companies and other REITs, many of which have greater financial and other resources than us. There can be no assurance that we will be able to successfully compete with such entities in our development, acquisition and leasing activities in the future.
Potential Environmental Risks
     Investments in real property create a potential for environmental liability on the part of the owner or operator of such real property. If hazardous substances are discovered on or emanating from a property, the owner or operator of the property may be held strictly liable for all costs and liabilities relating to such hazardous substances. We have obtained a Phase I environmental study (which involves inspection without soil sampling or ground water analysis) conducted on each Property by independent environmental consultants. Furthermore, we have adopted a policy of conducting a Phase I environmental study on each property we acquire and if necessary conducting additional investigation as warranted.
     We conducted Phase I environmental study on the one (1) property we acquired in 2006. The results of this Phase I study indicated that no further action was required. In addition, we have no knowledge of any hazardous substances existing on any of our properties in violation of any applicable laws; however, no assurance can be given that such substances are not located on any of the properties. We carry no insurance coverage for the types of environmental risks described above.
     We believe that we are in compliance, in all material respects, with all federal, state and local ordinances and regulations regarding hazardous or toxic substances. Furthermore, we have not been notified by any governmental authority of any noncompliance, liability or other claim in connection with any of the properties.
Employees
     As of February 28, 2007, we employed eight persons. Employee responsibilities include accounting, construction, leasing, property coordination and administrative functions for the properties. Our employees are not covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and we consider our employee relations to be satisfactory.
Financial Information About Industry Segments
     We are in the business of development, acquisition and management of freestanding net leased properties and community shopping centers. We consider our activities to consist of a single industry segment. See the Consolidated Financial Statements and Notes thereto included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
     General
     We rely significantly on three major tenants. As of December 31, 2006, we derived approximately 67% of our annualized base rent from three major tenants, Borders, Walgreen and Kmart. In the event of a default by any of these tenants under their leases, we may experience delays in enforcing our rights as lessor and may incur substantial costs in protecting our investment. The bankruptcy or insolvency of any of the major tenants would likely have a material adverse effect on the properties affected and the income produced by those properties and correspondingly our ability to make distributions.

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     In the event that certain tenants cease to occupy a property, although under most circumstances such a tenant would remain liable for its lease payments, such an action may result in certain other tenants having the right to terminate their leases at the affected property, which could adversely affect the future income from that property. As of December 31, 2006, 12 of our properties had tenants with those provisions in their leases.
     We could be adversely affected by a tenant’s bankruptcy. If a tenant becomes bankrupt or insolvent, that could diminish the income we receive from that tenant’s leases. We may not be able to evict a tenant solely because of its bankruptcy. On the other hand, a bankruptcy court might authorize the tenant to terminate its leases with us. If that happens, our claim against the bankrupt tenant for unpaid future rent would be subject to statutory limitations that might be substantially less than the remaining rent we are owed under the leases. In addition, any claim we have for unpaid past rent would likely not be paid in full.
     Risks involved in single tenant leases. We focus our development activities on net leased real estate or interests therein. Because our properties are generally leased to single tenants, the financial failure of or other default by a tenant resulting in the termination of a lease is likely to cause a significant reduction in our operating cash flow and might decrease the value of the property leased to such tenant.
     Risks associated with borrowing, including loss of properties in the event of a foreclosure. At December 31, 2006, our ratio of indebtedness to market capitalization was approximately 23.8%. The use of leverage presents an additional element of risk in the event that (1) the cash flow from lease payments on our properties is insufficient to meet debt obligations, (2) we are unable to refinance our debt obligations as necessary or on as favorable terms or (3) there is an increase in interest rates. If a property is mortgaged to secure payment of indebtedness and we are unable to meet mortgage payments, the property could be foreclosed upon with a consequent loss of income and asset value to us. Under the “cross-default” provisions contained in mortgages encumbering some of our properties, our default under a mortgage with a lender would result in our default under mortgages held by the same lender on other properties resulting in multiple foreclosures.
     Risks associated with our development and acquisition activities. We intend to continue development of new properties and to consider possible acquisitions of existing properties. New project development is subject to a number of risks, including risks of construction delays or cost overruns that may increase project costs, risks that the properties will not achieve anticipated occupancy levels or sustain anticipated rent levels, and new project commencement risks such as receipt of zoning, occupancy and other required governmental permits and authorizations and the incurrence of development costs in connection with projects that are not pursued to completion. In addition, we anticipate that our new development will be financed under lines of credit or other forms of construction financing that will result in a risk that permanent financing on newly developed projects might not be available or would be available only on disadvantageous terms. In addition, the fact that we must distribute 90% of our taxable income in order to maintain our qualification as a REIT will limit our ability to rely upon income from operations or cash flow from operations to finance new development or acquisitions. As a result, if permanent debt or equity financing was not available on acceptable terms to refinance new development or acquisitions undertaken without permanent financing, further development activities or acquisitions might be curtailed or cash available for distribution might be adversely affected. Acquisitions entail risks that investments will fail to perform in accordance with expectations and that judgments with respect to the costs of improvements to bring an acquired property up to standards established for the market position intended for that property will prove inaccurate, as well as general investment risks associated with any new real estate investment.
     Our portfolio has limited geographic diversification. Our properties are located primarily in the Midwestern United States and Florida. The concentration of our properties in a limited number of geographic regions creates the risk that, should these regions experience an economic downturn, our operations may be adversely affected. Thirty-four of our properties are located in Michigan. Should Michigan experience an economic downturn, our operations and our rentals from our Michigan properties could be adversely affected.
     Dependence on key personnel. We are dependent on the efforts of our executive officers. The loss of one or more of our executive officers would likely have a material adverse effect on our future development or acquisition operations, which could adversely affect the market price of our common stock. We do not presently have key-man life insurance for any of our employees.

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     We are not limited by our organization documents as to the amount of debt we may incur. We intend to maintain a ratio of total indebtedness (including construction or acquisition financing) to market capitalization of 65% or less. Nevertheless, we may operate with debt levels which are in excess of 65% of market capitalization for extended periods of time. Our organization documents contain no limitation on the amount or percentage of indebtedness which we may incur. Therefore, our board of directors, without a vote of the stockholders, could alter the general policy on borrowings at any time. If our debt capitalization policy were changed, we could become more highly leveraged, resulting in an increase in debt service that could adversely affect our operating cash flow and our ability to make expected distributions to stockholders, and could result in an increased risk of default on our obligations.
     We can change our investment and financing policies without stockholder approval. Our investment and financing policies, and our policies with respect to certain other activities, including our growth, debt capitalization, distributions, REIT status and investment and operating policies, are determined by our board of directors. Although we have no present intention to do so, these policies may be amended or revised from time to time at the discretion of our board of directors without a vote of our stockholders.
     Competition. We face competition in seeking properties for acquisition and tenants who will lease space in these properties from insurance companies, credit companies, pension funds, private individuals, investment companies and other REITs, many of which have greater financial and other resources than we do. There can be no assurance that the Company will be able to successfully compete with such entities in its development, acquisition and leasing activities in the future.
     Risks Associated With Investment In Real Estate
     There are risks associated with owning and leasing real estate. Although our lease terms obligate the tenants to bear substantially all of the costs of operating our properties, investing in real estate involves a number of risks, including:
    The risk that tenants will not perform under their leases, reducing our income from the leases or requiring us to assume the cost of performing obligations (such as taxes, insurance and maintenance) that are the tenant’s responsibility under the lease.
 
    The risk that changes in economic conditions or real estate markets may adversely affect the value of our properties.
 
    The risk that local conditions (such as oversupply of similar properties) could adversely affect the value of our properties.
 
    The risk that we may not always be able to lease properties at favorable rental rates.
 
    The risk that we may not always be able to sell a property when we desire to do so at a favorable price.
 
    The risk of changes in tax, zoning or other laws could make properties less attractive or less profitable.
If a tenant fails to perform on its lease covenants, that would not excuse us from meeting any mortgage debt obligation secured by the property and could require us to fund reserves in favor of our mortgage lenders, thereby reducing funds available for payment of dividends on our shares of common stock. We cannot be assured that tenants will elect to renew their leases when the terms expire. If a tenant does not renew its lease or if a tenant defaults on its lease obligations, there is no assurance we could obtain a substitute tenant on acceptable terms. If we cannot obtain another tenant with comparable structural needs, we may be required to modify the property for a different use, which may involve a significant capital expenditure and a delay in re-leasing the property.

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     Uncertainties relating to lease renewals and re-letting of space. We are subject to the risks that, upon expiration of leases for space located in our properties, the premises may not be re-let or the terms of re-letting (including the cost of concessions to tenants) may be less favorable than current lease terms. If we are unable to re-let promptly all or a substantial portion of our retailers or if the rental rates upon such re-letting were significantly lower than expected rates, our net income and ability to make expected distributions to stockholders would be adversely affected. There can be no assurance that we will be able to retain tenants in any of our properties upon the expiration of their leases.
     Some potential losses are not covered by insurance. Our leases require the tenants to carry comprehensive liability, casualty, workers’ compensation, extended coverage and rental loss insurance on our properties. However, there are some types of losses, such as terrorist acts or catastrophic acts of nature, for which we or our tenants cannot obtain insurance at an acceptable cost. If there is an uninsured loss or a loss in excess of insurance limits, we could lose both the revenues generated by the affected property and the capital we have invested in the property. We believe the required coverage is of the type, and amount, customarily obtained by an owner of similar properties. We believe all of our properties are adequately insured. We would, however, remain obligated to repay any mortgage indebtedness or other obligations related to the property.
     Potential liability for environmental contamination could result in substantial costs. Under federal, state and local environmental laws, we may be required to investigate and clean up any release of hazardous or toxic substances or petroleum products at our properties, regardless of our knowledge or actual responsibility, simply because of our current or past ownership of the real estate. If unidentified environmental problems arise, we may have to make substantial payments, which could adversely affect our cash flow and our ability to make distributions to our stockholders. This potential liability results from the fact that:
    As owner we may have to pay for property damage and for investigation and clean-up costs incurred in connection with the contamination.
 
    The law may impose clean-up responsibility and liability regardless of whether the owner or operator knew of or caused the contamination.
 
    Even if more than one person is responsible for the contamination, each person who shares legal liability under environmental laws may be held responsible for all of the clean-up costs.
 
    Governmental entities and third parties may sue the owner or operator of a contaminated site for damages and costs.
These costs could be substantial and in extreme cases could exceed the value of the contaminated property. The presence of hazardous substances or petroleum products or the failure to properly remediate contamination may adversely affect our ability to borrow against, sell or lease an affected property. In addition, some environmental laws create liens on contaminated sites in favor of the government for damages and costs it incurs in connection with a contamination.
     Our leases require our tenants to operate the properties in compliance with environmental laws and to indemnify us against environmental liability arising from the operation of the properties. However, we could be subject to strict liability under environmental laws because we own the properties. There is also a risk that tenants may not satisfy their environmental compliance and indemnification obligations under the leases. Any of these events could substantially increase our cost of operations, require us to fund environmental indemnities in favor of our secured lenders and reduce our ability to service our secured debt and pay dividends to stockholders and any debt security interest payments. Environmental problems at any properties could also put us in default under loans secured by those properties, as well as loans secured by unaffected properties.
     Real estate investments are relatively illiquid. We may desire to sell a property in the future because of changes in market conditions or poor tenant performance or to avail ourselves of other opportunities. We may also be required to sell a property in the future to meet secured debt obligations or to avoid a secured debt loan default.

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Real estate projects cannot always be sold quickly, and we cannot assure you that we could always obtain a favorable price. We may be required to invest in the restoration or modification of a property before we can sell it.
     Tax Risks
     We will be subject to increased taxation if we fail to qualify as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. A REIT generally is not taxed at the corporate level on income it distributes to its stockholders, as long as it distributes annually at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders. We have not requested and do not plan to request, a ruling from the Internal Revenue Service that we qualify as a REIT.
     If we fail to qualify as a REIT, we will face tax consequences that will substantially reduce the funds available for payment of dividends:
    We would not be allowed a deduction for dividends paid to stockholders in computing our taxable income and would be subject to federal income tax at regular corporate rates.
 
    We could be subject to the federal alternative minimum tax and possibly increased state and local taxes.
 
    Unless we are entitled to relief under statutory provisions, we could not elect to be treated as a REIT for four taxable years following the year in which we were disqualified.
In addition, if we fail to qualify as a REIT, we will no longer be required to pay dividends (other than any mandatory dividends on any preferred shares we may offer). As a result of these factors, our failure to qualify as a REIT could adversely effect the market price for our common stock.
     Excessive non-real estate asset values may jeopardize our REIT status. In order to qualify as a REIT, at least 75% of the value of our assets must consist of investments in real estate, investments in other REITs, cash and cash equivalents, and government securities. Therefore, the value of any property that is not considered a real estate asset for federal income tax purposes must represent in the aggregate less than 25% of our total assets. In addition, under federal income tax law, we may not own securities in any one company (other than a REIT, a qualified REIT subsidiary or a taxable REIT subsidiary) which represent in excess of 10% of the voting securities or 10% of the value of all securities of any one company, or which have, in the aggregate, a value in excess of 5% of our total assets, and we may not own securities of one or more taxable REIT subsidiaries which have, in the aggregate, a value in excess of 20% of our total assets. We may invest in securities of another REIT, and our investment may represent in excess of 10% of the voting securities or 10% of the value of the securities of the other REIT. If the other REIT were to lose its REIT status during a taxable year in which our investment represented in excess of 10% of the voting securities or 10% of the value of the securities of the other REIT as of the close of a calendar quarter, we will lose our REIT status.
     The 25%, 20%, 10% and 5% tests are determined at the end of each calendar quarter. If we fail to meet any such test at the end of any calendar quarter, we will cease to qualify as a REIT.
     We may have to borrow funds or sell assets to meet our distribution requirements. Subject to some adjustments that are unique to REITs, a REIT generally must distribute 90% of its taxable income. For the purpose of determining taxable income, we may be required to accrue interest, rent and other items treated as earned for tax purposes but that we have not yet received. In addition, we may be required not to accrue as expenses for tax purposes some items which actually have been paid, including, for example, payments of principal on our debt, or some of our deductions might be disallowed by the Internal Revenue Service. As a result, we could have taxable income in excess of cash available for distribution. If this occurs, we may have to borrow funds or liquidate some of our assets in order to meet the distribution requirement applicable to a REIT.
     We may be subject to other tax liabilities. Even if we qualify as a REIT, we may be subject to some federal, state and local taxes on our income and property that could reduce operating cash flow.

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     Changes in tax laws may prevent us from qualifying as a REIT. As we have previously described, we intend to qualify as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. However, this intended qualification is based on the tax laws that are currently in effect. We are unable to predict any future changes in the tax laws that would adversely affect our status as a REIT. If there is a change in the tax laws that prevents us from qualifying as a REIT or that requires REITs generally to pay corporate level income taxes, we may not be able to make the same level of distributions to our stockholders.
ITEM 1B. UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
     None
ITEM 2. PROPERTIES
     Our properties consist of 48 freestanding net leased properties and 12 community shopping centers, that as of December 31, 2006 were 99.7% leased, with a weighted average lease term of 11.5 years. Approximately 89% of our annualized base rent was attributable to national retailers. Among these retailers are Borders, Walgreen and Kmart which, at December 31, 2006, collectively represented approximately 67% of our annualized base rent. A majority of our properties were built for or are leased to national tenants who require a high quality location with strong retail characteristics. We developed 35 of our 48 freestanding properties and all 12 of our community shopping centers. Five of our freestanding properties were acquired as part of our relationship with Borders. Properties we have developed (including our community shopping centers) account for approximately 82.3% of our annualized base rent as of December 31, 2006. Our 48 freestanding properties are comprised of 47 retail locations and Borders’ corporate headquarters.
     A substantial portion of our income consists of rent received under net leases. Most of the leases provide for the payment of fixed base rentals monthly in advance and for the payment by tenants of a pro rata share of the real estate taxes, insurance, utilities and common area maintenance of the shopping center as well as payment to us of a percentage of the tenant’s sales. We received percentage rents of $53,550 $68,071 and $55,955 and for the fiscal years 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively, and these amounts represented 0.2%, 0.2% and 0.2%, respectively, of our total revenue for these periods. Included in those amounts were percentage rents from Kmart of $13,605, $25,240 and $-0- for fiscal years 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively. Leases with Borders do not contain percentage rent provisions. Leases with Walgreen do contain percentage rent provisions; however, no percentage rent was received from Walgreen during these periods. Some of our leases require us to make roof and structural repairs, as needed.
Development and Acquisition Summary
     During 2006:
     We acquired one (1) freestanding net leased property that added 11,060 square feet of gross leasable area to our operating portfolio and cost approximately $2.3 million. The property is located in Summit Township, Michigan and is leased to Rite Aid.
     We completed the development of a Walgreen drug store at our community shopping center located in Frankfort, Kentucky. The Walgreen store replaced a vacant Winn Dixie grocery store. The Walgreen store cost approximately $2.6 million.
     We exercised our option to purchase the fee interest in a parcel of land located in Lawrence, Kansas for $980,000. The land was previously leased by us from a private investor.
     We commenced the development of a Walgreen drug store located in Livonia, Michigan. Budgeted cost for this development is approximately $4.4 million and is expected to be completed during the second quarter of 2007.

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Major Tenants
     The following table sets forth certain information with respect to our major tenants:
                         
            Annualized Base     Percent of Total  
    Number     Rent as of     Annualized Base Rent as  
    of Leases     December 31, 2006     of December 31, 2006  
 
Borders
    18     $ 9,861,727       32 %
Walgreen
    18       6,648,599       22  
Kmart
    12       3,847,911       13  
 
                 
Total
    48     $ 20,358,237       67 %
 
                 
     Borders Group, Inc., (Borders), trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “BGP”. Borders, is a leading global retailer of books, music, movies and gift and stationary items. Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Borders operates 487 Borders domestic superstores, as well as 61 international Borders stores, approximately 652 Waldenbooks locations and 30 United Kingdom based Books etc. stores. Borders employs more than 34,000 people worldwide. We derive approximately 32% of our annualized base rent as of December 31, 2006 from Borders. Borders has reported that its annual revenues for its 2005 fiscal year ended January 28, 2006 were approximately $4,030,700,000; its annual net income for 2005 was approximately $101,000,000 and its total stockholders’ equity at fiscal year end 2005 was approximately of $927,800,000.
     Walgreen is a leader of the U.S. chain drugstore industry and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “WAG”. It operates over 5,461 stores in 47 states and Puerto Rico and has total assets of approximately $17.1 billion as of August 31, 2006. As of January 29, 2007, Walgreen’s long-term debt had a Standard and Poor’s rating of A+ and a Moody’s rating of Aa3. We derive approximately 22% of our annualized base rent as of December 31, 2006 from Walgreen. For its fiscal year ended August 31, 2006, Walgreen reported that its annual net sales were $47,409,000,000 and its annual net income was $1,750,600,000 and that it had shareholders’ equity of $10,115,800,000.
     Kmart is a mass merchandising company that offers customers quality products through a portfolio of exclusive brands and labels. As of January 28, 2006, Kmart operated a total of 1,416 stores across 49 states, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Kmart is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation (Sears). Sears is a broadline retailer with approximately 2,300 full-line and 1,100 specialty retail stores in the United States operating through Kmart and Sears and 380 full-line and specialty stores in Canada operating through Sears Canada, Inc. (Sears Canada), a 70%-owned subsidiary. We derive approximately 12% of our annualized base rent as of December 31, 2006 from Kmart. As of October 28, 2006, Sears had total assets of $30,469,000,000, total liabilities of $18,845,000,000 and shareholders equity of $11,624,000,000. All of our Kmart properties are in the traditional Kmart format and these Kmart properties average 85,000 square feet per property.
     The financial information set forth above with respect to Borders, Walgreen and Kmart was derived from the annual reports on Form 10-K filed by Borders and Walgreen with the SEC with respect to their 2005 fiscal years and the quarterly report on form 10-Q filed by Sears Holdings Corporation with the SEC with respect to the third quarter of 2006. Additional information regarding Borders, Walgreen or Kmart may be found in their respective public filings. These filings can be accessed at www.sec.gov
Location of Properties in the Portfolio

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    Number   Total Gross    
    of   Leasable Area   Percent of GLA Leased on
State   Properties   (Sq. feet)   December 31, 2006
 
California
    1       38,015       100 %
Florida
    4       258,793       100  
Indiana
    1       15,844       100  
Illinois
    1       20,000       100  
Kansas
    2       45,000       100  
Kentucky
    1       116,212       100  
Maryland
    2       53,000       100  
Michigan
    34       2,035,304       99  
Nebraska
    2       55,000       100  
New Jersey
    1       10,118       100  
New York
    2       27,626       100  
Ohio
    1       21,000       100  
Oklahoma
    4       99,282       100  
Pennsylvania
    1       37,004       100  
Wisconsin
    3       523,036       99  
 
                       
Total/Average
    60       3,355,234       99 %
 
                       
Lease Expirations
     The following table shows lease expirations for the next 10 years for our community shopping centers and wholly-owned freestanding properties, assuming that none of the tenants exercise renewal options.
                                         
            December 31, 2006  
            Gross Leasable Area     Annualized Base Rent  
    Number                            
    of Leases     Square     Percent             Percent  
Expiration Year   Expiring     Footage     Of Total     Amount     Of Total  
 
2007
    5       24,300       .7 %   $ 178,399       .6 %
2008
    27       313,925       9.4 %     1,396,808       4.6 %
2009
    20       193,326       5.8 %     973,978       3.2 %
2010
    20       328,035       9.8 %     2,031,328       6.7 %
2011
    25       231,524       6.9 %     1,644,262       5.4 %
2012
    10       58,260       1.7 %     513,016       1.7 %
2013
    1       51,868       1.6 %     492,746       1.6 %
2014
    3       172,958       5.2 %     824,206       2.7 %
2015
    11       730,525       21.8 %     5,075,265       16.7 %
2016
    5       80,945       2.4 %     1,664,513       5.5 %
 
                                       
Thereafter
    41       1,158,948       34.7 %     15,628,821       51.3 %
 
                             
 
Total
    168       3,344,614       100.0 %   $ 30,423,342       100.0 %
 
                             
     We have made preliminary contact with the five (5) tenants whose leases expire in 2007. Of those tenants, three (3) tenants, at their option, have the right to extend their lease term and two (2) tenants have leases expiring in 2007. We expect all five (5) tenants to extend their leases or enter into lease extensions.

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Annualized Base Rent of our Properties
     The following is a breakdown of base rents in place at December 31, 2006 for each type of retail tenant:
                 
            Percent of  
    Annualized     Annualized  
Type of Tenant   Base Rent     Base Rent  
National(1)
  $ 27,125,947       89 %
Regional(2)
    2,146,579       7  
Local
    1,150,816       4  
 
           
 
Total
  $ 30,423,342       100 %
 
           
 
(1)   Includes the following national tenants: Borders, Walgreen, Kmart, Wal-Mart, Eckerd Drugs, Fashion Bug, Rite Aid, JC Penney, Avco Financial, GNC Group, Radio Shack, Sam Goody, Super Value, Maurices, Payless Shoes, Blockbuster Video, Family Dollar, H&R Block, Sally Beauty, Jo Ann Fabrics, Staples, Best Buy, Dollar Tree, TGI Friday’s, Circuit City and Pier 1 Imports.
 
(2)   Includes the following regional tenants: Roundy’s Foods, Dunham’s Sports, Christopher Banks, Beal’s Department Stores and Hollywood Video.
Freestanding Properties
     Forty-eight (48) of our properties are freestanding properties which at December 31, 2006 were leased to Borders (18), Circuit City Stores (1), Rite Aid (5), Eckerd Drugs (2), Fajita Factory (1), Citizens Bank (1), Kmart (2), Walgreen (17) and Wal-Mart (1). Our freestanding properties provided $20,085,734, or approximately 66.0%, of our annualized base rent as of December 31, 2006, at an average base rent per square foot of $13.00. These properties contain, in the aggregate, 1,492,578 square feet of gross leasable area or approximately 44.5% of our total gross leasable area. Our freestanding properties tend to have high traffic counts, are generally located in densely populated areas and are leased to a single tenant on a long term basis. Thirty-five (35) of our 48 freestanding properties were developed by us. Five (5) of our 48 freestanding properties, although not developed by us, were acquired as part of our relationship with Borders. As of December 31, 2006, our freestanding properties have a weighted average lease term of 14.1 years.
     Our freestanding properties range in size from 4,426 to 458,729 square feet of gross leasable area and are located in the following states: California (1), Florida (3), Indiana (1), Kansas (2), Maryland (2), Michigan (28), Nebraska (2), New Jersey (1), New York (2), Ohio (1), Oklahoma (4) and Pennsylvania (1).
Freestanding Properties
                         
    Year Completed/           Lease Expiration(2)
Tenant/Location   Expanded   Total GLA   (Option expiration)
Borders,(1) Aventura, FL
    1996       30,000     Jan 31, 2016 (2036)
Borders, Columbus, OH
    1996       21,000     Jan 23, 2016 (2036)
Borders, Monroeville, PA
    1996       37,004     Nov 8, 2016 (2036)
Borders, Norman, OK
    1996       24,641     Sep 20, 2016 (2036)
Borders, Omaha, NE
    1995       30,000     Nov 3, 2015 (2035)
Borders, Santa Barbara, CA
    1995       38,015     Nov 17, 2015 (2035)
Borders, Wichita, KS
    1995       25,000     Nov 10, 2015 (2035)
Borders, Lawrence, KS
    1997       20,000     Oct 16, 2022 (2042)
Borders, Tulsa, OK
    1998       25,000     Sep 30, 2018 (2038)
Borders, Oklahoma City, OK
    2002       24,641     Nov 17, 2017 (2037)

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    Year Completed/           Lease Expiration(2)
Tenant/Location   Expanded   Total GLA   (Option expiration)
Borders, Omaha, NE
    2002       25,000     Nov 17, 2017 (2037)
Borders, Indianapolis, IN
    2002       15,844     Nov 17, 2017 (2037)
Borders, Columbia, MD
    1999       28,000     Oct 16, 2022 (2042)
Borders, Germantown, MD
    2000       25,000     Oct 16, 2022 (2042)
Borders Headquarters, Ann Arbor, MI
    1996/1998       458,729     Jan 29, 2023 (2043)
Borders, Tulsa, OK
    1996       25,000     Sep 30, 2018 (2038)
Borders, Boynton Beach, FL
    1996       25,000     July 20, 2024 (2044)
Borders, Ann Arbor, MI
    1996       110,000     July 20, 2024 (2044)
Circuit City, Boynton Beach, FL
    1996       32,459     Dec 15, 2016 (2036)
Citizens Bank, Flint, MI
    2003       4,426     Apr 15, 2023
Eckerd Drugs, Webster, NY
    2004       13,813     Feb 24, 2024 (2044)
Eckerd Drugs, Albion, NY
    2004       13,813     Oct 12, 2024 (2044)
Fajita Factory, Lansing, MI
    2004     Note (3)   Aug 31,2014 (2032)
Kmart, Grayling, MI
    1984       52,320     Sep 30, 2009 (2059)
Kmart, Oscoda, MI
    1984/1990       90,470     Sep 30, 2009 (2059)
Rite Aid, Canton Twp, MI
    2003       11,180     Oct 31, 2019 (2049)
Rite Aid, Roseville, MI
    2005       11,060     June 30, 2025 (2050)
Rite Aid, Mt Pleasant, MI
    2005       11,095     Nov 30, 2025 (2065)
Rite Aid, N Cape May, NJ
    2005       10,118     Nov 30, 2025 (2065)
Rite Aid, Summit Twp, MI
    2006       11,060     Oct 31, 2019 (2039)
Sam’s Club, Roseville, MI
    2002     Note (4)   Aug 4, 2022 (2082)
Walgreen, Waterford, MI
    1997       13,905     Feb 28, 2018 (2058)
Walgreen, Chesterfield, MI
    1998       13,686     July 31, 2018 (2058)
Walgreen, Pontiac, MI
    1998       13,905     Oct 31, 2018 (2058)
Walgreen, Grand Blanc, MI
    1998       13,905     Feb 28, 2019 (2059)
Walgreen, Rochester, MI
    1998       13,905     June 30, 2019 (2059)
Walgreen, Ypsilanti, MI
    1999       15,120     Dec 31, 2019 (2059)
Walgreen,(1) Petoskey, MI
    2000       13,905     Apr 30, 2020 (2060)
Walgreen, Flint, MI
    2000       14,490     Dec 31, 2020 (2060)
Walgreen, Flint, MI
    2001       15,120     Feb 28, 2021 (2061)
Walgreen, N Baltimore, MI
    2001       14,490     Aug 31, 2021 (2061)
Walgreen, Flint, MI
    2002       14,490     Apr 30, 2027 (2077)
Walgreen, Big Rapids, MI
    2003       13,560     Apr 30, 2028 (2078)
Walgreen, Flint, MI
    2004       14,560     Feb 28, 2029 (2079)
Walgreen, Flint, MI
    2004       13,650     Oct 31, 2029 (2079)
Walgreen, Midland, MI
    2005       14,820     July 31, 2030 (2080)
Walgreen, Grand Rapids, MI
    2005       14,820     Aug 30, 2030 (2080)
Walgreen, Delta Township,, MI
    2005       14,559     Nov 30, 2030 (2080)
 
                       
                           
Total
            1,492,578          
 
                       

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(1)   These properties are subject to long-term ground leases where a third party owns the underlying land and has leased the land to us to construct or operate freestanding properties. We pay rent for the use of the land and we are generally responsible for all costs and expenses associated with the building and improvements. At the end of the lease terms, as extended (Aventura, FL 2036, and Petoskey, MI 2049), the land together with all improvements revert to the land owner. We have an option to purchase the Petoskey property after August 7, 2019.
 
(2)   At the expiration of tenant’s initial lease term, each tenant has an option, subject to certain requirements, to extend its lease for an additional period of time.
 
(3)   This 2.03 acre property is leased from us by Fajita Factory, LLC pursuant to a ground lease.
 
(4)   This 12.68 acre property is leased from us by Wal-Mart pursuant to a ground lease.
Community Shopping Centers
     Twelve (12) of our properties are community shopping centers ranging in size from 20,000 to 241,458 square feet of gross leaseable area. The community shopping centers are located in five states as follows: Florida (1), Illinois (1), Kentucky (1), Michigan (6) and Wisconsin (3). Our community shopping centers tend to be located in high traffic, market dominant centers in which customers of our tenants purchase day-to-day necessities. Our community shopping centers are anchored by national tenants.
     The location, general character and primary occupancy information with respect to the community shopping centers as of December 31, 2006 are set forth below:
                                                     
            Gross             Average     Percent     Percent      
    Year     Leasable             Base     Occupied at     Leased at     Anchor Tenants (Lease
    Completed/     Area     Annualized     Rent per     December 31,     December 31,     expiration/Option period
Property Location   Expanded     Sq. Ft.     Base Rent (2)     Sq. Ft.(3)     2006     2006 (4)     expiration) (5)
 
Capital Plaza,(1)
    1978/2006       116,212     $ 561,917     $ 4.84       100 %     100 %   Kmart(2008/2053)
Frankfort, KY
                                                  Walgreen (2031/2052)
 
                                                  Fashion Bug (2008/2025)
 
                                                   
Charlevoix Commons
    1991       137,375       683,162       4.97       74 %     100 %   Kmart (2015/2065)
Charlevoix, MI
                                                  Roundy’s (2011-2031)
 
                                                   
Chippewa Commons
    1991       168,311       961,783       5.71       100 %     100 %   Kmart (2014/2064)
Chippewa Falls, WI
                                                  Roundy’s (2011/2031)
 
                                                  Fashion Bug (2011/2021)
 
                                                   
Ironwood Commons
    1991       185,535       956,910       5.16       100 %     100 %   Kmart (2015/2065)
Ironwood, MI
                                                  Super Value (2011/2036)
 
                                                  Fashion Bug (2007/2022)
 
                                                   
Marshall Plaza
    1990       119,279       687,484       5.76       100 %     100 %   Kmart (2015/2065)
Marshall, MI
                                                   
 
                                                   
Mt. Pleasant Shopping Center
Mt. Pleasant, MI
    1973/1997       241,458       1,085,782       4.63       97 %     97 %   Kmart (2008/2048)
J.C. Penney Co. (2005/2020)
Staples, Inc. (2010/2025)
 
                                                  Fashion Bug (2006/2026)

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            Gross             Average     Percent     Percent      
    Year     Leasable             Base     Occupied at     Leased at     Anchor Tenants (Lease
    Completed/     Area     Annualized     Rent per     December 31,     December 31,     expiration/Option period
Property Location   Expanded     Sq. Ft.     Base Rent (2)     Sq. Ft.(3)     2006     2006 (4)     expiration) (5)
 
North Lakeland Plaza
    1987       171,334       1,285,585       7.50       100 %     100 %   Best Buy (2013/2028)
Lakeland, FL
                                                  Beall’s (2015/2025)
 
                                                   
Petoskey Town Center
    1990       174,870       1,093,873       6.26       100 %     100 %   Kmart (2015/2065)
Petoskey, MI
                                                  Roundy’s (2010/2030)
 
                                                  Fashion Bug (2007/2022)
 
                                                   
Plymouth Commons
    1990       162,031       889,934       5.65       97 %     97 %   Kmart (2015/2065)
Plymouth, WI
                                                  Roundy’s (2010/2030)
 
                                                  Fashion Bug (2008/2021)
 
                                                   
Rapids Associates
    1990       173,557       955,457       5.51       74 %     100 %   Kmart (2015/2065)
Big Rapids, MI
                                                  Roundy’s (2010/2030)
 
                                                  Fashion Bug (2006/2021)
 
                                                   
Shawano Plaza
    1990       192,694       1,030,388       5.35       100 %     100 %   Kmart (2014/2064)
Shawano, WI
                                                  Roundy’s (2010/2030)
 
                                                  J.C. Penney Co. (2005/2025)
 
                                                  Fashion Bug (2006/2021)
 
                                                   
West Frankfort Plaza
    1982       20,000       145,333       7.27       100 %     100 %   Fashion Bug (2007)
West Frankfort, IL
                                                   
 
                                                   
 
                                         
 
Total/Average
            1,862,656     $ 10,337,608     $ 5.53       95 %     99 %    
 
                                         
 
(1)   All community shopping centers except Capital Plaza (which is subject to a long-term ground lease expiring in 2053 from a third party) are wholly-owned by us.
 
(2)   Total annualized base rents of the Company as of December 31, 2006.
 
(3)   Calculated as total annualized base rents, divided by gross leaseable area actually leased as of December 31, 2006.
 
(4)   Roundy’s leases but does not currently occupy, the 35,896 square feet it leases at Charlevoix Commons at a rate of $5.97 per square foot and the 44,478 square feet it leases at Rapids Associates at a rate of $6.00 per square foot. The Charlevoix lease expires in 2011 and the Rapids Associates lease expires in 2010 (assuming they are not extended by Roundy’s).
 
(5)   The option to extend the lease beyond its initial term is only at the option of the tenant.
ITEM 3.   LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
     We are not presently involved in any litigation nor, to our knowledge, is any other litigation threatened against us, except for routine litigation arising in the ordinary course of business which is expected to be covered by our liability insurance.

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ITEM 4.   SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
     No matter was submitted to a vote of security holders during the fourth quarter of 2006.
Part II
ITEM 5.   MARKET FOR REGISTRANT’S COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
     Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “ADC”. The following table sets forth the high and low sales prices of our common stock, as reported on the New York Stock Exchange Composite Tape, and the dividends declared per share of Common Stock by us for each calendar quarter in the last two fiscal years. Dividends were paid in the periods immediately subsequent to the periods in which such dividends were declared.
Market Information
                         
                    Dividends Per
    High   Low   Common Share
Quarter Ended
                       
March 31, 2006
  $ 32.10     $ 29.69     $ 0.49  
June 30, 2006
  $ 35.07     $ 29.88     $ 0.49  
September 30, 2006
  $ 34.05     $ 31.24     $ 0.49  
December 31, 2006
  $ 36.26     $ 32.10     $ 0.49  
 
                       
March 31, 2005
  $ 31.31     $ 26.63     $ 0.49  
June 30, 2005
  $ 30.37     $ 26.54     $ 0.49  
September 30, 2005
  $ 31.00     $ 27.72     $ 0.49  
December 31, 2005
  $ 29.67     $ 26.16     $ 0.49  
     At December 31, 2006, there were 7,750,496 shares of our common stock issued and outstanding which were held by approximately 200 stockholders of record. The stockholders of record do not reflect persons or entities who held their shares in nominee or “street” name.
     We intend to continue to declare quarterly dividends to our stockholders. However, our distributions are determined by our board of directors and will depend on a number of factors, including the amount of our funds from operations, the financial and other condition of our properties, our capital requirements, our annual distribution requirements under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to REITs and such other factors as our board of directors deems relevant.
     During the year ended December 31, 2006, we did not sell any unregistered securities, except the grant, under our 2005 Equity Incentive Plan (the Plan), of 43,650 shares of restricted stock to certain of our employees. The transfer restrictions on such shares lapse in equal annual installments over a five-year period from the date of the grant, but the holder thereof is entitled to receive dividends on all such shares from the date of the grant.
     Certain information relating to equity compensation plans is set forth in Item 12.
ITEM 6.   SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
     The following table sets forth our selected financial information on a historical basis and should be read in conjunction with “Management Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and all of the financial statements and notes thereto included elsewhere in this Form 10-K. Certain amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current presentation of discontinued operations. The balance sheet for the periods ending December 31, 2002 through 2006 and operating data for each of the periods presented were derived from our audited financial statements.

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Selected Financial Data
(in thousands, except per share, number of properties, and percentage leased information)
                                         
    Year Ended     Year Ended     Year Ended     Year Ended     Year Ended  
    Dec 31,     Dec 31,     Dec 31,     Dec 31,     Dec 31,  
    2006     2005     2004     2003     2002  
 
                                       
Operating Data
                                       
 
                                       
Total Revenue
  $ 32,908     $ 31,579     $ 28,940     $ 26,224     $ 23,061  
 
                             
Expenses
                                       
 
                                       
Property expense (1)
    4,219       4,545       4,220       4,161       3,806  
General and administrative
    4,019       4,191       2,849       2,275       2,012  
 
                                       
Interest
    4,625       4,159       4,507       5,684       6,196  
Early extinguishment of debt
                      961        
Depreciation and amortization
    4,851       4,637       4,249       3,836       3,466  
 
                             
 
                                       
Total Expenses
    17,714       17,532       15,825       16,917       15,480  
 
                             
 
                                       
Other Income (2)
          6       217       438       674  
 
                             
Income before Minority Interest and Discontinued Operations
    15,194       14,053       13,332       9,745       8,255  
 
                                       
Minority Interest
    1,220       1,145       1,257       1,103       1,085  
 
                             
 
                                       
Income before Discontinued Operations
    13,974       12,908       12,075       8,642       7,170  
Gain on Sale of Asset From Discontinued Operations
          2,654       523       740        
Income From Discontinued Operations
          486       525       1,090       1,602  
 
                             
Net Income
  $ 13,974     $ 16,048     $ 13,123     $ 10,472     $ 8,772  
 
                             
 
                                       
Number of Properties
    60       59       54       50       48  
 
                             
 
                                       
Number of Square Feet
    3,355       3,363       3,463       3,495       3,699  
 
                             
 
                                       
Percentage Leased
    99 %     99 %     99 %     97 %     99 %
 
                             
Per Share Data — Dilutive
                                       
 
                                       
Income before discontinued operations
  $ 1.83     $ 1.72     $ 1.87     $ 1.64     $ 1.61  
Discontinued operations
          .42       .16       .35       .36  
 
                             
Net income
  $ 1.83     $ 2.14     $ 2.03     $ 1.99     $ 1.97  
 
                             
 
                                       
Weighted average of common shares outstanding — Dilutive
    7,651       7,491       6,475       5,276       4,447  
 
                             
 
                                       
Cash dividends
  $ 1.96     $ 1.96     $ 1.95     $ 1.94     $ 1.84  
 
                             
 
                                       
Balance Sheet Data
                                       
Real Estate (before accumulated depreciation)
  $ 268,248     $ 258,332     $ 252,427     $ 220,334     $ 210,986  
 
                                       
Total Assets
  $ 223,515     $ 223,460     $ 214,837     $ 190,795     $ 178,162  
Total debt, including accrued interest
  $ 69,031     $ 68,504     $ 92,441     $ 83,313     $ 115,534  
 
(1)   Property expense includes real estate taxes, property maintenance, insurance, utilities and land lease expense.
 
(2)   Other income is composed of development fee income, gain on land sales, and equity in net income of unconsolidated entities.
 
(3)   Net income per share has been computed by dividing the net income by the weighted average number of shares of Common Stock outstanding and the effect of dilutive securities outstanding. The per share amounts are presented in accordance with SFAS No. 128 “Earnings per share.”

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ITEM 7.   MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Overview
     We were established to continue to operate and expand the retail property business of our predecessor. We commenced our operations in April 1994. Our assets are held by, and all operations are conducted through, Agree Limited Partnership (the Operating Partnership), of which Agree Realty Corporation is the sole general partner and held a 92.00% interest as of December 31, 2006. We are operating so as to qualify as a real estate investment trust (REIT) for federal income tax purposes.
     The following should be read in conjunction with the Consolidated Financial Statements of Agree Realty Corporation, including the respective notes thereto, which are included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
     In December 2004, the FASB issued Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 123 (R), to expand and clarify SFAS No. 123 in several areas. The Statement requires companies to measure the cost of employee services received in exchange for an award of an equity instrument based on the grant-date fair value of the award. The cost is recognized over the requisite service period (usually the vesting period) for the estimated number of instruments where service is expected to be rendered. This statement is effective for the interim reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2005. The Company adopted this statement in the first quarter of 2006. The impact of adopting SFAS No. 123 (R) did not have a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.
     In June 2006, the FASB issued an Emerging Issues Task Force (“EITF”) Consensus in Issue 06-3, “How Taxes Collected from Customers and Remitted to Governmental Authorities Should Be Presented in the Income Statement (That Is, Gross versus Net Presentation).” The consensus includes any tax assessed by a governmental authority that is directly imposed on a revenue-producing transaction between a seller and a customer and may include, but is not limited to, sales, use, value added, and some excise taxes. The consensus states that the presentation of taxes within the scope on either a gross (included in revenues and cots) or a net (excluded from revenues) basis is an accounting policy decision that should be disclosed pursuant to Accounting Principles Board (“APB”) Opinion No. 22 “Disclosure of Accounting Policies.” In addition, for any such taxes that are reported on a gross basis, a company should disclose the amounts of those taxes in interim and annual financial statements for each period for which an income statement is presented if those amounts are significant. The disclosure of those taxes can be done on an aggregate basis. The consensus should be applied to financial reports for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2006. The adoption of this consensus did not have a significant impact on our financial position or results of operations.
     In June 2006, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 48 (FIN 48), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes — an interpretation of FASB Statement No. 109.” FIN 48 clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in accordance with SFAS No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes.” This interpretation prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. It also provides guidance on de-recognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition. FIN 48 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2006. The adoption of FIN 48 is not expected to have a significant impact on our financial position or results of operations.
     In September 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) Topic 1N “Financial Statements — Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements” (SAB 108). SAB 108 provides guidance on how prior year misstatements should be taken into consideration when quantifying misstatements in current year financial statements for purposes of determining whether the current year’s financial statements are materially misstated. SAB 108 references both the “iron curtain” and “rollover” approaches to quantifying a current year misstatement for purposes of determining the materiality. The iron curtain approach focuses on how the current year’s balance sheet

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would be affected in correcting a misstatement without considering the year(s) in which the misstatement originated. The rollover approach focuses on the amount of the misstatement that originated in the current year’s income statement. SAB 108 states that registrants must quantify the impact of correcting all misstatements, including both the carryover and reversing affects of prior year misstatements, on the current year financial statements. Both the iron curtain approach and rollover approach should be used in assessing the materiality of a current year misstatement. SAB 108 provides that once a current year misstatement has been quantified, the guidance in SAB Topic 1N, “Financial Statements — Materiality,” (SAB 99) should be applied to determine whether the misstatement is material and should result in an adjustment to the financial statements. SAB 108 is effective for fiscal years ending after November 15, 2006. The adoption of SAB 108 did not have a significant impact on our financial position or results of operations.
     In September 2006, FASB issued SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements.” This statement defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and expands the disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 applies to other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements. The changes to current practice resulting from the application of SFAS No 157 relate to the definition of fair value, the methods used to measure fair value and the expanded disclosures about fair value measurements. The definition focuses on the price that would be received to sell the asset or paid to transfer the liability at the measurement date (an exit price) and not the price that would be paid to acquire the asset or received to assume the liability at the measurement date (an entry price). This statement also emphasizes that fair value is a market-based measurement, not an entity specific measurement and subsequently a fair value measurement should be determined based on the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. The statement also clarifies that the market participant assumptions about risk and assumptions about the effect of a restriction on the sale or use of an asset. This statement is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, and interim periods within those fiscal years. This statement should be applied prospectively as of the beginning of the year in which this statement is initially applied. A limited form of retrospective application of SFAS No. 157 is allowed for certain financial instruments. We are currently evaluating the provisions of SFAS No. 157 to determine the potential impact, if any, the adoption of SFAS No. 157 will have on our financial position or results of operations.
     In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS Statement No. 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities. This statement permits companies and not-for-profit organizations to make a one-time election to carry eligible types of financial assets and liabilities at fair value, even if fair value measurement is not required under GAAP. SFAS 159 is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. The Company is currently evaluating the effect of the adoption of SFAS No. 159.
Critical Accounting Policies
     In the course of developing and evaluating accounting policies and procedures, we use estimates, assumptions and judgments to determine the most appropriate methods to be applied. Such processes are used in determining capitalization of costs related to real estate investments, potential impairment of real estate investments, operating cost reimbursements, and taxable income.
     Minimum rental income attributable to leases is recorded when due from tenants. Certain leases provide for additional percentage rents based on tenants’ sales volumes. These percentage rents are recognized when determinable by us. In addition, leases for certain tenants contain rent escalations and/or free rent during the first several months of the lease term; however such amounts are not material.
     Real estate assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. All costs related to planning, development and construction of buildings prior to the date they become operational, including interest and real estate taxes during the construction period, are capitalized for financial reporting purposes and recorded as property under development until construction has been completed. Subsequent to completion of construction, expenditures for property maintenance are charged to operations as incurred, while significant renovations are capitalized. Depreciation of the buildings is recorded on the straight-line method using an estimated useful life of forty years.

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     In determining the fair value of real estate investments, we consider future cash flow projections on a property by property basis, current interest rates and current market conditions of the geographical location of each property.
     Substantially all of our leases contain provisions requiring tenants to pay as additional rent a proportionate share of operating expenses (Operating Cost Reimbursements) such as real estate taxes, repairs and maintenance, insurance, etc. The related revenue from tenant billings is recognized in the same period the expense is recorded.
     We have elected to be taxed as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), commencing with our 1994 tax year. As a result, we are not subject to federal income taxes to the extent that we distribute annually at lease 90% of our taxable income to our shareholders and satisfy certain other requirements defined in the Code. Accordingly, no provision was made for federal income taxes in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.
Comparison of Year Ended December 31, 2006 to Year Ended December 31, 2005
     Minimum rental income increased $1,577,000, or 6%, to $29,963,000 in 2006, compared to $28,386,000 in 2005. The increase was the result of an increase of $629,000 from the acquisition of three properties in 2005 and one property in 2006; an increase of $760,000 from the development of three properties in 2005; and rental increases of $188,000.
     Percentage rents decreased $14,000, or 21%, to $54,000 in 2006, compared to $68,000 in 2005. The decrease was primarily the result of decreased tenant sales.
     Operating cost reimbursements decreased $236,000, or 8%, to $2,847,000 in 2006, compared to $3,083,000 in 2005. Operating cost reimbursements decreased due to the net decrease in the reimbursable property operating expenses as explained below.
     Other income remained relatively constant at $44,000 in 2006, compared to $41,000 in 2005.
     Real estate taxes increased $72,000, or 4%, to $1,821,000 in 2006 compared to $1,749,000 in 2005. The increase is the result of general assessment increases on the properties.
     Property operating expenses (shopping center maintenance, snow removal, insurance and utilities) decreased $375,000, or 19%, to $1,637,000 in 2006 compared to $2,012,000 in 2005. The decrease was the result of a decrease in shopping center maintenance expenses of ($44,000); decreased snow removal costs of ($270,000); decreased utility costs of ($7,000); and decreased insurance costs of ($54,000) in 2006 versus 2005.
     Land lease payments decreased $24,000, or 3%, to $760,000 in 2006 compared to $784,000 for 2005. The decrease is the result of our purchase of the fee interest in the land located at our Lawrence, Kansas property previously leased.
     General and administrative expenses decreased $172,000, or 4%, to $4,019,000 in 2006 compared to $4,191,000 in 2005. The decrease was the result of a decrease in compensation related expenses of ($16,000); decreased contracted services to investigate development opportunities of ($612,000); offset by an increase in general business taxes of $140,000; increased professional fees of $297,000; and increased property management related expenses of $19,000. General and administrative expenses as a percentage of rental income decreased from 14.7% for 2005 to 13.4% for 2006.
     Depreciation and amortization increased $214,000, or 5%, to $4,851,000 in 2006 compared to $4,637,000 in 2005. The increase was the result the development and acquisition of six properties in 2005 and one property in 2005.

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     Interest expense increased $466,000, or 11%, to $4,625,000 in 2006, from $4,159,000 in 2005. The increase in interest expense was the result of increased borrowings to fund the development and acquisition of six properties in 2005 and one property in 2006, as well as overall interest rate increases.
     We sold a parcel of land and recognized a gain on the sale of $6,000 in 2005. There were no sales of assets in 2006.
     The Company’s income before minority interest and discontinued operations increased $1,141,000, or 8%, to $15,194,000 in 2006, from $14,053,000 in 2005 as a result of the foregoing factors.
Comparison of Year Ended December 31, 2005 to Year Ended December 31, 2004
     Minimum rental income increased $2,420,000, or 9%, to $28,386,000 in 2005, compared to $25,966,000 in 2004. The increase was the result of an increase of $989,000 due to additional rent resulting from the acquisition of our joint venture partner’s interest in two joint venture properties in 2004; an increase of $545,000 from the acquisition of three properties in 2004 and three properties in 2005; an increase of $707,000 from the development of two properties in 2004 and three properties in 2005; an increase of $64,000 from the settlement of our rent dispute with Borders; and rental increases of $116,000.
     Percentage rents increased $12,000, or 22%, to $68,000 in 2005, compared to $56,000 in 2004. The increase was primarily the result of increased tenant sales.
     Operating cost reimbursements increased $198,000, or 7%, to $3,083,000 in 2005, compared to $2,885,000 in 2004. Operating cost reimbursements increased due to the increase in the reimbursable property operating expenses as explained below. Included in 2004 operating cost reimbursements are bad debt recoveries of $100,000 as a result of the decrease in the allowance for bad debts.
     Other income increased $8,000 to $41,000 in 2005, compared to $33,000 in 2004. The increase was the result of a leasing commission being earned in 2005. No leasing commission was earned in 2004.
     Real estate taxes increased $57,000, or 3%, to $1,749,000 in 2005 compared to $1,692,000 in 2004. The increase is the result of general assessment increases on the properties and additional real estate taxes related to the re-tenanting of a closed Kmart store.
     Property operating expenses (shopping center maintenance, snow removal, insurance and utilities) increased $221,000, or 12%, to $2,012,000 in 2005 compared to $1,791,000 in 2004. The increase was the result of an increase in shopping center maintenance expenses of $122,000; increased snow removal costs of $75,000; an increase in utility costs of $18,000; and an increase in insurance costs of $6,000 in 2005 versus 2004.
     Land lease payments increased $47,000, or 6%, to $784,000 in 2005 compared to $737,000 for 2004. The increase is the result of the scheduled lease increase at our Ventura, Florida property.
     General and administrative expenses increased $1,343,000, or 47%, to $4,191,000 in 2005 compared to $2,848,000 in 2004. The increase was the result of an increase in compensation related expenses as a result of salary increases and the addition of four employees of $654,000; increased contracted services to investigate development opportunities of $570,000 and property management related expenses of $119,000. General and administrative expenses as a percentage of rental income increased from 11.0% for 2004 to 14.7% for 2005.
     Depreciation and amortization increased $388,000, or 9%, to $4,637,000 in 2005 compared to $4,249,000 in 2004. The increase was the result the acquisition the development and acquisition of five properties in 2004, six properties in 2005 and the acquisition of the joint venture partner’s interest in two joint venture properties in 2004.
     Interest expense decreased $348,000, or 8%, to $4,159,000 in 2005, from $4,507,000 in 2004. The decrease in interest expense was the result of decreased borrowings as a result of the reduction in outstanding indebtedness from the application of the net proceeds of the 2005 Offering.

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     We sold a parcel of land and recognized a gain on the sale of $6,000 in 2005. There were no sales of assets in 2004.
     Equity in net income of unconsolidated entities totaled $217,000 in 2004. There was no income from unconsolidated entities in 2005 since we acquired the interest of our joint venture partner in our final two joint ventures in 2004.
     The Company’s income before minority interest and discontinued operations increased $721,000, or 5%, to $14,053,000 in 2005, from $13,332,000 in 2004 as a result of the foregoing factors.
Discontinued Operations
     In August 2004, we completed the sale of a single tenant property for approximately $2.2 million. The property was leased to Kmart Corporation and was located in Perrysburg, Ohio. In October 2005, we completed the sale of a shopping center for approximately $8.8 million. The shopping center was anchored by Kmart Corporation and Roundy’s Foods and was located in Iron Mountain, Michigan.
     The aggregate revenues from these properties were $864,113 and $1,125,842 for the years ending December 31, 2005 and 2004. The aggregate expenses for these properties were $377,960 and $600,391, including minority interest of $43,137 and $54,708 for the years ending December 31, 2005 and 2004.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
     Our principal demands for liquidity are distributions to our stockholders, debt service, development of new properties and future property acquisitions.
     During the quarter ended December 31, 2006, we declared a quarterly dividend of $.49 per share. The dividend was paid on January 4, 2007 to holders of record on December 22, 2006.
     As of December 31, 2006, we had total mortgage indebtedness of $48,291,247 with a weighted average interest rate of 6.64%. Future scheduled annual maturities of mortgages payable for the years ending December 31 are as follows: 2007 — $2,531,080; 2008 — $2,749,772; 2009 — $2,937,232; 2010 — $3,137,505; 2011 — $3,351,470. The mortgage debt is all fixed rate, self-amortizing debt.
     In addition, the Operating Partnership has in place a $50 million credit facility with LaSalle Bank, as the agent (Credit Facility), which is guaranteed by the Company. The Credit Facility matures in November 2009 and can be extended at our option, for two additional one year periods. Advances under the Credit Facility bear interest within a range of one-month to twelve-month LIBOR plus 100 basis points to 150 basis points or the lender’s prime rate, at our option, based on certain factors such as the ratio of our indebtedness to the capital value of our properties. The Credit Facility is used to fund property acquisitions and development activities. As of February 15, 2007, $20,500,000 was outstanding under the Credit Facility bearing a weighted average interest rate of 6.35%.
     We also have in place a $5 million line of credit (Line of Credit), which matures in November 30, 2007, and which we expect to renew for an additional 12-month period. The Line of Credit bears interest at the lender’s prime rate less 75 basis points or 150 basis points in excess of the one-month to twelve month LIBOR rate, at our option. The purpose of the Line of Credit is to provide working capital and fund land options and start-up costs associated with new projects. As of February 15, 2007, $1,700,000 was outstanding under the Line of Credit bearing a weighted average interest rate of 7.50%.

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     The following table outlines our contractual obligations (in thousands) as of December 31, 2006.
                                         
    Total   Yr 1   2-3 Yrs   4-5 Yrs   Over 5 Yrs
 
Mortgages Payable
  $ 48,291     $ 2,531     $ 5,687     $ 6,489     $ 33,584  
Notes Payable
    20,500             20,500              
Land Lease Obligations
    11,610       674       1,305       1,387       8,244  
Other Long-Term Liabilities
                             
Interest Payments on Mortgages and Notes Payable
    27,239       4,368       7,028       6,009       9,834  
 
 
                                       
Total
  $ 107,640     $ 7,573       34,520     $ 13,885     $ 51,662  
     
     We have one development project under construction that will add an additional 14,491square feet to our portfolio. The project is expected to be completed during the second quarter of 2007. Additional funding required to complete the project is estimated to be $1,628,000 and will come from the credit facility.
     We intend to meet our short-term liquidity requirements, including capital expenditures related to the leasing and improvement of the properties, through cash flow provided by operations and the Line of Credit. We believe that adequate cash flow will be available to fund our operations and pay dividends in accordance with REIT requirements. We may obtain additional funds for future development or acquisitions through other borrowings or the issuance of additional shares of common stock. We intend to incur additional debt in a manner consistent with our policy of maintaining a ratio of total debt (including construction and acquisition financing) to total market capitalization of 65% or less. We believe that these financing sources will enable us to generate funds sufficient to meet both our short-term and long-term capital needs.
     We plan to begin construction of additional pre-leased developments and may acquire additional properties, which will initially be financed by the Credit Facility and Line of Credit. We will periodically refinance short-term construction and acquisition financing with long-term debt and/or equity. Upon completion of refinancing, we intend to lower the ratio of total debt to market capitalization to 50% or less. Nevertheless, we may operate with debt levels or ratios, which are in excess of 50% for extended periods of time prior to such refinancing.
Inflation
     Our leases generally contain provisions designed to mitigate the adverse impact of inflation on net income. These provisions include clauses enabling us to pass through to our tenants certain operating costs, including real estate taxes, common area maintenance, utilities and insurance, thereby reducing our exposure to cost increases and operating expenses resulting from inflation. Certain of our leases contain clauses enabling us to receive percentage rents based on tenants’ gross sales, which generally increase as prices rise, and, in certain cases, escalation clauses, which generally increase rental rates during the term of the leases. In addition, expiring tenant leases permit us to seek increased rents upon re-lease at market rates if rents are below the then existing market rates.
Funds from Operations
     We consider Funds from Operations (FFO) to be a useful supplemental measure to evaluate our operating performance because, by excluding gains or losses on dispositions and excluding depreciation, FFO can help an investor compare the operating performance of our real estate between periods or compare such performance to that of different companies. Management uses FFO as a supplemental measure to conduct and evaluate our business because there are certain limitations associated with using GAAP net income by itself as the primary measure of our operating performance. Historical cost accounting for real estate assets in accordance with GAAP implicitly assumes that the value of real estate assets diminishes predictably over time. Since real estate values instead have historically risen or fallen with market conditions, management believes that the presentation of operating results for real estate companies that uses historical cost accounting is insufficient by itself.

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     FFO is defined by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc. (NAREIT) to mean net income computed in accordance with GAAP, excluding gains (or losses) from sales of property, plus real estate related depreciation and amortization. FFO should not be considered as an alternative to net income as the primary indicator of our operating performance or as an alternative to cash flow as a measure of liquidity. While we adhere to the NAREIT definition of FFO in making our calculation, our method of calculating FFO may not be comparable to the methods used by other REITs and accordingly may be different from similarly titled measures reported by other companies.
     The following table illustrates the calculation of FFO for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004:
                         
    Year ended December 31,  
    2006     2005     2004  
     
 
                       
Net income
  $ 13,974,168     $ 16,047,576     $ 13,123,020  
Depreciation of real estate assets
    4,745,319       4,683,807       4,379,912  
Amortization of leasing costs
    44,423       48,357       45,178  
Minority interest
    1,220,113       1,423,932       1,366,347  
Gain on sale of assets
          (2,895,532 )     (577,168 )
     
 
                       
Funds from Operations
  $ 19,984,023     $ 19,308,140     $ 18,337,289  
 
                 
Weighted average shares and OP Units outstanding
                       
Basic
    8,254,391       8,134,051       7,141,898  
 
                 
 
                       
Dilutive
    8,324,973       8,164,288       7,148,664  
 
                 
ITEM 7A   QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
     We are exposed to interest rate risk primarily through our borrowing activities. There is inherent roll over risk for borrowings as they mature and are renewed at current market rates. The extent of this risk is not quantifiable or predictable because of the variability of future interest rates and our future financing requirements.
     Our interest rate risk is monitored using a variety of techniques. The table below presents the principal payments (in thousands) and the weighted average interest rates on remaining debt, by year of expected maturity to evaluate the expected cash flows and sensitivity to interest rate changes.
                                                         
    2007   2008   2009   2010   2011   Thereafter   Total
 
                                                       
Fixed rate debt
  $ 2,531     $ 2,750     $ 2,937     $ 3,138     $ 3,351     $ 33,584     $ 48,291  
Average interest rate
    6.64 %     6.64 %     6.64 %     6.64 %     6.64 %     6.64 %      
Variable rate debt
              $ 20,500                       $ 20,500  
Average interest rate
                6.35 %                        
     The fair value (in thousands) is estimated at $48,300 and $20,500 for fixed rate debt and variable rate debt, respectively.
     The table above incorporates those exposures that exist as of December 31, 2006; it does not consider those exposures or position, which could arise after that date. As a result, our ultimate realized gain or loss with respect to interest rate fluctuations will depend on the exposures that arise during the period and interest rates.

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     The Company does not enter into financial instrument transactions for trading or other speculative purposes or to manage interest rate exposure.
     A 10% adverse change in interest rates on the portion of the Company’s debt bearing interest at variable rates would result in an increase in interest expense of approximately $135,000.
ITEM 8   FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
     The financial statements and supplementary data are listed in the Index to Financial Statements and Financial Statement Schedules appearing on Page F-1 of this Form 10-K and are included in this Form 10-K following page F-1.
ITEM 9   CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
     Effective May 9, 2006, BDO Seidman, LLP, resigned as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for the 2006 fiscal year. BDO Seidman, LLP served as the Company’s certifying accountant for the period from January 1, 2004 through the fiscal year ended December 31, 2005 and the first quarter of 2006. During the two most recent fiscal years and during the subsequent interim period through May 9, 2006, there were no disagreements between the Company and BDO Seidman, LLP on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreements, if not resolved to BDO Seidman, LLP’s satisfaction, would have caused it to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreements in connection with its report, and there were no reportable events as specified in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.
     Effective July 26, 2006, the Company’s Audit Committee of the Board of Directors engaged Virchow, Krause & Company, LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm.
ITEM 9A   CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
     Under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, we conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as of the end of the period covered by this report (the “Evaluation Date”).
     Based on this evaluation, and due to the material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting (as described below in Report of Management on Agree Realty Corporation’s Internal Control over Financial Reporting), our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that as of December 31, 2006, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed by us in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in SEC rules and forms. There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting during its most recently completed fiscal quarter that has materially affected or is reasonably likely to materially affect our internal control over financial reporting.
     Our audit committee has engaged an independent third party consultant to perform periodic reviews of our financial reporting process to help mitigate the material weakness in our internal controls described in Report of Management on Agree Realty Corporation’s Internal Control over Financial Reporting.
     Because of its inherent limitations, our disclosure controls and procedures may not prevent or detect misstatements. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issued and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected.

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Report of Management on Agree Realty Corporation’s Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
     We, as members of management of Agree Realty Corporation, are responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f). Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our assets; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management and directors; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
     Because of its inherent limitations, our internal controls and procedures may not prevent or detect misstatements. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies and procedures may deteriorate.
     The following material weakness has been identified and reported to the audit committee:
    We lack segregation of duties in the period-end financial reporting process. Our Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is the only employee with any significant knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles. The CFO is also the sole employee in charge of the general ledger (including the preparation of routine and non-routine journal entries and journal entries involving accounting estimates), the preparation of accounting reconciliations, the selection of accounting principles, and the preparation of interim and annual financial statements (including report combinations, consolidation entries and footnote disclosures) in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
     We, under the supervision of and with the participation of our management, including the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, assessed the our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, based on criteria for effective internal control over financial reporting described in “Internal Control — Integrated Framework” issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. As a result of the material weaknesses described above, management has concluded that our internal control was not effective as of December 31, 2006.
     Management’s assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting has been audited by Virchow, Krause & Company, an independent registered public accounting firm, as stated in their report that is included herein.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Shareholders, Audit Committee and Board of Directors
     We have audited management’s assessment, included in the accompanying “Report of Management on Agree Realty Corporation’s Internal Control Over Financial Reporting”, that Agree Realty Corporation (the “Company”) did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, because of the effect of the material weakness noted below, based on criteria established in “Internal Control-Integrated Framework” issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (the COSO criteria). Agree Realty Corporation’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting. Our

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responsibility is to express an opinion on management’s assessment and an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit.
     We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, evaluating management’s assessment, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
     A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
     Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
     A material weakness is a control deficiency, or combination of control deficiencies, that results in more than a remote likelihood that a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected. The following material weakness has been identified and included in management’s assessment:
    The Company lacks segregation of duties in the period-end financial reporting process. The Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) is the only employee with any significant knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles. The CFO is also the sole employee in charge of the general ledger (including the preparation of routine and non-routine journal entries and journal entries involving accounting estimates), the preparation of accounting reconciliations, the selection of accounting principles, and the preparation of interim and annual financial statements (including report combinations, consolidation entries and footnote disclosures) in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
     The material weakness was considered in determining the nature, timing, and extent of audit tests applied in our audit of the 2006 financial statements, and this report does not affect our report dated March 6, 2007 on those financial statements.
     In our opinion, management’s assessment that Agree Realty Corporation did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, is fairly stated, in all material respects, based on the COSO criteria. Also, in our opinion, because of the effect of the material weaknesses described above on the achievement of the objectives of the control criteria, Agree Realty Corporation has not maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, based on criteria established in “Internal Control — Integrated Framework” issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”)
Virchow, Krause & Company
Chicago, Illinois
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Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
     There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting identified in connection with the above-referenced evaluation by management of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during our fourth quarter ended December 31, 2006.
ITEM 9B   OTHER INFORMATION
     None
PART III
ITEM 10.   DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT
     Incorporated herein by reference to our definitive proxy statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days after the year covered by this Form 10-K with respect to our Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 7, 2007.
ITEM 11.   EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
     Incorporated herein by reference to our definitive proxy statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days after the year covered by this Form 10-K with respect to our Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 7, 2007.
ITEM 12.   SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
     The following table summarizes the equity compensation plans under which the Company’s common stock may be issued as of December 31, 2006.
                         
    Number of        
    securities to be        
    issued upon   Weighted average    
    exercise of   exercise price of   Number of
    outstanding   outstanding   securities
    options, warrants   options, warrants   remaining available
Plan category   and rights   and rights   for future issuance
 
 
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders
                918,850  
 
                       
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders
                 
 
                       
     
Total
                918,850  
     
     Additional information regarding security ownership of certain beneficial owners and management is incorporated herein by reference to our definitive proxy statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days after the year covered by this Form 10-K with respect to our Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 7, 2007.

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ITEM 13.   CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
     Incorporated herein by reference from our definitive proxy statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by this Form 10-K with respect to our Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 7, 2007.
ITEM 14.   PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTANT FEES AND SERVICES
     Incorporated herein by reference from our definitive proxy statement to be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by this Form 10-K with respect to our Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 7, 2007.
PART IV
ITEM 15.   EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SCHEDULES
  (a)   The following documents are filed as part of this Report
(1) (2) The financial statements indicated by Part II, Item 8, Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.
  (b)   Exhibits
         
3.1
      Articles of Incorporation and Articles of Amendment of the Company (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Registration Statement on Form S-11 (Registration Statement No. 33-73858, as amended (“Agree S-11”))
 
       
3.2
  *   Bylaws of the Company
 
       
4.1
      Rights Agreement by and between Agree Realty Corporation and BankBoston, N.A. as Rights Agent dated as of December 7, 1998 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Form 8-K filed on December 7, 1998)
10.1
      First Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Agree Limited Partnership, dated as of April 22, 1994, by and among the Company, Richard Agree, Edward Rosenberg and Joel Weiner (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the 1996 Form 10-K)
 
       
10.2
      Amended and Restated Registration Rights Agreement, dated July 8, 1994 by and among the Company, Richard Agree, Edward Rosenberg and Joel Weiner (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1994)
 
       
10.3
      Contribution Agreement, dated as of April 21, 1994, by and among the Company, Richard Agree, Edward Rosenberg and the co-partnerships named therein (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to the 1996 Form 10-K)
 
       
10.4
  +   Agree Realty Corporation Profit Sharing Plan (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.13 to the 1996 Form 10-K)
 
       
10.5
      Line of Credit Agreement by and among Agree Limited Partnership, the Company, the lenders parties thereto, and Michigan National Bank as Agent (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.10 to the 1995 Form 10-K)

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10.6
      First amendment to $5 million business loan agreement dated September 21, 1997 between Agree Limited Partnership and Michigan National Bank (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the September 1997 Form 10-Q)
 
       
10.7
      Second amendment to amended and restated $5 million business Loan agreement dated October 19, 1998 between Agree Limited Partnership and Michigan National Bank (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.17 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998)
 
       
10.8
  +   Employment Agreement, dated July 1, 2004, by and between the Company and Richard Agree (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ending June 30, 2004 (June 2004 Form 10-Q))
 
       
10.9
  +   Employment Agreement, dated July 1, 2004, by and between the Company, and Kenneth R. Howe (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.2 to the June 2004 Form 10-Q)
 
       
10.10
      Third amendment to amended and restated $5 million business Loan agreement dated December 19, 1999 between Agree Limited Partnership and Michigan National Bank (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.17 to the 1999 Form 10-K)
 
       
10.11
      Trust Mortgage dated as of June 27, 1999 from Agree Facility No. 1, L.L.C. as Grantor to Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.4 to the June 1999 Form 10-Q)
 
       
10.12
  +   Employment Agreement, dated January 10, 2000, by and between the Company, and David J. Prueter (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2000
 
       
10.13
      Fourth amendment to amended and restated $5 million business Loan agreement dated February 19, 2001 between Agree Limited Partnership and Michigan National Bank (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.23 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2000 (the “2000 Form 10-K”))
 
       
10.14
      Mortgage dated as of December 20, 2001, by Agree Limited Partnership to and in favor of Nationwide Life Insurance Company (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.25 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 (the “2001 from 10-K))
 
       
10.15
      Fifth amendment to amended and restated $5 million business Loan agreement dated April 30, 2002 between Agree Limited Partnership and Standard Federal Bank (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2002 (the “June 2002 Form 10-Q”))
 
       
10.16
      Project Loan Agreement dated as of April 30, 2002 between Royal Identify Company (together with its successors and assigns) and Lawrence Store No. 203 L.L.C. (together with its permitted successors and assigns) (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.2 to the June 2002 Form 10-Q)
 
       
10.17
      Project Loan Agreement dated as of November 25, 2002 between Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Owner Trustee, and Indianapolis Store No. 16 L.L.C. (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.28 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2002 (the “2002 Form 10-K”))
 
       
10.18
      Project Loan Agreement dated as of January 30, 2003 between Modern Woodman of America and Phoenix Drive L.L.C. (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the March 31, 2003 Form 10-Q)

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10.19
      Sixth amendment to amended and restated $5 million business loan agreement dated April 30, 2003, between Agree Limited Partnership and Standard Federal Bank (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the June 30, 2003 Form 10-Q)
 
       
10.20
      Amended and Restated $50 million Line of Credit agreement dated November 5, 2003, among Agree Realty Corporation, Standard Federal Bank and Bank One. (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the Sep 30, 2003 Form 10-Q)
 
       
10.21
      Indemnity Deed of Trust and Security Agreement dated October 31, 2003, by Agree — Columbia Crossing Project, L.L.C., and Nationwide Life Insurance Company (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.33 to the December 31, 2003 Form 10-K)
 
       
10.22
      Indemnity Deed of Trust and Security Agreement dated October 31, 2003, by Agree-Milestone Center Project, L.L.C., and Nationwide Life Insurance Company (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.34 to the December 31, 2003 Form 10-K)
 
       
10.23
      Mortgage and Security Agreement dated October 31, 2003, by Oklahoma Store No. 151, L.L.C. and Nationwide Life Insurance Company (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.35 to the December 31, 2003 From 10-K)
 
       
10.24
      Deed of Trust and Security Agreement dated October 31, 2003, by Omaha Store No. 166, L.L.C. and Nationwide Life Insurance Company (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.36 to the December 31, 2003 Form 10-K)
 
       
10.25
  +   The Company’s 2005 Equity Incentive Plan
 
       
10.26
  +   Employment Agreement, dated August 1, 2005, by and between the Company, and Charles Carter (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.1 to the September 2005 Form 10-Q)
 
       
10.27
  +   Employment Agreement, dated September 1, 2005, by and between the Company, and Vicky Umphryes (incorporated by reference to exhibit 10.2 to the September 2005 Form 10-Q)
 
       
10.28
  *   Third Amended and Restated Line of Credit Agreement by and between the Company, and LaSalle Bank Midwest National Association Individually and as Agent for the Lenders and together with Fifth Third Bank
 
       
10.29
  *   Amendment No. 10 to Business Loan Agreement. Amendment No. 2 to Ninth Amended and Restated Promissory Note ($5 million Line of Credit)
 
       
21.1
  *   Subsidiaries of Agree Realty Corporation
 
       
23.1
  *   Consent of Virchow, Krause & Company, LLP
 
       
23.2
  *   Consent of BDO Seidman, LLP
 
       
31.1
  *   Certification pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Richard Agree, Chief Executive Officer
 
       
31.2
  *   Certification pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Kenneth R. Howe, Chief Financial Officer
         
32.1
  *   Certification pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Richard Agree, Chief Executive Officer
 
       
32.2
  *   Certification pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Kenneth R. Howe, Chief Financial Officer
 
*   Filed herewith
 
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SIGNATURES
     PURSUANT to the requirements of Section 13 or 15 (d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
         
  AGREE REALTY CORPORATION
 
 
  By:   /s/ Richard Agree    
    Name:   Richard Agree   
    President and Chairman of the Board of Directors
Date: March 14, 2007
 
 
     PURSUANT to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities indicated on the 14th day of March 2007.
                     
By:
  /s/ Richard Agree
 
Richard Agree
President and Chairman of the Board of Directors
(Principal Executive Officer)
       By:   /s/ Farris G. Kalil
 
Farris G. Kalil
Director
    
 
          By:   /s/ Michael Rotchford    
 
                   
 
              Michael Rotchford
Director
   
 
                   
By:
  /s/ Kenneth R. Howe
 
Kenneth R. Howe
Vice President, Finance and Secretary (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)
      By:   /s/ Ellis G. Wachs
 
Ellis G. Wachs
Director
   
 
                   
 
          By:   /s/ Gene Silverman
 
Gene Silverman
Director
   
 
                   
 
          By:   /s/ Leon M. Schurgin    
 
                   
 
              Leon M. Schurgin
Director
   

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Financial Statements
       
 
       
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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Shareholders, Audit Committee and Board of Directors
Agree Realty Corporation
Farmington Hills, Michigan
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Agree Realty Corporation (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2006 and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for year then ended. We have also audited the schedule listed in the accompanying index. These consolidated financial statements and the schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and the schedule are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements and the schedule. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management as well as evaluating the overall consolidated financial statement and schedule presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Agree Realty Corporation at December 31, 2006, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
Also, in our opinion, the schedule presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.
We have also audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, the effectiveness of Agree Realty Corporation’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2006, based on criteria established in “Internal Control — Integrated Framework”, issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) and our report dated March 6, 2007 expressed an unqualified opinion on management’s assessment of, and an adverse opinion on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting.
/s/ Virchow, Krause & Company, LLP
Chicago, Illinois
March 6, 2007

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Owners of
Agree Realty Corporation
Farmington Hills, Michigan
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Agree Realty Corporation (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2005 and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004. We have also audited the information included in the notes to the schedule listed in the accompanying index for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004. These financial statements and the schedule are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements and the schedule based on our audits.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements and the schedule are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements and the schedule, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements and the schedule. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Agree Realty Corporation at December 31, 2005, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.
Also, in our opinion, the notes to the schedule for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004 presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein.
BDO SEIDMAN, LLP
Troy, Michigan
March 15, 2006

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Agree Realty Corporation
     Consolidated Balance Sheets
                 
December 31,   2006     2005  
 
 
               
Assets
               
 
               
Real Estate Investments (Notes 3 and 4)
               
Land
  $ 77,536,458     $ 73,035,167  
Buildings
    189,117,421       185,032,185  
Property under development
    1,593,828       264,913  
 
 
               
 
    268,247,707       258,332,265  
Less accumulated depreciation
    (48,352,753 )     (43,771,581 )
 
 
               
Net Real Estate Investments
    219,894,954       214,560,684  
 
               
Cash and Cash Equivalents
    463,730       5,714,540  
 
               
Accounts Receivable — Tenants, net of allowance of $20,000 for possible losses at both December 31, 2006 and 2005
    732,141       730,606  
 
               
Unamortized Deferred Expenses
               
Financing costs, net of accumulated amortization of $4,482,272 and $4,344,244 at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively
    1,019,905       852,036  
Leasing costs, net of accumulated amortization of $665,811 and $621,388 at December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively
    421,229       389,354  
 
               
Other Assets
    982,640       1,212,387  
 
 
               
 
  $ 223,514,599     $ 223,459,607  
 
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

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Agree Realty Corporation
     Consolidated Balance Sheets
                 
December 31,   2006     2005  
 
 
               
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
               
 
               
Mortgages Payable (Note 3)
  $ 48,291,247     $ 50,721,920  
 
               
Notes Payable (Note 4)
    20,500,000       17,500,000  
 
               
Dividends and Distributions Payable (Note 5)
    4,111,807       4,089,243  
 
               
Deferred Revenue (Note 13)
    12,103,954       12,793,504  
 
               
Accrued Interest Payable
    239,318       282,080  
 
               
Accounts Payable
               
Capital expenditures
    766,378       112,687  
Operating
    1,140,617       1,300,416  
 
               
Tenant Deposits
    64,085       54,062  
 
 
               
Total Liabilities
    87,217,406       86,853,912  
 
 
               
Minority Interest (Note 6)
    5,878,593       5,978,635  
 
 
               
Stockholders’ Equity (Note 5)
               
Common stock, $.0001 par value; 20,000,000 shares authorized; 7,750,496 and 7,706,846 shares issued and outstanding
    775       772  
Additional paid-in capital
    141,276,763       143,138,497  
Deficit
    (10,858,938 )     (9,717,471 )
 
 
    130,418,600       133,421,798  
Less: unearned compensation — restricted stock (Note 8)
          (2,794,738 )
 
 
               
Total Stockholders’ Equity
    130,418,600       130,627,060  
 
 
               
 
  $ 223,514,599     $ 223,459,607  
 
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

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Agree Realty Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Income
                         
Year Ended December 31,   2006     2005     2004  
 
 
                       
Revenues
                       
Minimum rents
  $ 29,963,363     $ 28,386,580     $ 25,966,256  
Percentage rents
    53,550       68,071       55,995  
Operating cost reimbursement
    2,846,775       3,082,831       2,885,132  
Other income
    43,938       41,415       32,716  
 
 
                       
Total Revenues
    32,907,626       31,578,897       28,940,099  
 
 
Operating Expenses
                       
Real estate taxes
    1,821,372       1,749,005       1,692,176  
Property operating expenses
    1,637,192       2,011,688       1,790,773  
Land lease payments
    759,831       784,027       737,460  
General and administrative
    4,018,836       4,191,279       2,848,414  
Depreciation and amortization
    4,851,343       4,637,325       4,249,361  
 
 
                       
Total Operating Expenses
    13,088,574       13,373,324       11,318,184  
 
 
                       
Income From Continuing Operations
    19,819,052       18,205,573       17,621,915  
 
 
                       
Other Income (Expense)
                       
Interest expense, net
    (4,624,771 )     (4,158,887 )     (4,506,712 )
Gain on sale of asset
          6,397        
Equity in net income of unconsolidated entities
                216,837  
 
 
Total Other Expense
    (4,624,771 )     (4,152,490 )     (4,289,875 )
 
 
Income Before Minority Interest and Discontinued Operations
    15,194,281       14,053,083       13,332,040  
 
Minority Interest
    1,220,113       1,145,330       1,257,212  
 
 
Income Before Discontinued Operations
    13,974,168       12,907,753       12,074,828  
 
Gain on Sale of Asset From Discontinued Operations,
                       
net of minority interest of $235,465 and $54,427
          2,653,670       522,741  
 
Income From Discontinued Operations, net of minority
                       
interest of $43,137 and $54,708
          486,153       525,451  
 
 
Net Income
  $ 13,974,168     $ 16,047,576     $ 13,123,020  
 
 
Basic Earnings Per Share (Note 2)
                       
Income before discontinued operations
  $ 1.84     $ 1.73     $ 1.87  
Discontinued operations
          .42       .16  
 
Basic Earnings Per Share
  $ 1.84     $ 2.15     $ 2.03  
 
Dilutive Earnings Per Share (Note 2)
                       
Income before discontinued operations
  $ 1.83     $ 1.72     $ 1.87  
Discontinued operations
          .42       .16  
 
Dilutive Earnings Per Share
  $ 1.83     $ 2.14     $ 2.03  
 
 
Dividend Declared Per Common Share
  $ 1.96     $ 1.96     $ 1.95  
 
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

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Agree Realty Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Stockholder’s Equity
                                         
                    Additional             Unearned  
    Common Stock     Paid-In             Compensation -  
    Shares     Amount     Capital     Deficit     Restricted Stock  
 
                                       
Balance, January 1, 2004
    6,434,345     $ 643     $ 108,251,813     $ (11,227,636 )   $ (837,384 )
 
                                       
Issuance of shares under the Equity Incentive Plan
    59,501       6       1,517,832             (950,925 )
Shares redeemed under the Equity Incentive Plan
    (6,000 )           (169,680 )            
Vesting of restricted stock
                            546,345  
Dividends declared, $1.95 per share
                      (12,622,047 )      
Net income
                      13,123,020        
 
 
                                       
Balance, December 31, 2004
    6,487,846       649       109,599,965       (10,726,663 )     (1,241,964 )
 
                                       
Issuance of common stock, net of issuance costs
    1,150,000       115       31,456,414              
Issuance of shares under the Equity Incentive Plan
    73,000       8       2,208,878             (2,208,886 )
Shares redeemed under the Equity Incentive Plan
    (4,000 )           (126,760 )            
Vesting of restricted stock
                            656,112  
Dividends declared, $1.96 per share
                      (15,038,384 )      
Net income
                      16,047,576        
 
 
                                       
Balance, December 31, 2005
    7,706,846       772       143,138,497       (9,717,471 )     (2,794,738 )
 
                                       
Reclassify unearned compensation
                (2,794,738 )           2,794,738  
Issuance of shares under the Equity Incentive Plan
    43,650       3       95,547              
Vesting of restricted stock
                837,457              
Dividends declared, $1.96 per share
                      (15,115,635 )      
Net income
                      13,974,168        
 
 
                                       
Balance, December 31, 2006
    7,750,496     $ 775     $ 141,276,763     $ (10,858,938 )   $  
 
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Agree Realty Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
                         
Year Ended December 31,   2006     2005     2004  
 
 
                       
Cash Flows From Operating Activities
                       
Net income
  $ 13,974,168     $ 16,047,576     $ 13,123,020  
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities
                       
Depreciation
    4,799,370       4,738,405       4,418,177  
Amortization
    190,001       207,040       204,986  
Stock-based compensation
    837,457       656,112       546,345  
Gain on sale of assets
          (2,895,532 )     (577,168 )
Equity in net income of unconsolidated entities
                (216,837 )
Minority interests
    1,220,113       1,423,932       1,366,347  
Decrease (increase) in accounts receivable
    (1,535 )     (103,308 )     (4,961 )
Decrease (increase) in other assets
    160,596       420,581       (431,446 )
Increase (decrease) in accounts payable
    (159,799 )     (141,459 )     33,605  
Decrease in deferred revenue
    (689,550 )     (689,550 )     (307,936 )
Increase (decrease) in accrued interest
    (42,762 )     (16,035 )     131,016  
Increase (decrease) in tenant deposits
    10,023       (6,927 )     13,890  
 
 
                       
Net Cash Provided By Operating Activities
    20,298,082       19,640,835       18,299,038  
 
 
                       
Cash Flows From Investing Activities
                       
Acquisition of real estate investments (including capitalized interest of $198,000 in 2006, $437,000 in 2005 and $305,000 in 2004)
    (9,305,661 )     (15,121,825 )     (21,711,356 )
Distributions from unconsolidated entities
                216,837  
Decrease in restricted cash
                4,309,914  
Net proceeds from sale of assets, less amounts held in escrow
          9,576,974       2,046,493  
 
 
                       
Net Cash Used In Investing Activities
    (9,305,661 )     (5,544,851 )     (15,138,112 )
 
See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements.

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Agree Realty Corporation
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows
                         
Year Ended December 31,   2006     2005     2004  
 
 
                       
Cash Flows From Financing Activities
                       
Line-of-credit net borrowings (payments)
    3,000,000       (21,700,000 )     12,700,000  
Dividends and limited partners’ distributions paid
    (16,413,226 )     (15,778,376 )     (13,873,516 )
Payments of mortgages payable
    (2,430,673 )     (2,247,255 )     (2,158,689 )
Payments of payables for capital expenditures
    (112,687 )     (393,711 )     (361,769 )
Redemption of restricted stock
          (126,760 )     (169,680 )
Payments for financing costs
    (305,897 )            
Payments of leasing costs
    (76,298 )     (179,395 )     (72,150 )
Exercise of stock options
    95,550             358,312  
Net proceeds from the issuance of common stock
          31,456,529        
 
 
                       
Net Cash Used In Financing Activities
    (16,243,231 )     (8,968,968 )     (3,577,492 )
 
 
                       
Net Increase (Decrease) In Cash and Cash Equivalents
    (5,250,810 )     5,127,016       (416,566 )
 
                       
Cash and Cash Equivalents, beginning of year
    5,714,540       587,524       1,004,090  
 
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Cash and Cash Equivalents, end of year
  $ 463,730     $ 5,714,540     $ 587,524  
 
 
                       
Supplemental Disclosure of Cash Flow Information
                       
Cash paid for interest (net of amounts capitalized)
  $ 4,530,740     $ 3,984,010     $ 4,243,983  
 
 
                       
Supplemental Disclosure of Non-Cash Transactions
                       
 
                       
Dividends and limited partners’ distributions Declared and unpaid
  $ 4,111,807     $ 4,089,243     $ 3,509,083  
Shares issued under Stock Incentive Plan
  $ 1,310,766     $ 2,208,886     $ 1,159,518  
Real estate investments financed with accounts payable
  $ 766,378     $ 112,687     $ 393,711  
Real estate investments acquired from joint ventures
  $     $     $ 13,790,990  
 
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Agree Realty Corporation
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
1. The Company
  Agree Realty Corporation (the Company) is a self-administered, self-managed real estate investment trust (REIT), which develops, acquires, owns and operates properties, which are primarily leased to national and regional retail companies under net leases. At December 31, 2006 the Company’s properties are comprised of forty-eight single tenant retail facilities and twelve shopping centers located in fifteen states. At December 31, 2006, approximately 96% of the Company’s annual base rental revenues will be received from national and regional tenants under long-term leases, including approximately 32% from Borders, Inc., 22% from Walgreen Co., and 13% from Kmart Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation
 
   
2. Summary of Significant     Accounting Policies
  Principles of Consolidation

The consolidated financial statements of Agree Realty Corporation include the accounts of the Company, its majority-owned partnership, Agree Limited Partnership (the Operating Partnership), and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. The Company controlled, as the sole general partner, 92.00% and 91.96% of the Operating Partnership as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively. All material intercompany accounts and transactions are eliminated.
 
   
 
  Use of Estimates
 
   
 
  The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of (1) assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements, and (2) revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
 
   
 
  Fair Values of Financial Instruments
 
   
 
  The carrying amounts of the Company’s financial instruments, which consist of cash, cash equivalents, receivables, and accounts payable approximate their fair values. The fair value of notes and mortgages payable approximates their carrying amount because the terms are equivalent to borrowing notes currently available to the Company with similar terms and maturities

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Agree Realty Corporation
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
 
  Investments in Real Estate — Carrying Value of Assets
 
   
 
  Real estate assets are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation. All costs related to planning, development and construction of buildings prior to the date they become operational, including interest and real estate taxes during the construction period, are capitalized for financial reporting purposes and recorded as “Property under development” until construction has been completed.
 
   
 
  The Company allocates the cost of an acquisition based upon the estimated fair value of the net assets acquired. The Company also estimates the fair value of intangibles related to its acquisitions. The valuation of the fair value of the intangibles primarily involves estimates related to market conditions, probability of lease renewals and the current market value of leases.
 
   
 
  Subsequent to completion of construction, expenditures for property maintenance are charged to operations as incurred, while significant renovations are capitalized. Depreciation of the buildings is recorded on the straight-line method using an estimated useful life of forty years.
 
   
 
  Depreciation and Amortization
 
   
 
  Depreciation expense is computed using a straight-line method and estimated useful lives for buildings and improvements of 40 years and equipment and fixtures of five to ten years.
 
   
 
  Investment in Real Estate — Impairment evaluation
 
   
 
  Real estate investments are evaluated for impairment when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the assets may not be recoverable through the estimated undiscounted future cash flows from the use of these assets. When any such impairment exists, the related assets will be written down to fair value. No impairment loss recognition has been required through December 31, 2006.

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Agree Realty Corporation
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
 
  Cash and Cash Equivalents
 
   
 
  The Company considers all highly liquid investments with a maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents. The Company maintains its cash and cash equivalents at a financial institution. The account balances periodically exceed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) insurance coverage, and as a result, there is a concentration of credit risk related to amounts on deposit in excess of FDIC insurance coverage. The Company believes the risk is not significant, as the Company does not anticipate the financial institutions’ nonperformance.
 
   
 
  Accounts Receivable — Tenants
 
   
 
  Accounts receivable from tenants are unsecured and reflect primarily reimbursement of specified common area expenses. The Company determines its allowance for uncollectible accounts based on historical trends, existing economic conditions, and known financial position of its tenants. Tenant accounts receivable are written-off by the Company in the year when receipt is determined to be remote.
 
   
 
  Unamortized Deferred Expenses
 
   
 
  Deferred expenses are stated net of total accumulated amortization. The nature and treatment of these capitalized costs are as follows: (1) financing costs, consisting of expenditures incurred to obtain long-term financing, are being amortized using the interest method over the term of the related loan, and (2) leasing costs, which are amortized on a straight-line basis over the term of the related lease. The Company incurred expenses of $182,451, $199,490 and $197,436 for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively.
 
   
 
  Other Assets
 
   
 
  The Company records prepaid expenses, deposits, vehicles, furniture and fixtures, leasehold improvements, acquisition advances and miscellaneous receivables as other assets in the accompanying balance sheets.
 
   
 
  Accounts Payable — Capital Expenditures
 
   
 
  Included in accounts payable are amounts related to the construction of buildings. Due to the nature of these expenditures, they are reflected in the statements of cash flows as a financing activity.

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Agree Realty Corporation
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
 
  Minority Interest
 
   
 
  This amount represents the limited partners’ interest (OP Units) of 8.00% and 8.04% (convertible into 637,547 shares) in the Operating Partnership as of December 31, 2006 and 2005, respectively.
 
   
 
  Revenue Recognition
 
   
 
  Minimum rental income attributable to leases is recorded when due from tenants. Certain leases provide for additional percentage rents based on tenants’ sales volume. These percentage rents are recognized when determinable by the Company. In addition, leases for certain tenants contain rent escalations and/or free rent during the first several months of the lease term; however, such amounts are not material.
 
   
 
  Taxes Collected and Remitted to Governmental Authorities
 
   
 
  The Company reports taxes, collected from tenants that are to be remitted to governmental authorities, on a net basis and therefore does not include the taxes in revenue.
 
   
 
  Operating Cost Reimbursement
 
   
 
  Substantially all of the Company’s leases contain provisions requiring tenants to pay as additional rent a proportionate share of operating expenses such as real estate taxes, repairs and maintenance, insurance, etc. The related revenue from tenant billings is recognized as operating cost reimbursement in the same period the expense is recorded.
 
   
 
  Income Taxes
 
   
 
  The Company elected to be taxed as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the Code), and began operating as such on April 22, 1994. As a result, the Company is not subject to federal income taxes to the extent that it distributes annually at least 90% of its taxable income to its stockholders and satisfies certain other requirements defined in the Code. Accordingly, no provision was made for federal income taxes in the accompanying consolidated financial statements.

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Agree Realty Corporation
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
 
  Stock Options
 
   
 
  The Company has elected to adopt the recognition provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (SFAS) No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation (SFAS 123) using the prospective method beginning January 1, 2003. SFAS 123 establishes a fair value based method of accounting for stock-based compensation plans under which employees receive shares of stock or other equity instruments of the Company or the Company incurs liabilities to employees in amounts based on the price of its stock. No stock options were granted during 2006, 2005 or 2004 and there was no expense for stock options that would be required.
 
   
 
  Dividends
 
   
 
  The Company declared dividends of $1.96, $1.96 and $1.95 per share during the years ended December 31, 2006, 2005, and 2004; the dividends have been reflected for federal income tax purposes as follows:
                         
December 31,   2006   2005   2004
 
 
                       
Ordinary income
  $ 1.80     $ 1.76     $ 1.95  
Return of capital
    .16       .20        
 
 
                       
Total
  $ 1.96     $ 1.96     $ 1.95  
 
     
 
  The aggregate federal income tax basis of Real Estate Investments is approximately $22.3 million less than the financial statement basis.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
 
  Discontinued Operations
 
   
 
  In August 2004, the Company completed the sale of a single tenant property for approximately $2.2 million and recognized a gain of approximately $523,000, net of minority interest. The property was leased to Kmart Corporation and was located in Perrysburg, Ohio. In November 2005 the Company completed the sale of a shopping center for approximately $8.8 million and recognized a gain of approximately $2,654,000, net of minority interest. The shopping center was anchored by Kmart Corporation and Roundy’s Foods and was located in Iron Mountain, Michigan. The gain on sale and results of operations for these properties are presented as discontinued operations in the Company’s consolidated statements of income.
 
   
 
  The revenues from the properties were $864,113, and $1,125,842 for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively. The expenses for the properties were $377,960 and $600,391, including minority interest charges of $43,137 and $54,708, for the years ended December 31, 2005 and 2004, respectively.

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Agree Realty Corporation
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
 
  Earnings Per Share
 
   
 
  Earnings per share have been computed by dividing the net income by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding. The per-share amounts reflected in the consolidated statements of income are presented in accordance with SFAS No. 128 Earnings per Share. Diluted earnings per share is computed by dividing net income by the weighted average common and potential dilutive common shares outstanding in accordance with the treasury stock method.
 
   
 
  The following is a reconciliation of the denominator of the basic net earnings per common share computation to the denominator of the diluted net earnings per common share computation for each of the periods presented:
                         
Year Ended December 31,   2006     2005     2004  
 
 
                       
Weighted Average number of common shares outstanding
    7,711,964       7,460,504       6,468,351  
Unvested restricted stock
    131,120              
     
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding used in basic earnings per share
    7,580,844       7,460,504       6,468,351  
     
 
                       
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding used in basic earnings per share
    7,580,844       7,460,504       6,468,351  
Effect of dilutive securities
                       
Restricted stock
    70,582       29,842        
Common stock options
          395       6,766  
     
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding used in diluted earnings per share
    7,651,426       7,490,741       6,475,117  
 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
 
  Stock Based Compensation
 
   
 
  On January 1, 2006, we adopted the provisions of SFAS No. 123R, Shares-Based Payments (SFAS 123R), under the modified prospective method. Under the modified prospective method, compensation cost is recognized for all awards, granted after the adoption of this standard and for the unvested portion of previously granted awards that are outstanding as of that date. In accordance with SFAS 123R, we will estimate fair vale of restricted stock and stock option grants at the date of grant and amortize those amounts into expense on a straight-line basis or amount vested, if greater, over the appropriate vesting period. No stock options were issued or vested during 2006, so SFAS 123R did not have any impact on net income.
 
   
 
  Recent Accounting Pronouncements
 
   
 
  In June 2006, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued an Emerging Issues Task force (EITF) Consensus in Issue 06-03, “How Taxes Collected from Customers and Remitted to Governmental Authorities Should Be Presented in the Income Statement (That Is, Gross versus Net Presentation).” The consensus includes any tax assessed by a governmental authority that is directly imposed on a revenue-producing transaction between a seller and a customer and may include, but is not limited to, sales, use, value added and some exercise taxes. The consensus states that the presentation of taxes within the scope on either a gross (included in revenues and costs) or a net (excluded from revenues) basis is an accounting policy decision that should be disclosed pursuant to Accounting Principles Board (“APB”) Opinion No. 22 “Disclosure of Accounting Policies.” In addition, for any such taxes that are reported on a gross basis, a company should disclose the amounts of those taxes in interim and annual financial statements for each period for which an income statement is presented if those amounts are significant. The disclosure of those taxes can be done on an aggregate basis. The consensus should be applied to financial reports for interim and annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2006. The Company reports taxes collected from customers on a net basis. The adoption of this consensus will not have a material impact on our financial position or results of operations.
 
   
 
  In June 2006, the FASB issued FASB Interpretation No. 48 (FIN 48), “Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes — an interpretation of

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Agree Realty Corporation
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
 
  FASB Statement No. 109.” FIN 48 clarifies the accounting for uncertainty in income taxes recognized in accordance with SFAS No. 109, “Accounting for Income Taxes.” This interpretation prescribes a recognition threshold and measurement attribute for the financial statement recognition and measurement of a tax position taken or expected to be taken in a tax return. It also provides guidance on de-recognition, classification, interest and penalties, accounting in interim periods, disclosure and transition. The Company will be required to adopt FIN 48 as of January 1, 2007, with any cumulative effect of the change in accounting principles recorded as an adjustment to opening retained earnings. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of its adoption of FIN 48 and has not yet determined the effect on its earnings or financial position.
 
   
 
  In September 2006, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) staff issued Staff Accounting Bulletin (SAB) Topic 1N “Financial Statements — Considering the Effects of Prior Year Misstatements when Quantifying Misstatements in Current Year Financial Statements” (SAB 108). SAB 108 provides guidance on how prior year misstatements should be taken into consideration when quantifying misstatements in current year financial statements for purposes of determining whether the current year’s financial statements are materially misstated. SAB 108 references both the “iron curtain” and “rollover” approaches to quantifying a current year misstatement for purposes of determining the materiality. The iron curtain approach focuses on how the current year’s balance sheet would be affected in correcting a misstatement without considering the year(s) in which the misstatement originated. The rollover approach focuses on the amount of the misstatement that originated in the current year’s income statement. SAB 108 states that registrants must quantify the impact of correcting all misstatements, including both the carryover and reversing affects of prior year misstatements, on the current year financial statements. Both the iron curtain approach and rollover approach should be used in assessing the materiality of a current year misstatement. SAB 108 provides that once a current year misstatement has been quantified, the guidance in SAB Topic 1N, “Financial Statements — Materiality,” (SAB 99) should be applied to determine whether the misstatement is material and should result in an adjustment to the financial statements. SAB 108 is effective for fiscal years ending after November 15, 2006. The adoption of SAB 108 did not have a significant impact on our

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
 
  financial position or results of operations.
 
   
 
  In September 2006, FASB issued SFAS No. 157, “Fair Value Measurements.” This statement defines fair value, establishes a framework for measuring fair value in generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and expands the disclosures about fair value measurements. SFAS No. 157 applies to other accounting pronouncements that require or permit fair value measurements. The changes to current practice resulting from the application of SFAS No 157 relate to the definition of fair value, the methods used to measure fair value and the expanded disclosures about fair value measurements. The definition focuses on the price that would be received to sell the asset or paid to transfer the liability at the measurement date (an exit price) and not the price that would be paid to acquire the asset or received to assume the liability at the measurement date (an entry price). This statement also emphasizes that fair value is a market-based measurement, not an entity specific measurement and subsequently a fair value measurement should be determined based on the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. The statement also clarifies that the market participant assumptions about risk and assumptions about the effect of a restriction on the sale or use of an asset. This statement is effective for financial statements issued for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007, and interim periods within those fiscal years. This statement should be applied prospectively as of the beginning of the year in which this statement is initially applied. A limited form of retrospective application of SFAS No. 157 is allowed for certain financial instruments. We are currently evaluating the provisions of SFAS No. 157 to determine the potential impact, if any, the adoption of SFAS No. 157 will have on our financial position or results of operations.
 
   
 
  In February 2007, the FASB issued SFAS Statement No. 159, The Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities. This statement permits companies and not-for-profit organizations to make a one-time election to carry eligible types of financial assets and liabilities at fair value, even if fair value measurement is not required under GAAP. SFAS 159 is effective for fiscal years beginning after November 15, 2007. The Company is currently evaluating the effect of the adoption of SFAS No. 159.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
3. Mortgages Payable
  Mortgages payable consisted of the following:
                 
December 31,   2006     2005  
 
 
               
Note payable in monthly installments of $153,838 including interest at 6.90% per annum, with the final monthly payment due January 2020; collateralized by related real estate and tenants’ leases
  $ 15,878,633     $ 16,601,748  
 
               
Note payable in monthly installments of $128,205 including interest at 6.20% per annum, with a final monthly payment due November 2018; collateralized by related real estate and tenants’ leases
    12,877,086       13,592,901  
 
               
Note payable in monthly installments of $99,598 including interest at 6.63% per annum, with the final monthly payment due February 2017; collateralized by related real estate and tenants’ leases
    8,822,558       9,411,438  
 
               
Note payable in monthly installments of $57,403 including interest at 6.50% per annum, with the final monthly payment due February 2023; collateralized by related real estate and tenant lease
    6,881,562       7,114,801  

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
                 
December 31,   2006     2005  
 
 
               
Note payable in monthly installments of $25,631 including interest at 7.50% per annum, with the final monthly payment due May 2022; collateralized by related real estate and tenant lease
    2,805,919       2,899,217  
 
               
Note payable in monthly installments of $12,453 including interest at 6.95% per annum, with the final monthly payment due December 2017; collateralized by related real estate and tenant lease
    1,025,489       1,101,815  
 
 
               
Total
  $ 48,291,247     $ 50,721,920  
 
     
 
  Future scheduled annual maturities of mortgages payable for years ending December 31 are as follows: 2007 — $2,531,080; 2008 — $2,749,772; 2009 - $2,937,232; 2010 — $3,137,505; 2011 — $3,351,470 and $33,584,188 thereafter.

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Agree Realty Corporation
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
4. Notes Payable
  The Operating Partnership has in place a $50 million line-of-credit agreement, which is guaranteed by the Company up to the maximum amount and for the full term. The agreement expires in November 2009 and can be extended, solely at the option of the Operating Partnership, for two additional one year periods. Advances under the Credit Facility bear interest within a range of one-month to twelve-month LIBOR plus 100 basis points to 150 basis points or the bank’s prime rate, at the option of the Company, based on certain factors such as the ratio of our indebtedness to the capital value of our properties.. In addition, we must maintain certain leverage and debt service coverage ratios, maintain our adjusted net worth at a minimum level, maintain our tax status as a REIT, and distribute no more than 95% of our adjusted funds from operations. The facility also requires that we pay a non-use fee of .125% of the unfunded balance if our outstanding balance is greater than $25 million or .20% of the unfunded balance if our outstanding balance is less than $25 million. The Credit Facility is used to fund property acquisitions and development activities. At December 31, 2006 and 2005, $20,500,000 and $17,000,000, respectively, was outstanding under this facility with a weighted average interest rate of 6.35% and 6.35%, respectively. The Credit Facility’s covenants were all complied with through December 31, 2006.
 
   
 
  In addition, the Company maintains a $5,000,000 line-of-credit agreement. Monthly interest payments are required, either at the bank’s prime rate less 75 basis points, or 150 basis points in excess of the one-month to twelve month LIBOR rate, at the option of the Company. At December 31, 2006 and 2005, $-0- and $500,000, respectively, was outstanding under this agreement with a weighted average interest rate of 6.75%.
 
   
5. Dividends and
    Distributions Payable
  On December 4, 2006 the Company declared a dividend of $.49 per share for the quarter ended December 31, 2006. The holders of OP Units were entitled to an equal distribution per OP Unit held as of December 31, 2006. The dividends and distributions payable are recorded as liabilities in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2006. The dividend has been reflected as a reduction of stockholders’ equity and the distribution has been reflected as a reduction of the limited partners’ minority interest. These amounts were paid on January 4, 2007.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
6. Minority Interest
  The following summarizes the changes in minority interest since January 1, 2004:
         
Minority Interest at January 1, 2004
  $ 5,821,739  
Minority interests’ share of income for the year
    1,366,347  
Distributions for the year
    (1,313,231 )
 
 
       
Minority Interest at December 31, 2004
    5,874,855  
Minority interests’ share of income for the year
    1,423,932  
Distributions for the year
    (1,320,152 )
 
 
       
Minority Interest at December 31, 2005
    5,978,635  
Minority interests’ share of income for the year
    1,220,113  
Distributions for the year
    (1,320,155 )
 
 
       
Minority Interest at December 31, 2006
  $ 5,878,593  
 
     
7. Stock Incentive Plan
  The Company established a stock incentive plan in 1994 (the 1994 Plan) under which options were granted. The options, had an exercise price equal to the initial public offering price ($19.50/share), can be exercised in increments of 25% on each anniversary of the date of the grant, and expire upon employment termination. There were -0-, 4,900 and 4,900, options outstanding and exercisable at December 31, 2006, 2005 and 2004, respectively. There were 18,375 options exercised in 2004 and 4,900 options exercised in 2006. No options were granted during 2006, 2005 or 2004. In 2005, our stockholders approved the 2005 Equity Incentive Plan (the 2005 Plan) which replaced the 1994 Plan. The 2005 Plan authorizes the issuance of a maximum of one million shares of common stock.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
8. Stock Based
    Compensation
  As part of the Company’s 2005 Equity Incentive Plan, restricted common shares are granted to certain employees. As of December 31, 2006, there was $3,268,045 of total unrecognized compensation costs related to the outstanding restricted shares, which is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 3.80 years. We used a 0% discount factor and forfeiture rate for determining the fair value of restricted stock. The forfeiture rate was based on historical results and trends and we do not consider discount rates to be material. Pursuant to SFAS 123R, the Company reversed the previously recorded deferred compensation of $2,794,738 at December 31, 2005 during the year ended December 31, 2006. The impact did not change stockholders’ equity or reported net income.

The holder of a restricted share award is generally entitled at all times on and after the date of issuance of the restricted shares to exercise the rights of a shareholder of the Company, including the right to vote the shares and the right to receive dividends on the shares. We granted 38,750 shares of restricted stock to employees and associates under the 2005 Equity Incentive Plan. The restricted shares vest over a 3 to 5 year period based on continued service to the Company. Restricted share activity is summarized as follows:
                 
            Weighted
            Average
    Shares   Grant Date
    Outstanding   Fair Value
Non-vested restricted shares at December 31, 2004
    81,770     $ 15.19  
Restricted shares granted
    73,000     $ 30.26  
Restricted shares vested
    (25,330 )   $ 25.90  
Restricted shares forfeited
           
 
               
Non-vested restricted shares at December 31, 2005
    129,440     $ 21.59  
Restricted shares granted
    38,750     $ 33.83  
Restricted shares vested
    (37,070 )   $ 22.59  
Restricted shares forfeited
           
 
               
Non-vested restricted shares at December 31, 2006
    131,120     $ 24.92  
 
               

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
9. Profit-Sharing Plan
  The Company has a discretionary profit-sharing plan whereby it contributes to the plan such amounts as the Board of Directors of the Company determines. The participants in the plan cannot make any contributions to the plan. Contributions to the plan are allocated to the employees based on their percentage of compensation to the total compensation of all employees for the plan year. Participants in the plan become fully vested after six years of service. No contributions were made to the plan in 2006, 2005 or 2004.
 
   
10. Rental Income
  The Company leases premises in its properties to tenants pursuant to lease agreements, which provide for terms ranging generally from 5 to 25 years. The majority of leases provide for additional rents based on tenants’ sales volume. The weighted average lease term is 11.5 years.
 
   
 
  As of December 31, 2006, the future minimum rentals for the next five years from rental property under the terms of all noncancellable tenant leases, assuming no new or renegotiated leases are executed for such premises, are as follows (in thousands):
         
2007
  $ 30,415  
2008
    29,550  
2009
    28,606  
2010
    27,593  
2011
    25,294  
Thereafter
    196,809  
 
 
       
Total
  $ 338,267  
 
     
 
  Of these future minimum rentals, approximately 35% of the total is attributable to Borders, Inc., approximately 34% of the total is attributable to Walgreen and approximately 9% is attributable to Kmart Corporation a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sears Holdings Corporation. Borders is a major operator of book superstores in the United States, Walgreen operates in the national drugstore chain industry and Kmart’s principal business is general merchandise retailing through a chain of discount department stores. The loss of any of these anchor tenants or the inability of any of them to pay rent could have an adverse effect on the Company’s business.

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
11. Lease Commitments
  The Company has entered into certain land lease agreements for four of its properties. As of December 31, 2006, future annual lease commitments under these agreements are as follows:
         
For the Year ending December 31,        
 
 
       
2007
  $ 674,200  
2008
    658,867  
2009
    648,200  
2010
    691,375  
2011
    695,300  
Thereafter
    8,243,822  
 
 
       
Total
  $ 11,609,764  
 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
12. Interim Results (Unaudited)
  The following summary represents the unaudited results of operations of the Company, expressed in thousands except per share amounts, for the periods from January 1, 2005 through December 31, 2006. Certain amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current presentation of discontinued operations:
                                 
Three Months Ended  
2006   March 31,     June 30,     September 30,     December 31,  
 
 
                               
Revenues
  $ 8,272     $ 7,994     $ 8,114     $ 8,528  
 
 
                               
Income before discontinued operations
  $ 3,387     $ 3,519     $ 3,406     $ 3,662  
Discontinued operations, net of minority interest
                       
 
 
                               
Net Income
  $ 3,387     $ 3,519     $ 3,406     $ 3,662  
 
 
                               
Earnings Per Share — Diluted
  $ .44     $ .46     $ .44     $ .49  
 
                                 
Three Months Ended  
2005   March 31,     June 30,     September 30,     December 31,  
 
 
                               
Revenues
  $ 7,824     $ 7,737     $ 7,690     $ 8,328  
 
 
                               
Income before discontinued operations
  $ 3,164     $ 3,379     $ 3,316     $ 3,449  
Write-off of acquisition advances
                      400  
Discontinued operations, net of minority interest
    138       140       138       2,724  
 
 
                               
Net Income
  $ 3,302     $ 3,519     $ 3,454     $ 5,773  
 
 
                               
Earnings Per Share — Diluted
  $ .45     $ .46     $ .45     $ .78  
 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
     
13. Deferred Revenue
  In July 2004, our tenant in two joint venture properties located in Ann Arbor, MI and Boynton Beach, FL repaid $13.8 million that had been contributed by our joint venture partner. As a result of this repayment the Company became the sole member of the limited liability companies holding the properties. Total assets of the two properties were approximately $13.8 million. We have treated the $13.8 million repayment of the capital contribution as deferred revenue and accordingly, will recognize rental income over the term of the related leases.

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Agree Realty Corporation
Schedule III — Real Estate and Accumulated Depreciation
December 31, 2006
                                                                                 
Column A   Column B   Column C   Column D   Column E   Column F   Column G   Column H
                                                                            Life on Which
                            Costs     Gross Amount at Which Carried                   Depreciation in
            Initial Cost   Capitalized     At Close of Period                   Latest Income
                    Buildings and     Subsequent to             Buildings and             Accumulated     Date of   Statement
Description   Encumbrance     Land   Improvements     Acquisition     Land   Improvements     Total     Depreciation     Construction   is Computed
 
 
                                                                               
Completed Retail Facilities
                                                                               
Sam’s Club, MI
  $ 622,941     $ 550,000     $ 562,404     $ 1,087,596     $ 550,000     $ 1,650,000     $ 2,200,000     $ 1,288,027         1977   40 Years
Capital Plaza, KY
          7,379       2,240,607       3,223,736       7,379       5,464,343       5,471,722       1,761,206         1978   40 Years
Charlevoix Common, MI
          305,000       5,152,992       106,718       305,000       5,259,710       5,564,710       2,109,775         1991   40 Years
Chippewa Commons, WI
          1,197,150       6,367,560       439,818       1,197,150       6,807,378       8,004,528       2,715,048         1990   40 Years
Grayling Plaza, MI
          200,000       1,778,657             200,000       1,778,657       1,978,657       1,017,395         1984   40 Years
Ironwood Commons, MI
          167,500       8,181,306       261,074       167,500       8,442,380       8,609,880       3,263,230         1991   40 Years
Marshall Plaza Two, MI
                4,662,230       115,294             4,777,524       4,777,524       1,864,068         1990   40 Years
North Lakeland Plaza, FL
    2,698,890       1,641,879       6,364,379       1,525,238       1,641,879       7,889,617       9,531,496       3,438,950         1987   40 Years
Oscoda Plaza, MI
          183,295       1,872,854             183,295       1,872,854       2,056,149       1,066,792         1984   40 Years
Petoskey Town Center, MI
          875,000       8,895,289       223,581       875,000       9,118,870       9,993,870       3,583,749         1990   40 Years
Plymouth Commons, WI
          535,460       5,667,504       282,915       535,460       5,950,419       6,485,879       2,377,104         1990   40 Years
Rapids Associates, MI
          705,000       6,854,790       27,767       705,000       6,882,557       7,587,557       2,787,776         1990   40 Years
Shawano Plaza, WI
          190,000       9,133,934       176,471       190,000       9,310,405       9,500,405       3,818,357         1990   40 Years
West Frankfort Plaza, IL
          8,002       784,077       143,258       8,002       927,335       935,337       511,482         1982   40 Years
Omaha, NE
    1,065,055       1,705,619       2,053,615       2,152       1,705,619       2,055,767       3,761,386       571,752         1995   40 Years
Wichita, KS
    779,952       1,039,195       1,690,644       24,666       1,039,195       1,715,310       2,754,505       476,996         1995   40 Years
Santa Barbara, CA
    1,585,279       2,355,423       3,240,557       2,650       2,355,423       3,243,207       5,598,630       902,007         1995   40 Years
Monroeville, PA
          6,332,158       2,249,724             6,332,158       2,249,724       8,581,882       569,208         1996   40 Years
Norman, OK
          879,562       1,626,501             879,562       1,626,501       2,506,063       416,601         1996   40 Years
Columbus, OH
          826,000       2,336,791             826,000       2,336,791       3,162,791       637,747         1996   40 Years
Aventura, FL
                3,173,121                   3,173,121       3,173,121       849,471         1996   40 Years
Boyton Beach, FL
    1,013,146       1,534,942       2,043,122             1,534,942       2,043,122       3,578,064       514,849         1996   40 Years
Lawrence, KS
    2,805,919       981,331       3,000,000       349,127       981,331       3,349,127       4,330,458       736,488         1997   40 Years
Waterford, MI
    2,124,472       971,009       1,562,869       135,390       971,009       1,698,259       2,669,268       381,074         1997   40 Years
Chesterfield Township, MI
    2,332,684       1,350,590       1,757,830       (46,164 )     1,350,590       1,711,666       3,062,256       364,309         1998   40 Years
Grand Blanc, MI
    2,228,578       1,104,285       1,998,919       13,968       1,104,285       2,012,887       3,117,172       402,923         1998   40 Years
Pontiac, MI
    2,136,824       1,144,190       1,808,955       (113,506 )     1,144,190       1,695,449       2,839,639       351,394         1998   40 Years
Mt. Pleasant Shopping Center, MI
          907,600       8,081,968       410,600       907,600       8,492,568       9,400,168       2,307,181         1973   40 Years
Tulsa, OK
          1,100,000       2,394,512             1,100,000       2,394,512       3,494,512       514,219         1998   40 Years
Columbia, MD
    3,022,252       1,545,509       2,093,700       286,589       1,545,509       2,380,289       3,925,798       439,950         1999   40 Years
Rochester, MI
    3,182,078       2,438,740       2,188,050       1,949       2,438,740       2,189,999       4,628,739       410,601         1999   40 Years

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Agree Realty Corporation
Schedule III — Real Estate and Accumulated Depreciation
December 31, 2006
                                                                                 
Column A   Column B   Column C   Column D   Column E   Column F   Column G   Column H
                                                                            Life on Which
                            Costs     Gross Amount at Which Carried                   Depreciation in
            Initial Cost   Capitalized     At Close of Period                   Latest Income
                    Buildings and   Subsequent to             Buildings and           Accumulated     Date of   Statement
Description   Encumbrance     Land   Improvements   Acquisition     Land   Improvements   Total   Depreciation     Construction   is Computed
 
 
                                                                               
Ypsilanti, MI
    2,874,033       2,050,000       2,222,097       29,624       2,050,000       2,251,721       4,301,721       394,095         1999   40 Years
Germantown, MD
    2,841,973       1,400,000       2,288,890       45,000       1,400,000       2,333,890       3,733,890       411,488         2000   40 Years
Petoskey, MI
    1,999,120             2,332,473       (1,721 )           2,330,752       2,330,752       389,258         2000   40 Years
Flint, MI
    3,015,352       2,026,625       1,879,700       (1,201 )     2,026,625       1,878,499       3,905,124       281,778         2000   40 Years
Flint, MI
    2,594,569       1,477,680       2,241,293             1,477,680       2,241,293       3,718,973       329,188         2001   40 Years
New Baltimore, MI
    2,213,481       1,250,000       2,285,781       (16,502 )     1,250,000       2,269,279       3,519,279       305,109         2001   40 Years
Flint, MI
    999,141       1,729,851       1,798,091       660       1,729,851       1,798,751       3,528,602       211,690         2002   40 Years
Oklahoma City, OK
    3,657,092       1,914,859       2,057,034             1,914,859       2,057,034       3,971,893       218,171         2002   40 Years
Omaha, NE
    3,355,769       1,530,000       2,237,702             1,530,000       2,237,702       3,767,702       237,311         2002   40 Years
Indianapolis, IN
    1,025,489       180,000       1,117,617             180,000       1,117,617       1,297,617       118,582         2002   40 Years
Big Rapids, MI
    909,998       1,201,675       2,014,107       (2,000 )     1,201,675       2,012,107       3,213,782       188,674         2003   40 Years
Flint, MI
                471,272       (201,809 )           269,463       269,463       17,964         2003   20 Years
Ann Arbor, MI
    6,881,562       1,727,590       6,009,488             1,727,590       6,009,488       7,737,078       610,142         2003   40 Years
Tulsa, OK
          2,000,000       2,740,507             2,000,000       2,740,507       4,740,507       231,327         2003   40 Years
Canton Twp., MI
    1,049,122       1,550,000       2,132,096       23,020       1,550,000       2,155,116       3,705,116       166,074         2003   40 Years
Flint, MI
    990,780       1,537,400       1,961,674             1,537,400       1,961,674       3,499,074       139,035         2004   40 Years
Webster, NY
    1,143,601       1,600,000       2,438,781             1,600,000       2,438,781       4,038,781       170,208         2004   40 Years
Albion, NY
    1,398,180       1,900,000       3,037,864             1,900,000       3,037,864       4,937,864       161,387         2004   40 Years
Flint, MI
    902,640       1,029,000       2,165,463       (6,666 )     1,029,000       2,158,797       3,187,797       114,645         2004   40 Years
Lansing, MI
          785,000       348,501       3,045       785,000       351,546       1,136,546       21,934         2004   40 Years
Boynton Beach, FL
    1,144,278       1,569,000       2,363,524       108,651       1,569,000       2,472,175       4,041,175       149,021         2004   40 Years
Ann Arbor, MI
    2,876,529       1,700,000       8,308,854       150,000       1,700,000       8,458,854       10,158,854       636,333         2004   40 Years
Midland, MI
    1,320,468       2,350,000       2,313,413             2,350,000       2,313,413       4,663,413       84,343         2005   40 Years
Grand Rapids, MI
          1,450,000       2,646,591             1,450,000       2,646,591       4,096,591       88,220         2005   40 Years
Delta Twp., MI
          2,075,000       2,535,971       7,015       2,075,000       2,542,986       4,617,986       74,225         2005   40 Years
Roseville., MI
          1,771,000       2,327,052             1,771,000       2,327,052       4,098,052       65,448         2005   40 Years
Mt Pleasant., MI
          1,075,000       1,432,390       4,787       1,075,000       1,437,177       2,512,177       38,913         2005   40 Years
N Cape May, NJ.,
          1,075,000       1,430,092       495       1,075,000       1,430,587       2,505,587       38,740         2005   40 Years
Summit Twp, MI
          998,460       1,336,357             998,460       1,336,357       2,334,817       9,721         2006   40 Years
 
 
                                                                               
Sub Total
    68,791,247       73,734,958       180,294,136       8,823,285       73,734,958       189,117,421       262,852,379       48,352,753                  
 
 
                                                                               
Retail Facilities Under Development
                                                                               
Livonia, MI
          1,200,000       1,144,378             1,200,000       1,144,378       2,344,378               N/A       N/A
Other
          2,601,500       449,450             2,601,500       449,450       3,050,950               N/A       N/A
 
 
 
          3,801,500       1,593,828             3,801,500       1,593,828       5,395,328                        
 
Total
  $ 68,791,247     $ 77,536,458     $ 181,887,964     $ 8,823,285     $ 77,536,458     $ 190,711,249     $ 268,247,707     $ 48,352,753                  
 

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Agree Realty Corporation
Notes to Schedule III
December 31, 2006
1)   Reconciliation of Real Estate Properties
The following table reconciles the Real Estate Properties from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2006:
                         
    2006     2005     2004  
 
 
                       
Balance at January 1
  $ 258,332,265     $ 252,426,862     $ 220,358,955  
Construction and acquisition costs
    9,915,442       15,260,671       34,736,096  
Sale of real estate asset
          (9,355,268 )     (2,668,189 )
 
 
                       
Balance at December 31
  $ 268,247,707     $ 258,332,265     $ 252,426,862  
 
2)   Reconciliation of Accumulated Depreciation
The following table reconciles the accumulated depreciation from January 1, 2004 to December 31, 2006:
                         
    2006     2005     2004  
 
 
                       
Balance at January 1
  $ 43,771,581     $ 41,727,987     $ 38,475,767  
Current year depreciation expense
    4,581,172       4,676,257       4,372,362  
Sale of real estate asset
          (2,632,663 )     (1,120,142 )
 
 
                       
Balance at December 31
  $ 48,352,753     $ 43,771,581     $ 41,727,987  
 
3)   Tax Basis of Buildings and Improvements
The aggregate cost of Building and Improvements for federal income tax purposes is approximately $22,268,000 less than the cost basis used for financial statement purpose.

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EX-3.2 2 k13184exv3w2.txt BYLAWS OF THE COMPANY EXHIBIT 3.2 AGREE REALTY CORPORATION BYLAWS (AMENDED AS OF NOVEMBER 8, 2006) ARTICLE I. STOCKHOLDERS SECTION 1.01. Annual Meeting. The Corporation shall hold an annual meeting of its stockholders to elect directors and transact any other business within its powers, either at 10:00 a.m. on the seventh day of May in each year if not a legal holiday, or at such other time on such other day falling on or before the 30th day thereafter as shall be set by the Board of Directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the annual meeting for 1994 shall be held at 2:30 p.m. on the sixth day of April. Except as the Charter or statute provides otherwise, any business may be considered at an annual meeting without the purpose of the meeting having been specified in the notice. Failure to hold an annual meeting does not invalidate the Corporation's existence or affect any otherwise valid corporate acts. SECTION 1.02. Special Meeting. (a) General. At any time in the interval between annual meetings, a special meeting of the stockholders may be called by the Chairman of the Board or the President or by a majority of the Board of Directors by vote at a meeting or in writing (addressed to the Secretary of the Corporation) with or without a meeting; provided that a special meeting of stock-holders shall be called by the President in the event a vacancy occurs on the Board from any cause among the Independent Directors (as defined in the Charter) and is not filled by the directors within 30 days after the vacancy occurs. Subject to subsection (b) of this Section 1.02, a special meeting of stockholders shall also be called by the Secretary of the Corporation upon the written request of stockholders entitled to cast not less than a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast at such meeting. (b) Stockholder Requested Special Meetings. (1) Any stockholder of record seeking to have stockholders request a special meeting shall, by sending written notice to the Secretary (the "Record Date Request Notice") by registered mail, return receipt requested, request the Board of Directors to fix a record date to determine the stockholders entitled to request a special meeting (the "Request Record Date"). The Record Date Request Notice shall set forth the purpose of the meeting and the matters proposed to be acted on at it, shall be signed by one or more stockholders of record as of the date of signature (or their agents duly authorized in a writing accompanying the Record Date Request Notice), shall bear the date of signature of each such stockholder (or such agent) and shall set forth all information relating to each such stockholder that must be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest (even if an election contest is not involved), or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A (or any successor provision) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). Upon receiving the Record Date Request Notice, the Board of Directors may fix a Request Record Date. The Request Record Date shall not precede and shall not be more than ten days after the close of business on the date on which the resolution fixing the Request Record Date is adopted by the Board of Directors. If the Board of Directors, within ten days after the date on which a valid Record Date Request Notice is received, fails to adopt a resolution fixing the Request Record Date, the Request Record Date shall be the close of business on the tenth day after the first date on which the Record Date Request Notice is received by the Secretary. (2) In order for any stockholder to request a special meeting, one or more written requests for a special meeting signed by stockholders of record (or their agents duly authorized in a writing accompanying the request) as of the Request Record Date entitled to cast not less than a majority (the "Special Meeting Percentage") of all of the votes entitled to be cast at such meeting (the "Special Meeting Request") shall be delivered to the Secretary. In addition, the Special Meeting Request (a) shall set forth the purpose of the meeting and the matters proposed to be acted on at it (which shall be limited to those lawful matters set forth in the Record Date Request Notice received by the Secretary), (b) shall bear the date of signature of each such stockholder (or such agent) signing the Special Meeting Request, (c) shall set forth the name and address, as they appear in the Corporation's books, of each stockholder signing such request (or on whose behalf the Special Meeting Request is signed), the class, series and number of all shares of stock of the Corporation which are owned by each such stockholder, and the nominee holder for, and number of, shares owned by such stockholder beneficially but not of record, (d) shall be sent to the Secretary by registered mail, return receipt requested, and (e) shall be received by the Secretary within 60 days after the Request Record Date. Any requesting stockholder (or agent duly authorized in a writing accompanying the revocation or the Special Meeting Request) may revoke his, her or its request for a special meeting at any time by written revocation delivered to the Secretary. (3) The Secretary shall inform the requesting stockholders of the reasonably estimated cost of preparing and mailing the notice of meeting (including the Corporation's proxy materials). The Secretary shall not be required to call a special meeting upon stockholder request and such meeting shall not be held unless, in addition to the documents required by paragraph (2) of this Section 3(b), the Secretary receives payment of such reasonably estimated cost prior to the mailing of any notice of the meeting. (4) Except as provided in the next sentence, any special meeting shall be held at such place, date and time as may be designated by the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President or Board of Directors, whoever has called the meeting. In the case of any special meeting called by the Secretary upon the request of stockholders (a "Stockholder Requested Meeting"), such meeting shall be held at such place, date and time as may be designated by the Board of Directors; provided, however, that the date of any Stockholder Requested Meeting shall be not more than 90 days after the record date for such meeting (the "Meeting Record Date"); and provided further that if the Board of Directors fails to designate, within ten days after the date that a valid Special Meeting Request is actually received by the Secretary (the "Delivery Date"), a date and time for a Stockholder Requested Meeting, then such meeting shall be held at 2:00 p.m. local time on the 90th day after the Meeting Record Date or, if 2 such 90th day is not a Business Day (as defined below), on the first preceding Business Day; and provided further that in the event that the Board of Directors fails to designate a place for a Stockholder Requested Meeting within ten days after the Delivery Date, then such meeting shall be held at the principal executive office of the Corporation. In fixing a date for any special meeting, the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President or Board of Directors may consider such factors as he, she or it deems relevant within the good faith exercise of business judgment, including, without limitation, the nature of the matters to be considered, the facts and circumstances surrounding any request for the meeting and any plan of the Board of Directors to call an annual meeting or a special meeting. In the case of any Stockholder Requested Meeting, if the Board of Directors fails to fix a Meeting Record Date that is a date within 30 days after the Delivery Date, then the close of business on the 30th day after the Delivery Date shall be the Meeting Record Date. The Board of Directors may revoke the notice for any Stockholder Requested Meeting in the event that the requesting stockholders fail to comply with the provisions of paragraph (3) of this Section 3(b). (5) If written revocations of requests for the special meeting have been delivered to the Secretary and the result is that stockholders of record (or their agents duly authorized in writing), as of the Request Record Date, entitled to cast less than the Special Meeting Percentage have delivered, and not revoked, requests for a special meeting to the Secretary, the Secretary shall: (i) if the notice of meeting has not already been mailed, refrain from mailing the notice of the meeting and send to all requesting stockholders who have not revoked such requests written notice of any revocation of a request for the special meeting, or (ii) if the notice of meeting has been mailed and if the Secretary first sends to all requesting stockholders who have not revoked requests for a special meeting written notice of any revocation of a request for the special meeting and written notice of the Secretary's intention to revoke the notice of the meeting, revoke the notice of the meeting at any time before ten days before the commencement of the meeting. Any request for a special meeting received after a revocation by the Secretary of a notice of a meeting shall be considered a request for a new special meeting. (6) The Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President or Board of Directors may appoint regionally or nationally recognized independent inspectors of elections to act as the agent of the Corporation for the purpose of promptly performing a ministerial review of the validity of any purported Special Meeting Request received by the Secretary. For the purpose of permitting the inspectors to perform such review, no such purported request shall be deemed to have been delivered to the Secretary until the earlier of (i) five Business Days after receipt by the Secretary of such purported request and (ii) such date as the independent inspectors certify to the Corporation that the valid requests received by the Secretary represent at least a majority of the issued and outstanding shares of stock that would be entitled to vote at such meeting. Nothing contained in this paragraph (6) shall in any way be construed to suggest or imply that the Corporation or any stockholder shall not be entitled to contest the validity of any request, whether during or after such five Business Day period, or to take any other action (including, without limitation, the commencement, prosecution or defense of any litigation with respect thereto, and the seeking of injunctive relief in such litigation). (7) For purposes of these Bylaws, "Business Day" shall mean any day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in the State of Michigan are 3 authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close. SECTION 1.03. Place of Meetings. Meetings of stockholders shall be held at such place as is set from time to time by the Board of Directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Board of Directors may provide that any or all meetings of the stockholders shall not be held at a place, but instead shall be held solely by means of remote communication; provided, however, that the Board of Directors shall provide a place for a meeting of the stockholders if a stockholder makes a written request for the same. SECTION 1.04. Notice of Meetings; Waiver of Notice. Not less than ten nor more than 90 days before each stockholders' meeting, the Secretary shall give written notice of the meeting to each stockholder entitled to vote at the meeting and each other stockholder entitled to notice of the meeting. The notice shall state the time and place of the meeting and, if the meeting is a special meeting or notice of the purpose is required by statute, the purpose of the meeting. Notice is given to a stockholder when it is personally delivered to him, left at his residence or usual place of business, mailed to him at his address as it appears on the records of the Corporation or by any other means permitted by Maryland law. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, each person who is entitled to notice waives notice if he or she before or after the meeting signs a waiver of the notice which is filed with the records of stockholders' meetings, or is present at the meeting is person or by proxy. If mailed, such notice shall be deemed to be given when deposited in the United States mail addressed to the stockholder at the stockholder's address as it appears on the records of the Corporation, with postage thereon paid. SECTION 1.05. Quorum; Voting. Unless any statute or the Charter provides otherwise, at a meeting of stockholders the presence in person or by proxy of stockholders entitled to cast a majority of all the votes entitled to be cast at the meeting constitutes a quorum, and a majority of all the votes cast at a meeting at which a quorum is present is sufficient to approve any matter which properly comes before the meeting, except that a plurality of all the votes cast at a meeting at which a quorum is present is sufficient to elect a director. The stockholders present either in person or by proxy, at a meeting which has been duly called and convened, may continue to transact business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough stockholders to leave less than a quorum. SECTION 1.06. Adjournments. If a quorum shall not be present at any meeting of the stockholders, the chairman of the meeting shall have the sole power to adjourn the meeting from time to time without further notice to a date not more than 120 days after the original record date. Any business which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified may be deferred and transacted at any such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present. SECTION 1.07. General Right to Voter Proxies. Unless the Charter provides otherwise, each outstanding share of stock, regardless of class, is entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote at a meeting of stockholders. In all elections for directors, each share of stock entitled to vote may be voted for as many individuals as there are directors to be elected and for whose election the share is entitled to be voted. A stockholder may vote the stock he or 4 she owns of record either in person or by written proxy signed by the stockholder or by his or her duly authorized attorney in fact. Unless a proxy provides otherwise, it is not valid more than 11 months after its date. SECTION 1.08. Organization and Conduct. Every meeting of stockholders shall be conducted by an individual appointed by the Board of Directors to be chairman of the meeting or, in the absence of such appointment, by the Chairman of the Board or, in the case of a vacancy in the office or absence of the Chairman of the Board, by one of the following officers present at the meeting: the Vice Chairman of the Board, if there be one, the President, the Vice Presidents in their order of rank and seniority, or, in the absence of such officers, a chairman chosen by the stockholders by the vote of a majority of the votes cast by stockholders present in person or by proxy. The Secretary, or, in the Secretary's absence, an Assistant Secretary, or in the absence of both the Secretary and Assistant Secretaries, a person appointed by the Board of Directors or, in the absence of such appointment, a person appointed by the chairman of the meeting shall act as Secretary. In the event that the Secretary presides at a meeting of the stockholders, an Assistant Secretary, or in the absence of Assistant Secretaries, an individual appointed by the Board of Directors or the chairman of the meeting, shall record the minutes of the meeting. The order of business and all other matters of procedure at any meeting of stockholders shall be determined by the chairman of the meeting. The chairman of the meeting may prescribe such rules, regulations and procedures and take such action as, in the discretion of such chairman, are appropriate for the proper conduct of the meeting, including, without limitation, (a) restricting admission to the time set for the commencement of the meeting; (b) limiting attendance at the meeting to stockholders of record of the Corporation, their duly authorized proxies and other such individuals as the chairman of the meeting may determine; (c) limiting participation at the meeting on any matter to stockholders of record of the Corporation entitled to vote on such matter, their duly authorized proxies and other such individuals as the chairman of the meeting may determine; (d) limiting the time allotted to questions or comments by participants; (e) determining when the polls should be opened and closed; (f) maintaining order and security at the meeting; (g) removing any stockholder or any other individual who refuses to comply with meeting procedures, rules or guidelines as set forth by the chairman of the meeting; and (h) concluding a meeting or recessing or adjourning the meeting to a later date and time and at a place announced at the meeting. Unless otherwise determined by the chairman of the meeting, meetings of stockholders shall not be required to be held in accordance with the rules of parliamentary procedure. SECTION 1.09. Voting of Stock by Certain Holders. Stock of the Corporation registered in the name of a corporation, partnership, trust or other entity, if entitled to be voted, may be voted by the President or a Vice President, a general partner or trustee thereof, as the case may be, or a proxy appointed by any of the foregoing individuals, unless some other person who has been appointed to vote such stock pursuant to a bylaw or a resolution of the governing body of such corporation or other entity or agreement of the partners of a partnership presents a certified copy of such bylaw, resolution or agreement, in which case such person may vote such stock. Any director or other fiduciary may vote stock registered in his or her name as such fiduciary, either in person or by proxy. Shares of stock of the Corporation directly or indirectly owned by it shall not be 5 voted at any meeting and shall not be counted in determining the total number of outstanding shares entitled to be voted at any given time, unless they are held by it in a fiduciary capacity, in which case they may be voted and shall be counted in determining the total number of outstanding shares at any given time. The Board of Directors may adopt by resolution a procedure by which a stockholder may certify in writing to the Corporation that any shares of stock registered in the name of the stockholder are held for the account of a specified person other than the stockholder. The resolution shall set forth the class of stockholders who may make the certification, the purpose for which the certification may be made, the form of certification and the information to be contained in it; if the certification is with respect to a record date or closing of the stock transfer books, the time after the record date or closing of the stock transfer books within which the certification must be received by the Corporation; and any other provisions with respect to the procedure which the Board of Directors considers necessary or desirable. On receipt of such certification, the person specified in the certification shall be regarded as, for the purposes set forth in the certification, the stockholder of record of the specified stock in place of the stockholder who makes the certification. SECTION 1.10. Conduct of Voting. At all meetings of stockholders, unless the voting is conducted by inspectors, the proxies and ballots shall be received, and all questions touching the qualification of voters and the validity of proxies, the acceptance or rejection of votes and procedures for the conduct of business not otherwise specified by these Bylaws, the Charter or law, shall be decided or determined by the chairman of the meeting. The Board of Directors, in advance of any meeting, may, but need not, appoint one or more individual inspectors or one or more entities that designate individuals as inspectors to act at the meeting or any adjournment thereof. If an inspector or inspectors are not appointed, the person presiding at the meeting may, but need not, appoint one or more inspectors. Voting on any question or in any election may be viva voce unless the chairman of the meeting shall order that voting be by ballot. SECTION 1.11. Telephone Meetings. The Board of Directors or chairman of the meeting may permit stockholders to participate in meetings of the stockholders by means of a conference telephone or other communications equipment by which all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other at the same time. Participation in a meeting by these means constitute presence in person at the meeting. SECTION 1.12. Advance Notice of Stockholder Nominees for Director and Other Stockholder Proposals. (a) Annual Meetings of Stockholders. (1) Nominations of individuals for election to the Board of Directors and the proposal of other business to be considered by the stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of stockholders (i) pursuant to the Corporation's notice of meeting, (ii) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or (iii) by any stockholder of the Corporation who was a stockholder of record both at the time of giving of notice by the stockholder as provided for in this Section 1.12(a) and at the time of the annual meeting, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who has complied with this Section 1.12(a). 6 (2) For nominations or other business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to clause (iii) of paragraph (a)(1) of this Section 1.12, the stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary of the Corporation and such other business must otherwise be a proper matter for action by the stockholders. To be timely, a stockholder's notice shall set forth all information required under this Section 1.12 and shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive office of the Corporation not earlier than the 150th day nor later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the 120th day prior to the first anniversary of the date of mailing of the notice for the preceding year's annual meeting; provided, however, that in the event that the date of the annual meeting is advanced or delayed by more than 30 days from the first anniversary of the date of the preceding year's annual meeting, notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not earlier than the 150th day prior to the date of such annual meeting and not later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the later of the 120th day prior to the date of such annual meeting or the tenth day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made. The public announcement of a postponement or adjournment of an annual meeting shall not commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder's notice as described above. Such stockholder's notice shall set forth (i) as to each individual whom the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a director, (A) the name, age, business address and residence address of such individual, (B) the class, series and number of any shares of stock of the Corporation that are beneficially owned by such individual, (C) the date such shares were acquired and the investment intent of such acquisition and (D) all other information relating to such individual that is required to be disclosed in solicitations of proxies for election of directors in an election contest (even if an election contest is not involved), or is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A (or any successor provision) under the Exchange Act and the rules thereunder (including such individual's written consent to being named in the proxy statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected); (ii) as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before the meeting, a description of such business, the reasons for proposing such business at the meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder and any Stockholder Associated Person (as defined below), individually or in the aggregate, including any anticipated benefit to the stockholder and the Stockholder Associated Person therefrom; (iii) as to the stockholder giving the notice and any Stockholder Associated Person, the class, series and number of all shares of stock of the Corporation which are owned by such stockholder and by such Stockholder Associated Person, if any, and the nominee holder for, and number of, shares owned beneficially but not of record by such stockholder and by any such Stockholder Associated Person; (iv) as to the stockholder giving the notice and any Stockholder Associated Person covered by clauses (ii) or (iii) of this paragraph (2) of this Section 1.12(a), the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear on the Corporation's stock ledger and current name and address, if different, and of such Stockholder Associated Person; and (v) to the extent known by the stockholder giving the notice, the name and address of any other stockholder supporting the nominee for election or reelection as a director or the proposal of other business on the date of such stockholder's notice. (3) Notwithstanding anything in this subsection (a) of this Section 1.12 to the contrary, in the event the Board of Directors increases or decreases the maximum or minimum number of directors in accordance with Article II, Section 2.02 of these Bylaws, and there is no public announcement of such action at least 130 days prior to the first anniversary of the date of 7 mailing of the notice of the preceding year's annual meeting, a stockholder's notice required by this Section 1.12(a) shall also be considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive office of the Corporation not later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on the tenth day following the day on which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation. (4) For purposes of this Section 1.12, "Stockholder Associated Person" of any stockholder shall mean (i) any person controlling, directly or indirectly, or acting in concert with, such stockholder, (ii) any beneficial owner of shares of stock of the Corporation owned of record or beneficially by such stockholder and (iii) any person controlling, controlled by or under common control with such Stockholder Associated Person. (b) Special Meetings of Stockholders. Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant to the Corporation's notice of meeting. Nominations of individuals for election to the Board of Directors may be made at a special meeting of stockholders at which directors are to be elected (i) pursuant to the Corporation's notice of meeting, (ii) by or at the direction of the Board of Directors or (iii) provided that the Board of Directors has determined that directors shall be elected at such special meeting, by any stockholder of the Corporation who is a stockholder of record both at the time of giving of notice provided for in this Section 1.12 and at the time of the special meeting, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who complied with the notice procedures set forth in this Section 1.12. In the event the Corporation calls a special meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing one or more individuals to the Board of Directors, any such stockholder may nominate an individual or individuals (as the case may be) for election as a director as specified in the Corporation's notice of meeting, if the stockholder's notice required by paragraph (2) of this Section 1.12(a) shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive office of the Corporation not earlier than the 150th day prior to such special meeting and not later than 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time on the later of the 120th day prior to such special meeting or the tenth day following the day on which public announcement is first made of the date of the special meeting and of the nominees proposed by the Board of Directors to be elected at such meeting. The public announcement of a postponement or adjournment of a special meeting shall not commence a new time period for the giving of a stockholder's notice as described above. (c) General. (1) If information submitted pursuant to this Section 1.12 by any stockholder proposing a nominee for election as a director or any proposal for other business at a meeting of stockholders shall be inaccurate to a material extent, such information may be deemed not to have been provided in accordance with this Section 1.12. Upon written request by the Secretary or the Board of Directors or any committee thereof, any stockholder proposing a nominee for election as a director or any proposal for other business at a meeting of stockholders shall provide, within five Business Days of delivery of such request (or such other period as may be specified in such request), written verification, satisfactory, in the discretion of the Board of Directors or any committee thereof or any authorized officer of the Corporation, to demonstrate the accuracy of any information submitted by the stockholder pursuant to this Section 1.12. If a stockholder fails to provide such written verification within such period, the information as to which written verification was requested may be deemed not to have been provided in 8 accordance with this Section 1.12. (2) Only such individuals who are nominated in accordance with this Section 1.12 shall be eligible for election by stockholders as directors, and only such business shall be conducted at a meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting in accordance with this Section 1.12. The chairman of the meeting shall have the power to determine whether a nomination or any other business proposed to be brought before the meeting was made or proposed, as the case may be, in accordance with this Section 1.12. (3) For purposes of this Section 1.12, (a) the "date of mailing of the notice" shall mean the date of the proxy statement for the solicitation of proxies for election of directors and (b) "public announcement" shall mean disclosure (i) in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News Service, Associated Press, Business Wire, PR Newswire or comparable news service or (ii) in a document publicly filed by the Corporation with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the Exchange Act. (4) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.12, a stockholder shall also comply with all applicable requirements of state law and of the Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the matters set forth in this Section 1.12. Nothing in this Section 1.12 shall be deemed to affect any right of a stockholder to request inclusion of a proposal in, nor the right of the Corporation to omit a proposal from, the Corporation's proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8 (or any successor provision) under the Exchange Act. ARTICLE II. BOARD OF DIRECTORS SECTION 2.01. Function of Directors. The business and affairs of the Corporation shall be managed under the direction of its Board of Directors. All powers of the Corporation may be exercised by or under authority of the Board of Directors, except as conferred on or reserved to the stockholders by statute or by the Charter or Bylaws. SECTION 2.02. Number of Directors. The Corporation shall have at least three directors. The Corporation shall have the number of directors provided in the Charter until changed as herein provided. A majority of the entire Board of Directors may alter the number of directors set by the Charter to not exceeding 15 nor less than three, but the action may not affect the tenure of office of any director. At least a majority of the directors shall be Independent Directors. SECTION 2.03. Election and Tenure of Directors. The directors shall be divided into three classes as nearly equal in number as possible. At each successive annual meeting of stockholders, the holders of stock present in person or by proxy at such meeting and entitled to vote thereat shall elect members of each successive class to serve for three year terms and until their successors are elected and qualify. If the number of directors is changed, any increase or 9 decrease shall be apportioned among the classes so as to maintain the number of directors in each class as nearly equal as possible, and any additional director of any class shall, subject to Section 2.05, hold office for a term that shall coincide with the remaining term of that class, but in no case shall a decrease in the number of directors shorten the term of any incumbent director. SECTION 2.04. Removal of Directors. Any director or the entire Board of Directors may be removed only in accordance with the provisions of the Charter. SECTION 2.05. Vacancy on Board. Subject to the rights of the holders of any class of stock separately entitled to elect one or more directors, the stockholders may elect a successor to fill a vacancy on the Board of Directors which results from the removal of a director. A director elected by the stockholders to fill a vacancy which results from the removal of a director serves for the balance of the term of the removed director. Subject to the rights of the holders of any class of stock separately entitled to elect one or more directors, a majority of the remaining directors, whether or not sufficient to constitute a quorum, may fill a vacancy on the Board of Directors which results from any cause except an increase in the number of directors, and a majority of the entire Board of Directors may fill a vacancy which results from an increase in the number of directors. A director elected by the Board of Directors to fill a vacancy serves until the next annual meeting of stockholders and until his successor is elected and qualifies. SECTION 2.06. Regular Meetings. After each meeting of stockholders at which directors shall have been elected, the Board of Directors shall meet as soon as practicable for the purpose of organization and the transaction of other business. In the event that no other time and place are specified by resolution of the Board, the President or the Chairman, with notice in accordance with Section 2.08, the Board of Directors shall meet immediately following the close of, and at the place of, such stockholders' meeting. Any other regular meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held on such date and at any place as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors. The Board of Directors may provide, by resolution, the time and place for the holding of regular meetings of the Board of Directors without other notice than such resolution. SECTION 2.07. Special Meetings. Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called at any time by the Chairman of the Board or the President or by a majority of the Board of Directors then in office by vote at a meeting, or in writing with or without a meeting. A special meeting of the Board of Directors shall be held on such date and at any place as may be designated from time to time by the Board of Directors. In the absence of designation such meeting shall be held at such place as may be designated in the call. The Board of Directors may provide, by resolution, the time and place for the holding of special meetings of the Board of Directors without other notice than such resolution. SECTION 2.08. Notice of Meeting. Except as provided in Section 2.06, the Secretary shall give notice to each director of each regular and special meeting of the Board of Directors. The notice shall state the time and place of the meeting. Notice is given to a director when it is delivered personally to him, left at his residence or usual place of business, or sent by electronic mail, facsimile transmission or telephone, at least 24 hours before the time of the meeting or, in the alternative by mail to his address as it shall appear on the records of the 10 Corporation, at least 72 hours before the time of the meeting. Telephone notice shall be deemed to be given when the director or his or her agent is personally given such notice in a telephone call to which the director or his or her agent is a party. Electronic mail notice shall be deemed to be given upon transmission of the message to the electronic mail address given to the Corporation by the director. Facsimile transmission notice shall be deemed to be given upon completion of the transmission of the message to the number given to the Corporation by the director and receipt of a completed answer-back indicating receipt. Notice by United States mail shall be deemed to be given when deposited in the United States mail properly addressed, with postage thereon prepaid. Unless the Bylaws or a resolution of the Board of Directors provides otherwise, the notice need not state the business to be transacted at or the purposes of any regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors. No notice of any meeting of the Board of Directors need be given to any director who attends except where a director attends a meeting for the express purpose of objecting to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened, or to any director who, in writing executed and filed with the records of the meeting either before or after the holding hereof, waives such notice. Any meeting of the Board meeting of the Board of Directors, regular or special, may adjourn from time to time to reconvene at the same or some other place, and no notice need be given of any such adjourned meeting other than by announcement. SECTION 2.09. Action by Directors. Unless statute or the Charter or Bylaws requires a greater proportion, the action of a majority of the directors present at a meeting at which a quorum is present is action of the Board of Directors. A majority of the entire Board of Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. In addition, the affirmative vote of at least a majority of the Independent Directors is necessary to cause the Corporation or any partnership in which the Corporation acts, directly or indirectly, as a general partner, to sell any property owned by such partnership in accordance with the terms of the partnership agreement of such partnership and a vote of a majority of the Independent Directors is necessary to cause the Corporation or any partnership in which the Corporation acts, directly or indirectly, as a general partner, to refinance or repay any debt of the Corporation or the partnership of which the Corporation is acting as the general partner. The directors present at a meeting which has been duly called and convened may continue to transact business until adjournment, notwithstanding the withdrawal of enough directors to leave less than a quorum. In the absence of a quorum, the directors present by majority vote and without notice other than by announcement may adjourn the meeting from time to time until a quorum shall attend. At any such adjourned meeting at which a quorum shall be present, any business may be transacted which might have been transacted at the meeting as originally notified. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting of the Board of Directors may be taken without a meeting, if a consent in writing or by electronic transmission to such action is given by each member of the Board and filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board. SECTION 2.10. Meeting by Conference Telephone. Members of the Board of Directors may participate in a meeting by means of a conference telephone or similar communications equipment if all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other at the same time. Participation in a meeting by these means constitutes presence in person at a meeting. 11 SECTION 2.11. Compensation. By resolution of the Board of Directors a fixed sum and expenses, if any, for attendance at each regular or special meeting of the Board of Directors or of committees thereof, and other compensation for their services as such or on committees of the Board of Directors, may be paid to directors. Directors who are full-time employees of the Corporation need not be paid for attendance at meetings of the board or committees thereof for which fees are paid to other directors. A director who serves the Corporation in any other capacity also may receive compensation for such other services, pursuant to a resolution of the directors. SECTION 2.12. Advisory Directors. The Board of Directors may by resolution appoint advisory directors to the Board, who may also serve as directors emeriti, and shall have such authority and receive such compensation and reimbursement as the Board of Directors shall provide. Advisory directors or directors emeriti shall not have the authority to participate by vote in the transaction of business. SECTION 2.13. Loss of Deposits. No director shall be liable for any loss which may occur by reason of the failure of any bank, trust company, savings and loan association, or other institution with whom moneys or stock of the Corporation have been deposited. SECTION 2.14. Surety Bonds. Unless required by law, no director shall be obligated to give any bond or surety or other security for the performance of any of his or her duties. SECTION 2.15. Organization. At each meeting of the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board or, in the absence of the Chairman, the Vice Chairman of the Board, if any, shall act as chairman of the meeting. In the absence of both the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer or in the absence of the Chief Executive Officer, the President or in the absence of the President, a director chosen by a majority of the directors present, shall act as chairman of the meeting. The Secretary or, in his or her absence, an Assistant Secretary of the Corporation, or in the absence of the Secretary and all Assistant Secretaries, a person appointed by the Chairman, shall act as Secretary of the meeting. ARTICLE III. COMMITTEES SECTION 3.01. Committees. The Board of Directors may appoint from among its members an Executive Committee, an Audit Committee, a Compensation Committee, a Nominating Committee and other committees composed of one or more directors and delegate to these committees any of the powers of the Board of Directors, except as prohibited by law. The entire Audit Committee and a majority of both the Compensation Committee and the Nominating Committee shall be Independent Directors. The Nominating Committee shall have as members at least two directors who are not Independent Directors. 12 If the Board of Directors has given general authorization for the issuance of stock, a committee of the Board, in accordance with a general formula or method specified by the Board by resolution or by adoption of a stock option or other plan, may fix the terms of stock subject to classification or reclassification and the terms on which any stock may be issued, including all terms and conditions required or permitted to be established or authorized by the Board of Directors. SECTION 3.02. Committee Procedure. Each committee may fix rules of procedure for its business. Notice of committee meetings shall be given in the same manner as notice for special meetings of the Board of Directors. A majority of the members of a committee shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business and the act of a majority of those present at a meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of the committee. The members of a committee present at any meeting, whether or not they constitute a quorum, may appoint a director to act in the place of an absent member. Any action required or permitted to be taken at a meeting of a committee may be taken without a meeting, if a consent in writing or by electronic transmission to such action is given by each member of the committee and filed with the minutes of the committee. The members of a committee may conduct any meeting thereof by conference telephone in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.10. SECTION 3.03. Telephone Meetings. Members of a committee of the Board of Directors may participate in a meeting by means of a conference telephone or other communications equipment if all persons participating in the meeting can hear each other at the same time. Participation in a meeting by these means shall constitute presence in person at the meeting. SECTION 3.04. Emergency. In the event of a state of disaster of sufficient severity to prevent the conduct and management of the affairs and business of the Corporation by its directors and officers as contemplated by the Charter and the Bylaws, any two or more available members of the then incumbent Executive Committee shall constitute a quorum of that Committee for the full conduct and management of the affairs and business of the Corporation in accordance with the provisions of Section 3.01. In the event of the unavailability, at such time, of a minimum of two members of the then incumbent Executive Committee, the available directors shall elect an Executive Committee consisting of any two members of the Board of Directors, whether or not they be officers of the Corporation, which two members shall constitute the Executive Committee for the full conduct and management of the affairs of the Corporation in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section. This Section shall be subject to implementation by resolution of the Board of Directors passed from time to time for that purpose, and any provisions of the Bylaws (other than this Section) and any resolutions which are contrary to the provisions of this Section or to the provisions of any such implementary resolutions shall be suspended until it shall be determined by any interim Executive Committee acting under this Section that it shall be to the advantage of the Corporation to resume the conduct and management of its affairs and business under all the other provisions of the Bylaws. SECTION 3.05. VACANCIES. Subject to the provisions hereof, the Board of Directors shall have the power at any time to change the membership of any committee, to fill all 13 vacancies, to designate alternate members to replace any absent or disqualified member or to dissolve any such committee. ARTICLE IV. OFFICERS SECTION 4.01. Executive and Other Officers. The Corporation shall have a President, a Secretary, and a Treasurer. The Corporation may also have a Chairman of the Board, one or more Vice-Presidents, assistant officers, and subordinate officers as may be established by the Board of Directors. A person may hold more than one office in the Corporation except that no person may serve concurrently as both President and Vice-President of the Corporation. The Chairman of the Board shall be a director; the other officers may be directors. The Board of Directors shall designate who shall serve as chief executive officer, who shall have general supervision of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and may designate a chief operating officer, who shall have supervision of the operations of the Corporation. In the absence of any designation the Chairman of the Board, if there be one, shall serve as chief executive officer and the President shall serve as chief operating officer. In the absence of the Chairman of the Board, or if there be none, the President shall be the chief executive officer. SECTION 4.02. Chief Executive Officer. The Board of Directors may designate a Chief Executive Officer. In the absence of such designation, the Chairman of the Board shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation. The Chief Executive Officer shall have general responsibility for implementation of the policies of the Corporation, as determined by the Board of Directors, and for the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation. He or she may execute any deed, mortgage, bond, contract or other instrument, except in cases where the execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the Board of Directors or by these Bylaws to some other officer or agent of the Corporation or shall be required by law to be otherwise executed; and in general shall perform all duties incident to the office of Chief Executive Officer and such other duties as may be prescribed by the Board of Directors from time to time. SECTION 4.03. Chief Operating Officer. The Board of Directors may designate a Chief Operating Officer. The Chief Operating Officer shall have the responsibilities and duties as set forth by the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer. SECTION 4.04. Chief Financial Officer. The Board of Directors may designate a Chief Financial Officer. The Chief Financial Officer shall have the responsibilities and duties as set forth by the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer. SECTION 4.05. Chairman of the Board. The Chairman of the Board, if one be elected, shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and of the stockholders at which he or she shall be present. Unless otherwise specified by the Board of Directors, he shall be the chief executive officer of the Corporation and perform the duties customarily performed by chief executive officers, and may perform any duties of the President. In general, the Chairman of the 14 Board shall perform all such duties as are from time to time assigned to him or her by the Board of Directors. SECTION 4.06. President. Unless otherwise specified by the Board of Directors, the President shall be the chief operating officer of the Corporation and perform the duties customarily performed by a chief operating officer of a corporation. If no chief executive officer is appointed, he or she shall also serve as the chief executive officer of the Corporation. The President may sign and execute, in the name of the Corporation, all authorized deeds, mortgages, bonds, contracts or other instruments, except in cases in which the signing and execution thereof shall have been expressly delegated to some other officer or agent of the Corporation. In general, he or she shall perform such other duties usually performed by a president of a corporation and such other duties as are from time to time assigned to him or her by the Board of Directors or the Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation. Unless otherwise provided by resolution of the Board of Directors, the President, in the absence of the Chairman of the Board and the Chief Executive Officer, shall preside at all meetings of the Board of Directors and of the stockholders at which he or she shall be present. SECTION 4.07. Vice-Presidents. The Vice-President or Vice-Presidents, at the request of the chief executive officer or the President, or in the President's absence or during his inability to act, shall perform the duties and exercise the functions of the President, and when so acting shall have the powers of the President. If there be more than one Vice-President, the Board of Directors may determine which one or more of the Vice-Presidents shall perform any of such duties or exercise any of such functions, or if such determination is not made by the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, or the President may make such determination; otherwise any of the Vice-Presidents may perform any of such duties or exercise any of such functions. The Vice-President or Vice-Presidents shall have such other powers and perform such other duties, and have such additional descriptive designations in their titles (if any), as are from time to time assigned to them by the Board of Directors, the chief executive officer, or the President. SECTION 4.08. Secretary. The Secretary shall keep the minutes of the meetings of the stockholders, of the Board of Directors and of any committees, in books provided for the purpose; he or she shall see that all notices are duly given in accordance with the provisions of the Bylaws or as required by law; he or she shall be custodian of the records of the Corporation; he or she may witness any document on behalf of the Corporation, the execution of which is duly authorized, see that the corporate seal is affixed where such document is required or desired to be under its seal, and, when so affixed, may attest the same; and, in general, the Secretary shall perform all duties incident to the office of a secretary of a corporation, and such other duties as are from time to time assigned to him or her by the Board of Directors, the chief executive officer, or the President. SECTION 4.09. Treasurer. The Treasurer shall have charge of and be responsible for all funds, securities, receipts and disbursements of the Corporation, and shall deposit, or cause to be deposited, in the name of the Corporation, all moneys or other valuable effects in such banks, trust companies or other depositories as shall, from time to time, be selected by the Board of Directors; he or she shall render to the President and to the Board of Directors, 15 whenever requested, an account of the financial condition of the Corporation; and, in general, the Treasurer shall perform all the duties incident to the office of a treasurer of a corporation, and such other duties as are from time to time assigned to him or her by the Board of Directors, the chief executive officer, or the President. SECTION 4.10. Assistant and Subordinate Officers. The assistant and subordinate officers of the Corporation are all officers below the office of Vice-President, Secretary, or Treasurer. The assistant or subordinate officers shall have such duties as are from time to time assigned to them by the Board of Directors, the chief executive officer, or the President. SECTION 4.11. Election, Tenure and Removal of Officers. The Board of Directors shall elect the officers. The Board of Directors may from time to time authorize any committee or officer to appoint assistant and subordinate officers. Election or appointment of an officer, employee or agent shall not of itself create contract rights. All officers shall be appointed to hold their offices, respectively, during the pleasure of the Board. The Board of Directors (or, as to any assistant or subordinate officer, any committee or officer authorized by the Board) may remove an officer at any time. The removal of an officer does not prejudice any of his contract rights. The Board of Directors (or, as to any assistant or subordinate officer, any committee or officer authorized by the Board) may fill a vacancy which occurs in any office for the unexpired portion of the term. SECTION 4.12. Compensation. The Board of Directors shall have power to fix the salaries and other compensation and remuneration, of whatever kind, of all officers of the Corporation. No officer shall be prevented from receiving such salary by reason of the fact that he or she is also a director of the Corporation. The Board of Directors may authorize any committee or officer, upon whom the power of appointing assistant and subordinate officers may have been conferred, to fix the salaries, compensation and remuneration of such assistant and subordinate officers. ARTICLE V. DIVISIONAL TITLES SECTION 5.01. Conferring Divisional Titles. The Board of Directors may from time to time confer upon any employee of a division of the Corporation the title of President, Vice-President, Treasurer or Controller of such division or any other title or titles deemed appropriate, or may authorize the Chairman of the Board or the President to do so. Any such titles so conferred may be discontinued and withdrawn at any time by the Board of Directors, or by the Chairman of the Board of Directors or the President if so authorized by the Board of Directors. Any employee of a division designated by such a divisional title shall have the powers and duties with respect to such division as shall be prescribed by the Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board or the President. SECTION 5.02. Effect of Divisional Titles. The conferring of divisional titles shall not create an office of the Corporation under Article IV unless specifically designated as such by 16 the Board of Directors; but any person who is an officer of the Corporation may also have a divisional title. ARTICLE VI. STOCK SECTION 6.01. Certificates for Stock. Except as otherwise provided in these Bylaws, this Section shall not be interpreted to limit the authority of the Board of Directors to issue some or all of the shares of any or all of the Corporation's classes or series without certificates. Each stockholder, upon written request to the Secretary of the Corporation, shall be entitled to a certificate or certificates which shall represent and certify the number of shares of each class of stock he or she holds in the Corporation. Each stock certificate shall include on its face the name of the Corporation, the name of the stockholder or other person to whom it is issued, and the class of stock and number of shares it represents. It shall be in such form, not inconsistent with law or with the Charter, as shall be approved by the Board of Directors or any officer or officers designated for such purpose by resolution of the Board of Directors. Each stock certificate shall be signed by the Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the President, or a Vice-President, and countersigned by the Secretary, an Assistant Secretary, the Treasurer, or an Assistant Treasurer. Each certificate may be sealed with the actual corporate seal or a facsimile of it or in any other form and the signatures may be either manual or facsimile signatures. A certificate is valid and may be issued whether or not an officer who signed it is still an officer when it is issued. A certificate may not be issued until the stock represented by it is fully paid. SECTION 6.02. Transfers. The Board of Directors shall have power and authority to make such rules and regulations as it may deem expedient concerning the issue, transfer and registration of certificates of stock; and may appoint transfer agents and registrars thereof. The duties of transfer agent and registrar may be combined. Upon surrender to the Corporation or the transfer agent of the Corporation of a stock certificate duly endorsed or accompanied by proper evidence of succession, assignment or authority to transfer, the Corporation shall issue a new certificate to the person entitled thereto, cancel the old certificate and record the transaction upon its books. The Corporation shall be entitled to treat the holder of record of any share of stock as the holder in fact thereof and, accordingly, shall not be bound to recognize any equitable or other claim to or interest in such share or on the part of any other person, whether or not it shall have express or other notice thereof, except as otherwise provided by the laws of the State of Maryland. Notwithstanding the foregoing, transfers of shares of any class of stock will be subject in all respects to the Charter of the Corporation and all of the terms and conditions contained therein. 17 SECTION 6.03. Record Dates and Closing of Transfer Books. The Board of Directors may set a record date or direct that the stock transfer books be closed for a stated period for the purpose of making any proper determination with respect to stockholders, including which stockholders are entitled to notice of a meeting, vote at a meeting, receive a dividend, or be allotted other rights. The record date may not be prior to the close of business on the day the record date is fixed nor, subject to Section 1.06, more than 90 days before the date on which the action requiring the determination will be taken; the transfer books may not be closed for a period longer than 20 days; and, in the case of a meeting of stockholders, the record date or the closing of the transfer books shall be at least ten days before the date of the meeting. SECTION 6.04. Stock Ledger. The Corporation shall maintain a stock ledger which contains the name and address of each stockholder and the number of shares of stock of each class which the stockholder holds. The stock ledger may be in written form or in any other form which can be converted within a reasonable time into written form for visual inspection. The original or a duplicate of the stock ledger shall be kept at the offices of a transfer agent for the particular class of stock, or, if none, at the principal office in the State of Maryland or the principal executive offices of the Corporation. SECTION 6.05. Certification of Beneficial Owners. The Board of Directors may adopt by resolution a procedure by which a stockholder of the Corporation may certify in writing to the Corporation that any shares of stock registered in the name of the stockholder are held for the account of a specified person other than the stockholder. The resolution shall set forth the class of stockholders who may certify; the purpose for which the certification may be made; the form of certification and the information to be contained in it; if the certification is with respect to a record date or closing of the stock transfer books, the time after the record date or closing of the stock transfer books within which the certification must be received by the Corporation; and any other provisions with respect to the procedure which the Board considers necessary or desirable. On receipt of a certification which complies with the procedure adopted by the Board in accordance with this Section, the person specified in the certification is, for the purpose set forth in the certification, the holder of record of the specified stock in place of the stockholder who makes the certification. SECTION 6.06. Lost Stock Certificates. The Board of Directors of the Corporation may determine the conditions for issuing a new stock certificate in place of one which is alleged to have been lost, stolen, or destroyed, or the Board of Directors may delegate such power to any officer or officers of the Corporation. In their discretion, the Board of Directors or such officer or officers may refuse to issue such new certificate save upon the order of some court having jurisdiction in the premises. When authorizing the issuance of a new certificate, an officer designated by the Board of Directors may, in his or her discretion and as a condition precedent to the issuance thereof, require the owner of such lost, stolen or destroyed certificate or the owner's legal representative to give bond, with sufficient surety, to the Corporation to indemnify it against any loss or claim which may arise as a result of the issuance of a new certificate. SECTION 6.07. Fractional Stock; Issuance of Units. The Board of Directors may issue fractional stock or provide for the issuance of scrip, all on such terms and under such conditions as they may determine. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Charter or these 18 Bylaws, the Board of Directors may issue units consisting of different securities of the Corporation. Any security issued in a unit shall have the same characteristics as any identical securities issued by the Corporation, except that the Board of Directors may provide that for a specified period securities of the Corporation issued in such unit may be transferred on the books of the Corporation only in such unit. SECTION 6.08. Exemption from Control Share Acquisition Statute. The provisions of Sections 3-701 to 3-709 of the Corporations and Associations Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland shall not apply to any share of the capital stock of the Corporation owned by a member of the Agree-Rosenberg Group (as defined in the Charter), any other officers or employees of the Corporation, any of the associates or affiliates of the foregoing and any other person acting in concert or as a group with any of the foregoing and any other person, as determined by the Board of Directors, in their sole discretion, and such shares of capital stock are exempted from such Sections to the fullest extent permitted by Maryland law. ARTICLE VII. FINANCE SECTION 7.01. Checks, Drafts, Etc. All checks, drafts and orders for the payment of money, notes and other evidences of indebtedness, issued in the name of the Corporation, shall, unless otherwise provided by resolution of the Board of Directors, be signed by the President, a Vice-President or an Assistant Vice-President and countersigned by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary. SECTION 7.02. Annual Statement of Affairs. The President or chief accounting officer shall prepare annually a full and correct statement of the affairs of the Corporation, to include a balance sheet and a financial statement of operations for the preceding fiscal year. The statement of affairs shall be submitted at the annual meeting of the stockholders and, within 20 days after the meeting, placed on file at the Corporation's principal office. SECTION 7.03. Fiscal Year. The fiscal year of the Corporation shall be the twelve calendar months period ending December 31 in each year, unless otherwise provided by the Board of Directors. SECTION 7.04. Dividends. If declared by the Board of Directors at any meeting thereof, the Corporation may pay dividends on its shares in cash, property, or in shares of the capital stock of the Corporation, unless such dividend is contrary to law or to a restriction contained in the Charter. SECTION 7.05. Contracts. To the extent permitted by applicable law, and except as otherwise prescribed by the Charter or these Bylaws with respect to certificates for shares, the Board of Directors may authorize any officer, employee, or agent of the Corporation to enter into any contract or execute and deliver any instrument in the name of and on behalf of the Corporation. Such authority may be general or confined to specific instances. 19 ARTICLE VIII. INDEMNIFICATION AND ADVANCE OF EXPENSES SECTION 8.01. Procedure. To the maximum extent permitted by Maryland law in effect from time to time, the Corporation shall indemnify and, without requiring a preliminary determination of the ultimate entitlement to indemnification, shall pay or reimburse reasonable expenses in advance of final disposition of a proceeding to (a) any individual who is a present or former director or officer of the Corporation and who is made or threatened to be made a party to the proceeding by reason of his or her service in that capacity or (b) any individual who, while a director or officer of the Corporation and at the request of the Corporation, serves or has served as a director, officer, partner or trustee of another entity and who is made or threatened to be made a party to the proceeding by reason of his or her service in that capacity. The Corporation may, with the approval of its Board of Directors or any duly authorized committee thereof, provide such indemnification and advance for expenses to a person who served a predecessor of the Corporation in any of the capacities described in (a) or (b) above and to any employee or agent of the Corporation or a predecessor of the Corporation. Any indemnification, or payment of expenses in advance of the final disposition of any proceeding, shall be made promptly, and in any event within 60 days, upon the written request of the director or officer entitled to seek indemnification (the "Indemnified Party"). The right to indemnification and advances hereunder shall be enforceable by the Indemnified Party in any court of competent jurisdiction, if the Corporation denies such request, in whole or in part, or no disposition thereof is made within 60 days. The Indemnified Party's costs and expenses incurred in connection with successfully establishing his right to indemnification, in whole or in part, in any such action shall also be reimbursed by the Corporation. It shall be a defense to any action for advance for expenses that (a) a determination has been made that the facts then known to those making the determination would preclude indemnification or (b) the Corporation has not received both (i) an undertaking as required by law to repay such advances in the event it shall ultimately be determined that the standard of conduct has not been met and (ii) a written affirmation by the Indemnified Party of such Indemnified Party's good faith belief that the standard of conduct necessary for indemnification by the Corporation has been met. SECTION 8.02. Exclusivity, Etc. The indemnification and advance of expenses provided by the Charter and these Bylaws shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which a person seeking indemnification or advance of expenses may be entitled under any law (common or statutory), or any agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested directors or other provision that is consistent with law, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding office or while employed by or acting as agent for the Corporation, shall continue in respect of all events occurring while a person was a director or officer after such person has ceased to be a director or officer, and shall inure to the benefit of the estate, heirs, executors and administrators of such person. All rights to indemnification and advance of expenses under the Charter of the Corporation and hereunder shall be deemed to be a contract between the Corporation and each director or officer of the Corporation who serves or 20 served in such capacity at any time while this By-Law is in effect. Nothing herein shall prevent the amendment of this By-Law, provided that no such amendment shall diminish the rights of any person hereunder with respect to events occurring or claims made before its adoption or as to claims made after its adoption in respect of events occurring before its adoption. Any repeal or modification of this By-Law shall not in any way diminish any rights to indemnification or advance of expenses of such director or officer or the obligations of the Corporation arising hereunder with respect to events occurring, or claims made, while this By-Law or any provision hereof is in force. SECTION 8.03. Severability; Definitions. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of this Article VIII shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision hereof. The phrase "this By-Law" in this Article VIII means this Article VIII in its entirety. ARTICLE IX. SUNDRY PROVISIONS SECTION 9.01. Books and Records. The Corporation shall keep correct and complete books and records of its accounts and transactions and minutes of the proceedings of its stockholders and Board of Directors and of any executive or other committee when exercising any of the powers of the Board of Directors. The books and records of a Corporation may be in written form or in any other form which can be converted within a reasonable time into written form for visual inspection. Minutes shall be recorded in written form but may be maintained in the form of a reproduction. The original or a certified copy of the Bylaws shall be kept at the principal office of the Corporation. SECTION 9.02. Corporate Seal. The Board of Directors shall provide a suitable seal, bearing the name of the Corporation, which shall be in the charge of the Secretary. The Board of Directors may authorize one or more duplicate seals and provide for the custody thereof. If the Corporation is required to place its corporate seal to a document, it is sufficient to meet the requirement of any law, rule, or regulation relating to a corporate seal to place the word "Seal" adjacent to the signature of the person authorized to sign the document on behalf of the Corporation. SECTION 9.03. Bonds. The Board of Directors may require any officer, agent or employee of the Corporation to give a bond to the Corporation, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties, with one or more sureties and in such amount as may be satisfactory to the Board of Directors. SECTION 9.04. Voting Upon Shares in Other Corporations. Stock of other corporations or associations, registered in the name of the Corporation, may be voted by the President, a Vice-President, or a proxy appointed by either of them. The Board of Directors, however, may by resolution appoint some other person to vote such shares, in which case such person shall be entitled to vote such shares upon the production of a certified copy of such resolution. 21 SECTION 9.05. Mail. Any notice or other document which is required by these Bylaws to be mailed shall be deposited in the United States mails, postage prepaid. SECTION 9.06. Execution of Documents. A person who holds more than one office in the Corporation may not act in more than one capacity to execute, acknowledge, or verify an instrument required by law to be executed, acknowledged, or verified by more than one officer. SECTION 9.07. Reliance. Each director, officer, employee and agent of the Corporation shall, in the performance of his or her duties with respect to the Corporation, be fully justified and protected with regard to any act or failure to act in reliance in good faith upon the books of account or other records of the Corporation, upon an opinion of counsel or upon reports made to the Corporation by any of its officers or employees or by the adviser, accountants, appraisers or other experts or consultants selected by the Board of Directors or officers of the Corporation, regardless of whether such counsel or expert may also be a director. SECTION 9.08. Certain Rights of Directors, Officers, Employees and Agents. The directors shall have no responsibility to devote their full time to the affairs of the Corporation. Any director or officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, in his or her personal capacity or in a capacity as an affiliate, employee, or agent or any other person, or otherwise, may have business interests and engage in business activities similar to or in addition to those of or relating to the Corporation. SECTION 9.09. Amendments. Subject to the special provisions of Section 2.02, in accordance with the Charter, these Bylaws may be repealed, altered, amended or rescinded by the vote of two-thirds of the Board of Directors (including at least a majority of the Independent Directors) at a meeting held in accordance with the provisions of these Bylaws. 22 EX-10.28 3 k13184exv10w28.txt THIRD AMENDED & RESTATED LINE OF CREDIT EXHIBIT 10.28 ================================================================================ THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED LINE OF CREDIT AGREEMENT BETWEEN AGREE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AND AGREE REALTY CORPORATION AND LASALLE BANK MIDWEST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION INDIVIDUALLY AND AS AGENT FOR THE LENDERS AND TOGETHER WITH FIFTH THIRD BANK LENDERS DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 27, 2006 $50,000,000.00 ================================================================================ THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED LINE OF CREDIT AGREEMENT THIS THIRD AMENDED AND RESTATED LINE OF CREDIT AGREEMENT ("Agreement"), dated as of November 27, 2006, is made among AGREE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a Delaware limited partnership ("Borrower"), AGREE REALTY CORPORATION, a Maryland corporation (the "Company"), and LASALLE BANK MIDWEST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association (formerly known as Standard Federal Bank, N.A.), individually and as Agent for the Lenders ("Agent"), and together with FIFTH THIRD BANK, a Michigan banking corporation ("Fifth Third") as Lenders. RECITALS Borrower, the Company, Agent and Bank One, N.A. have been parties to a Second Amended and Restated Line of Credit Agreement dated as of November 3, 2006 (the "Line of Credit Agreement"). Lenders, Borrower and Company wish to make certain technical amendments and clarifications to the Line of Credit Agreement. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of their mutual covenants and agreements set forth in this Agreement, the parties hereto agree as follows: Borrower and Company acknowledge and admit that the Obligations under the Line of Credit Agreement dated November 3, 2006, are in full force and effect in accordance with their terms and neither the Borrower or Company have any defenses, setoffs or counter-claims with respect thereto or with respect to the existing Line of Credit Agreement ("Prior Agreement"). Further, as of the date hereof, Borrower and Company acknowledge that the outstanding Advances under the Prior Agreement are in the amount of $____________ with interest paid to _____________ 30, 2006 and that there are no defenses, setoffs or counter-claims with respect to such Advances. SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS. DEFINITIONS. The following terms shall have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires. Defined terms in this Agreement shall include in the singular number the plural and in the plural number the singular. "ADJUSTED FUNDS FROM OPERATION" means, for the period for which it is to be determined, the operating income of Borrower and the Company for such period, less operating expenses of Borrower and the Company for such period, determined in accordance with GAAP, calculated on a basis consistent with the definitions of Net Operating Income and Operating Expenses herein; but including in operating expenses all general and administrative expenses, and excluding operating income and expenses resulting from (i) cumulative changes in accounting practices, (ii) discontinued operations, (iii) extraordinary items, (iv) net income of a Subsidiary that is unavailable to Borrower or the Company, (iv) net income not readily convertible into Dollars or remittable to the United States, and (v) net income from corporations, partnerships, associations, joint ventures or other entities in which Borrower or the Company or a Subsidiary has a minority interest or in which Borrower or the Company does not have control, 2 except to the extent actually received. For the purpose of this definition, "control" means the possession directly or indirectly of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise. "ADJUSTED NET WORTH" means Borrower's and Company's total assets (excluding intangible assets) less total liabilities, determined in accordance with GAAP. "ADVANCE" means each advance and readvance of the principal amount of the Loan. "AFFILIATE" means, with reference to a specified Person, any Person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the specified Person and any Subsidiaries of such specified Person. "AGENT" means Agent or any successor Agent appointed pursuant to Section 8. "AGREEMENT" means this Second Amended and Restated Line of Credit Agreement as the same may from time to time hereafter be modified, supplemented or amended. "ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET" has the meaning provided in Section 5.1. "APPLICABLE LAWS" means all existing and future federal, state and local laws, statutes, orders, ordinances, rules, and regulations or orders, writs, injunctions or decrees of any court affecting Borrower or any Property, or the use thereof including, but not limited to, all laws regarding the operation of the Properties, all zoning, fire safety and building codes, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and all Environmental Laws (as defined in the Environmental Indemnity) and Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, as amended by the Housing and Community Developmental Act of 1974. "ASSET DISPOSITION" shall mean the sale, lease, assignment or other transfer for value (each a "Disposition") by the Borrower or Company to any Person (other than the Borrower or Company) of any asset or right of the Borrower or Company (including, the loss, destruction or damage of any thereof or any actual or threatened (in writing to the Borrower or Company) condemnation, confiscation, requisition, seizure or taking thereof), other than (a) the Disposition of any asset which is to be replaced, and is in fact replaced, within thirty (30) days with another asset performing the same or a similar function, (b) the sale or lease of inventory in the ordinary course of business. "AVAILABLE LOAN AMOUNT" means $50,000,000, as the same may be subsequently increased pursuant to Section 5.13, but in no event to exceed the Borrowing Base. "BANKRUPTCY CODE" means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled "Bankruptcy", as amended from time to time, and any successor statute or statutes and all rules and regulations from time to time promulgated thereunder, and any comparable foreign laws relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or creditors' rights. "BASE RATE" means, at any particular date, the Prime Rate minus 0.75% 3 "BASE RATE MARGIN" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.6. "BASE RATE PORTION" means the portion of the Loan made and/or being maintained at a rate of interest based upon the Base Rate. "BORROWER" has the meaning assigned to such term in the first paragraph of this Agreement. "BORROWING BASE" shall mean an amount equal to the lesser of (i) 60% of the Capital Value of the Borrowing Base Properties and (ii) the Pro-Forma Debt Amount. "BORROWING BASE CERTIFICATE" means a certificate in form attached as Exhibit A. "BORROWING BASE COVENANT" is defined in section 5.13, below. "BORROWING BASE PROPERTY" means each Property that is designated by Borrower in a Borrowing Base Certificate to be part of the Borrowing Base. "BUSINESS DAY" means (i) for all purposes other than as covered by clause (ii) below, any day excluding Saturday, Sunday and any day which shall be in Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois a legal holiday or a day on which Agent, any Lender or banking institutions are authorized or required by law or other government actions to close, and (ii) with respect to all notices and determinations in connection with, and payments of principal and interest on, LIBOR Portions, any day which is a Business Day described in clause (i) and which is also a day for trading by and between banks for U.S. dollar deposits in the relevant interbank LIBOR market. "CAP RATE" means 7.5% as to any Property that is 100% occupied by Walgreen's and 8.5% as to any other Property, provided however, that Agent may increase such Cap Rates at any time to reflect changes in market conditions, and the Required Lenders may decrease such Cap Rates at any time to reflect changes in market conditions. "CAPITAL VALUE" means, as of any date, the Net Operating Income from each Property for the most recently ended twelve (12) month period divided by the appropriate Cap Rate. "CAPITALIZED LEASE" as to any Person means (i) any lease of property, real or personal, the Obligations under which are capitalized on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries, and (ii) any other such lease to the extent that the then present value of the minimum rental commitment thereunder should, in accordance with GAAP, be capitalized on a balance sheet of the lessee. "CAPITALIZED LEASE OBLIGATIONS" as to any Person means all obligations of such Person under or in respect of Capitalized Leases. "CLOSING DATE" means the date of this Agreement. "CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, and any successor statute, together with all rules and regulations from time to time promulgated thereunder. 4 "COMMITMENT" means the commitment of each Lender to make its Pro Rata Share of Advances pursuant to Section 2.1(a), up to the amount set forth below the signature of each Lender on the signature page of this Agreement. "CONSOLIDATED TANGIBLE NET WORTH" means the sum of (i) total stockholders equity of Borrower and the Company on a consolidated basis, less intangible assets, determined in accordance with GAAP as of the end of each fiscal quarter of Borrower and the Company. "COMPANY" means Agree Realty Corporation, a Maryland corporation, the sole general partner of Borrower. "CONTINGENT OBLIGATION" as to any Person means any obligation of such Person guaranteeing or intended to guarantee any Indebtedness, leases (including Capitalized Leases) dividends or other obligations ("primary obligations") of any other Person (the "primary obligor") in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor,(ii) to advance or supply funds (x) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation or (y) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth, solvency or other financial condition of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that the term Contingent Obligation shall not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Contingent Obligation is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder) as determined by such Person in good faith. "CONTROL" means in (a) in the case of a corporation, ownership, directly or through ownership of other entities, of at least ten percent (10%) of all the voting stock (exclusive of stock which is voting only as required by applicable law or in the event of nonpayment of dividends and pays dividends only on a nonparticipating basis at a fixed or floating rate), and (b) in the case of any other entity, ownership, directly or through ownership of other entities, of at least ten percent (10%) of all of the beneficial equity interests therein (calculated by a method that excludes from equity interests, ownership interests that are nonvoting (except as required by applicable law or in the event of nonpayment of dividends or distributions) and pay dividends or distributions only on a non-participating basis at a fixed or floating rate) or, in any case, (c) the power directly or indirectly, to direct or control, or cause the direction of, the management policies of another Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, general partnership interests, common directors, trustees, officers by contract or otherwise. The terms "controlled" and "controlling" shall have meanings correlative to the foregoing definition of "Control." 5 "DEBT SERVICE COVERAGE RATIO" means for the period for which it is to be determined, the ratio of (a) EBITDA to (b) Total Debt Service, calculated on an annual basis as of December 31 of each year. "DEFAULT" means any event, act or condition which, with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default. "DEFAULT RATE" means the rate per annum determined by adding 4% to the Effective Base Rate. "DEPRECIATION" shall mean the total amounts added to depreciation, amortization, obsolescence, valuation and other proper reserves, as reflected on the Borrower's financial statements and determined in accordance with GAAP. "DISTRIBUTION" means any dividends (other than dividends payable solely in common stock), distributions, return of capital to any stockholders, general or limited partners or members, other payments, distributions or delivery of property or cash to stockholders, general or limited partners or members, or any redemption, retirement, purchase or other acquisition, directly or indirectly, of any shares of any class of capital stock now or hereafter outstanding (or any options or warrants issued with respect to capital stock) general or limited partnership interest, or the setting aside of any funds for the foregoing. "DOLLARS" and the symbol "$" each mean the lawful money of the United States of America. "DRAW PERIOD" shall mean the period commencing on the date hereof and expiring on the date which is thirty-six (36) months after the date hereof. "EBITDA" shall mean for any period, (a) the sum for such period of: (i) Net Income, plus, (ii) Interest Charges, plus (iii) federal and state income taxes, plus (iv) Depreciation, plus (v) non-cash management compensation expense, plus (vi) all other non-cash charges. "EFFECTIVE BASE RATE" means the Base Rate plus the Base Rate Margin as from time to time is in effect. "EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN" shall mean an employee benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA. "ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time and any successor statute, together with all rules and regulations promulgated thereunder. Section references to ERISA are to ERISA, as in effect at the date of this Agreement and any provisions of ERISA substituted therefor. "ERISA CONTROLLED GROUP" means any corporation or entity or trade or business or person that is a member of any group described in Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code of which Borrower or the Company is a member. "EVENT OF DEFAULT" has have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7. 6 "FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD" means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as constituted from time to time, or any successor thereto in function. "FIRREA" means the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended from time to time. "FUNDING COSTS" means all amounts payable in respect of any Lender or Participant pursuant to Section 2.16. "FUNDS FROM OPERATIONS" means consolidated net income (loss) of Borrower and the Company calculated in accordance with GAAP, excluding gains (or losses) from debt restructuring and sales (or adjustments to basis of properties or other assets), plus non-cash charges (primarily depreciation and amortization), and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures, which adjustments shall be calculated on the same basis. "FURNISHED INFORMATION" has the meaning assigned to such terms in Section 4.15. "GAAP" means United States generally accepted accounting principles on the date hereof and as in effect from time to time during the term of this Agreement, and consistent with those utilized in the preparation of the financial statements referred to in Section 5.1. "GUARANTOR" means Agree Realty Corporation, a Maryland corporation, the sole general partner of Borrower. "GUARANTY" means the Guaranty from the Company to Lenders dated the Closing Date, and any amendment or supplement thereto or any restatement thereof "INDEBTEDNESS" of any Person including Borrower shall mean, without duplication, (i) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money or for the deferred purchase price of property or services, (ii) all indebtedness of such Person evidenced by a note, bond, debenture or similar instrument, (iii) the face amount of all letters of credit issued for the account of such Person and, without duplication, all unreimbursed amounts drawn thereunder, (iv) all indebtedness of any other Person secured by any Lien on any property owned by such Person, whether or not such indebtedness has been assumed, (v) all Contingent Obligations of such Person, (vi) all payment obligations of such Person under any interest rate protection agreement (including, without limitation, any interest rate swaps, caps, floors, collars and similar agreements) and currency swaps and similar agreements, (vii) all indebtedness and liabilities secured by any Lien or mortgage on any property of such Person, whether or not the same would be classified as a liability on a balance sheet, (viii) the liability of such Person in respect of banker's acceptances and the estimated liability under any participating mortgage, convertible mortgage or similar arrangement, (ix) the aggregate amount of rentals or other consideration payable by such Person in accordance with GAAP over the remaining unexpired term of all Capitalized Leases, and (x) all indebtedness, contingent obligations, etc. of any partnership in which such Person holds a general partnership interest. "INDEMNITEE" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.1(c). 7 "INTEREST CHARGES" shall mean, for any period, the sum of: (a) all interest, charges and related expenses payable with respect to that fiscal period to a lender in connection with borrowed money or the deferred purchase price of assets that are treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, plus (b) the portion of Capitalized Lease Obligations with respect to that fiscal period that should be treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, plus (c) all charges paid or payable (without duplication) during that period with respect to any Hedging Agreements. "INTEREST PERIOD" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.7. "LAW" means any law (including common law), constitution, statute, treaty, regulation, rule, ordinance, order, injunction, writ, decree or award of any Official Body. "LENDERS" means Agent and Fifth Third and their respective successors and assigns as permitted hereunder, each of which is referred to as a Lender, or any New Lender pursuant to Section 2.25. "LEVERAGE" means the ratio of (i) Indebtedness owed by Borrower and Guarantor, minus Indebtedness owed to limited partners of Borrower, to (ii) the Capital Value of Borrower's Properties. "LIBOR ADVANCE" means the principal amount of any portion of any Advance or other Indebtedness bearing interest at the LIBOR Rate. "LIBOR MARGIN" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.6. "LIBOR PORTION" means each portion of the Loan made and/or being maintained at a rate of interest calculated by reference to the LIBOR Rate for the same Interest Period. "LIBOR RATE" shall mean, with respect to any Interest Period, the quotient of: (i) the Base LIBOR Rate applicable to that Interest Period, divided by (ii) one (1) minus the Reserve Requirement (expressed as a decimal) applicable to the Interest Period. "Base LIBOR Rate" shall mean, with respect to an Interest Period, LIBOR as of 11:00 a.m. two (2) London Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period. "LIBOR" shall mean, with respect to an Interest Period, the British Bankers' Association ("BBA") interest settlement rate based on an average of rates quoted by BBA designated banks as being, in BBA's view, the offered rate at which deposits in U.S. Dollars are being quoted to prime banks in the London interbank market at 11:00 a.m. (London time) two (2) London Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, such deposits being for a period of time equal or comparable to such Interest Period and in an amount equal or comparable to the outstanding LIBOR Portion, as such rates are determined by Agent and displayed on the page designated "LIBO" on the Reuter Monitor System or such other display on the Reuter Monitor System as shall display LIBOR. "Reserve Requirement" shall mean, with respect to an Interest Period, the daily average during such Interest Period of the aggregate reserve requirement (including all basic, supplemental, marginal and other reserves and taking into account any transitional adjustments or other scheduled changes in reserve requirements during such Interest Period) which may be imposed on Standard Federal under Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on Eurocurrency liabilities. "London Business Day" shall mean a day on which the main office of 8 Agent is open for business and dealings in dollar deposits are carried out in the London interbank market and on which banks, generally, in New York, New York are open for business. "LIEN" means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), or preference, priority or other security agreement of any kind or nature whatsoever, including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any financing lease having substantially the same effect as any of the foregoing and the filing of any financing statement or similar instrument under the Uniform Commercial Code or comparable law of any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign. "LOAN" means in the aggregate, the Advances made to Borrower under this Agreement and the Notes pursuant to the terms hereof, the aggregate principal amount of which shall not exceed the Maximum Loan Amount. "LOAN DOCUMENTS" means this Agreement, the Notes and the Guaranty. "LOAN PORTION" shall mean each Base Rate Portion and each LIBOR Portion of the Loan. "MARGIN STOCK" has the meaning assigned to such term in Regulation U and Regulation G of the Federal Reserve Board. "MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT" means any condition which causes or continues the occurrence of an Event of Default or has a material adverse effect upon (i) the business, operations, properties, assets, prospects or condition (financial or otherwise) of Borrower or the Company, individually or taken as a whole, or (ii) the ability of Borrower or the Company to perform, or of Agent, any Lender, or any Participant to enforce, any of the Obligations. "MATURITY DATE" shall mean the date that is three years after the Termination Date or such earlier date on which the principal balance of the Loan and all other sums due in connection with the Loan shall be due as a result of the acceleration of the Loan. "MAXIMUM LOAN AMOUNT" means $50,000,000, as such amount shall be reduced pursuant to Section 2.10 or increased pursuant to Section 2.25 or otherwise reduced pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement. "MAXIMUM LEGAL RATE" means the maximum nonusurious interest rate, if any, that at any time or from time to time may be contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received on the indebtedness evidenced by the Note and as provided for herein or the other Loan Documents, under the laws of such state or states whose laws are held by any court of competent jurisdiction to govern the interest rate provisions of the Loan. "MOODYS" means Moody's Corporation. "MULTIEMPLOYER PLAN" means a Plan which is a "multiemployer plan" as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA. 9 "NET INCOME" shall mean, with respect to the Borrower for any period, the net income (or loss) of the Borrower and Company for such period as determined in accordance with GAAP, excluding any gains from Asset Dispositions, and extraordinary gains and any gains from discontinued operations. "NET OPERATING INCOME" means, with respect to any Borrowing Base Property, the gross income derived from the operation of such Property calculated on a trailing twelve-month basis, less Operating Expenses attributable to such Property calculated on a trailing twelve-month basis, accounted for on an accrual basis, in accordance with GAAP, including any rent loss or business interruption insurance proceeds, and water and sewer charges, which are actually received and Operating Expenses actually paid or payable on an accrual basis attributable to such Property as set forth on operating statements satisfactory to Agent. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Net Operating Income shall not include (i) any condemnation or insurance proceeds (excluding rent or business interruption insurance proceeds), (ii) any proceeds resulting from the sale, exchange, transfer, financing or refinancing of all or any portion of the Property for which it is to be determined, (iii) amounts received from tenants as security deposits, (iv) amounts received from Affiliates of Borrower or the Company, which amounts do not represent pass-through rent payments received from bona-fide third party tenants, (v) interest income, and (vi) any type of income otherwise included in Net Operating Income but paid directly by any tenant to a Person other than Borrower or the Company or its agents or representatives. "NON-USE FEE" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.14. "NON-USE FEE DUE DATE" shall mean the date which is five (5) business days after the date Agent has furnished Borrower with an invoice showing the amount of the Non-Use Fee and a calculation of the same. "NOTE" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.5. "NOTICE OF BORROWING" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.3. "NOTICE OF CONVERSION OR CONTINUATION" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.8(b). "OBLIGATIONS" shall mean all payment, performance and other Obligations, liabilities and Indebtedness of every nature of Borrower from time to time owing to Agent and Lenders under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including, without limitation, all sums which now or hereafter become due to Agent on account of any Rate Management Transaction (hereafter defined). For the purposes hereof, "Rate Management Transaction" means any transaction (including an agreement with respect thereto) now existing or hereafter entered into among Borrower and Agent or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates or their successors, which is a rate swap, basis swap, forward rate transaction, commodities swap, commodity option, equity or equity index swap, equity or equity index option, bond option, interest rate option, foreign exchange transaction, cap transaction, floor transaction, collar transaction, forward transaction, currency swap transaction, cross currency rate swap transaction, currency option, or any other similar transaction or any combination thereof, whether linked to one or 10 more interest rates, foreign currencies, commodity prices, equity prices or other financial measures. "OFFICIAL BODY" means any national, federal, state, local or other government or political subdivision or any agency, authority, bureau, central bank, commission, department or instrumentality of either, or any court, tribunal, grand jury or arbitrator, in each case whether foreign or domestic. "OPERATING EXPENSES" means with respect to any Property, for any given period (and shall include the pro rata portion for such period of all such expenses attributable to, but not paid during, such period), all expenses to be paid or payable, as determined in accordance with GAAP, by Borrower or the Company during that period in connection with the operation of such Property for which it is to be determined, including without limitation: (i) expenses for cleaning, repair, maintenance, decoration and painting of such Property (including, without limitation, parking lots and roadways), net of any insurance proceeds in respect of any of the foregoing; (ii) wages (including overtime payments), benefits, payroll taxes and all other related expenses for Borrower and the Company's on-site personnel, engaged in the repair, operation and maintenance of such Property and service to tenants and on-site personnel engaged in audit and accounting functions performed by Borrower; (iii) actual management fees, if any, together with any allocated management fees or similar fees received from tenants or other parties. Such fees shall include all fees for management services whether such services are performed at such Property or off-site; (iv) the cost of all electricity, oil, gas, water, steam, heat, ventilation, air conditioning and any other energy, utility or similar item and the cost of building and cleaning supplies; (v) the cost of any leasing commissions and tenant concessions or improvements payable by Borrower, the Company pursuant to any leases which are in effect for such Property at the commencement of that period as such costs are recognized in accordance with GAAP, but on no less than a straight line basis over the remaining term of the respective Lease, exclusive of any renewal or extension or similar options; (vi) rent, liability, casualty and fidelity insurance premiums; (vii) legal, accounting and other professional fees and expenses; (viii) the cost of all equipment to be used in the ordinary course of business, which is not capitalized in accordance with GAAP; (ix) real estate and other taxes; (x) advertising and other marketing costs and expenses; 11 (xi) casualty losses to the extent not reimbursed by a third party; (xii) any ground lease payments; and (xiii) all amounts that should be reserved, as reasonably determined by Borrower and the Company with approval by Agent in its reasonable discretion, for repair or maintenance of the Property and to maintain the value of the Property. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Operating Expenses shall not include (i) depreciation or amortization or any other non-cash item of expense; (ii) interest, principal, fees, costs and expense reimbursements of Agent in administering the Loan but not in exercising any of its rights under this Agreement or the Loan Documents; or (iii) any expenditure (other than leasing commissions, tenant concessions and improvements, and replacement reserves) which is properly treatable as a capital item under GAAP. "PARTICIPANT" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 8. "PARTNERSHIP UNIT" means a "Partnership Unit" of Borrower as defined in the First Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of Borrower dated April 22, 1994. "PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established under ERISA, or any successor thereto. "PERMITTED LIENS" has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.1. "PERSON" means and includes any individual, partnership, joint venture, firm, corporation, association, company, trust or other enterprise or any government or political subdivision or agency, department or instrumentality thereof. "PLAN" means any employee benefit plan covered by Title IV of ERISA or which is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, for which Borrower, Guarantor or any member of Borrower's or Guarantor's ERISA Controlled Group has or may have any obligation or liability, whether direct or indirect. "PRIME RATE" means the interest rate announced from time to time by Agent as its then prime rate, which rate is not necessarily the lowest rate then being charged to commercial borrowers by Agent or the rate being charged to any other borrower. "PRO-FORMA DEBT AMOUNT" means the assumed principal amount of indebtedness that would result from applying a 1.5:1.0 debt service coverage requirement to the Net Operating Income of the Borrowing Base Properties. "PRO-FORMA LOAN DEBT SERVICE" means total annual debt service payable on the Loan, assuming an outstanding principal amount equal to the Available Loan Amount, a principal amortization term of twenty-five (25) years, and an interest rate equal to the 10-year U.S. Treasury Rate plus 1.75%. 12 "PROPERTY AND PROPERTIES" means a commercial real estate property that is (i) owned by Borrower, (ii) unencumbered by any Lien; and (iii) of which at least 75% of the rentable space is occupied by a tenant or tenants under written leases. "PRO RATA SHARE" means with respect to the Commitment of a Lender (including the making or repayment of the Loan or the payment of fees to Lenders pursuant to Section 2.14(a), (b) and (c)), the percentage obtained by dividing the Commitment of such Lender by the total Commitments of all Lenders, as such percentage may be adjusted by assignments permitted pursuant to Section 8, or increases or decreases pursuant to Section 2.25. "REGULATION D" means Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Board as from time to time in effect and any successor to all or any portion thereof. "RENTS" means all cash, securities, if any, or other cash equivalents, if any, deposited to secure the performance by the lessees of their Obligations under the leases and other agreements effecting the use, occupancy or enjoyment of the Properties, together with all income; rents, additional rents, revenues, issues and profits (including all oil and gas or other mineral royalties and bonuses) and all pass-throughs and tenant's required contributions for taxes, maintenance and utility costs, tenant improvements, leasing commissions, capital expenditures and other items, from the Properties and all proceeds from the sale, termination or other disposition of said leases. "REPORTABLE EVENT" has the meaning set forth in Section 4043(b) of ERISA (other than a Reportable Event as to which the provision of 30 days' notice to the PBGC is waived under applicable regulations). "REQUIRED LENDERS" means Lenders whose aggregate Commitments equals or exceeds 66-2/3% of the aggregate Commitments, excluding from both the numerator and denominator, however, any Lender then in default for a continuous period greater than ten (10) Business Days of any obligation for the payment of money to the Agent in respect of its Pro Rata Share of an Advance or other expense or liability for which the Agent has in writing requested reimbursement or indemnification and which the Lenders have agreed to pay by the respective terms, and within the respective meanings, of this Agreement. "S&P" means Standard & Poor's Corporation. "SOLVENT" as to any Person means that (i) the sum of the assets of such Person, at a fair valuation based upon appraisals or comparable valuation, will exceed its liabilities, including contingent liabilities, (ii) such Person will have sufficient capital with which to conduct its business as presently conducted and as proposed to be conducted and (iii) such Person has not incurred debts, and does not intend to incur debts, beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature. For purposes of this definition, "debt" means any liability on a claim, and "claim" means (x) a right to payment, whether or not such right is reduced to judgment, liquidated, unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, legal, equitable, secured, or unsecured, or (y) a right to an equitable remedy for breach of performance if such breach gives rise to a payment, whether or not such right to an equitable remedy is reduced to judgment, fixed, contingent, matured, unmatured, disputed, undisputed, secured, or unsecured. With respect to 13 any such Contingent Liabilities, such liabilities shall be computed in accordance with GAAP at the amount which, in light of all the facts and circumstances existing at the time, represents the amount which can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability. "SUBSIDIARY" means, with respect to any Person, any corporation, partnership, association or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of stock (or equivalent ownership or controlling interest) entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or trustee thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one or more Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof. A list of the Subsidiaries of Borrower are set forth on Schedule 2 hereto. "TERMINATION DATE" means the date on which the Draw Period expires. "TERMINATION EVENT" means (i) a Reportable Event, or (ii) the initiation of any action by Borrower or the Company, any member of Borrower, the Company, any ERISA Controlled Group or any other person to terminate a Plan or the treatment of an amendment to an ERISA Plan as a termination under ERISA, in either case, which would result in liability to Borrower, the Company, or any of their ERISA Controlled Group in excess of $100,000, (iii) the institution of proceedings by the PBGC under Section 4042 of ERISA to terminate an ERISA Plan or to appoint a trustee to administer any ERISA Plan, (iv) any partial or total withdrawal from a Multiemployer Plan which in either case, which would result in liability to Borrower, the Company, or any of their ERISA Controlled Groups in excess of $100,000, or (v) the taking of any action that would require security to the Plan under Section 401(a)(29) of the Code. "TOTAL DEBT SERVICE" means for the period for which it is to be determined, the amount of interest and regularly scheduled principal payments payable during such period in respect of Indebtedness of Borrower and the Company, taking into account any interest rate swap, cap or other interest rate management agreement; provided that the entity providing such interest rate management agreement maintains a credit rating by S&P of equal to or exceeding "A" or the equivalent rating by Moodys. "TOTAL FACILITY FUNDED DEBT" means, as of any date, the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Loan and of the $5,000,000 loan from Agent to Borrower as evidenced by Amended and Restated Promissory Note (Line of Credit) dated September 21, 1995, and by any and all amendments, restatements, replacements, renewals, or extensions thereof. "TOTAL INTEREST BEARING FUNDED DEBT" means, as of any date, the outstanding principal amount of interest bearing Indebtedness for borrowed money of Borrower and the Company. "TOTAL INTEREST EXPENSE" means, for the period for which it is to be determined, the aggregate of all interest paid or payable by Borrower and the Company with respect to Indebtedness, as determined in accordance with GAAP, taking into account any interest rate swap, cap or other interest rate management agreement; provided that the entity providing such interest rate management agreement maintains a credit rating by S&P of equal to or exceeding "A" or the equivalent rating by Moodys. 14 "TOTAL MARKET CAPITAL" means, as of any date, the sum of (i) Total Interest Bearing Funded Debt, and (ii) the product of the market value per share of the common stock of the Company calculated on the basis of the closing quotation published in the section entitled "New York Stock Exchange Composite Transactions" in The Wall Street Journal published in New York, New York on the date such calculation is made, times the total number of shares of the common stock of the Company issued and outstanding ("Company Share Price") and (iii) the product of the Company Share Price times the total number of issued and outstanding Partnership Units. "TRANSACTIONS" means each of the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents. "TRANSACTION COSTS" means all costs and expenses paid or payable by Borrower relating to the Transactions including, without limitation, the costs and expenses of Agent in conducting its due diligence with respect to the Transactions, financing fees, commitment fees, advisory fees, appraisal fees, legal fees, accounting fees, title insurance premiums, recording charges and taxes, whether directly or as reimbursement to Agent. "TREASURY RATE" means a per annum rate, expressed as a decimal truncated to the nearest one one-hundredth of a percent, determined by Agent on the date of calculation (provided, however, if such date is not a Business Day, then on the next succeeding Business Day) for the current U.S. Treasury with a maturity date most closely approximating the date which is 10 years from such date of calculation. The Treasury Yield shall be determined conclusively (in the absence of manifest error) by Agent's reference to the weekly statistical release designated as the "H.15 (519)" or any successor publications published by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, or any successor agency. "UNFUNDED BENEFIT LIABILITIES" means with respect to any Plan at any time, the amount (if any) by which (i) the present value of all benefit liabilities under such Plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, exceeds (ii) the fair market value of all Plan assets allocable to such benefits, all determined as of the then most recent valuation date for such Plan (on the basis of assumptions prescribed by the PBGC for the purpose of Section 4044 of ERISA). SECTION 2. AMOUNT AND TERMS OF LINE OF CREDIT LOAN. SECTION 2.1 ADVANCES. (a) Subject to and upon the terms and conditions herein set forth, each of the Lenders agrees, at any time and from time to time on and after the Closing Date and prior to the Termination Date, to make its Pro Rata Share of Advances to Borrower, but in no event to exceed each Lender's respective Commitment. (b) The total amount of Advances outstanding at any time shall not exceed the Borrowing Base. (c) Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, including, without limitation, Section 2.10, 2.11, 2.16 and 2.19, amounts borrowed under this Section 2.1 may be repaid and reborrowed prior to the Termination Date. All outstanding Advances shall mature on the Termination Date, without further action on the part of Lenders 15 (d) Each Base Rate Advance shall be in the minimum amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) and each LIBOR Advance shall be in the minimum amount of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000). No Advances shall be made after the Termination Date. There shall be no more than five Loan Portions outstanding at any time prior to the Termination Date, and there shall be only one Loan Portion outstanding at any time thereafter. (e) Advances shall not be made more often than twice monthly. (f) The aggregate principal amount of the Loan at any time outstanding shall not exceed the Available Loan Amount at such time. (g) The obligations of the Lenders to make their Pro Rata Share of each Advance of the Loan is several and not joint. No Lender shall be liable for the failure of any other Lender to fund its Pro Rata Share of any Advance hereunder. (h) The Termination Date may be extended by Borrower by two (2) successive one (1) year periods (i.e., to November 5, 2010 and to November 5, 2011), subject to the following conditions: (i) No Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; (ii) Borrower has given written notice to Agent of its election to extend the Termination Date at least one (1) month prior to the Termination Date; and (iii) Concurrently with the written notice under (ii), above, Borrower has paid to Agent an extension fee for each one year extension of $62,500 for the pro-rata benefit of the Lenders. SECTION 2.2 USE OF PROCEEDS. Borrower shall use the proceeds of the Loan for general business purposes of Borrower consistent with the "Business Objectives and Strategies" set forth in the Prospectus of Agree Realty Corporation dated April 15, 1994; provided, however, that Borrower shall not use any loan proceeds to invest in any joint venture, partnership, corporation or other entity unless Borrower (i) acquires at least 50% of the ownership interest in such entity, and (ii) Borrower has control of such entity. For the purpose of this definition, "control" means the possession directly or indirectly of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities or by contract or otherwise. SECTION 2.3 NOTICE OF BORROWING. Whenever Borrower desires an Advance hereunder, it shall give Agent at Agent's office prior to 11:00 A.M., Detroit, Michigan time, at least one (1) Business Days' prior telex, facsimile, or telephonic notice (promptly confirmed in writing) of each Base Rate Advance and at least three (3) Business Day's prior telex, facsimile or telephonic notice (promptly confirmed in writing) of each LIBOR Advance. Each such notice (a "Notice of Borrowing") (a) if a request for LIBOR Advance, shall be irrevocable, (b) shall be executed by the Company as general partner of Borrower, (c) shall specify (i) the aggregate principal amount of the requested Advance, (ii) the date of borrowing (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) if a request for LIBOR Advance, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto, (d) shall certify that, taking into account the amount of the requested Advance, no Default or Event 16 of Default has occurred and is continuing, and that all provisions of the Loan Documents will be complied with after giving effect to such Advance, (e) shall be in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit "A-1", and (f) shall be accompanied by an Advance Worksheet in the form attached hereto as Exhibit "A-2". SECTION 2.4 DISBURSEMENT OF FUNDS. On the date specified in each Notice of Borrowing, provided all conditions precedent to the making of such Advance have been complied with, and further provided that Agent has received, in immediately available federal funds, each Lender's Pro Rata Share of such Advance, Agent will make available to Borrower by disbursing to or at the direction of Borrower, or by depositing in Borrower's account at Agent's office, the amount of the requested Advance. SECTION 2.5 THE NOTES. (a) Borrower's obligation to pay the principal of, and interest on, the Loan shall be evidenced by (i) the promissory notes in favor of each Lender (as amended, modified, supplemented, extended or consolidated, "Notes") duly executed and delivered by Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit "B" with blanks in each Note appropriately completed in conformity herewith, in the aggregate principal amount of the Maximum Loan Amount, dated the Closing Date, and maturing on the Maturity Date. A separate Note shall be payable to the order of each Lender, and shall be in the principal amount of the applicable Lender's Commitment. (b) Agent is hereby authorized to record the date and amount of each Advance and the Pro Rata Share thereof of each Lender, and the date and amount of each principal and interest payments in its books and records. Such books and records shall be conclusive and binding on Borrower absent manifest error. SECTION 2.6 INTEREST. (a) Borrower shall pay interest in respect of the unpaid principal amount of each Base Rate Portion from the date of the making of such Base Rate Portion until such Base Rate Portion shall be paid in full, or converted to a LIBOR Portion, at a rate per annum which shall be equal to the sum of the applicable Base Rate Margin set forth below and the Base Rate in effect from time to time, such rate to change as and when the Base Rate changes. Borrower shall pay interest in respect of the unpaid principal amount of each LIBOR Portion from the date of the making of such LIBOR Portion until such LIBOR Portion shall be paid in full, continued as a LIBOR Portion or converted to a Base Rate Portion, at a rate per annum which shall be equal to the sum of the applicable LIBOR Margin set forth below and the relevant LIBOR Rate. The Base Rate and the LIBOR Margin shall be adjusted quarterly on each April 1, July 1, October 1 and January 1 based upon Borrower's Debt Service Coverage Ratio and Leverage, as set forth below, as determined by Agent from the most recently delivered quarterly financial statements to be delivered by Borrower to Agent, pursuant to Section 5.1 for Borrower's fiscal quarters ending December 31, March 31, June 30 and September 30, respectively, as applicable. If the financial statements and projections are not delivered to Agent by the dates set forth in Section 5.1, the highest Base Rate Margin and LIBOR Margin shall be in effect until such financial statements and projections are delivered to Agent. 17 BASE RATE MARGINS AND LIBOR MARGINS
less than 60% and less than 50% and greater than or greater than or LEVERAGE 60% equal to 50% equal to 40% less than 40% - -------- ---- ----------------- ----------------- ------------- LIBOR MARGIN 1.50% 1.35% 1.15% 1.00% BASE RATE MARGIN 0% 0% 0% 0%
(b) In the event that, and for so long as, any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the outstanding principal amount of the Loan and, to the extent permitted by law, overdue interest in respect of the Loan, shall bear interest at the Default Rate. In addition, Borrower shall pay a late payment charge equal to five (5%) percent of the amount of any payment which is not received by Agent within ten (10) days after the date such payment is due. (c) Interest on the Loan shall accrue from and including the date of each Advance thereof to but excluding the date of any repayment thereof (provided that any Advance borrowed and repaid on the same day shall accrue one day's interest) and Borrower shall pay such interest (i) in respect of each Base Rate Portion, (A) monthly in arrears on the first day of each month, (B) on the Maturity Date (whether by acceleration or otherwise) and (C) after the Maturity Date, on demand, and (ii) in respect of each LIBOR Portion, (A) at the end of each Interest Period, but if the Interest Period is longer than three (3) months, then at the end of each quarter, (B) on the date of any prepayment (on the amount prepaid), (C) on the Maturity Date (whether by acceleration or otherwise), and (D) after the Maturity Date, on demand. (d) Interest on the outstanding principal balance of Base Rate Portions shall be calculated on the basis of an actual 365 or 366 day year. Interest on the outstanding principal balance of LIBOR Portions shall be calculated on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360) day year based on the actual number of days elapsed. (e) This Agreement and the Note are subject to the express condition that at no time shall Borrower be obligated or required to pay interest on the principal balance of the Loan at a rate which could subject any Lender to either civil or criminal liability as a result of being in excess of the Maximum Legal Rate. If by the terms of this Agreement or the Loan Documents, Borrower is at any time required or obligated to pay interest on the principal balance due hereunder at a rate in excess of the Maximum Legal Rate, the interest rate or the Default Rate, as the case may be, shall be deemed to be immediately reduced to the Maximum Legal Rate and all previous payments in excess of the Maximum Legal Rate shall be deemed to have been payments in reduction of principal and not on account of the interest due hereunder, and at the option of Agent upon notice to Borrower, the Obligations shall become immediately due and payable. All sums paid or agreed to be paid to Lenders for the use, forbearance, or detention of the sums due under the Loan, shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be amortized, prorated, allocated, and spread throughout the full stated term of the Loan until payment in full so that the rate or amount of interest on account of the Loan does not exceed the Maximum Legal 18 Rate of interest from time to time in effect and applicable to the Loan for so long as the Loan is outstanding. SECTION 2.7 INTEREST PERIODS. (a) Borrower shall, in each Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion or Continuation in respect of the making of, conversion into or continuation of a LIBOR Portion, select the interest period (each an "Interest Period") applicable to such LIBOR Portion, which Interest Period shall, at the option of Borrower, be either a one month, two-month, three-month, six-month or twelve-month period, provided that: (i) the initial Interest Period for any LIBOR Portion shall commence on the date of the making of such Advance (including the date of any conversion from a Base Rate Portion) and each Interest Period occurring thereafter in respect of such Portion shall commence on the date on which the next preceding Interest Period expires; (ii) if any Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day which is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall expire on the next succeeding Business Day; (iii) if any Interest Period begins on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period, such Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of such calendar month; (iv) no Interest Period in respect of any LIBOR Portion outstanding prior to the Termination Date shall extend beyond the Termination Date, and no LIBOR Portion shall extend beyond the Maturity Date. (b) If upon the expiration of any Interest Period, Borrower has failed to elect or confirm a new Interest Period pursuant to Section 2.8, Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to convert such LIBOR Portion into a Base Rate Portion, effective as of the expiration date of such current Interest Period. SECTION 2.8 CONVERSION OR CONTINUATION. (a) Subject to the other provisions of this Agreement, Borrower shall have the option (i) to convert at any time all or any part of the outstanding Base Rate Portions to LIBOR Portions, (ii) to convert all or any part of the outstanding LIBOR Portions to Base Rate Portions, on the expiration of the Interest Period applicable thereto (or prior to such expiration date, provided Borrower pays Funding Costs in connection therewith pursuant to Section 2.16), or (iii) to continue all or any part of the outstanding LIBOR Portions as LIBOR Portions for an additional Interest Period, on the expiration of the Interest Period applicable thereto (or prior to such expiration date, provided Borrower pays Funding Costs in connection therewith pursuant to Section 2.16); provided that no Loan Portion may be continued as, or converted into, a LIBOR Portion when any Default with respect to the payment of money or any Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. In the event LIBOR Portions are not available pursuant to Section 2.15, Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to convert such LIBOR Portions into Base Rate Portions, and if such conversion occurs prior to the expiration date of the applicable Interest Period, Borrower shall also pay all Funding Costs and other costs, expenses and losses in connection therewith pursuant to Section 2.16. 19 (b) In order to elect to convert or continue a Loan Portion under this Section 2.8, Borrower shall deliver an irrevocable notice thereof in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit "C" (a "Notice of Conversion or Continuation") to Agent no later than 11:00 A.M., Detroit, Michigan time, (which notice may be by facsimile transmission provided that an original is delivered prior to the close of business on the immediately succeeding Business Day) three (3) Business Days prior to the proposed conversion or continuation date in the case of a conversion to, or a continuation of, a LIBOR Portion. A Notice of Conversion or Continuation shall specify (i) the requested conversion or continuation date (which shall be a Business Day), (ii) the amount and type of the Loan Portion to be converted or continued, (iii) whether a conversion or continuation is requested, (iv) in the case of a conversion to, or a continuation of, a LIBOR Portion, the requested Interest Period. SECTION 2.9 PRINCIPAL AMORTIZATION. [Deleted]. SECTION 2.10 VOLUNTARY PREPAYMENTS; TERMINATION. (a) Borrower shall have the right to repay amounts borrowed pursuant to Section 2.1 from time to time on the following terms and conditions: (a) Borrower shall give Agent written notice in the form attached hereto as Exhibit "A-3" (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing), which notice shall be irrevocable, of its intent to repay amounts outstanding under the Loan, at least one (1) Business Day prior to a repayment of LIBOR Portions and Base Rate Portions, which notice shall specify the amount of such payment and what Loan Portions are to be paid and, in the case of LIBOR Portions, the specific Advance pursuant to which made, (b) payments of LIBOR Portions made pursuant to this Section on a date other than the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto shall be accompanied by payment of any Funding Costs resulting from such early payment. If any such notice is given, the amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. (b) Upon at least three (3) Business Days prior irrevocable written notice to Agent, Borrower shall have the right to terminate the Loan and this Agreement and reduce the Maximum Loan Amount to zero; provided that Borrower, on the date specified in such notice, pays to Agent the entire outstanding principal balance of the Loan, together with all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, all Funding Costs, and all other sums due under the Notes, this Agreement and the other Loan documents. Upon such termination, Lenders shall have no further obligation to make any Advances. SECTION 2.11 MANDATORY PREPAYMENTS. [Deleted]. SECTION 2.12 APPLICATION OF PAYMENTS AND PREPAYMENTS. Unless specifically provided otherwise, all payments and prepayments of the Loan, whether voluntary or otherwise, shall be applied first, to unpaid fees, any reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of Lenders arising as a result of such prepayment and any Funding Costs, second, to pay any accrued and unpaid interest then payable with respect to the Loan, third, to pay the outstanding principal amount of the Loan. Payments applied to the outstanding principal amount of the Loan shall be first applied to the Base Rate Portions of the Loan, and then to pay the LIBOR Portions of the Loan in the order of each portion's maturity. 20 SECTION 2.13 METHOD AND PLACE OF PAYMENT. (a) Except as otherwise specifically provided herein, all payments, prepayments under this Agreement and the Notes shall be made to Agent not later than 12:00 noon, Detroit, Michigan time, on the date when due and shall be made in lawful money of the United States of America in immediately available funds at Agent's office, and any funds received by Agent after such time shall, for all purposes hereof, be deemed to have been paid on the next succeeding Business Day. Each payment (including all prepayments on account of principal and interest on the Loan), to the extent received, shall constitute payment by Borrower to each Lender in the amount of such Lender's Pro Rata Share of such payment. (b) Except as expressly provided to the contrary in Section 2.7 hereof, whenever any payment to be made hereunder or under the Notes or other Loan Documents shall be stated to be due on a day which is not an Business Day, the due date thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and, with respect to payments of principal, interest shall be payable at the applicable rate during such extension. (c) All payments made by Borrower hereunder, under the Note and the other Loan Documents, shall be made irrespective of, and without any deduction for, any set-off or counterclaims. SECTION 2.14 FEES. (a) Borrower shall pay to Agent, for the pro rata benefit of the Lenders, a fee (the "Non-Use Fee"), computed at the per annum rate (based on an actual 365 day or 366 day year) set forth in the chart below on the average daily unfunded portion of the Maximum Loan Amount, from and including the Closing Date through and including the Termination Date, payable, in arrears, on (i) the later of Non-Use Fee Due Date or the first day of each calendar quarter beginning on January 1, 2007 through the Termination Date, and (ii) on the Termination Date or such earlier date, if any, on which the Maximum Loan Amount shall terminate in accordance with the terms hereof. Each payment of the Non-Use Fee, to the extent received, shall constitute payment by Borrower to each Lender in the amount of such Lender's Pro Rata Share of the Non-Use Fee. NON-USE FEE RATE
USAGE OF MAXIMUM LOAN AMOUNT Greater than or equal to 50% Less than 50% - ---------------------------- ---------------------------- ------------- NON USE FEE RATE 0.125% 0.20%
(b) On the Closing Date, Borrower shall pay to Agent for the pro-rata benefit of the Lenders a commitment fee of $250,000. (c) Borrower shall pay to Agent on the Closing Date and during the term of this Agreement an administrative fee as agreed to in writing by Agent and Borrower. SECTION 2.15 INTEREST RATE UNASCERTAINABLE INCREASED COSTS, ILLEGALITY. (a) In the event that Agent has determined or, with respect to any Lender or Participant, has been notified that (which determination or notice shall, absent manifest error, be final and conclusive and binding upon all parties hereto): 21 (i) on any date for determining the LIBOR Rate for any Interest Period, that by reason of any changes arising after the date of this Agreement affecting the interbank Eurodollar market, adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the applicable interest rate on the basis provided for in the definition of the LIBOR Rate; or (ii) at any time, that the making or continuance by it of any LIBOR Portion has become unlawful in order for Agent, any Participant or Lender, in good faith, to comply with any Law, guideline, interpretation or application thereof by any Official Body charged with the administration or compliance with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law and whether or not failure to comply therewith would be unlawful), or any change therein, or any change in the interpretation or administration thereof by any central bank or Official Body charged with the interpretation or administration thereof, or has become impracticable as a result of a contingency occurring after the date of this Agreement which materially and adversely affects the interbank Eurodollar market; then, and in any such event, Agent shall, promptly after making such determination or receiving notice thereof from any Participant or Lender, give notice by telephone promptly confirmed in writing to Borrower. Thereafter (x) in the case of clause (i) above, Borrower's right to request LIBOR Portions shall be suspended, and any Notice of Borrowing, or Notice of Conversion or Continuation given by Borrower with respect to any borrowing of LIBOR Portions which has not yet been made shall be deemed cancelled and rescinded by Borrower, and (y) in the case of clause (ii) above, Borrower shall take one of the actions specified in clause (b) below as promptly as possible and, in any event, within the time period required by law. (b) In the case of any LIBOR Portion affected by the circumstances described in clause (a)(ii) above, Borrower shall, either (i) if any such LIBOR Portion has not yet been made but is then the subject of a Notice of Borrowing, a request or a Notice of Conversion or Continuation, be deemed to have cancelled and rescinded such notice, or (ii) if any such LIBOR Portion is then outstanding, require Agent to convert each such LIBOR Portion into a Base Rate Portion at the end of the applicable Interest Period or such earlier time as may be required by law, in each case by giving Agent notice (by telephone promptly confirmed in writing) thereof within two (2) Business Days after Borrower was notified by Agent pursuant to clause (a) above. (c) In the event that Agent determines at any time following the giving of notice based on the conditions described in clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above that such conditions no longer exist, Agent shall promptly give notice thereof to Borrower, whereupon Borrower's right to request LIBOR Portions from Agent and Agent's and any Lender's obligation to make LIBOR Portions shall be automatically restored. SECTION 2.16 FUNDING COSTS. (a) If any Law, guideline or interpretation or any change in any Law, guideline or interpretation or application thereof by any Official Body charged with the interpretation or administration thereof or compliance with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of Law) of any central bank or other Official Body: (i) subjects any Lender or Participant to any tax or charge with respect to this Agreement, the Notes, the Loan, or payments by the Borrower of principal, interest, or 22 other amounts due from the Borrower hereunder or under the Notes (except for taxes on the overall net income of such Lender), (ii) imposes, modifies or deems applicable any reserve, special deposit or similar requirement against credits or commitments to extend credit extended by, or assets (funded or contingent) of, deposits with or for the account of, or other acquisition of funds by, any Lender or Participant, or (iii) imposes, modifies or deems applicable any capital adequacy or similar requirement (A) against assets (funded or contingent) of, or credits or commitments to extend credit extended by, any Lender, or (B) otherwise applicable to the obligations of any Lender or Participant under this Agreement, and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to, reduce the income receivable by, or impose any expenses (including loss of margin) upon any Lender or Participant with respect to this Agreement, the Notes, or the making, maintenance or funding of any part of the Loans (or, in the case of any capital adequacy or similar requirement, to have the effect of reducing the rate of return on any Lender's or Participant's capital, taking into consideration such Lender's or Participant's customary policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount which such Lender or Participant in its sole discretion deems to be material ("Funding Costs"), such Lender or Participant may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Agent of the amount determined in good faith (using any averaging and attribution methods employed in good faith) by such Lender or Participant (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) to be necessary to compensate such Lender or Participant for such increase in cost, reduction of income or additional expense. Such notice shall set forth in reasonable detail the basis for such determination. Such amount shall be due and payable by Borrower to the Agent for the account of such Lender within five (5) Business Days after such notice is given. (b) In addition to the compensation required by subsection (a) of this Section 2.16, the Borrower shall indemnify each Lender or Participant against any loss or expense (including loss of margin, any loss incurred in liquidating or employing deposits from third parties and any loss or expense incurred in connection with funds acquired by a Lender or Participant to fund or maintain a LIBOR Portion or a Base Rate Portion) which such Lender or Participant sustains or incurs as a consequence of any: (i) payment, prepayment, conversion or renewal of any LIBOR Portion on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period (whether or not such payment or prepayment is mandatory or automatic and whether or not such payment or prepayment is then due), or (ii) attempt by the Borrower to revoke (expressly, by later inconsistent notices or otherwise) in whole or part any notice relating to the selection of a LIBOR Portion under Section 2.3 or prepayments under Section 2.10. If any Lender or Participant sustains or incurs any such loss or expense it shall from time to time notify the Borrower of the amount determined in good faith by such Lender or Participant (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error and may include such 23 assumptions, allocations of costs and expenses and averaging or attribution methods as such Lender or Participant shall deem reasonable) to be necessary to indemnify such Lender or Participant for such loss or expense. Such notice shall set forth in reasonable detail the basis for such determination. Such amount shall be due and payable by the Borrower to the Agent for the account of such Lender or Participant five (5) Business Days after such notice is given. SECTION 2.17 SUBSTITUTION OF COLLATERAL. [Deleted]. SECTION 2.18 BREACH OF AVAILABLE BORROWING BASE COVENANT. [Deleted]. SECTION 2.19 LETTER OF CREDIT COMMITMENT. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, until the Maturity Date, Agent agrees to issue or confirm Letters of Credit for the account of Borrower in such form as may from time to time be approved by Agent in favor of such beneficiaries as Borrower shall specify (the "Letters of Credit"); provided that the aggregate face amount of the Letters of Credit outstanding or requested, together with Letters of Credit paid but not reimbursed by Borrower to the extent not an outstanding Advance, shall at no time exceed Five Million and 00/100 Dollars ($5,000,000.00); provided, further, that the aggregate face amount of the Letters of Credit outstanding or requested, when added to the aggregate face amount of all other Letters of Credit outstanding and all amounts from time to time outstanding under the Loan together with Letters of Credit paid but not reimbursed by Borrower to the extent not an Advance, shall not exceed the Borrowing Base. Each Letter of Credit renewed or issued hereunder shall: (i) be denominated in United States Dollars; and (ii) expire on a date which is not more than twelve (12) months from its issuance and at least thirty (30) days' prior to the Loan Maturity Date. SECTION 2.20 REQUESTS FOR LETTERS OF CREDIT. Borrower may request issuance of a Letter of Credit from Agent by delivery to Agent of a request for Letter of Credit executed by an authorized officer of Borrower, subject to the following and to the remaining provisions hereof: (a) Each such request for a Letter of Credit shall set forth the information required on the request for Letter of Credit form provided by the Agent which form shall include: (i) The proposed date of issuance of the Letter of Credit, which must be a Business Day; (ii) The amount of the Letter of Credit; (iii) The beneficiary of the Letter of Credit; (iv) The conditions of the Letter of Credit; (v) The Expiration Date of the Letter of Credit. (b) Each such request for Letter of Credit shall be delivered to Agent three (3) Business Days prior to the proposed date of issuance of the Letter of Credit; (c) The face amount of the Letter of Credit requested plus the principal amount of all Advances then outstanding, plus the principal amount of all Advances requested but not yet 24 funded, plus the aggregate undrawn portion of any previously issued Letters of Credit which shall still be outstanding as of the date of the request for Letter of Credit and the aggregate face amount of Letters of Credit requested but not yet issued and the amount of all Letters of Credit paid but not yet reimbursed by Borrower to the extent not an outstanding Advance shall not exceed the Borrowing Base; SECTION 2.21 REIMBURSEMENT OBLIGATIONS OF THE LENDERS. Upon issuance of a Letter of Credit by Agent, each Lender shall automatically acquire a risk participation interest in such Letter of Credit based upon its Pro Rata Share. If Agent shall honor a draft or other demand for payment presented or made under any Letter of Credit, Agent shall provide notice thereof to each Lender on the date such draft or demand is honored unless Borrower shall have satisfied its Reimbursement Obligation by payment to Agent on such date. Upon receipt of such notice, each Lender shall forthwith (but in any event, no later than 1:00 p.m. Detroit time on the Business Day of receipt of such notice if such Lender receives such notice by 10:00 a.m. Detroit time on such day; receipt of such notice after 10:00 a.m. Detroit time on any day shall be deemed to be received by 10:00 a.m. Detroit time on the following Business Day), make available to Agent at its principal office, immediately available funds in an amount equal to such Lender's Pro Rata Share of any amount paid or disbursed, or to be paid or disbursed, by Agent to settle its Obligations under any draft or other order, instrument or demand drawn or presented under any Letter of Credit. The obligation of each Lender to provide Agent with such Lender's Pro Rata Share of the amount of any payment or disbursement made or to be made by Agent to settle its Obligations under any item drawn or presented under any Letter of Credit in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment which such Lender may have or have had against Agent, including without limitation, any defense based on the failure of the demand for payment under such Letter of Credit to conform to the terms of such Letter of Credit, or the legality, validity, regularity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit or any defense based on the identity of the transferee of such Letter of Credit or the sufficiency of the transfer if such Letter of Credit is transferable; provided, however, that no Lender shall be obligated to reimburse Agent pursuant to the preceding provisions of this section for any wrongful payment or disbursement made or to be made by Agent under any Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of Agent or any of its officers, employees or agents. SECTION 2.22 REIMBURSEMENT OBLIGATIONS OF BORROWER. (a) Borrower agrees to reimburse Agent for the total amount of any sums paid by Agent in connection with Letters of Credit, including any drawing or demand under Letters of Credit or any Advance made by Agent in respect of Letters of Credit, and the amount of any taxes, fees, charges or other costs or expenses whatsoever incurred by Agent in connection with any payment made by Agent under, or with respect to, such Letter of Credit (the "Reimbursement Obligation") as set forth in the application. (b) Payment by Agent of a draw under any Letter of Credit shall be deemed an Advance under the Loan in an amount sufficient to discharge Borrower's Reimbursement 25 Obligation with interest thereon as set forth in this Agreement as of the date of payment. To the extent that Borrower is not eligible for an Advance under the Loan, Borrower shall immediately pay and discharge the Reimbursement Obligation pursuant to the terms of the application and this Agreement. (c) Borrower's Reimbursement Obligations with respect to Letters of Credit shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable and shall remain in full force and effect until all Obligations of Borrower to the Lenders hereunder shall have been satisfied, and such Obligations shall not be affected, modified or impaired upon the happening of any event, including without limitation, any of the following, whether or not with notice to, or the consent of, the Borrower: (i) Any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit, application or any documentation relating to any Letter of Credit or to any transaction related in any way to such Letter of Credit (the "Letter of Credit Documents"); (ii) Any amendment, modification, waiver, consent, or any substitution, exchange or release of or failure to perfect any interest in collateral or security, if any, with respect to any of the Letter of Credit Documents; (iii) The existence of any claim, setoff, defense or other right which the Borrower may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of any Letter of Credit (or any persons or entities for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), the Agent or any Lender or any other person or entity, whether in connection with any of the Letter of Credit Documents, the transactions contemplated herein or therein or any unrelated transactions; and (iv) Any draft or other statement or document presented under any Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; provided, however, that Borrower shall have no Reimbursement Obligation for any wrongful payment or disbursement made or to be made under any Letter of Credit as a result of acts or omissions constituting gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of Agent or any of its officers, employees or agents. No setoff, counterclaim, reduction or diminution of any obligation or any defense of any kind or nature which the Borrower has or may have against the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit shall be available hereunder to Borrower against the Agent or any Lender. (d) Letter of Credit Fees. Borrower agrees to pay or reimburse Agent upon demand, for the account of each Lender, a letter of credit fee for the issuance of such Letter of Credit to be divided by the Lenders in accordance with their Pro Rata Shares equal to 1/4 of 1% multiplied by the face amount of each Letter of Credit for the period from and including the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit to and including the date upon which such Letter of Credit expires or is terminated, including all periods during which such Letter of Credit is renewed, and such other normal and customary fees, costs and expenses as are incurred or charged by Agent from time to time in issuing and effecting payment under or administering any Letter of Credit (including, without limitation, amendment fees and transfer fees, if any) and including a fee to be paid to 26 Agent for the prorata benefit of the Lenders for each Letter of Credit or renewal of 12.5 basis points. SECTION 2.23 INCREASE OF MAXIMUM LOAN AMOUNT (a) At any time and from time to time and provided that no Default or Event of Default has occurred, the Borrower may request (in consultation with the Agent) that the Maximum Loan Amount be increased, provided that, without the prior written consent of all of the Lenders, (a) the aggregate amount of the increases in the Commitment shall not exceed $25,000,000 for a total Maximum Loan Amount of $75,000,000 and (b) each such increase shall be in a minimum amount of $5,000,000 and additional increases shall be in integral multiples thereof. Such request shall be made in a written notice given to the Agent and the Lenders by the Borrower not less than forty five (45) Business Days prior to the proposed effective date of such increase, which notice (a "Commitment Increase Notice") shall specify the amount of the proposed increase in the Commitment and the proposed effective date of such increase. In the event of such a Commitment Increase Notice, each of the Lenders shall be given the opportunity to participate in the requested increase ratably in proportions that their respective Pro Rata Shares bear to the Commitment. No Lender shall have any obligation to increase its Pro Rata share pursuant to a Commitment Increase Notice. On or prior to the date that is thirty (30) Business Days after receipt of the Commitment Increase Notice, each Lender shall submit to the Agent a notice indicating the maximum amount of the increase it is willing to accept in connection with such Commitment Increase Notice (any such notice to the Agent being herein a "Lender Increase Notice"). Any Lender which does not submit a Lender Increase Notice to the Agent prior to the expiration of such thirty (30) Business Day period shall be deemed to have denied any increase in its participation. In the event that the aggregate increases set forth in the Lender Increase Notices exceeds the amount requested by the Borrower in the Commitment Increase Notice, the Agent shall have the right, in consultation with the Borrower, to allocate the amount of increases among the Lenders in their respective Pro Rata Share to reach the amount necessary to meet the Borrower's Commitment Increase Notice. In the event that the Lender Increase Notices in the aggregate are less than the amount requested by the Borrower, not later than thirty (30) Business Days prior to the proposed effective date the Borrower may notify the Agent of any financial institution that shall have agreed to become a "Lender" party hereto (a "Proposed New Lender") in connection with the Commitment Increase Notice. Any Proposed New Lender shall be subject to the consent of the Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld). If the Borrower shall not have arranged any Proposed New Lender(s) to commit to the shortfall from the Lender Increase Notices, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have reduced the amount of its Commitment Increase Notice to the aggregate amount set forth in the Lender Increase Notices. Based upon the Lender Increase Notices, any allocations made in connection therewith and any notice regarding any Proposed New Lender, if applicable, the Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Lenders on or before the Business Day immediately prior to the proposed effective date of the amount of each Lender's and Proposed New Lenders' Pro Rate Share (the "Effective Commitment Amount") and the amount of the Maximum Loan Amount, which amount shall be effective on the following Business Day. If the existing Lenders are not willing to increase the Maximum Loan Amount and Borrower has not found any Proposed New Lenders and if Agent's affiliate, LaSalle Capital Markets, has not found any New Lenders, then the Maximum Loan Amount shall not be increased. Any increase in the Commitment shall be subject to the following conditions precedent: (A) the Borrower shall have obtained the consent 27 thereto of the Guarantor and its reaffirmation of the Loan Document(s), if any, executed by it, which consent and reaffirmation shall be in writing and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, (B) as of the date of the Commitment Increase Notice and as of the proposed effective date of the increase in the Maximum Loan Amount, all representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all material respects as though made on such date (except to the extent stated to relate to a specific earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct as of such earlier date) and no event shall have occurred and then be continuing which constitutes a Default or an Event of Default, (C) the Borrower, the Agent and each Proposed New Lender or Lender that shall have agreed to provide a "Commitment" in support of such increase in the Maximum Loan Amount shall have executed and delivered a "Commitment and Acceptance" substantially in the form of EXHIBIT K to this Agreement, and (D) the Borrower and the Proposed New Lender(s) shall otherwise have executed and delivered such other instruments and documents as the Agent shall have reasonably requested evidencing such increase, including, for any Proposed New Lender, a Note, and such other documents as are necessary to accord such Proposed New Lender the status of a Lender hereunder. If any fee shall be charged by the Proposed New Lender(s) or Lender(s) that shall have agreed to provide a "Commitment" in support of such increase in the Maximum Loan Amount in connection with any such increase, such fee shall be in accordance with then prevailing market conditions, which market conditions shall have been reasonably documented by the Agent to the Borrower. Upon satisfaction of the conditions precedent to any increase in the Maximum Loan Amount, the Agent shall promptly advise the Borrower and each Lender of the effective date of such increase. Upon the effective date of any increase in the Maximum Loan Amount that is provided by a Proposed New Lender, such Proposed New Lender shall be a party to this Agreement as a Lender and shall have the rights and Obligations of a Lender hereunder. Nothing contained herein shall constitute, or otherwise be deemed to be, a commitment on the part of any Lender to increase its Commitment hereunder at any time. (b) For purposes of this subparagraph (b), (i) the term "Buying Lender(s)" shall mean (A) each Lender the Pro Rata Share of which is greater than its Pro Rata Share prior to the effective date of any increase in the Maximum Loan Amount and (B) each Proposed New Lender that is allocated a Pro Rata Share in connection with any Commitment Increase Notice, and (ii) the term "Selling Lender(s)" shall mean each Lender whose Pro Rata Share of the Maximum Loan Amount is decreased from that in effect prior to such increase in the Maximum Loan Amount. Effective on the effective date of any increase in the Maximum Loan Amount pursuant to subparagraph (a) above, each Selling Lender hereby sells, grants, assigns and conveys to each Buying Lender, without recourse, warranty, or representation of any kind, except as specifically provided herein, an undivided percentage in such Selling Lender's right, title and interest in and to its outstanding Pro Rata Share in the respective dollar amounts and percentages necessary so that, from and after such sale, each such Selling Lender's share of the Advances outstanding shall equal such Selling Lender's Pro Rata Share (calculated based upon the new percentage) of the Advances outstanding. On the effective date of the increase in the Maximum Loan Amount pursuant to clause (a) above, each Buying Lender hereby purchases and accepts such grant, assignment and conveyance from the Selling Lenders. Each Buying Lender hereby agrees that its respective purchase price for the portion of the Advances outstanding hereby shall equal the respective dollar amount necessary so that, from and after such payments, each Buying Lender's share of the Advances outstanding shall equal such Buying Lender's Pro Rata Share (calculated based upon the new percentage) of the Advances outstanding. Such 28 amount shall be payable on the effective date of the increase in the Maximum Loan Amount by wire transfer of immediately available funds to the Agent. The Agent, in turn, shall wire transfer any such funds received to the Selling Lenders, in same day funds, for the sole account of the Selling Lenders. Each Selling Lender hereby represents and warrants to each Buying Lender that such Selling Lender owns the interests being sold and assigned hereby for its own account and has not sold, transferred or encumbered any or all of such interests, except for participations which will be extinguished upon payment to Selling Lender of an amount equal to the portion of the Advances outstanding being sold by such Selling Lender. Each Buying Lender hereby acknowledges and agrees that, except for each Selling Lender's representations and warranties contained in the foregoing sentence, each such Buying Lender has entered into its purchase of a Pro Rata Share with respect to such increase on the basis of its own independent investigation and has not relied upon, and will not rely upon, any explicit or implicit written or oral representation, warranty or other statement of the Lenders or the Agent concerning the authorization, execution, legality, validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents. (c) If a Proposed New Lender becomes a Lender, then the effective date of any requested increase in the Maximum Loan Amount will be at the end of an Interest Period if the LIBOR Rate is in effect, so no Lender will suffer any loss due to prepayment of a LIBOR Advance unless Borrower reimburses the same." (d) To the extent there is any increase in the Maximum Loan Amount, Advances of any such increase shall be made pursuant to and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement which must be satisfied for any Advance hereunder, and all Projects submitted by Borrower for an Advance of the increased Maximum Loan Amount shall be subject to the approval of the Lenders as provided herein and any existing Loan Documents shall be amended as is reasonably required by Agent. SECTION 3. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT. SECTION 3.1 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO THE INITIAL ADVANCE. The obligation of each Lender to make its Pro Rata Share of the initial Advance of the Loan on or after the Closing Date is subject to the satisfaction by Borrower and the Company on the Closing Date of the following conditions precedent: (a) Loan Documents. (i) Line of Credit Agreement. Borrower and the Company shall have executed and delivered this Agreement to Agent. (ii) The Notes. Borrower shall have executed and delivered to Agent the Notes in form set forth in Exhibit B hereto, appropriately completed. (iii) Guaranty. The Company shall have executed and delivered to Agent the Guaranty substantially in the form set forth as Exhibit "H" hereto, (as amended, restated, modified or supplemented from time to time, the "Guaranty"). 29 (iv) Letter Agreement. Borrower and Agents shall have entered into a letter agreement regarding administrative fees to be paid to Agent by Borrower, in form and substance acceptable to Agent. (v) Other Agreements. Borrower shall have executed and delivered to Agent such other agreements and documents in connection with the Loan as Agent may request in form and substance satisfactory to Agent and its counsel. (b) Opinions of Counsel. Agent shall have received legal opinions, dated the Closing Date, addressed to and for the benefit of the Lenders, from counsel to Borrower, and the Company, in form and substance satisfactory to Lenders that, among other things: (i) this Agreement and the Loan Documents have been duly authorized, executed and delivered by Borrower and the Company and are valid and enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy and equitable principles; (ii) that Borrower and the Company (if necessary) are qualified to do business and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction in which it is organized, in which it is transacting business and where the Properties are located; (iii) the Loan does not violate any usury laws; and (iv) the Company qualifies as a real estate investment trust under Section 856 of the Code. (c) Organizational Documents. Agent shall have received evidence satisfactory to Agent that Borrower and Guarantor are duly organized and in good standing. (d) Certified Resolutions, etc. Agent shall have received a certificate of the secretary or assistant secretary of the Company and dated the Closing Date, certifying (i) the names and true signatures of the incumbent officers of the Company authorized to sign the applicable Loan Documents, (ii) the by-laws of the Company as in effect on the Closing Date, (iii) the resolutions of the Company's board of directors approving and authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of all Loan Documents executed by the Company, and (iv) that there have been no changes in the certificate of incorporation of such Person since the date of the most recent certification thereof by the appropriate Secretary of State. (e) Lien Search Reports. Agent shall have received satisfactory (i.e., showing no Liens other than Permitted Liens) UCC searches, together with tax lien, judgment and litigation searches conducted in the appropriate jurisdictions by a search firm acceptable to Lender with respect to the Borrower (collectively, the "UCC Searches"). (f) Financing Statements. [Deleted]. (g) Financial Statements. Agent shall have received the (i) consolidated audited financial statements of Borrower and the Company for the most recently ended fiscal year of Borrower and the Company and the unaudited consolidated financial statements of Borrower and the Company for each fiscal quarter of Borrower and the Company ending since the end of such entity's most recent fiscal year and (ii) for each Properties, annual operating statements for Borrower's most recent fiscal year together with quarterly operating statements showing the most recently ended fiscal quarter and the fiscal year to date, and the Net Operating Income for the most recently completed 12 month period, current occupancy statements and the approved 30 operating budget for the current fiscal year. Such financial statements shall be acceptable to Agent in its sole discretion, and each such statement shall be certified by the general partner of Borrower that, as of the Closing Date, there has been no material adverse change in the financial condition of any Properties, Borrower, or the Company since the date thereof. (h) Fees and Operating Expenses. Agent shall have received, for its account, all Transaction Costs, fees and other fees and expenses due and payable hereunder on or before the Closing Date, including, without limitation, the costs of all environmental and real property appraisal reports required to be delivered hereunder, and the fees and expenses accrued through the Closing Date of counsel retained by Agent, and each Lender shall have received, for its account, the fee set forth in Section 2.14(b), and Agent shall have received the fee set forth in Section 2.14(c). (i) Consents, Licenses, Approvals, etc. Agent shall have received certified copies of all consents, licenses and approvals, if any, required in connection with the execution, delivery and performance by Borrower and the Company, and the validity and enforceability, of the Loan Documents, or in connection with any of the Transactions, and such consents, licenses and approvals shall be in full force and effect. (j) Representations and Warranties. Agent shall have received a certification by the Company, individually and as general partner of Borrower certifying that all of the representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true and correct with respect to each of the Properties and Borrower, and that there is no Default or Event of Default hereunder. (k) Certification as to Covenants. Agent shall have received a certification by the Company, individually and as general partner of Borrower together, with other evidence satisfactory to Agent that, as of the Closing Date, the financial covenants set forth in Section 5.13, 5.14, 5.15 and 5.16 are satisfied and that, as of the Closing Date and after giving effect to the Transaction to be consummated thereon, there is no Default or Event of Default hereunder. (l) Certification as to Applicable Laws. Agent shall have received such evidence as Agent shall deem necessary to establish (including, without limitation, a certification by the Company as general partner of Borrower certifying) that to Borrower's best knowledge, after due inquiry, each Properties is in compliance with all Applicable Laws relating to such Properties as of the Closing Date. (m) Additional Matters. Agent shall have received such other certificates, opinions, documents and instruments relating to the Transactions as may have been reasonably requested by Agent, and all corporate and other proceedings and all other documents (including, without limitation, all documents referred to herein and not appearing as exhibits hereto) and all legal matters in connection with the Transactions shall be satisfactory in form and substance to Agent. SECTION 3.2 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO ALL ADVANCES OF THE LOAN. The obligation of each Lender to make its Pro Rata Share of any Advance under the Loan (including the initial Advance made on or after the Closing Date) is subject to the satisfaction on the date such Advance is made of the following conditions precedent: 31 (a) Representations and Warranties. The representations and warranties contained herein and in the other Loan Documents (other than representations and warranties which expressly speak only as of a different date) shall be true and correct in all material respects on such date both before and after giving effect to the making of such Advance. (b) No Default or Event of Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on such date either before or after giving effect to the making of such Advance. (c) No Injunction. No law or regulation shall have been adopted, no order, judgment or decree of any governmental authority shall have been issued, and no litigation shall be pending or threatened, which in the good faith judgment of Agent would enjoin, prohibit or restrain, or impose or result in the imposition of any material adverse condition upon, the making of the Advances of Borrower's obligation to pay (or Agent's or any Agent's right to receive payment of) the Loan or the other Obligations or the consummation of the Transactions. (d) No Material Adverse Change. No event, act or condition shall have occurred after the Closing Date which, in the judgment of Agent has had or could have a Material Adverse Effect. (e) Notice of Borrowing. Agent shall have received a fully executed Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion or Continuation, as the case may be, in respect of the Advance to be made on such date. (f) No Litigation. Except for matters identified on Schedule 5 (as the same may be amended or supplemented), no actions, suits or proceedings shall be pending or threatened with respect to the Transactions or the Loan Documents, Borrower or the Company, or with respect to the Properties, that could, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect and matters identified on Schedule 5, individually or in the aggregate, do not result in a Material Adverse Effect. (g) Title Insurance Policies/Title Searches. [Deleted]. (h) Payment of Taxes. Agent shall have received proof of payment of any required recording fees, mortgage recording taxes, documentary stamp taxes, intangibles taxes or other similar costs in connection with the making of such Advance. (i) Acquisition and Development of Properties. [Deleted]. (j) Additional Matters. Agent shall have received such other certificates, opinions, documents and instruments relating to the Transactions as may have been reasonably requested by Agent, and all corporate and other proceedings and all other documents (including, without limitation, all documents referred to herein and not appearing as exhibits hereto) and all legal matters in connection with the Transactions shall be satisfactory in form and substance to Agent. SECTION 3.3 ACCEPTANCE OF BORROWINGS. The acceptance by Borrower of the proceeds of each Advance shall constitute a representation and warranty by Borrower and the Company to Agent that all of the conditions required to be satisfied under this Section 3 in connection with 32 the making of such Advance and all of the terms and provisions of this Agreement have been satisfied. SECTION 3.4 SUFFICIENT COUNTERPARTS. All certificates, agreements, legal opinions and other documents and papers referred to in this Section 3, unless otherwise specified, shall be delivered to Agent and shall be satisfactory in form and substance to Agent in its sole discretion (unless the form thereof is prescribed herein) and Borrower and the Company shall deliver sufficient counterparts of all such materials for distribution to Agent and each Lender. SECTION 4. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. In order to induce Agent to enter into this Agreement and to make the Loan, Borrower and the Company make the following representations and warranties, which shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Notes and the making of the Loan and each Advance: SECTION 4.1 CORPORATE/PARTNERSHIP STATUS. (a) Borrower, (i) is a duly organized and validly existing limited partnership, in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its formation, (ii) has all requisite partnership power and authority, to own its property and assets (including the Properties) and to transact the business in which it is engaged or presently proposes to engage (including this Transaction) and (iii) has duly qualified and is authorized to do business and is in good standing as a foreign limited partnership, in every jurisdiction in which it owns or leases real property (including the Properties) or in which the nature of its business requires it to be so qualified; (b) the Company is a duly organized and validly existing corporation in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation; (i) has all requisite corporate power and authorities to own its property and assets and to transact the business in which it is engaged or presently proposes to engage (including this Transaction) and (ii) has duly qualified and is authorized to do business and is in good standing as a foreign corporation, in every jurisdiction in which it owns or leases real property (including the Properties) or in which the nature of its business requires it to be so qualified. SECTION 4.2 CORPORATE/PARTNERSHIP POWER AND AUTHORITY. (a) Borrower has the partnership power and authority to execute, deliver and carry out the terms and provisions of each of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and has taken all necessary partnership action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of such Loan Documents. Borrower has duly executed and delivered each such Loan Document, and each such Loan Document constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by applicable insolvency, bankruptcy or other laws affecting creditors' rights generally, or general principles of equity whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding in equity or at law. (b) The Company has the corporate power and authority to execute, deliver and carry out the terms and provisions of each of the Loan Documents to which it is a party and has taken all necessary corporate action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance by it of such Loan Documents. The Company has duly executed and delivered each such Loan Document, 33 and each such Loan Document constitutes its legal, valid and binding obligation, enforceable in accordance with its terms, except as enforcement may be limited by applicable insolvency, bankruptcy or other laws affecting creditors' rights generally, or general principles of equity whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding in equity or at law. SECTION 4.3 NO VIOLATION. Neither the execution, delivery or performance by Borrower or the Company of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, nor the compliance by such Person with the terms and provisions thereof nor the consummation of the Transactions, (a) will contravene any applicable provision of any law, statute, rule, regulation, order, writ, injunction or decree of any court or governmental instrumentality, or (b) will conflict with or result in any breach of, any of the terms, covenants, conditions or provisions of, or constitute a default under, or result in the creation or imposition of (or the obligation to create or impose) any Lien (except pursuant to the Loan Documents) upon any of the property or assets (including the Properties) of Borrower or the Company (or of any partnership of which such Person is a partner) pursuant to the terms of any indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, agreement or other instrument to which Borrower or the Company (or of any partnership of which such Person is a partner) is a party or by which it or any of its property or assets (including the Properties) is bound or to which it may be subject, or (c) will, with respect to Borrower, violate any provisions of its partnership agreement, or (d) will, with respect to the Company, violate any provision of its Certificate of Incorporation or By-Laws. SECTION 4.4 LITIGATION. Except as set forth on Schedule 5, there are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the best of Borrower, or the Company's knowledge, threatened with respect to any of the Transactions or Loan Documents, Borrower, the Company, its Subsidiaries, or with respect to the Properties, that could, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. All matters set forth on Schedule 5 do not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. SECTION 4.5 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS; FINANCIAL CONDITION; ETC. The financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.1 were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied and fairly present the financial condition and the results of operations of Borrower, the Company and the Properties covered thereby on the dates and for the periods covered thereby, except as disclosed in the notes thereto and, with respect to interim financial statements, subject to normally recurring year-end adjustments. Neither Borrower nor the Company has any material liability (contingent or otherwise) not reflected in such financial statements or in the notes thereto. There has been no adverse change in any condition, fact, circumstance or event that would make any such information inaccurate, incomplete or otherwise misleading or would affect Borrower or the Company's ability to perform its obligations under this Agreement. SECTION 4.6 SOLVENCY. On the Closing Date and after and giving effect to the Transactions, Borrower and the Company will be Solvent. SECTION 4.7 MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE. Since the date of the most recent audited financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 5.1, there has occurred no event, act or condition, and to the best of Borrower and the Company's knowledge, there is no prospective event or condition which has had, or could have, a Material Adverse Effect. 34 SECTION 4.8 USE OF PROCEEDS; MARGIN REGULATIONS. All proceeds of each Advance will be used by Borrower only in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.2. No part of the proceeds of any Advance will be used by Borrower to purchase or carry any Margin Stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any Margin Stock. Neither the making of any Advance nor the use of the proceeds thereof will violate or be inconsistent with the provisions of Regulations G, T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board. SECTION 4.9 GOVERNMENTAL APPROVALS. No order, consent, approval, license, authorization, or validation of, or filing, recording or registration with, or exemption by, any governmental or public body or authority, or any subdivision thereof, is required to authorize, or is required in connection with (i) the execution, delivery and performance of any Loan Document or the consummation of any of the Transactions or (ii) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of any Loan Document. SECTION 4.10 SECURITY INTERESTS AND LIENS. [Deleted]. SECTION 4.11 TAX RETURNS AND PAYMENTS. Borrower and the Company have filed all tax returns required to be filed by them for which the filing date has passed and not been extended and have paid all taxes and assessments payable by such Persons which have become due, other than (a) those not yet delinquent or (b) those that are reserved against in accordance with GAAP which are being diligently contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings. SECTION 4.12 ERISA. (a) Neither Borrower, nor the Company has any Employee Benefit Plans other than those listed on Schedule 4. No accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA) or Reportable Event has occurred with respect to any Plan. As of the Closing Date, the Unfunded Benefit Liabilities do not in the aggregate exceed $500,000. Borrower, the Company and each member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group have complied in all material respects with the requirements of ERISA and the Code and plan documents for each Employee Benefit Plan and Plans and are not in default (as defined in Section 4219(c)(5) of ERISA) with respect to payments to a Multiemployer Plan. Neither Borrower, the Company, nor any member of their respective ERISA Controlled Groups is subject to any present or potential liability or withdrawal liability or annual withdrawal liability payments, which, individually or in the aggregate, could materially adversely affect any of such Persons. To the best knowledge of Borrower, the Company and their respective ERISA Controlled Group, no Multiemployer Plan is or is likely to be in reorganization (within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA or Section 418 of the Code) or is insolvent (as defined in Section 4245 of ERISA). No material liability to the PBGC (other than required premium payments), the Internal Revenue Service, any Plan or any trust established under Title IV of ERISA has been, or is expected by Borrower, the Company, or any member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group to be, incurred by Borrower, the Company, nor any member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group. Except as otherwise disclosed on Schedule 4 hereto, none of Borrower, the Company nor, any member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group has any contingent liability with respect to any post-retirement benefit under any "welfare plan" (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA), other than liability for continuation coverage under Part 6 of Title I of ERISA. No lien under Section 412(n) of the Code or 302(f) of ERISA or requirement to provide security under Section 401 (a)(29) of the Code or Section 307 of ERISA has been or is reasonably expected by Borrower, the Company, or any member of their respective ERISA 35 Controlled Group to be imposed on the assets of Borrower, the Company, or any member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group. Neither Borrower nor the Company is a party to any collective bargaining agreement. Neither Borrower, the Company nor any of their ERISA Controlled Group has engaged in any transaction prohibited by Section 408 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. (b) As of the date hereof and throughout the term of this Agreement (i) neither Borrower nor the Company is or will be an "employee benefit plan" as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, which is subject to Title I of ERISA, and (ii) the assets of Borrower and the assets of the Company do not and will not constitute "plan assets" of one or more such plans for purposes of Title I of ERISA. (c) As of the date hereof and throughout the term of this Agreement (i) Borrower and the Company are not and will not be a "governmental plan" within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA and (ii) transactions by or with Borrower and the Company are not and will not be subject to state statutes applicable to Borrower and the Company regulating investments and fiduciary obligations with respect to governmental plans. SECTION 4.13 CLOSING DATE TRANSACTIONS. On the Closing Date and immediately prior to the making of the initial Advance hereunder, the Transactions (other than the making of the Loan) intended to be consummated on the Closing Date will have been consummated in accordance with the terms of the relevant Loan Documents and in accordance with all Applicable Laws. All consents and approvals of, and filings and registrations with, and all other actions by, any Person required in order to make or consummate such Transactions have been obtained, given, filed or taken and are or will be in full force and effect. SECTION 4.14 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES IN LOAN DOCUMENTS. All representations and warranties made by Borrower or the Company in the Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects. SECTION 4.15 TRUE AND COMPLETE DISCLOSURE. All factual information (taken as a whole) furnished by or on behalf of Borrower or the Company in writing to Agent on or prior to the Closing Date, for purposes of or in connection with this Agreement or any of the Transactions (the "Furnished Information") is, and all other such factual information (taken as a whole) hereafter furnished by or on behalf of Borrower or the Company in writing to Agent will be, true, accurate and complete in all material respects and will not omit any material fact necessary to make such information (taken as a whole) not misleading on the date as of which such information is dated or furnished. As of the Closing Date, there are no facts, events or conditions directly and specifically affecting Borrower or the Company known to Borrower or the Company and not disclosed to Agent, in the Furnished Information, in the Schedules attached hereto or in the other Loan Documents, which, individually or in the aggregate, have or could be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. SECTION 4.16 OWNERSHIP OF REAL PROPERTY; LEASES; EXISTING MORTGAGES. Borrower has good and marketable fee simple (or leasehold title pursuant to ground leases delivered to Lender) to all of the Properties and good title to all of its personal property subject to no Liens of any kind except for Permitted Liens. Borrower has delivered to Agent true and complete copies 36 of all leases and any amendments or modifications thereto currently in place for the Properties, and such leases have not been further amended or modified, have not been terminated, and no material defaults have occurred and are continuing under such leases as of the date hereof. As of the date of this Agreement, there are no options or other rights to acquire any of the Properties that run in favor of any Person and there are no mortgages, deeds of trust, indentures, debt instruments or other agreements creating a Lien against any of the Properties. SECTION 4.17 NO DEFAULT. No Default or Event of Default exists under or with respect to any Loan Document. Neither Borrower nor the Company is in default in any material respect beyond any applicable grace period under or with respect to any other material agreement, instrument or undertaking to which it is a party or by which it or any of its properties or assets is bound in any respect, the existence of which default could result in a Material Adverse Effect. SECTION 4.18 LICENSES, ETC. Borrower has obtained and holds in full force and effect, all material franchises, trademarks, tradenames, copyrights, licenses, permits, certificates, registrations, authorizations, qualifications, accreditations, easements, rights of way and other rights, consents and approvals which are necessary for the operation of the Properties and their respective businesses as presently conducted including, without limitation, the maintenance of any licenses or permits, the payment of any fees in connection therewith for the operation of the Properties. SECTION 4.19 COMPLIANCE WITH LAW. To the best knowledge of both Borrower and the Company, after due inquiry, Borrower and the Company are in compliance with all Applicable Laws and other laws, rules, regulations, orders, judgments, writs and decrees, noncompliance with which could result in a Material Adverse Effect. SECTION 4.20 BROKERS. Borrower, the Company, Agent and each Lender hereby represent and warrant that no brokers or finders were used in connection with procuring the financing contemplated hereby (and Borrower and the Company hereby agree to indemnify and save Lenders harmless from and against any and all liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees or court costs) suffered or incurred by any Lender as a result of any claim or assertion by any party claiming by, through or under Borrower), that it is entitled to compensation in connection with the financing contemplated hereby and each Lender hereby agrees to indemnify and save Borrower harmless from and against any and all liabilities, losses, costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees or court costs) suffered or incurred by Borrower as a result of any claim or assertion by any party claiming by, through or under any Lender that it is entitled to compensation in connection with the financing contemplated hereby. SECTION 4.21 JUDGMENTS. There are no judgments, decrees, or orders of any kind against Borrower or the Company unpaid of record which would materially or adversely affect the ability of Borrower, or the Company to comply with its obligations under the Loan or this Agreement in a timely manner. There are no federal tax claims or liens assessed or filed against Borrower, the Company or any related entity, or any principal thereof, and there are no material judgments against Borrower, or the Company unsatisfied of record or docketed in any court of the States in which the Properties are located or in any other court located in the United States and no petition in bankruptcy or similar insolvency proceeding has ever been filed by or against Borrower or the Company, and neither Borrower or the Company has ever made any assignment 37 for the benefit of creditors or taken advantage of any insolvency act or any act for the benefit of debtors. SECTION 4.22 PROPERTY MANAGER. The manager of all of the Borrowing Base Properties is Borrower. SECTION 4.23 REIT STATUS. The Company is a "qualified real estate investment trust" as defined in Section 856 of the Code. SECTION 4.24 INDEBTEDNESS. All Indebtedness for borrowed money of Borrower and the Company is set forth on Schedule 6. SECTION 4.25 SURVIVAL. The foregoing representations and warranties shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and shall continue in full force and effect until the indebtedness evidenced by the Note has been fully paid and satisfied and Lender have no further commitment to advance funds hereunder. The request for any Advance under this Agreement by Borrower or on its behalf shall constitute a certification that the aforesaid representations and warranties are true and correct as of the date of such request, except to the extent any such representation or warranty shall relate solely to an earlier date. SECTION 4.26 REPORTABLE TRANSACTION. The Borrower does not intend to treat any Advances and related transactions as being a "reportable transaction" (within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.6011-4). In the event the Borrower determines to take any action inconsistent with such intention, it will promptly notify the Agent thereof." SECTION 5. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS. Borrower and the Company covenant and agree that on and after the Closing Date and until the Obligations are paid in full: SECTION 5.1 FINANCIAL REPORTS. (a) Borrower and the Company will furnish to Agent: (i) annual audited consolidated financial statements of Borrower and the Company prepared in accordance with GAAP within 120 days of the end of Borrower and the Company's fiscal year prepared by nationally recognized independent public accountants (which accountant's opinion shall be unqualified), satisfactory to Lender; (ii) within 60 days after the close of each quarterly accounting period in each fiscal year, the consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and the Company as of the end of such quarterly period and the related consolidated statements of income, cash flow and retained earnings for such quarterly period and for the elapsed portion of the fiscal year ended with the last day of such quarterly period, each prepared in accordance with GAAP; (iii) quarterly operating statements (prepared on a basis consistent with that used in the preparation of the GAAP consolidated financial statements of Borrower and the Company) for each Property showing the most recently ended fiscal quarter and the fiscal year to date, and the Net Operating Income for the most recently completed 12 month period, including a comparison with the most recent Annual Operating Budget, within 60 days of the end of each fiscal quarter for the quarterly operating statements, and within 120 days of the end of each fiscal year for the annual operating statements, (iv) copies of all of Borrower and the Company's quarterly and annual filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and all shareholder reports and 38 letters to Borrower and the Company's partners and shareholders and all other publicly released information promptly after their filing or mailing, and (v) within 60 days of the end of each fiscal quarter, a rent roll for each of the Properties. Borrower and the Company will furnish such additional reports or data as Agent may reasonably request, and Borrower and the Company shall maintain a system of accounting capable of furnishing all such information and data, and shall maintain its books and records respecting financial and accounting matters in a proper manner and on a basis consistent with that used in the preparation of the GAAP consolidated financial statements of Borrower and the Company. Reports and data requested by Agent from Borrower and the Company shall be provided to Agent no later than 30 days after such request. (b) Officer's Certificates. (i) At the time of the delivery of the financial statements under clause (a) above, Borrower and the Company shall provide a certificate of the Company, individually and as the general partner of Borrower that (1) such financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and fairly present the consolidated financial condition and the results of operations of Borrower, the Company and the Properties on the dates and for the periods indicated, subject, in the case of interim financial statements, to normally recurring year end adjustments, (2) to its best knowledge that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing as of the date of such certificate or, if any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on such date, specifying the nature and extent thereof and the action Borrower and the Company propose to take in respect thereof, (3) that since the date of the prior financial statements delivered pursuant to such clause, no change has occurred in the financial position of Borrower and the Company, which change could result in a Material Adverse Effect, that there has been no change in the Company's tax status as a real estate investment trust as defined under Section 856 of the Code, or Borrower's status as a qualified Company subsidiary and (4) demonstrating compliance with the financial covenants set forth in Sections 5.13, 5.14, 5.15, 5.16, 5.17, 6.5, 6.8 and 6.9 hereof and containing calculations verifying such compliance, in the form of the Advance Worksheet which is Exhibit A-2 to this Agreement. (c) Borrowing Base Certificate. A certificate in form attached as Exhibit A shall be delivered at closing, upon any addition or release of a Borrowing Base Property, and upon Agent's request. (d) Notice of Default or Litigation. Promptly after Borrower or the Company obtains actual knowledge thereof, Borrower and the Company shall give Lender notice of (i) the occurrence of a Default or any Event of Default, (ii) the occurrence of (x) any event of default under any partnership agreement of Borrower, any mortgage, deed of trust, indenture or other debt or security instrument, covering any of the assets of Borrower or the Company or (y) any event of default under any other material agreement to which Borrower or the Company is a party, which, if not cured could result in a Material Adverse Effect, (iii) any litigation or governmental proceeding pending or threatened (in writing) against Borrower or the Company which could result in a Material Adverse Effect and (iv) any other event, act or condition which could result in a Material Adverse Effect. Each notice delivered pursuant to this Section 5.1(d) shall be accompanied by a certificate of the Company individually and as general partner of Borrower setting forth the details of the occurrence referred to therein and describing the actions Borrower and the Company propose to take with respect thereto. 39 (e) From time to time, Borrower and the Company shall provide such other information and financial documents relating to Borrower and the Company as Lender may reasonably request. SECTION 5.2 BOOKS, RECORDS AND INSPECTIONS. Borrower shall, at Borrower and the Company's principal place of business, keep proper books of record and account in which full, true and correct entries shall be made. Borrower and the Company shall permit officers and designated representatives of Agent and any Lender to visit and inspect any of the Properties, and to examine and copy the books of record and account of Borrower, the Company and the Properties (including, without limitation, leases, statements, bills and invoices), discuss the affairs, finances and accounts of Borrower and the Company, and be advised as to the same by, its and their officers and independent accountants, all upon reasonable notice and at such reasonable times as Agent or any Lender may desire. SECTION 5.3 MAINTENANCE OF INSURANCE. [Deleted]. SECTION 5.4 TAXES. Borrower and the Company shall pay or cause to be paid, when due (i.e., before any penalty or fine could be levied or charged), all taxes, charges and assessments and all other lawful claims required to be paid by Borrower and the Company, except as contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves have been established with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP. Upon request from Agent, Borrower and the Company shall provide evidence to Agent of payment of such taxes, charges, assessments and other lawful claims. SECTION 5.5 CORPORATE FRANCHISES; CONDUCT OF BUSINESS. (a) Borrower and the Company shall do or cause to be done, all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence and good standing in the State of its organization and in each state in which a Property is located, and its respective franchises, licenses, permits, certificates, authorizations, qualifications, accreditations, easements, rights of way and other rights, consents and approvals, except where the failure to so preserve any of the foregoing (other than existence and good standing) could not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a Material Adverse Effect. (b) Borrower and the Company shall continue in their present primary businesses of the acquisition, development, ownership and management of free standing retail establishments and retail shopping centers and related ancillary businesses and shall carry on and conduct their businesses in substantially the same manner and substantially the same field of enterprise as they are presently conducted. SECTION 5.6 COMPLIANCE WITH LAW. Borrower and the Company shall comply with all Applicable Laws, rules, statutes, regulations, decrees and orders of, and all applicable restrictions imposed by, all governmental bodies, domestic or foreign, in respect of the conduct of their business and the ownership of their property (including the Properties), except for such laws, rules, statutes, regulations, decrees, orders and restrictions, (a) which Borrower or the Company are contesting in good faith and in compliance with and pursuant to appropriate proceedings diligently prosecuted (provided that such contest does not and cannot (i) expose Agent, any Lender, Borrower or the Company, to any criminal or civil liability or penalty), or (ii) give rise to a Lien against any of the Property, or (b) the failure to observe which, taken individually or in 40 the aggregate, could not result in a Material Adverse Effect. Borrower and the Company's compliance with this Section shall including, without limitation, the filing of any required prospectus and/or the maintenance of any licenses or permits, the payment of any fees in connection therewith for the operation of the Properties. All Properties shall continue to be operated by Borrower as free standing retail establishments, retail shopping centers or office buildings, as applicable. SECTION 5.7 PERFORMANCE OF OBLIGATIONS. Borrower and the Company shall perform all of its obligations under the terms of each debt instrument, lease, undertaking and contract by which it or any of the properties (including the Properties) is bound or to which it is a party. SECTION 5.8 STOCK. The Company shall at all times cause its issued and outstanding shares of stock to be listed for trading on a publicly recognized United States based stock exchange. SECTION 5.9 MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES. Borrower and the Company shall ensure that the Properties are kept in good condition and repair, normal wear and tear and casualty damage in the process of being repaired or restored excepted. SECTION 5.10 COMPLIANCE WITH ERISA. (a) Borrower and the Company shall maintain each Employee Benefit Plan and Plan in compliance with all material applicable requirements of ERISA and the Code and with all material applicable regulations promulgated thereunder. Borrower and the Company shall provide to Lender, within ten (10) days of sending or receipt, copies of all filings or correspondence with the Internal Revenue Service, PBGC, Department of Labor, Plan, Multiemployer Plan or union, regarding any Plan, or regarding or disclosing any liability or potential liability or violation of law under any Employee Benefit Plan. (b) Borrower and the Company further covenant and agree to deliver to Agent such certifications or other evidence from time to time throughout the term of this Agreement, as requested by Agent in its sole discretion but no more frequently than annually, that (i) neither Borrower nor the Company is an "employee benefit plan" as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA, which is subject to Title I of ERISA, or a "governmental plan" within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA; (ii) Borrower and the Company are not subject to state statutes regulating investments and fiduciary obligations with respect to governmental plans; and (iii) one or more of the following circumstances is true with respect to each of Borrower and the Company: (i) Equity interests in Borrower and the Company are publicly offered securities, within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. 2510.3-101(b)(2); (ii) Less than 25 percent of each outstanding class of equity interests in Borrower and the Company, respectively, are held by "benefit plan investors" within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. 2510.3-101(f)(2); or (iii) Borrower and the Company qualify as an "operating company" or a "real estate operating company" within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. 2510.3-101(c) or (e) or an investment company registered under The Investment Company Act of 1940. 41 (c) Borrower and the Company further covenant and agree to notify Agent within ten (10) days of the date that the certification in this Section 5.10 is no longer true. SECTION 5.11 SETTLEMENT/JUDGMENT NOTICE. Borrower and the Company agree that they shall, within ten (10) days after a settlement of any obligation in excess of $100,000 provide written notice to Lender of such settlement together with a certification signed by the Company individually and as general partner of Borrower certifying based upon the most recent quarterly consolidated financial statements of Borrower and the Company, such settlement will not cause Borrower nor the Company to violate the financial covenants set forth in Sections 5.13, 5.14, 5.15 and 5.16 hereof. Borrower and the Company further agree that they shall, within ten (10) days after entry of a final judgment in excess of $100,000 or final judgments in excess of $250,000 in the aggregate during the immediately preceding twelve (12) month period, provide written notice to Agent of such judgment together with a certification signed by the Company individually and as general partner of Borrower certifying based upon the most recent quarterly consolidated financial statements of Borrower and the Company, such judgment will not cause Borrower nor the Company to violate the financial covenants set forth in Sections 5.13, 5.14, 5.15 and 5.16 hereof. Borrower and the Company further agrees that it will provide written notice to Lender after entry of any judgment in excess of $100,000. SECTION 5.12 ACCELERATION NOTICE. Borrower and the Company agree that it shall, within ten (10) days after receipt of written notice that any Indebtedness of Borrower and the Company hereof has been accelerated, provide written notice to Agent of such acceleration. SECTION 5.13 BORROWING BASE COVENANT. Borrower shall at all times maintain a Borrowing Base, consisting of at least ten (10) Properties that is greater than or equal to the outstanding Loan Amount. To the extent the Borrowing Base Covenant set forth in the preceding clause is not met, then: (a) to the extent that the then outstanding principal balance of the Loan exceeds the Borrowing Base, Borrower shall repay, without penalty or premium (other than as provided in Section 2.16), that portion of the outstanding principal balance of the Loan which is in excess of the Borrowing Base within five (5) Business Days of Borrower's receipt of written notice that the Borrowing Base Covenant is no longer satisfied. (b) The Available Loan Amount shall not be reduced pursuant to Section 5.13(a) above if (i) Borrower shall provide Lender, within five Business Days of the notice set forth in Section 5.13(a) an additional Borrowing Base Property or Properties such that the Borrowing Base Covenant is met. SECTION 5.14 LEVERAGE. Borrower and the Company on a consolidated basis at all times shall maintain Leverage equal to or less than 65%. SECTION 5.15 PORTFOLIO DEBT SERVICE COVERAGE. Borrower and the Company on a consolidated basis shall at all times maintain for the most recently ended twelve (12) month period a ratio of EBIDTA to Total Interest Expense equal to or greater than 2.00 to 1.00. 42 SECTION 5.16 CONSOLIDATED TANGIBLE NET WORTH. Borrower and the Company on a consolidated basis shall at all times on and after date hereof maintain Consolidated Tangible Net Worth of at least $90,000,000, plus 75% of the cash proceeds of any equity offering of the Company, net of underwriting discounts and commissions and other reasonable costs associated therewith. SECTION 5.17 FIXED CHARGE COVERAGE. As of the end of each of its fiscal quarters, on a trailing twelve-month basis, the Borrower shall maintain a ratio of (a) Funds from Operations, to (b) the aggregate of Total Debt Service plus preferred dividends, of not less than 1.50 to 1.00. SECTION 5.18 MANAGER. Borrower and/or the Company shall at all times remain the property manager of all of the Properties, and shall maintain the exclusive right to sell, finance, and grant mortgages upon and manage the Properties. SECTION 5.19 FURTHER ASSURANCES. Borrower and the Company will at their sole cost and expense, at any time and from time to time upon request of Agent take or cause to be taken any action and execute, acknowledge, deliver or record any further documents, opinions, deeds of trust, deeds to secure debt, mortgages, security agreements or other instruments which Agent in its reasonable discretion deems necessary or appropriate to carry out the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents including (i) to consummate the transfer or sale of the Loan or any portion thereof, (ii) to preserve, protect and perfect the security intended to be created and preserved in the Properties and (iii) to establish, preserve and protect the security interest of Lender in and to any personal property owned by Borrower and installed in, furnished to or used or intended to be used in connection with any construction in connection with the Properties or the operation thereof. SECTION 5.20 REIT STATUS OF THE COMPANY AND BORROWER. The Company shall at all times maintain its status as a "qualified real estate investment trust" under Section 856 of the Code. The Company shall at all times be the sole general partner of Borrower. SECTION 5.21 LOAN DOCUMENT COVENANTS. Borrower and the Company shall comply with all of the terms and conditions and covenants in the other Loan Documents. SECTION 5.22 APPRAISALS; MARKET STUDIES. [Deleted]. SECTION 5.23 CONTINUATION OF OWNERSHIP; MANAGEMENT. [Deleted]. SECTION 5.24 DEVELOPMENT PROPERTIES. [Deleted]. SECTION 6. NEGATIVE COVENANTS. Borrower and the Company covenant and agree that on and after the Closing Date until the Obligations are paid in full: SECTION 6.1 LIENS. Borrower and Company shall not create, incur, assume or suffer to exist, directly or indirectly, any Lien on any of the Borrowing Base Properties, other than the following (collectively, the "Permitted Liens"): 43 (a) Liens for taxes not yet due or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and with respect to which adequate reserves are being maintained in accordance with GAAP; (b) Statutory liens of landlords and Liens of mechanics, materialmen and other Liens imposed by Law (other than any Lien imposed by ERISA) created in the ordinary course of business for amounts not yet due or (i) which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, and (ii) with respect to which adequate bonds have been posted or have been insured over by the title insurance company if required to do so by Applicable Law or the terms of the Mortgage; and (c) Easements, rights-of-way, zoning and similar restrictions and other similar charges or encumbrances not interfering with the ordinary conduct of the business of Borrower and which do not detract materially from the value of any of the Properties to which they attach or impair materially the use thereof by Borrower. SECTION 6.2 RESTRICTION ON FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES; DISPOSITION OF PROPERTIES. Without the prior written consent of all of the Lenders, which consent may be withheld in the sole and absolute discretion of the Lenders, Borrower and the Company shall not enter into any merger or consolidation, or sell all or substantially all of their respective assets to any other Person, provided that Borrower or the Company, may merge with another Person if, prior to and after giving effect to such merger, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and Borrower or the Company is the surviving entity of such merger. SECTION 6.3 TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES. Borrower and the Company shall not enter into any material transaction or series of related transactions, whether or not in the ordinary course of business, with any Affiliate of Borrower or an Affiliate of the Company, other than on terms and conditions substantially as favorable as would be obtainable at the time in a comparable arm's-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate of Borrower or an Affiliate of the Company, and only if such transaction is subject and subordinate to the Loan and Loan Documents on terms acceptable to Agent. SECTION 6.4 PLANS. Borrower and the Company shall not, nor shall they permit any member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group to, (i) take any action which would (A) increase the aggregate present value of the Unfunded Benefit Liabilities under all Plans to an amount in excess of $500,000 or (B) result in liability or Contingent Obligation for any post-retirement benefit under any "welfare plan" (as defined in Section 3(1) of ERISA), other than liability for continuation coverage under Part 6 of Title I of ERISA or (ii) engage in any transaction prohibited by Section 408 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code. SECTION 6.5 DISTRIBUTIONS. Neither Borrower nor the Company shall declare or make any Distributions (determined on an historic cumulative basis from and after the Closing Date) in excess of an amount equal to 95% of Funds from Operations. SECTION 6.6 ADDITIONAL KMART PROPERTIES. [Deleted]. 44 SECTION 6.7 RESTRICTIONS ON SALE OR EXCHANGE OF EQUITY OR DEBT SECURITIES. Neither Borrower nor the Company shall issue, sell or exchange any stock or other equity or debt securities of Borrower or the Company to or with any tenant of Borrower for whatever consideration, or issue, sell or exchange any stock or partnership interests (other than common stock of the Company as currently authorized or Partnership Units of Borrower as currently authorized, which in either case is not limited or preferred as to dividends and distributions) to any Person, without the prior written consent of all of the Lenders, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. SECTION 6.8 NO UNSECURED INDEBTEDNESS. Neither Borrower nor Company will incur any unsecured Indebtedness, except for Indebtedness that is (i) accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business, and (ii) non-recourse debt. SECTION 6.9 LIMIT ON SECURED INDEBTEDNESS. Borrower's and Company's secured Indebtedness shall not exceed 45% of Borrower's and Company's total assets as shown on the most recent consolidated financial report to Agent. SECTION 7. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. SECTION 7.1 EVENTS OF DEFAULT. Each of the following events, acts, occurrences or conditions shall constitute an Event of Default under this Agreement, regardless of whether such event, act, occurrence or condition is voluntary or involuntary or results from the operation of law or pursuant to or as a result of compliance by any Person with any judgment, decree, order, rule or regulation of any court or administrative or governmental body: (a) Failure to Make Payments. Borrower shall (i) default in the payment when due of any principal of the Loan or (ii) default in the payment within five (5) days after the due date of (x) any interest on the Loan or (y) any fees, Transaction Costs or any other amounts owing hereunder; provided, however, that any interest payable with respect to any delinquent payment shall be calculated at the Default Rate from the date such payment was actually due as if there were no grace period. (b) Breach of Representation or Warranty. Any representation or warranty made by Borrower or the Company herein or in any other Loan Document or in any certificate or statement delivered pursuant hereto or thereto shall prove to be false or misleading in any material respect on the date as of which made or deemed made. (c) Breach of Covenants. (i) Borrower or the Company shall fail to perform or observe any agreement, covenant or obligation arising under Sections 5.1, 5.13, 5.14, 5.15, 5.16, 5.17, 5.18, or Section 6. (ii) Borrower or the Company shall fail to perform or observe any agreement, covenant or obligation arising under this Agreement (except those described in subsections (a), (b) and (c)(i) above), and such failure shall continue uncured for thirty (30) days, or such longer period of time as is reasonably necessary to cure such Default, 45 provided that Borrower or the Company has commenced and is diligently prosecuting the cure of such Default and cures it within ninety (90) days. (iii) Borrower or the Company shall fail to perform or observe any agreement, covenant or obligation arising under any provision of the Loan Documents other than this Agreement, which failure shall continue after the end of any applicable grace period provided therein. (d) Default Under Other Agreements. Borrower or the Company shall default beyond any applicable grace period in the payment, performance or observance of any obligation or condition with respect to any Indebtedness including other Indebtedness owed by Borrower to Agent or any other event shall occur or condition exist, if the effect of such default, event or condition is to accelerate the maturity of any such Indebtedness or to permit (without regard to any required notice or lapse of time) the holder or holders thereof, or any trustee or agent for such holders, to accelerate the maturity of any such Indebtedness, or any such Indebtedness shall become or be declared to be due and payable prior to its stated maturity. (e) Bankruptcy, etc. (i) Borrower or the Company shall commence a voluntary case concerning itself under the Bankruptcy Code; or (ii) an involuntary case is commenced against Borrower or the Company and the petition is not controverted within thirty (30) days, or is not dismissed within sixty (60) days, after commencement of the case or (iii) a custodian (as defined in the Bankruptcy Code) is appointed for, or takes charge of, all or substantially all of the property of Borrower or the Company, or Borrower or the Company commences any other proceedings under any reorganization, arrangement, adjustment of debt, relief of debtors, dissolution, insolvency or liquidation or similar law of any jurisdiction whether now or hereafter in effect relating to Borrower or the Company, or there is commenced against Borrower or the Company any such proceeding which remains undismissed for a period of sixty (60) days; or (iv) any order of relief or other order approving any such case or proceeding is entered; or (v) Borrower or the Company is adjudicated insolvent or bankrupt; or (vi) Borrower or the Company suffers any appointment of any custodian or the like for it or any substantial part of its property to continue undischarged or unstayed for a period of sixty (60) days; or (vii) Borrower or the Company makes a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; or (viii) Borrower or the Company shall fail to pay, or shall state that it is unable to pay, or shall be unable to pay, its debts generally as they become due; or (ix) Borrower or the Company shall call a meeting of its creditors with a view to arranging a composition or adjustment of its debt; or (x) Borrower or the Company shall by any act or failure to act consent to, approve of or acquiesce in any of the foregoing; or (xi) any corporate or partnership action is taken by Borrower or the Company for the purpose of effecting any of the foregoing. (f) ERISA. (i) Any Termination Event shall occur, or (ii) any Plan shall incur an accumulated funding deficiency (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived, or fail to make a required installment payment on or before the due date under Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, or (iii) Borrower, the Company or a member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group shall have engaged in a transaction which is prohibited under Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA which could result in the imposition of liability in excess of $100,000 on any of Borrower, the Company or any member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group and an exemption shall 46 not be applicable or have been obtained under Section 408 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code, or (iv) Borrower or the Company or any member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group shall fail to pay when due an amount which it shall have become liable to pay to the PBGC, any Plan or a trust established under Title IV of ERISA, or (v) Borrower or the Company shall have received a notice from the PBGC of its intention to terminate a Plan or to appoint a trustee to administer such Plan, which notice shall not have been withdrawn within fourteen (14) days after the date thereof, or (vi) a condition shall exist by reason of which the PBGC would be entitled to obtain a decree adjudicating that an ERISA Plan must be terminated or have a trustee appointed to administer any ERISA Plan, or (vii) Borrower, the Company or a member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group suffers a partial or complete withdrawal from a Multiemployer Plan or is in default (as defined in Section 4219(c)(5) of ERISA) with respect to payments to a Multiemployer Plan, or (viii) a proceeding shall be instituted against any of Borrower, the Company or any member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group to enforce Section 515 of ERISA, or (ix) any other event or condition shall occur or exist with respect to any Employee Benefit Plan or Plan which could subject Borrower, the Company or any member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group to any tax, penalty or other liability in excess of $100,000 or the imposition of any lien or security interest on Borrower, the Company or any member of their respective ERISA Controlled Group, or (ix) with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the institution of a proceeding to enforce Section 515 of ERISA, to terminate such Plan, the receipt of a notice of reorganization or insolvency under Sections 4241 or 4245 of ERISA, in any event which could result in liability in excess of $100,000 to Borrower, the Company, or any member of any of their ERISA Controlled Group, or (xi) the assets of Borrower or the Company become or are deemed to be assets of an Employee Benefit Plan. (g) Judgments. One or more judgments or decrees (i) in an aggregate amount of $100,000 or more are entered against Borrower or the Company in any consecutive twelve (12) month period or (ii) which, with respect to Borrower or the Company, could result in a Material Adverse Effect, shall be entered by a court or courts of competent jurisdiction against any of such Persons (other than any judgment as to which, and only to the extent, a reputable insurance company has acknowledged coverage of such claim in writing) and (x) any such judgments or decrees shall not be stayed (by appeal or otherwise), discharged, paid, bonded or vacated within thirty (30) days or (y) enforcement proceedings shall be commenced by any creditor on any such judgments or decrees. (h) Company. The Company fails to remain a publicly-traded real estate investment trust in good standing with the exchange upon which its stock is listed and traded and with the Securities and Exchange Commission. (i) First Priority Lien. [Deleted]. (j) Exchange. The Company shall fail to be listed for trading on a publicly recognized United States based stock exchange. (k) Invalidity of Loan Documents. Any of the Loan Documents for any reason, other than partial or full release in accordance with the terms thereof, ceases to be in full force or is declared to be null and void or is terminated, or Borrower or the Company denies that it has any further liability under and Loan Documents to which it is a party, or gives notice to such effect. 47 (l) Material Adverse Change. Any material adverse change in Borrower or the Company's business or financial conditions, a material adverse change in a material portion of the Properties has occurred or is imminent, if the full performance of any of the Obligations is materially impaired. SECTION 7.2 RIGHTS AND REMEDIES. (a) Upon the occurrence of any Event of Default described in Section 7.1(e), the Available Loan Amount and the Maximum Loan Amount shall automatically and immediately terminate and the unpaid principal amount of and any and all accrued interest on the Loan and any and all accrued fees and other Obligations shall automatically become immediately due and payable, with all additional interest thereon calculated at the Default Rate from the occurrence of the Default until the Loan is paid in full and without presentation, demand, or protest or other requirements of any kind (including, without limitation, valuation and appraisement, diligence, presentment, notice of intent to demand or accelerate and notice of acceleration), all of which are hereby expressly waived by Borrower and the Company, and the obligation of each Lender to make any Advances hereunder shall thereupon terminate; and upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any other Event of Default, Agent and the Lenders may, and upon request of the Required Lenders, Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, shall, by written notice to Borrower (i) declare that the Available Loan Amount and the Maximum Loan Amount are terminated, whereupon the Available Loan Amount, and the Maximum Loan Amount and the obligation of each Lender to make any Advances (or their pro rata share thereof) hereunder shall immediately terminate, and (ii) declare the unpaid principal amount of and any and all accrued and unpaid interest on the Loan and any and all accrued fees and other Obligations to be, and the same shall thereupon be, immediately due and payable with all additional interest thereon calculated at the Default Rate from the occurrence of the Default until the Loan is paid in full and without presentation, demand, or protest or other requirements of any kind (including, without limitation, valuation and appraisement, diligence, presentment, notice of intent to demand or accelerate and notice of acceleration), all of which are hereby expressly waived by Borrower and the Company. (b) Agent and any Lender may offset any indebtedness, obligations or liabilities owed to Borrower or the Company against any indebtedness, obligations or liabilities of Borrower and the Company to it. (c) Agent and the Lenders may avail themselves of any remedies available under the Loan Documents or at law or equity; and at the direction of the Required Lenders, Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, shall avail itself of any such remedies. SECTION 7.3 CROSS DEFAULT. Any Borrower default under the terms of any Indebtedness to any Lender shall constitute an Event of Default under this Agreement, and at the direction of the Required Lenders, Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, shall avail itself of any such remedies. SECTION 8. THE AGENT; LENDERS; PARTICIPANTS SECTION 8.1 APPOINTMENT. Each Lender hereby irrevocably designates, appoints and authorizes Agent and any successor Agent pursuant to Section 8.16 to act as Agent for such Lender under this Agreement and to execute and deliver or accept on behalf of each of the 48 Lenders the other Loan Documents. Each Lender hereby irrevocably authorizes, and each holder of any Note by the acceptance of a Note shall be deemed irrevocably to authorize, the Agent and any successor Agent pursuant to Section 8.16 to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and any other instruments and agreements referred to herein, and to exercise such powers and to perform such duties hereunder as are specifically delegated to or required of the Agents by the terms hereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Agent agrees to act as the Agent provided in this Agreement. Any action taken by it in such capacity as authorized by this Agreement shall be binding on all of the Lenders. SECTION 8.2 ADVANCES AND PAYMENTS. (a) All Advances will be made by Agent on behalf of the Lenders on the requested date of Advance, except that the Pro Rata Share of any Lender which the Agent receives after 1:00 p.m. Detroit time on the requested date of Advance, or at any time after the requested date of Advance, will be disbursed on the Business Day following its receipt. Nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document is to be construed to require Agent to advance funds on behalf of any Lender or to relieve any Lender from its obligations to make its Pro Rata Share of Advances or to prejudice any rights that Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default by that Lender hereunder. (b) In order to minimize transfers between the Agent and each Lender of funds representing the Lender's Pro Rata Share of an Advance, a Borrower payment, or (to the extent that Agent has not been promptly reimbursed by Borrower) other amounts for which the Agent is entitled to Lender reimbursement or indemnification, coincidental transfer and loan account adjustments may be made on a "net" basis. Not later than the Business Day immediately preceding the date of a Base Rate Advance and not later than three (3) Business Days immediately preceding the date of a LIBOR Advance, or not later than the Business Day immediately prior to a date on which Lender reimbursement of the Agent is requested, Agent will advise each Lender by telephone, telex or telecopy as to the purpose and aggregate amount to be disbursed or paid by Agent and the date of Advance or actual anticipated payment date, as the case may be; the amount which is such Lender's Pro Rata Share thereof; and, if in order to cause all loan accounts maintained by Agent for such Lender to conform to its Pro Rata Share of the Loan, the amount which such Lender is requested to remit to Agent will be different, the identity of the loan account(s) requiring adjustment and the nature and amounts due to or from the Lender with respect thereto. All amounts which a Lender is required to remit to Agent will be made available to Agent by transfer of same-day funds to the designated wire account of Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. Detroit time on the date of Advance, as evidenced by a wire transfer number or actual receipt by Agent. Agent will have no liability to Borrower for the failure of any Lender to make an Advance on the date of Advance, and if any date of Advance is on a day when any of the Lenders are not open for business, then each Lender shall transfer to Agent its Pro Rata Share on the next day such Lender is open for business. (c) All Loan payments in respect of Advances, interest, fees or expenses incurred by the Lenders and required by Borrower to be reimbursed will be deemed paid when immediately available U.S. currency or its equivalent is paid in the amount required by Borrower to Agent. On the Business Day Agent receives a Borrower payment, Agent will advise each Lender by telephone, telex or telecopy of the aggregate amount and such Lender's Pro Rata Share of amounts actually received by Agent in respect of Advances, interest, fees, or, to the extent that 49 the Lenders previously have remitted to Agent therefor, reimbursements for other amounts for which Agent has required Lender reimbursement or indemnification. Agent will pay to such Lender on the same Business Day, by transfer to such Lender's wire account (as specified by such Lender on Exhibit 8.2 to this Agreement, or as amended by such Lender from time to time after the date hereof) its Pro Rata Share, "netted" as permitted herein, of any such payment received by Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. Detroit time, and otherwise on the next Business Day. (d) Any Agent payment to a Lender under this Agreement in the belief or expectation that a related payment has been or will be received by Agent from Borrower, which related payment in fact is not received by Agent, will entitle Agent to recover such amount from the Lender without set-off, counterclaim or deduction of any kind. If Agent determines at any time that an amount received by Agent under this Agreement must be returned to Borrower or paid to any other Person pursuant to any solvency law or otherwise, then, notwithstanding any other term or condition of this Agreement, Agent will not be required to distribute any portion thereof to any Lender. However, if Agent has previously distributed such amount, each Lender will repay to Agent on demand any portion of such amount that Agent has distributed to such Lender, together with interest at such rate, if any, as Agent is required to pay to Borrower or such other Person, without set-off, counterclaim or deduction of any kind by the Lender. SECTION 8.3 AMENDMENTS, CONSENTS AND WAIVERS FOR CERTAIN ACTIONS. (a) Agent is authorized and empowered on behalf of the Lenders to amend or modify in writing any provision of this Agreement or another Loan Document which relates or pertains to the Borrower, or to consent to or waive Borrower's performance of any obligation on any Event of Default, only with the prior written consent of the Required Lenders; provided, however, that if another provision of this Agreement requires the consent of all of the Lenders, any amendment, modification, consent or waiver as to such provision shall require the prior written consent of all of the Lenders. When Agent requests the consent of the Required Lenders or all of the Lenders, as applicable, and does not receive a written consent or denial thereof from any Lender within five (5) Business Days after such Lender's receipt of such request, then Agent shall again request the consent of such Lender, and if Agent does not receive a written consent or denial from such Lender within five (5) days of such Lender's receipt of such second request therefor, then such Lender will be deemed to have denied such consent. Borrower agrees that it will not assert any claim of amendment, modification, consent or waiver which is not in writing, which writing (i) references this Agreement or any other of the other Loan Documents, and (ii) is signed by the Required Lenders. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no amendment or waiver shall change the definition of Required Lenders or amend this Section 8.3, increase the principal amount of the Loan, reduce the stated interest rate or fees provided for in the Loan Documents, postpone the scheduled payment of any principal, interest or fees under the Loan Documents, or modify, amend or waive compliance by Borrower with Sections 5.13, 5.14, 5.15 or 5.16, except as expressly provided for in the Loan Documents, without the consent of all Lenders. Any amendment fee paid by Borrower shall be for the pro-rata benefit of the Lenders. (b) In the event Agent requests the consent or approval of any Lender, the Required Lenders or of all of the Lenders pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or agreement among the Lenders and such consent or approval is not received from the required Lenders, then Agent may, at its option, require the nonconsenting Lender(s) to assign its interest in the Loan to Agent and the other consenting Lenders who wish to participate in the purchase of 50 the nonconsenting Lender's interest in the Loan, or to a replacement Lender designated by Agent (to the extent Agent and the consenting Lenders do not elect to purchase the nonconsenting Lender's interest in the Loan) for a price equal to the then outstanding principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest and fees under Section 2.14(a) and (c) due the nonconsenting Lender, which interest and fees will be paid when collected from Borrower. The nonconsenting Lender shall assign its interest in the Loan to the parties designated by Agent pursuant to Section 8.19(a). Any consenting Lender who wishes to purchase a portion of the nonconsenting Lender's interest in the Loan shall notify Agent of such election within five (5) Business Days of Agent's notice to the consenting Lenders of Agent's election to require the nonconsenting Lender to assign its interest in the Loan as set forth above. The Lenders who elect to purchase a portion of the nonconsenting Lender's interest in the Loan (including Agent, if applicable) shall purchase such interest in proportion to their respective Pro Rata Shares. SECTION 8.4 DELEGATION OF DUTIES. The Agent may perform any of its duties hereunder by or through agents or employees and, subject to Sections 8.7 and 8.8 hereof, shall be entitled to engage and pay for the advice or services of any attorneys, accountants or other experts concerning all matters pertaining to its duties hereunder and to rely upon any advice so obtained. SECTION 8.5 NATURE OF AGENT'S DUTIES; INDEPENDENT CREDIT INVESTIGATION. The Agent shall perform its obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in good faith according to the same standard of care as that customarily exercised by the Agent in administering its own loans. The Agent shall at all times keep accurate books of account reflecting the interests of the Lenders in the Loans. Such books shall be available to the Lenders for inspection during business hours with reasonable notice to the Agent. Except as stated above in this Section 8.5 or as otherwise expressly set forth in this Agreement, the Agent shall have no duties or responsibilities, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations, or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or otherwise exist. The Agent shall not have by reason of this Agreement or any other Loan Document a fiduciary relationship in respect of any Lender; and nothing in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, expressed or implied, is intended to or shall be so construed as to impose upon the Agent any obligations in respect of this Agreement except as expressly set forth herein. Each Lender expressly acknowledges (i) that the Agent has not made any representations or warranties to them and that no act by the Agent hereafter taken, including any review of the affairs of the Borrower or the Company, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by the Agent to any Lender; (ii) that it has made and will continue to make, without reliance upon the Agent, its own independent investigation of the financial creditworthiness of the Borrower and the Company in connection with this Agreement and the making and continuance of the Loan; and (iii) that, except as expressly provided herein, the Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to provide any Lender with credit or other information with respect thereto, whether coming into its possession before the making of the Loan or at any time or times thereafter. SECTION 8.6 ACTIONS IN DISCRETION OF THE AGENT; INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE LENDERS. The Agent agrees, upon the written request of the Required Lenders, to take or refrain from taking any action of the type specified as being within the Agent's rights, powers or discretion herein. In the absence of a request by the Required Lenders, the Agent shall have authority, in its sole discretion, to take or not to take any such action unless this Agreement specifically requires the 51 consent of the Required Lenders or all of the Lenders. Any action taken or failure to act pursuant to such instructions or discretion shall be binding on the Lenders. No Lender shall have any right of action whatsoever against the Agent as a result of the Agent acting or refraining from acting hereunder in accordance with the instructions of the Required Lenders or all of the Lenders, or in the absence of such instructions, in the absolute discretion of the Agent. SECTION 8.7 REIMBURSEMENT AND INDEMNIFICATION OF AGENT BY THE BORROWER. The Borrower unconditionally agrees to pay or reimburse the Agent and hold the Agent harmless against (i) liability for the payment of all reasonable out-of-pocket costs, expenses and disbursements, including but not limited to reasonable fees and expenses of counsel, incurred by the Agent (a) in connection with costs incurred in connection with the closing of the Loan for the development, preparation, printing, execution, administration, syndication, interpretation and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (b) relating to any amendments, waivers or consents requested by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions hereof, and (c) in connection with any workout or restructuring, or in connection with the protection, preservation, exercise or enforcement of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or collection of amounts due hereunder or thereunder or the proof and allowability of any claim arising under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, whether in bankruptcy or receivership proceedings or otherwise, and (ii) except to the extent the same results from the breach by any Lender of its obligations hereunder, all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Agent, in its capacity as such, in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any other Loan Documents or any action taken or omitted by the Agent hereunder or thereunder. In addition, the Borrower agrees to reimburse and pay the reasonable fees and expenses of the Agent's legal counsel and other consultants and all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Agent's regular employees and agents engaged periodically to review the books, records and business properties of the Borrower and the Company. SECTION 8.8 EXCULPATORY PROVISIONS. Neither Agent nor any of its directors, officers, employees, agents or Affiliates shall (a) be liable to any Lender for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it or them hereunder, or in connection herewith or any other Loan Document, except that Agent shall be liable with respect to its own gross negligence or willful misconduct, (b) be responsible in any manner to any Lender for the effectiveness, enforceability, genuineness, validity or the due execution of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or for any recital, representation, warranty, document, certificate, report or statement herein or made or furnished under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or (c) be under any obligation to any of the Lenders to ascertain or to inquire as to the performance or observance of any of the terms, covenants or conditions hereof or thereof on the part of the Borrower, or the financial condition of the Borrower or the Company, or the existence or possible existence of any Default or Event of Default. SECTION 8.9 REIMBURSEMENT AND INDEMNIFICATION OF AGENT BY LENDERS. Each Lender agrees to reimburse and indemnify the Agent (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower or the Company and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower or the Company to do so and to the extent not due to the indemnified party's gross negligence or willful misconduct) in proportion to each Lender's Commitment from and against all liabilities, 52 obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever which may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Agent, in their capacities as such, in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any action taken or omitted by the Agent hereunder or thereunder. In addition, each Lender agrees to reimburse the Agent (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower or the Company and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower or the Company to do so) in proportion to each Lender's Commitment, for the reasonable fees and expenses of the Agent's legal counsel and other consultants and all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses of the Agent's agents engaged periodically to review the books, records and business properties of the Borrower or any of the Company. SECTION 8.10 RELIANCE BY AGENT. The Agent shall be entitled to rely upon any writing, telegram, telex or teletype message, resolution, notice, consent, certificate, letter, cablegram, statement, order or other document or conversation by telephone or otherwise believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper person or persons, and upon the advice and opinions of counsel and other professional advisers selected by the Agent. The Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action not expressly authorized hereunder unless it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction (which indemnification shall be in proportion to each Lender's Commitment) by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. SECTION 8.11 NOTICE OF DEFAULT. The Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default unless the Agent has actual knowledge of such Default or Event of Default or has received notice from a Lender or the Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a "notice of default." SECTION 8.12 NOTICES AND INFORMATION. The Agent shall promptly send to each Lender (a) a copy of all material written notices, requests or demands received from or given to the Borrower, the Company or any Lender pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents; and (b) a copy of all financial reports and information furnished by the Borrower pursuant to Section 5.1 hereof. SECTION 8.13 AGENT AND THE LENDERS IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL CAPACITIES. With respect to their Commitments and Advances made pursuant thereto, the Agent shall have the same rights and powers hereunder as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Agent, and the term "Lenders" shall, unless the context otherwise indicates, include the Agent in its individual capacity. The Agent and its affiliated entities and each of the Lenders and their respective affiliated entities may, without liability to account, except as prohibited herein, make loans to, accept deposits from, discount drafts for, act as trustee under indentures of, and generally engage in any kind of banking or trust business with the Borrower or the Company, as though the Agent or such Lender were not a party to this Agreement. The Lenders acknowledge that Agent has informed them that it has existing credit facilities with the Borrower and the Company, and that such credit facilities may provide for security interests in the collateral and rights of offset against accounts of the Borrower and the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to Agent's loan in the principal amount of $5,000,000 to Borrower, 53 Agent shall not accept any principal repayment of that loan after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default hereunder without Fifth Third's consent. SECTION 8.14 HOLDERS OF NOTES. The Agent may deem and treat any payee of any Note as the owner thereof for all purposes hereof unless and until written notice of the assignment or transfer thereof shall have been filed with the Agent. Any request, authority or consent of any person who at the time of making such request or giving such authority or consent is the holder of any Note shall be conclusive and binding on any subsequent holder, transferee or assignee of such Note or of any note or notes issued in exchange therefor. SECTION 8.15 EQUALIZATION OF LENDERS. The Lenders agree among themselves that, with respect to all amounts received by any Lender for application on any obligation hereunder or under any Note or under any participation thereof, whether received by voluntary payment, by realization upon security, by the exercise of the right of set-off or banker's lien, by counterclaim or by any other non-pro rata source, equitable adjustment will be made in the manner stated in the following sentence so that, in effect, all such excess amounts will be shared ratably among the Lenders in proportion to the outstanding amount of their Commitments, except as otherwise provided in Sections 2.15, 8.7, 8.9, 8.16 and 9.3 hereof. The Lenders receiving any such amount shall purchase for cash from each of the other Lenders an interest in each Lender's portion of the Loans in such amount as shall result in a ratable participation by the Lenders in the aggregate unpaid amount under the Notes, provided that if all or any portion of such excess amount is thereafter recovered from the Lender making such purchase, such purchase shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, together with interest or other amounts, if any, required by Law (including court order) to be paid by the Lender making such purchase. SECTION 8.16 RESIGNATION OF AGENT. Agent may resign as Agent, in its sole discretion, without the consent of Borrower or Lender. Upon any such resignation, the Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Agent. If, within thirty (30) days of the Agent's resignation, a successor Agent has not been appointed or such successor has not accepted such appointment, then the retiring Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor Agent. Upon appointment of a successor Agent, the successor Agent shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties of the Agent hereunder and the retiring Agent's rights, powers and duties as Agent shall be terminated without any other or further act or deed on the part of the retiring Agent, Borrower or the Lenders. The term Agent shall mean any successor Agent. SECTION 8.17 BENEFICIARIES. The provisions of this Section 8 are solely for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders, and neither Borrower or the Company shall have any right to rely on or enforce any of the provisions hereof. In performing its functions and duties under this Agreement, the Agent shall act solely as agent of the Lenders and does not assume and shall not be deemed to have assumed any obligation toward or relationship of agency or trust with or for the Borrower or the Company. SECTION 8.18 AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS. In the event the Agent has not been notified by a Lender prior to the date upon which any disbursement of the Loans is to be made that such Lender does not intend to make available to the Agent such Lender's portion of such disbursement, then the Agent may assume that such Lender has made or will make such proceeds 54 available to the Agent on such date and the Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption (but shall not be required to), make available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. If such Lender's portion of the disbursement is not in fact made available to the Agent and Agent has advanced such Lender's portion, the Agent shall be entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Lender. In such event, the Agent shall be entitled to all interest accrued thereon for each day during the period commencing on the date such amount was made available to the Borrower and ending on the date the Agent recovers such amount at a rate per annum equal to the applicable interest rate under this Agreement. SECTION 8.19 FURTHER ASSIGNMENTS AND PARTICIPATION. (a) Any Lender may, at its option, assign all or any part of its right, title and interest in the Loan, including, without limitation, all or a portion of its obligation to make Advances, and its interest in the outstanding principal balance of the Loan, to one or more entities (any entity to which an interest in the Loan is assigned, also a "Lender"); notwithstanding the foregoing, any such assignment is subject to Agent's and Borrower's prior written approval, which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld, and shall be in the minimum amount of $5,000,000; and further notwithstanding the foregoing, Agent agrees that it will retain a Commitment of not less than twenty percent (20%) of the Maximum Loan Amount. Such assignment shall not require a modification of any material terms of the Loan Documents. Assigning Lender and each new Lender shall enter into an assignment and assumption agreement (the "Assignment and Assumption") assigning a portion of Lender's rights and obligations under the Loan, and pursuant to which the new Lender accepts such assignment and assumes the assigned obligations. From and after the effective date specified in the Assignment and Assumption (a) each new Lender shall be a party hereto and to each Loan Document to the extent of the applicable percentage or percentages set forth in the Assignment and Assumption and, except as specified otherwise herein, shall succeed to the rights and obligations of Lender hereunder and thereunder in respect of the Loan (including, without limitation, its Pro Rata Share of Lender's obligations to make Advances hereunder), and (b) Assigning Lender, as lender and secured party shall, to the extent such rights and obligations have been assigned by it pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations hereunder and under the Loan Documents. Neither Agent nor any Lender shall be responsible for the obligations of any other Lender. Agent and each Lender shall be liable to Borrower only for their Pro Rata Share of the Loan. If for any reason any of the Lenders shall fail or refuse to abide by their obligations under this Agreement, Agent and the other Lenders shall not be relieved of their obligations, if any, hereunder, including their obligations to make their Pro Rata Share of any Advance on the date set forth for such Advance in the Notice of Borrowing; notwithstanding the foregoing, Agent and the Lenders shall have the right, but not the obligation, at their sole option, to make the defaulting Lender's Pro Rata Share of such Advance. (b) Borrower and the Company agree that it shall, in connection with any sale of all or any portion of the Loan, whether in whole or to a Lender or Participant, within ten (10) business days after requested by Lender, furnish Lender with the certificates required under Section 9.18(a) and (b) and such other information as reasonably requested by any Lender or Participant in performing its due diligence in connection with its purchase of an interest in the Loan. 55 (c) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, any financial institution or other entity may be sold a participation interest in the Loan in minimum amounts of $5,000,000 by Agent or any Lender without Borrower's or the Company's consent (such financial institution or entity, a "Participant") (x) if such sale is without novation and (y) if the other conditions set forth in this paragraph are met. No Participant shall be considered a Lender hereunder or under the Note or the Loan Documents. No Participant shall have any rights under this Agreement, the Note or any of the Loan Documents and the Participant's rights in respect of such participation shall be solely against the Lender, as the case may be, as set forth in the participation agreement executed by and between such Lender and such Participant. The terms of any participation agreement between Lender and its Participant shall not grant the Participant any consent rights except for consent to (i) changes in the interest rate and term of the Loan, (ii) increase in the principal amount of the Loan (except for protective advances and increases made in accordance with Sections 2.18 hereof), (iii) release of any party liable for repayment of the Loan, and (iv) and any postponement of the scheduled payment of any principal, interest or fees, except as set forth in this Agreement. No participation shall relieve any Lender from its obligations hereunder or under the Note or the Loan Documents and Lender shall remain solely responsible for the performance of its obligations hereunder. The sale of a participation interest pursuant to this paragraph shall not require a modification of any material terms of the Loan Documents. SECTION 8.20 CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. Notwithstanding the fact that information is given to a Lender is otherwise confidential, it is understood that anything Lender (and each employee, representative or other agent of any Lender) may disclose to any and all Persons, without limitation of any kind, the "tax treatment" and "tax structure" (in each case, within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.6011-4) of the transactions contemplated hereby and all materials of any kind (including opinions or other tax analyses) that are or have been provided to such Lender relating to such tax treatment or tax structure; provided that, with respect to any document or similar item that in either case contains information concerning such tax treatment or tax structure of the transactions contemplated hereby as well as other information, this sentence shall only apply to such portions of the document or similar item that relate to such tax treatment or tax structure." SECTION 9. MISCELLANEOUS. SECTION 9.1 PAYMENT OF AGENT'S AND LENDER'S EXPENSES, INDEMNITY, ETC. Borrower shall: (a) whether or not the Transactions hereby contemplated are consummated, pay all reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of Agent in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the documents and instruments referred to therein, in connection with any amendment, waiver or consent relating to any of the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, as to each of the foregoing, the reasonable fees and disbursements of any outside or special counsel to Agent) and of Agent and Lenders in connection with the preservation of rights under, any amendment, waiver or consent relating to, and enforcement of, the Loan Documents and the documents and instruments referred to therein or in connection with any restructuring or rescheduling of the Obligations (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for Agent and the Lenders); 56 (b) pay, and hold Agent, and each Lender harmless from and against, any and all present and future stamp, excise and other similar taxes with respect to the foregoing matters and hold Agent, and each Lender harmless from and against any and all liabilities with respect to or resulting from any delay or omission (other than to the extent attributable to Agent or such Lender) to pay such taxes; and (c) indemnify Agent and each Lender, its officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents and any persons or entities owned or Controlled by, owning or Controlling, or under common Control or Affiliated with Agent or each Lender (each an "Indemnitee") from, and hold each of them harmless against, any and all losses, liabilities, claims, damages, expenses, obligations, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for such Indemnitee in connection with any investigative, administrative or judicial proceeding commenced or threatened, whether or not such Indemnitee shall be designated a party thereto) that may at any time (including, without limitation, at any time following the payment of the Obligations) be imposed on, asserted against or incurred by any Indemnitee as a result of, or arising in any manner out of, or in any way related to or by reason of, (i) any of the Transactions or the execution, delivery or performance of any Loan Document, (ii) the breach of any of Borrower's or the Company' s representations and warranties or of any of Borrower's and the Company's Obligations, and (iii) the exercise by Agent and the Lenders of their rights and remedies (including, without limitation, foreclosure) under any agreements creating any such Lien (but excluding, as to any indemnitee, any such losses, liabilities, claims, damages, expenses, obligations, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs or disbursements incurred solely by reason of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee as finally determined by a court of competent jurisdiction) (collectively, "Indemnified Liabilities"). Borrower and the Company further agree that, without Agent's prior written consent, it will not enter into any settlement of a lawsuit, claim or other proceeding arising or relating to any Indemnified Liability unless such settlement includes an explicit and unconditional release from the party bringing such lawsuit, claim or other proceeding of each Indemnitee. SECTION 9.2 NOTICES. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices, requests and demands to or upon the respective parties hereto to be effective shall be in writing (including by facsimile, telex, or cable communication), and shall be deemed to have been duly given or made when delivered by hand, or five (5) days after being deposited in the United States mail, certified or registered, postage prepaid, or, in the case of telex notice, when sent, answer back received, or, in the case of facsimile notice, when sent, answer back received, or, in the case of a nationally recognized overnight courier service, one (1) Business Day after delivery to such courier service, addressed, in the case of Borrower, the Company and Agent, at the addresses specified below, or to such other addresses as may be designated by any party in a written notice to the other parties hereto. If to Agent, as follows: LaSalle Bank Midwest National Association 2600 Big Beaver Road, Mail Code MO 900-420 Troy, MI 48084 57 Attention: Kathleen W. Bozek, Commercial Real Estate Dept. Facsimile: (248) 822-5749 with copies thereof to: Bodman LLP 201 West Big Beaver Road, Suite 500 Troy, Michigan 48084 Attn: David W. Hipp Facsimile: (313) 743-6002 If to Lenders, as follows: Tim Kalil Fifth Third Bank 1000 Town Center, Suite 1500 MDJTWN-5H Southfield, Michigan 48075 Facsimile: (248) 603-0555 and: LaSalle Bank Midwest National Association 2600 Big Beaver Road Troy, MI 48084 Attention: Kathleen W. Bozek, Mail Code MO 900-420 Commercial Real Estate Dept. Facsimile: (248) 822-5749 If to Borrower or the Company, as follows: Agree Limited Partnership/Agree Realty Corporation 31850 Northwestern Highway Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334 Attn: Richard Agree Facsimile: (248) 737-9110 58 With a copy thereof to: Leon M. Schurgin Sommers Schwartz Silver & Schwartz 2000 Town Center, Suite 900 Southfield, MI 48075 Facsimile: (248) 936-2156 SECTION 9.3 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of Borrower, the Company, Agent, the Lenders, all future holders of the Note and their respective successors and assigns. SECTION 9.4 AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS. Neither this Agreement, the Note, any other Loan Document to which Borrower or the Company is a party nor any terms hereof or thereof may be amended, supplemented, modified or waived other than in a writing executed by Borrower, the Company and Agent. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that any amendment, modification approval, waiver or request to be granted regarding the terms of this Agreement shall be given in accordance with the terms, provisions and conditions of Section 8.3. SECTION 9.5 NO WAIVER; REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No failure or delay on the part of Agent or any Lender in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document and no course of dealing between Borrower, the Company and Agent or any Lender shall operate as a waiver thereof nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege hereunder or thereunder. The rights and remedies herein expressly provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies which Agent or any Lender would otherwise have. No notice to or demand on Borrower or the Company or in any case shall entitle Borrower or the Company to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other circumstances or constitute a waiver of the rights of Agent or any Lender, to any other or further action in any circumstances without notice or demand. SECTION 9.6 GOVERNING LAW; SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. (a) This Agreement shall be deemed to contract entered into pursuant to the laws of the State of Michigan and shall in all respects be governed, construed, applied and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Michigan, provided however, that with respect to the creation, perfection, priority and enforcement of the lien of the mortgages, the laws of the State where the Property is located shall apply. (b) Any legal action or proceeding with respect to this Agreement or any other Loan Document and any action for enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof may be brought in the courts of the State of Michigan or of the United States of America for the Eastern District of Michigan, and, by execution and delivery of this Agreement, Borrower and the Company hereby accept for themselves and in respect of their property, generally and unconditionally, the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts and appellate courts from any thereof. Borrower and the Company irrevocably consent to the service of process out of any of the aforementioned 59 courts in any such action or proceeding by the mailing of copies thereof by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, to Borrower and the Company at their addresses set forth opposite their signatures below. Borrower and the Company hereby irrevocably waive any objection which they now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any of the aforesaid actions or proceedings arising out of or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document brought in the courts referred to above and hereby further irrevocably waives and agrees not to please or claim in any such court that any such action or proceeding brought in any such court has been brought in an inconvenient forum. Nothing herein shall affect the right of Agent or any Lender, to serve process in any other manner permitted by law or to commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against Borrower or the Company in any other jurisdiction. SECTION 9.7 BORROWER AND THE COMPANY'S ASSIGNMENT. Neither Borrower nor the Company may assign its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of Agent. SECTION 9.8 COUNTERPARTS. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by the different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original, but all of which shall together constitute one and the same instrument. SECTION 9.9 EFFECTIVENESS. This Agreement shall become effective on the date on which all of the parties hereto shall have signed a counterpart hereof and shall have delivered the same to Agent. SECTION 9.10 HEADINGS DESCRIPTIVE. The heading of the several Sections and subsections of this Agreement are inserted for convenience only and shall not in any way affect the meaning or construction of any provision of this Agreement. SECTION 9.11 RECAPTURE. To the extent Agent or any Lender receives any payment by or on behalf of Borrower or the Company, which payment or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required to be repaid to Borrower or the Company or its estate, trustee, receiver, custodian or any other party under any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause, then to the extent of such payment or repayment, the obligation or part thereof which has been paid, reduced or satisfied by the amount so repaid shall be reinstated by the amount so repaid and shall be included within the liabilities of Borrower or the Company to Agent and the Lenders as of the date such initial payment, reduction or satisfaction occurred. SECTION 9.12 SEVERABILITY. In case any provision in or obligation under this Agreement or the Note or the other Loan Documents shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions or obligations, or of such provision or obligation in any other jurisdiction, shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. SECTION 9.13 SURVIVAL. Except as expressly provided to the contrary herein, all indemnities set forth herein including, without limitation, in Sections 2.15 and 9.1 shall survive 60 the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the Note and the Loan Documents and the making and repayment of the Loan hereunder. SECTION 9.14 RELEASE OF CLAIMS; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY. In consideration of the Lenders making the Loan, Borrower and the Company do each hereby release and discharge Agent and each Lender of and from any and all claims, harm, injury, and damage of any and every kind, known or unknown, legal or equitable, which Borrower or the Company have against the Agent and each Lender from the date of Borrower's first contact with Agent up to the date of this Agreement. Borrower and the Company confirm to Agent and the Lenders that they have reviewed the effect of this release with competent legal counsel of their choice, or have been afforded the opportunity to do so, prior to execution of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and each acknowledge and agree that Agent and each Lender is relying upon this release in extending the Loan to Borrower. No claim may be made by Borrower, the Company, or any other Person against Agent or any Lender or the Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, attorneys or agent of any of such Persons for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages in respect of any claim for breach of contract or any other theory of liability arising out of or related to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transactions, or any act, omission or event occurring in connection therewith; and Borrower and the Company hereby waive, release and agree not to sue upon any claim for any such damages, whether or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to exist in its favor. SECTION 9.15 CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATIONS. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, the financial statements to be furnished to Agent pursuant hereto shall be made and prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods involved and consistent with GAAP as used in the preparation of the financial statements referred to in Section 4.5. SECTION 9.16 WAIVER OF TRIAL BY JURY. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, BORROWER, THE COMPANY, AGENT AND ALL LENDERS EACH HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ALL RIGHT OF TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING OR COUNTERCLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR ANY MATTER ARISING HEREUNDER OR THEREUNDER. SECTION 9.17 NO JOINT VENTURE. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein contained, Agent and Lenders by entering into this Agreement or by taking any action pursuant hereto, will not be deemed a partner or joint venturer with Borrower or the Company and Borrower and the Company agree to hold Agent and each Lender harmless from any damages and expenses resulting from such a construction of the relationship of the parties hereto or any assertion thereof. SECTION 9.18 ESTOPPEL CERTIFICATES. (a) Borrower and Agent each hereby agree at any time and from time to time upon not less than ten (10) days prior written notice by Borrower or Agent to execute, acknowledge and deliver to the party specified in such notice, a statement, in writing, certifying whether this Agreement is unmodified and in full force and effect (or if there have been modifications, whether the same, as modified, is in full force and effect and stating the modifications hereto), and stating whether or not, to the best knowledge of such certifying party, 61 any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is then continuing, and, if so, specifying each such Default or Event of Default; provided, however, that it shall be a condition precedent to Agent's obligation to deliver the statement pursuant to this Section, that Agent shall receive, together with Borrower's request for such statement, a certificate of the Company individually and as general partner of Borrower stating that no Default or Event of Default exists as of the date of such certificate (or specifying such Default or Event of Default). (b) Within five (5) Business Days of Agent's request, Borrower shall execute and deliver a certificate of the Company individually and as general partner of Borrower confirming the then aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Loan, the outstanding principal balance of each LIBOR Portion and each Base Rate Portion, the interest rate for each Loan Portion, the dates to which all interest has been paid, and the Interest Period for each LIBOR Portion. Such statement shall be binding and conclusive on Borrower and the Company absent manifest error. SECTION 9.19 NO OTHER AGREEMENTS. The Loan Documents constitute the entire understanding of the parties with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby, and all prior understandings with respect thereto, whether written or oral, shall be of no force and effect. SECTION 9.20 CONTROLLING DOCUMENT. In the event of a conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Agreement shall control and govern the conflicting provisions of the other Loan Documents. SECTION 9.21 NO BENEFIT TO THIRD PARTIES. This Agreement is for the sole and exclusive benefit of Borrower, the Company, Agent and Lenders and all conditions of the obligation of Agent and Lenders to make Advances hereunder are imposed solely and exclusively for the benefit of Agent and Lenders and its assigns and no other person shall have standing to require satisfaction of such conditions in accordance with their terms or be entitled to assume that Agent and Lenders will refuse to make Advances in the absence of strict compliance with any and all thereof and no other person shall under any circumstances be deemed to be a beneficiary of such conditions, any or all of which may be freely waived in whole or in part by Agent and the Required Lenders at any time if it in their sole discretion deems it advisable to do so. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Agent shall not have any duty or obligation to anyone to ascertain that funds advanced hereunder are used as required by the terms hereof or to pay the cost of constructing the improvements on any of the Properties or to acquire materials and supplies to be used in connection therewith or to pay costs of owning, operating and maintaining same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed and delivered this Agreement as of the date first above written. (SIGNATURE PAGE TO FOLLOW) 62 AGREE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a Delaware limited partnership By: AGREE REALTY CORPORATION, its sole general partner, a Maryland corporation By: /s/ Richard Agree ------------------------------------ Name: Richard Agree Title: President AGREE REALTY CORPORATION, a Maryland corporation By: /s/ Richard Agree ------------------------------------ Name: Richard Agree Title: President LASALLE BANK MIDWEST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as Agent and as Lender By: /s/ Kathleen Bozek ------------------------------------ Name: Kathleen Bozek Title: Vice President Commitment: $30,000,000 FIFTH THIRD BANK, a Michigan banking corporation, as Lender By: /s/ Timothy J. Kalil ------------------------------------ Name: Timothy J. Kalil Title: Vice President Commitment: $20,000,000 63 SCHEDULES Schedule 1 Borrowing Base Properties as of closing Schedule 2 Subsidiaries Schedule 3 [Deleted] Schedule 4 Employee Benefit Plans Schedule 5 Litigation Schedule 6 Indebtedness EXHIBITS Exhibit A-1 Notice of Borrowing Exhibit A-3 Notice of Voluntary Prepayment Exhibit C Notice of Conversion or Continuation Exhibit 8.2 Lenders' Wire Transfer Instructions SCHEDULE 1 BORROWING BASE PROPERTIES AS OF CLOSING
PROPERTY NAME LOCATION TENANTS TRAILING 12 MONTHS NOI - ------------- -------- ------------------------------ Ann Arbor Store #1 Ann Arbor, MI Borders Big Rapids Big Rapids, MI Walgreen's Borman Center Roseville, MI Sam's Club Boynton Beach Boynton Beach, FL Borders Boynton Beach Boynton Beach, FL Circuit City Bristol & Fenton Flint, MI Walgreen's Eckerd Drug - Albion Albion, NY Eckerd Drug Walgreen - Corunna Road Flint, MI Walgreen's Eckerd Drug - Webster Webster, NY Eckerd Drugs Beecher & Balllenger Flint, MI Walgreen's Midland - Walgreen Midland, MI Walgreen's North Lakeland Plaza Lakeland, FL Best Buy, Beall's, Joann's Canton Township Canton Twp, MI Rite Aid Omaha One 132nd St. Omaha, NE Borders Santa Barbara Borders Santa Barbara, CA Border's Wichita Wichita, KS Borders
TOTAL NOI DEBT AMOUNT VALUE (USING 7.5% CAP RATE FOR WALGREEN'S AND 8.5% FOR ALL OTHERS) LTV Debt Service (10-year Treasuries + 1.75%, 25 year amortization)* DSCR * Current 10-year Treasuries + 1.75% = 6.41% SCHEDULE 2 SUBSIDIARIES Agree - Columbia Crossing Project, L.L.C. Agree - Milestone Center Project, L.L.C. Agree Facility No. 1, L.L.C. Lawrence Store No. 203, L.L.C. Mt. Pleasant Shopping Center, L.L.C. Tulsa Store No. 264, L.L.C. ALPSC Associates, L.L.C. Oklahoma Store No. 151, L.L.C. Omaha Store No. 166, L.L.C. Indianapolis Store No. 16, L.L.C. Phoenix Drive, L.L.C. Tulsa Store No. 135, L.L.C. ACCP Maryland, L.L.C. AMCP Germantown, L.L.C. Agree Realty South-East, L.L.C. Ann Arbor Store No. 1, L.L.C. Boynton Beach Store No. 150, L.L.C. Agree Bristol & Fenton Project, L.L.C. AC Realty Company, L.L.C. SCHEDULE 3 [DELETED] SCHEDULE 4 EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS 1. Agree Realty Corporation Profit Sharing Plan, dated April 22, 1994 which as of the date hereof, has not been funded SCHEDULE 5 LITIGATION NONE SCHEDULE 6 INDEBTEDNESS
PROPERTY LENDER PRINCIPAL BALANCE - -------- --------------------- ----------------- Walgreens - Chesterfield Twp, MI Teachers Insurance $ 8,973,448 Grand Blanc, MI and Annuity Pontiac, MI Association Waterford, MI Walgreens - Petoskey, MI Nationwide Life $16,064,103 Flint, MI Insurance Company Flint, MI Rochester, MI New Baltimore, MI Ypsilanti, MI Borders, Laureate Capital Corp $ 2,829,901 Lawrence, KS Borders, CTL Financing $ 1,045,062 Indianapolis, IN Borders Headquarters Modern Woodman of $ 6,941,297 Ann Arbor, MI America Borders - Nationwide Life $13,060,211 Columbia, MD Insurance Germantown, MD Company Oklahoma City, OK Omaha, NE ----------- TOTAL $48,914,022 ===========
EXHIBIT A-1 NOTICE OF BORROWING AGREE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ____________________, 2006 LaSalle Bank Midwest National Association 2600 West Big Beaver Road Troy, Michigan 48084 Ladies and Gentlemen: We refer to that certain Second Amended Line of Credit Agreement dated as of November 3, 2006, between us, the Lenders and you (the "Loan Agreement"). This certificate is delivered to you pursuant to Section 2.3 of the Loan Agreement as one of the inducements for an Advance in the amount of $_____________, which will bring the total unpaid principal balance of the Loan to $_____________. All capitalized terms used herein shall have the same meanings herein as they have in the Loan Agreement. In order to induce you to make this advance, we hereby represent and certify as follows: 1. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Loan Agreement, Note, Security Instruments or any other Loan Documents or would result from the proposed Advance or would result from the application of the proceeds therefrom. 2. Each of the representations and warranties set forth in the Loan Agreement are true and correct as of the date hereof (other than such representations and warranties that by their terms refer to a date other than the date of such Advance). 3. All provisions of the Loan Agreement will be satisfied after giving effect to the Advance hereby requested, including, without limitation, compliance with the Borrowing Base Covenant. The undersigned hereby notifies you (a) that the date of the borrowing shall be ___________________; and (b) [THE ADVANCE SHALL BE A LIBOR PORTION AND THE INTEREST PERIOD SHALL BE A ONE, TWO OR THREE MONTH PERIOD] [THE ADVANCE SHALL BE A BASE RATE PORTION]. AGREE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP By: ------------------------------------ Name: ---------------------------------- Title: --------------------------------- EXHIBIT A-3 NOTICE OF VOLUNTARY PREPAYMENT AGREE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP LaSalle Bank Midwest National Association 2600 West Big Beaver Road Troy, Michigan 48084 Attn: Kathy Bozek Ladies and Gentlemen: We refer to that certain Second Amended and Restated Line of Credit Agreement dated as of November 3, 2006, between us, Lenders, and you (the "Loan Agreement"). This certificate is delivered to you pursuant to Section 2.10 of the Loan Agreement. All capitalized terms used herein shall have the same meanings herein as they have in the Loan Agreement. The undersigned hereby notifies you that it has elected to prepay $__________ representing the [Base Rate Portion of $____________] [LIBOR Portion of _________ with an Interest Rate of _____________ and an Interest Period ending on _____________]. We hereby acknowledge that we will pay Funding Costs, as applicable. AGREE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP By: Agree Realty Corporation By: ------------------------------------ Name: ---------------------------------- Title: --------------------------------- EXHIBIT C NOTICE OF CONVERSION OR CONTINUATION AGREE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP ___________________, 2006 LaSalle Bank Midwest National Association 2600 West Big Beaver Road Troy, Michigan 48084 Ladies and Gentlemen: We refer to that certain Second Amended and Restated Line of Credit Agreement dated as of November 3, 2006, between us and you (the "Loan Agreement"). This certificate is delivered to you pursuant to Section 2.8 of the Loan Agreement. All capitalized terms used herein shall have the same meanings herein as they have in the Loan Agreement. In order to induce you to make the [conversion and/or continuation] described herein, we hereby represent and certify as follows: 1. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing under the Loan Agreement, Note, Security Instruments or any other Loan Document or would result from the [conversion and/or continuation] described herein. 2. Each of the representations and warranties set forth in the Loan Agreement, the Note, the Security Instruments and all other Loan Documents are true and correct as of the date hereof (other than such representations and warranties that by their terms refer to a date other than the date of such [conversion and/or continuation]). The undersigned hereby requests the following: That on [the continuation date] the LIBOR Portion of $__________ be continued as a LIBOR Portion for an additional [one, two, three or six month] Interest Period; OR That on [the conversion date] the LIBOR Portion of $___________ be continued as a LIBOR Portion for an additional [one, two, three or six month] Interest Period; OR That on [the conversion date] the Base-Rate Portion of $___________ be converted to a LIBOR Portion for a [one, two, three or six month] Interest Period; OR That on [the conversion date] the LIBOR Portion of $__________ be converted to a Base Rate Portion. AGREE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP By: Agree Realty Corporation, General Partner By: ------------------------------------ Name: ---------------------------------- Title: --------------------------------- EXHIBIT 8.2 LENDER'S WIRE TRANSFER INSTRUCTIONS LaSalle Bank Midwest National Association ABA: 072000805 Account Number: 1378018 ATTN: Agency Services Ref: Agree Limited Partnership Contact: Cassandra Hill /phone 248-822-5784/ fax 248-637-5017 [Fifth Third]
EX-10.29 4 k13184exv10w29.txt AMENDMENT NO.10 TO BUSINESS LOAN AGREEMENT EXHIBIT - 10.29 Obligor No. 0184735387 AMENDMENT AGREEMENT Amendment No. 10 to Business Loan Agreement Amendment No. 2 to Ninth Amended and Restated Promissory Note (Line of Credit) Obligation No. 5209392501 THIS AGREEMENT is made as of November 5, 2006, by and between LASALLE BANK MIDWEST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, formerly known as Standard Federal Bank N.A. (the "Bank"), AGREE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a Delaware limited partnership ("Borrower"), and AGREE REALTY CORPORATION, a Maryland corporation ("Guarantor"). RECITALS: A. Borrower and the Bank entered into an Amended and Restated Business Loan Agreement, dated September 30, 1996, as amended by a First Amendment dated October 1, 1997, a Second Amendment dated October 19, 1998, a Third Amendment dated December 19, 1999, a Fourth Amendment dated February 11, 2001, a Fifth Amendment dated April 30, 2002, an Amendment Agreement/Amendment No. 6 to Business Loan Agreement, dated April 30, 2003, an Amendment/Amendment No. 7 [sic] to Business Loan Agreement, dated June 30, 2005 (the "Loan Agreement"), pursuant to which the Bank has extended to the Borrower a Line of Credit, as evidenced by a Ninth Amended and Restated Promissory Note (Line of Credit), dated as of June 30, 2005, in the principal amount of $5,000,000.00 (the "Note"), secured by various Second Mortgages, Assignments of Leases and Rents, Security Agreements and Fixture Financing Statements, and Deed of Trusts dated May and June, 1996 (the "Mortgages"), and various Second Assignments of Leases and Rents, dated May and June, 1996 (the "Assignments") and supported by an Amended and Restated Guaranty, executed by the Guarantor, dated September 30, 1996 (the "Guaranty"). The foregoing documents and any other documents and instruments executed in conjunction therewith are herein referred to collectively as the "Loan Documents". B. The Borrower has requested a modification to certain of the terms and provisions of the Loan Documents and the Bank and Guarantor are agreeable thereto, on the terms and conditions herein provided. NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants herein contained and of other good and valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency whereof are hereby acknowledged, Borrower, Guarantor and the Bank hereby agree as follows: 1. The Borrower hereby warrants and represents: a. The Borrower is a Delaware limited partnership duly organized and validly existing under the laws of the State of Michigan. All of the general partners of the Borrower have approved of the Borrower executing and delivering this Amendment Agreement and the Borrower has duly authorized and validly executed and delivered this Amendment Agreement. b. This Amendment Agreement, the Loan Agreement and the Note (as hereby amended) are valid and enforceable according to their terms and do not conflict with or violate Borrower's organizational documents or any agreement or covenants to which Borrower is a party. There are no defenses to or offsets against Borrower's obligations under the Loan Agreement, the Note or the other Loan Documents. c. The Guaranty is valid and enforceable in accordance with its terms and the Guarantor presently has no valid and existing defense to liability thereunder. 2. The MATURITY DATE set forth in Section 1 of the Loan Agreement is changed to read "November 5, 2009". 3. The Due Date and Maturity Date provided in the Note is hereby amended and extended from November 5, 2006 to November 5, 2009. 4. The Due Date may be extended by Borrower by two (2) successive one (1) year periods (i.e., to November 5, 2010 and to November 5, 2011), subject to the following conditions: (i) No Event of Default has occurred and is continuing; (ii) Borrower has given written notice to Bank of its election to extend the Due Date at least one (1) month prior to the Due Date; and (iii) Concurrently with the written notice under (ii), above, Borrower has paid to Bank an extension fee for each one year extension of $6,250. 5. The interest rate for the Loan Shall be, at Borrower's Option, the Bank's Prime Rate minus .75%, or the LIBOR Interest Rate plus 1.50%. 6. The definition "LIBOR INTEREST RATE" in Section XI(H) of the Addendum to the Agreement is amended to read as follows: "LIBOR INTEREST RATE" shall mean, with respect to any Interest Period, the quotient of: (i) the Base LIBOR Rate applicable to that Interest Period, divided by (ii) one (1) minus the Reserve Requirement (expressed as a decimal) applicable to the Interest Period. "Base LIBOR Rate" shall mean, with respect to an Interest Period, LIBOR as of 11:00 a.m. two (2) London Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period. "LIBOR" shall mean, with respect to an Interest Period, the British Bankers' Association ("BBA") interest settlement rate based on an average of rates quoted by BBA designated banks as being, in BBA's view, the offered rate at which deposits in U.S. Dollars are being quoted to prime banks in the London interbank market at 11:00 a.m. (London time) two (2) London Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, such deposits being for a period of time equal or comparable to such Interest Period and in an amount equal or comparable to the outstanding LIBOR Portion, as such rates are 2 determined by Agent and displayed on the page designated "LIBO" on the Reuter Monitor System or such other display on the Reuter Monitor System as shall display LIBOR. 7. The definition of "Interest Period" in Section XI(D) of the Addendum to the Agreement is amended to read as follows: "INTEREST PERIOD" shall mean at the option of Borrower, be either a one month, two-month, three-month, six-month or twelve-month period, provided that: (i) the initial Interest Period for any LIBOR advance shall commence on the date of the making of such advance and each Interest Period occurring thereafter shall commence on the date on which the next preceding Interest Period expires; (ii) if any Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day which is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall expire on the next succeeding Business Day; (iii) if any Interest Period begins on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period, such Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of such calendar month; (iv) no Interest Period in respect of any LIBOR advance outstanding prior to the Due Date shall extend beyond the Due Date, and no LIBOR advance shall extend beyond the Maturity Date. (v) If upon the expiration of any Interest Period, Borrower has failed to elect or confirm a new Interest Period, Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to convert such LIBOR Portion into a Prime Rate advance, effective as of the expiration date of such current Interest Period. 8. Article V ("Security for Loans") is deleted. All collateral securing the Loan shall be released. 9. Concurrently herewith, and as a condition to this Amendment, Borrower agrees to pay to Bank an extension fee of $25,000. 10. Borrower covenants not to encumber any of the "Borrowing Base Properties" as defined in the Second Amended and Restated Line of Credit Agreement dated November 5, 2006. 11. Guarantor acknowledges and consents to the amendments to the Loan Documents herein provided and agrees that the Guaranty shall continue and remain in full force and effect with respect to the Loan Documents as herein amended. 12. Except as amended herein and in any other amendments executed in conjunction herewith, the Loan Documents shall remain in full force and effect. 3 IN WITNESS WHEREOF the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the date stated in the first paragraph above. BORROWER: AGREE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, a Delaware limited partnership By: Agree Realty Corporation, a Maryland corporation Its: General Partner By: /s/ Richard A. Agree ------------------------------------ Richard A. Agree Its: President 31850 Northwestern Highway Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334 GUARANTOR: AGREE REALTY CORPORATION By: /s/ Richard A. Agree ------------------------------------ Richard A. Agree Its: President BANK: LASALLE BANK MIDWEST NATIONAL ASSOCATION, a national banking association By: /s/ Kathleen W. Bozek ------------------------------------ Kathleen W. Bozek Its: Vice President 4 EX-21.1 5 k13184exv21w1.txt SUBSIDIARIES OF AGREE REALTY EXHIBIT 21.1 AGREE REALTY CORPORATION SUBSIDIARIES OF THE REGISTRANT AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2006 Agree Realty Corporation; through its Operating Partnership, Agree Limited Partnership, is the sole member of the following Limited Liability Companies:
SUBSIDIARY JURISDICTION OF ORGANIZATION - ---------- ---------------------------- Agree - Columbia Crossing Project, L.L.C. Delaware ACCP Maryland, LLC Delaware Agree - Milestone Center Project, L.L.C. Delaware AMCP Germantown, LLC Delaware Ann Arbor Store No 1, LLC Delaware Phoenix Drive, LLC Delaware Indianapolis Store No. 16, LLC Delaware Boynton Beach Store No. 150, LLC Delaware Oklahoma City Store No. 151, L.L.C. Delaware Omaha Store No. 166, L.L.C. Delaware Tulsa Store No. 135, LLC Delaware Tulsa Store No. 264, L.L.C. Delaware Mt Pleasant Shopping Center L.L.C. Michigan Agree Facility No. 1, L.L.C. Delaware ALPSC Associates, LLC South Carolina Agree Bristol & Fenton Project, LLC Michigan Agree Realty South-East, LLC Michigan AC Realty Company, LLC Georgia
Agree Realty Corporation, through its Operating Partnership, Agree Limited Partnership, owns a 99% interest in the following Limited Liability Company: Lawrence Store No. 203, L.L.C. Delaware
EX-23.1 6 k13184exv23w1.txt CONSENT OF VIRCHOW KRAUSE & COMPANY, LLP EXHIBIT 23.1 CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statements on Form S-3 (File No. 333-21293) of Agree Realty Corporation of our reports dated March 6, 2007, relating to the consolidated financial statements, the financial statement schedule, and the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, which appear on pages 28, 29, and F-2 of this annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2006. /s/ VIRCHOW, KRAUSE & COMPANY, LLP Chicago, IL March 13, 2007 EX-23.2 7 k13184exv23w2.txt CONSENT OF BDO SEIDMAN, LLP EXHIBIT 23.2 CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM Agree Realty Corporation Farmington Hills, Michigan We hereby consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement on Form S-3 (No. 333-21293) of Agree Realty Corporation of our report dated March 15, 2006 relating to the consolidated financial statements and financial statement schedule which appear in this Form 10-K. BDO SEIDMAN, LLP Troy, Michigan March 13, 2007 EX-31.1 8 k13184exv31w1.txt SECTION 302 CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER EXHIBIT 31.1 CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 I, Richard Agree, certify that: 1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Agree Realty Corporation; 2. Based on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this annual report; 3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this annual report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual report; 4. The registrant's other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15 and 15d-14) for the registrant and we have: a) designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report is being prepared; b) designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. c) evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this annual report (the "Evaluation Date"); and d) disclosed in this annual report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting. 5. The registrant's other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation, to the registrant's independent auditors and the audit committee of registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function): a) all significant deficiencies and material weakness in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting which are reasonable likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; of internal control over financial reporting and b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal controls; and 6. The registrant's other certifying officers and I have indicated in this annual report whether or not there were significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls subsequent to the date of our most recent evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses. Date: March 14, 2007 /s/ Richard Agree ---------------------------------------- Name: Richard Agree Title: President and Chief Executive Officer EX-31.2 9 k13184exv31w2.txt SECTION 302 CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER EXHIBIT 31.2 CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 I, Kenneth R. Howe, certify that: 1. I have reviewed this annual report on Form 10-K of Agree Realty Corporation; 2. Based on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this annual report; 3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this annual report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual report; 4. The registrant's other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15 and 15d-14) for the registrant and we have: a) designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report is being prepared; b) designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. c) evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures as of the end of the period covered by this annual report (the "Evaluation Date"); and d) disclosed in this annual report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter that has materially affected or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting. 5. The registrant's other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation, to the registrant's independent auditors and the audit committee of registrant's board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent function): a) all significant deficiencies and material weakness in the design or operation of internal controls over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; of internal control over financial reporting; and b) any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant's internal controls; and 6. The registrant's other certifying officers and I have indicated in this annual report whether or not there were significant changes in internal controls or in other factors that could significantly affect internal controls subsequent to the date of our most recent evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses. Date: March 14, 2007 /s/ Kenneth R. Howe ---------------------------------------- Name: Kenneth R. Howe Title: Vice President, Finance EX-32.1 10 k13184exv32w1.txt SECTION 906 CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER EXHIBIT 32.1 CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 In connection with the Annual Report of Agree Realty Corporation (the "Company") on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2006 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the "Report"), I, Richard Agree, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that: 1. The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and 2. The information contained in the Report fairy presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company. /S/ RICHARD AGREE - ------------------------------------- Richard Agree Chief Executive Officer March 14, 2007 EX-32.2 11 k13184exv32w2.txt SECTION 906 CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER EXHIBIT 32.2 CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO 18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350, AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002 In connection with the Annual Report of Agree Realty Corporation (the "Company") on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2006 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the "Report"), I, Kenneth R. Howe, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 that: 1. The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and 2. The information contained in the Report fairy presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company. /S/ KENNETH R. HOWE - ------------------------------------- Kenneth R. Howe Chief Financial Officer March 14, 2007
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