Business and Property Management Agreements with RMR

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2025

Business and Property Management Agreements with RMR

Note 10. Business and Property Management Agreements with RMR

We have no employees. The personnel and various services we require to operate our business are provided to us by RMR. We have two agreements with RMR to provide management services to us: (1) a business management agreement, which relates to our business generally, and (2) a property management agreement, which relates to our property level operations of our net lease portfolio, the office building component of one of our hotels and major renovation or repositioning activities at our hotels that we may request RMR to manage from time to time.

We are generally responsible for all of our operating expenses, including certain expenses incurred or arranged by RMR on our behalf. We are generally not responsible for payment of RMR’s employment, office or administrative expenses incurred to provide management services to us, except for the employment and related expenses of RMR’s employees assigned to work exclusively or partly at our net lease properties and the office building component of one of our hotels, our share of the wages, benefits and other related costs of RMR’s centralized accounting personnel, our share of RMR’s costs for providing our internal audit function and as otherwise agreed. Our property level operating expenses are generally incorporated into rents charged to our tenants, including certain payroll and related costs incurred by RMR.

For the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the business management fees, property management fees and construction supervision fees and expense reimbursements recognized in our condensed consolidated financial statements were as follows:


	Financial Statement	Three Months Ended March 31,
	Line Item	2025		2024
Pursuant to business management agreement:
Net business management fees (1)	General and administrative	$	6,930	$	7,757

Pursuant to property management agreement:
Property management fees	Net lease operating expenses	$	2,087	$	1,484
Construction supervision fees	Buildings, improvements and equipment (2)	657		1,696
		$	2,744	$	3,180

Expense reimbursement:


Property level expenses	Net lease operating expenses, general and administrative and buildings, improvements and equipment (2)	$	1,195	$	1,094

(1)The net business management fees we recognized for each of the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 2024 reflect a reduction of $896 for the amortization of the liability we recorded in connection with our former investment in The RMR Group Inc., or RMR Inc.

(2)Amounts capitalized as buildings, improvements and equipment are depreciated over the estimated useful lives of the related assets.

Based on our common share total return, as defined in our business management agreement, as of March 31, 2025, no incentive fees are included in the net business management fees we recognized for the three months ended March 31, 2025. The actual amount of annual incentive fees for 2025, if any, will be based on our common share total return, as defined in our business management agreement, for the three-year period ending December 31, 2025, and will be payable in January 2026. We did not incur an incentive fee payable to RMR for the year ended December 31, 2024.

In January 2025, in connection with a $100,000 credit agreement and related security agreement entered into by RMR and certain of its subsidiaries with Citibank, N.A., or Citibank, and the other lenders party thereto, we consented to the pledge and assignment of RMR’s interest in our management agreements under the security agreement. Pursuant to the consent, we agreed, among other things, that upon notice that an event of default under the RMR credit agreement has occurred and is continuing, we will continue to make all payments under our management agreements in accordance with the instructions of Citibank, and that if there is an event of default by RMR under our management agreements that would allow us to terminate or suspend our obligations, we will not terminate or suspend without notice to Citibank and provide Citibank 30 days to cure the default on RMR’s behalf. The consent was approved by our Independent Trustees.