UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D. C. 20549

 

FORM 10-Q

(Mark One)

x QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2012

 

OR

 

¨ TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

 

For the transition period from                      to

 

Commission file number 000-54047

LIGHTSTONE VALUE PLUS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST II, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Its Charter)

 

Maryland   83-0511223

(State or Other Jurisdiction of

Incorporation or Organization)

 

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

     
1985 Cedar Bridge Avenue, Suite 1    
Lakewood, New Jersey   08701
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

 

(732) 367-0129

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

 

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  ¨

 

 Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).  

Yes   þ      No ¨

 

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   ¨   Accelerated filer   ¨   Non-accelerated filer    ¨ Smaller reporting company   þ

 

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).

Yes  ¨  No þ

 

As of November 9, 2012, there were approximately 5.3 million outstanding shares of common stock of Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc., including shares issued pursuant to the distribution reinvestment plan.

 

In connection with the filing of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc. (the “Lightstone REIT II”), is relying on Release No. 68224 issued by the Securities and Exchange Commission titled “Order Under Section 17a and Section 36 of the Securities Exchange Act Of 1934 Granting Exemptions from Specified Provisions of the Exchange Act And Certain Rules There under,” which provides that filings by registrants unable to meet filing deadlines due to Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath shall be considered timely so long as the filing is made on or before November 21, 2012, and the conditions contained therein are satisfied. The Lightstone REIT II’s finance department and its independent accountants are located in New Jersey and accordingly, the Lightstone REIT II was unable to file this Report by the original due date of November 14, 2012 due to disruptions caused by Hurricane Sandy.

 

 

 
 

 

LIGHTSTONE VALUE PLUS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST II, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

 

INDEX

 

      Page
PART I FINANCIAL INFORMATION    
       
Item 1. Financial Statements    
       
  Consolidated Balance Sheets as of  September 30, 2012 (unaudited) and December 31, 2011   3
       
  Consolidated Statements of Operations (unaudited) for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 and 2011   4
       
  Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income/(Loss) (unaudited) for the Three and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 and 2011   5
       
  Consolidated Statements of Stockholders’ Equity (unaudited) for the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012   6
       
  Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited) for the Nine Months Ended  September 30, 2012 and 2011   7
       
  Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements   8
       
Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations   22
       
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk   36
       
Item 4. Controls and Procedures   37
       
PART II OTHER INFORMATION    
       
Item 1. Legal Proceedings   37
       
Item 1A. Risk Factors   37
       
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds   37
       
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities   39
       
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures   39
       
Item 5. Other Information   39
       
Item 6. Exhibits   39

 

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION, CONTINUED:

ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED:

 

LIGHTSTONE VALUE PLUS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST II, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(Amounts in thousands, except per share data)

  

    September 30, 2012     December 31, 2011  
    (Unaudited)        
Assets                
Investment property:                
Land and improvements   $ 4,600     $ 1,800  
Building and improvements     18,887       9,417  
Furniture and fixtures     1,814       784  
Construction in progress     -       513  
Gross investment property     25,301       12,514  
Less accumulated depreciation     (664 )     (293 )
Net investment property     24,637       12,221  
                 
Investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities     5,528       7,388  
Cash and cash equivalents     7,174       5,114  
Marketable securities, available for sale     7,583       5,701  
Restricted escrows     3,611       374  
Mortgage loan receivable, net     7,029       7,029  
Note receivable from affiliate     2,340       -  
Prepaid expenses and other assets     1,540       245  
Total Assets   $ 59,442     $ 38,072  
                 
Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity                
Accounts payable and other accrued expenses   $ 918     $ 659  
Margin loan     2,873       3,340  
Mortgages payable     11,208       -  
Due to sponsor     129       74  
Distributions payable     846       717  
Total liabilities     15,974       4,790  
                 
Commitments and contingencies (Note 13)                
                 
Stockholders' Equity:                
Company's stockholders' equity:                
Preferred shares, $0.01 par value, 10,000 shares authorized,  none issued and outstanding     -       -  
Common stock, $0.01 par value; 100,000 shares authorized, 5,198 and 4,503 shares issued and outstanding in 2012 and 2011, respectively     52       45  
Additional paid-in-capital     41,092       35,822  
Subscription receivable     -       (104 )
Accumulated other comprehensive loss     (332 )     (2,214 )
Accumulated distributions in excess of net earnings     (2,316 )     (5,002 )
Total Company stockholders' equity     38,496       28,547  
                 
Noncontrolling interests     4,972       4,735  
                 
Total Stockholders' Equity     43,468       33,282  
                 
Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity   $ 59,442     $ 38,072  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED:

 

LIGHTSTONE VALUE PLUS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST II, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

(Amounts in thousands, except per share data) (Unaudited)  

 

    For the Three Months Ended September 30,     For the Nine Months Ended September 30,  
    2012     2011     2012     2011  
                         
Rental revenue   $ 2,116     $ 656     $ 4,025     $ 2,284  
                                 
Expenses:                                
Property operating expenses     1,221       369       2,085       1,113  
Real estate taxes     79       32       169       91  
General and administrative costs     412       246       1,205       1,285  
Depreciation and amortization     188       82       372       219  
                                 
Total operating expenses     1,900       729       3,831       2,708  
                                 
Operating (loss)/income     216       (73 )     194       (424 )
                                 
Interest and dividend income     324       515       964       779  
Gain on disposition of unconsolidated affiliated entity     -       -       741       -  
Bargain purchase gain     3,500       -       3,500       -  
Income/(loss) from investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities     42       89       128       (270 )
Interest expense     (164 )     (9 )     (311 )     (9 )
Other (expense)/income, net     (90 )     4       (79 )     12  
                                 
Net income     3,828       526       5,137       88  
                                 
Less: net income attributable to noncontrolling interests     (13 )     (9 )     (43 )     (22 )
                                 
Net income attributable to Company's common shares   $ 3,815     $ 517     $ 5,094     $ 66  
                                 
Net income per Company's common share, basic and diluted   $ 0.74     $ 0.13     $ 1.03     $ 0.02  
                                 
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding, basic and diluted     5,159       4,107       4,936       3,844  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED:

 

LIGHTSTONE VALUE PLUS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST II, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME/(LOSS)

(Amounts in thousands, except per share data) (Unaudited)  

 

    For the Three Months Ended  September 30,     For the Nine Months Ended  September 30,  
    2012     2011     2012     2011  
                         
Net income   $ 3,828     $ 526     $ 5,137     $ 88  
                                 
Other comprehensive income/(loss):                                
Unrealized gain/(loss) on available for sale securities     468       (2,505 )     1,882       (2,505 )
                                 
Comprehensive income/(loss)     4,296       (1,979 )     7,019       (2,417 )
                                 
Less: Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interests     (13 )     (9 )     (43 )     (22 )
                                 
Comprehensive income/(loss) attributable to the Company's common shares   $ 4,283     $ (1,988 )   $ 6,976     $ (2,439 )

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION:

ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

 

LIGHTSTONE VALUE PLUS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST II, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY

(Amounts in thousands) (Unaudited)

 

                          Accumulated     Total              
    Common Shares     Additional                 Distributions in     Company     Total        
    Common           Paid-In     Subscription     Accumulated Other     Excess of Net     Stockholders'     Noncontrolling     Total  
    Shares     Amount     Capital     Receivable     Comprehensive Loss     Earnings     Equity     Interests     Equity  
BALANCE, December 31, 2011     4,503     $ 45     $ 35,822     $ (104 )   $ (2,214 )   $ (5,002 )   $ 28,547     $ 4,735     $ 33,282  
                                                                         
Net income     -       -       -       -       -       5,094       5,094       43       5,137  
Other comprehensive income     -       -       -       -       1,882       -       1,882               1,882  
Distributions declared     -       -       -       -       -       (2,408 )     (2,408 )     -       (2,408 )
Distributions paid     -       -       -       -       -       -       -       (306 )     (306 )
Units issued to noncontrolling interests in exchange for investment in unconsolidated affiliated real estate entity     -       -       -       -       -       -       -       500       500  
Proceeds from offering     622       6       6,209       104       -       -       6,319       -       6,319  
Selling commissions and dealer manager fees     -       -       (631 )     -       -       -       (631 )     -       (631 )
Other offering costs     -       -       (1,014 )     -       -       -       (1,014 )     -       (1,014 )
Redemption and cancellation of shares     (40 )     (1 )     (356 )     -       -       -       (357 )     -       (357 )
Shares issued from distribution reinvestment program     113       2       1,062       -       -       -       1,064       -       1,064  
                                      -                                  
BALANCE, September 30, 2012     5,198     $ 52     $ 41,092     $ -     $ (332 )   $ (2,316 )   $ 38,496     $ 4,972     $ 43,468  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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ITEM 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, CONTINUED:

 

LIGHTSTONE VALUE PLUS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST II, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

(Amounts in thousands) (Unaudited)

 

    For the Nine Months Ended September 30,  
    2012     2011  
             
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:                
Net income   $ 5,137     $ 88  
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:                
(Income)/loss from investments in unconsolidated affilated entities     (128 )     270  
Depreciation and amortization     372       219  
Amortization of deferred financing costs     43       -  
Gain on disposition of investment in unconsolidated affiliated entity     (741 )     -  
Bargain purchase gain     (3,500 )     -  
Changes in assets and liabilities:                
Decrease in restricted escrows     272       657  
Increase in prepaid expenses and other assets     (1,097 )     (146 )
Increase in accounts payable and other accrued expenses     440       20  
Increase/(decrease) in due to sponsor     55       (13 )
                 
Net cash provided by operating activities     853       1,095  
                 
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:                
Purchase of investment property, net     (9,288 )     (12,473 )
Purchase of restricted escrow     (835 )     -  
Purchase of marketable securities, net of margin loan     -       (4,342 )
Purchase of investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities     -       (3,796 )
Proceeds from disposition of investment in unconsolidated affiliated entity     560       -  
Collections on note receivable from affiliate     60       -  
Funding of restricted escrows     (2,676 )     -  
Collections on mortgage loan receivable     -       60  
Distributions from unconsolidated affiliated entities     269       -  
                 
Net cash used in investing activities     (11,910 )     (20,551 )
                 
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:                
Proceeds from mortgage financing     11,273       -  
Payment of loan fees and expenses     (242 )     -  
Payments on margin loan     (467 )     -  
Payments on mortgages payable     (65 )     -  
Proceeds from issuance of common stock     6,319       7,414  
Payment of commissions and offering costs     (1,823 )     (1,353 )
Contribution of noncontrolling interests     -       897  
Redemption and cancellation of common shares     (357 )     (374 )
Distributions to noncontrolling interests     (306 )     (14 )
Distributions to common stockholders     (1,215 )     (883 )
                 
Net cash provided by financing activities     13,117       5,687  
                 
Net change in cash and cash equivalents     2,060       (13,769 )
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period     5,114       18,177  
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period   $ 7,174     $ 4,408  
                 
Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information:                
Cash paid for interest   $ 239     $ -  
Distributions declared   $ 2,408     $ 1,889  
Marketable securities purchased with margin loan, net   $ -     $ 3,573  
Value of shares issued from distribution reinvestment program   $ 1,064     $ 875  
Commissions and other offering costs accrued but not paid   $ 108     $ 482  
Subscription receivable   $ (104 )   $ (339 )
Issuance of subordinated profits interests in exchange for investment in unconsolidated affiliated entity   $ 500     $ -  
Note receivable received in connection with disposition of investment in unconsolidated affiliated entity   $ 2,400     $ -  

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

 

  1. Organization

 

Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc. (the “Lightstone REIT II”) is a Maryland corporation formed on April 28, 2008, which has qualified as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) for U.S. federal income tax purposes since its taxable year ending December 31, 2009. The Lightstone REIT II was formed primarily for the purpose of engaging in the business of investing in and owning commercial and residential real estate properties located principally in North America, as well as other real estate-related securities, such as collateralized debt obligations, commercial mortgage-backed securities and mortgage and mezzanine loans secured, directly or indirectly, by the same types of properties which it may acquire directly.

 

The Lightstone REIT II is structured as an umbrella partnership REIT, or UPREIT, and substantially all of its current and future business is and will be conducted through Lightstone Value Plus REIT II LP (the “Operating Partnership”), a Delaware limited partnership formed on April 30, 2008.

 

The Lightstone REIT II and the Operating Partnership are collectively referred to as the ‘‘Company’’ and the use of ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘our,’’ ‘‘us’’ or similar pronouns refers to the Lightstone REIT II, its Operating Partnership or the Company as required by the context in which such pronoun is used.

 

The Company’s sponsor is David Lichtenstein (“Lichtenstein”), who does business as The Lightstone Group (the “Sponsor”) and wholly owns the limited liability company of that name. The Company’s advisor is Lightstone Value Plus REIT II LLC (the “Advisor”), which is wholly owned by our Sponsor.

 

The Company’s registration statement on Form S-11, pursuant to which it offered to sell up to 51,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $10.00 per share, subject to certain volume discounts, (exclusive of 6,500,000 shares which were available pursuant to its distribution reinvestment plan (the “DRIP”) at an initial purchase price of $9.50 per share and 255,000 shares which were reserved for issuance under its Employee and Director Incentive Restricted Share Plan ), was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Securities Act of 1933 on February 17, 2009, and on April 24, 2009 the Company commenced its initial public offering of common stock (the “Offering”). The Offering, which terminated on August 15, 2012, raised aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $49.8 million from the sale of approximately 5.0 million shares of common stock. After allowing for the payment of approximately $5.2 million in selling commissions and dealer manager fees and $4.5 million in organization and other offering expenses, the Offering generated aggregate net proceeds of approximately $40.1 million. In addition, through August 15, 2012 (the termination date of the Offering), the Company had issued approximately 0.3 million shares of common stock under its DRIP, representing approximately $2.9 million of additional proceeds.

 

The Company’s registration statement on Form S-11 (the “Follow-On Offering”), pursuant to which it is offering to sell up to 30,000,000 shares of its common stock for $10.00 per share, subject to certain volume discounts (exclusive of 2,500,000 shares available pursuant to its DRIP at an initial purchase price of $9.50 per share and 255,000 shares reserved for issuance under its Employee and Director Incentive Restricted Share Plan ) was declared effective by SEC under the Securities Act of 1933 on September 27, 2012. As of September 30, 2012, the Company had not sold any shares of common stock under the Follow-On Offering, however, the Company intends to sell shares of its common stock under the Follow-On Offering until the earlier of the date on which all the shares are sold, or September 27, 2014, two years from the date the Follow-On Offering was declared effective by the SEC. The Company reserves the right to reallocate the shares of common stock it is offering between the primary offering and the DRIP. Additionally, the Follow-On Offering may be terminated at any time.

 

Effective July 8, 2011, ICON Securities Corp. (“ICON Securities”) became the dealer manager (“Dealer Manager”) of the Company’s Offering pursuant to an Assignment and Amendment of Dealer Manager Agreement (the “Assignment and Amendment”). Pursuant to the Assignment and Amendment, ICON Securities was assigned the Dealer Manager Agreement between Lightstone Securities LLC ("Lightstone Securities”) and the Company dated February 17, 2009 and assumed all of Lightstone Securities’ rights and obligations thereunder from and after the effective date of the Assignment and Amendment. Prior to July 8, 2011, Lightstone Securities served as the dealer manager for the Company’s Offering. As of July 8, 2011, upon effectiveness of the Assignment and Amendment, the Wholesaling Agreement between the Company, Lightstone Securities and ICON Securities was terminated.

 

Effective September 27, 2012, Orchard Securities, LLC (“Orchard Securities”) became the Dealer Manager of the Company’s Follow-On Offering.

 

All further references to the Dealer Manager will be deemed to refer to either Lightstone Securities, ICON Securities or Orchard Securities during the respective period of time that each was serving in such capacity.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

As of September 30, 2012, the Advisor owned 20,000 shares of common stock which were issued on May 20, 2008 for $200, or $10.00 per share. In addition, as of September 30, 2009, the Company had reached the minimum offering under its Offering by receiving subscriptions of its common shares, representing gross offering proceeds of approximately $6.5 million, and effective October 1, 2009 investors were admitted as stockholders and the Operating Partnership commenced operations. Through September 30, 2012, cumulative gross offering proceeds of $49.8 million were released to the Company. The Company invested the proceeds received from the Offering and from the Advisor in the Operating Partnership, and as a result, held a 99.99% general partnership interest as of September 30, 2012 in the Operating Partnership’s common units.

 

The Company’s shares of common stock are not currently listed on a national securities exchange. The Company may seek to list its shares of common stock for trading on a national securities exchange only if a majority of its independent directors believe listing would be in the best interest of its stockholders. The Company does not intend to list its shares at this time. The Company does not anticipate that there would be any market for its shares of common stock until they are listed for trading. In the event the Company does not obtain listing prior to the tenth anniversary of the completion or termination of its Offering, its charter requires that the Board of Directors must either (i) seek stockholder approval of an extension or amendment of this listing deadline; or (ii) seek stockholder approval to adopt a plan of liquidation of the corporation.

 

Noncontrolling Interests – Partners of Operating Partnership

 

On May 20, 2008, the Advisor contributed $2 to the Operating Partnership in exchange for 200 limited partner units in the Operating Partnership. The limited partner has the right to convert operating partnership units into cash or, at the option of the Company, an equal number of common shares of the Company, as allowed by the limited partnership agreement.

 

Lightstone SLP II LLC, which is wholly owned by the Company’s Sponsor committed to purchase subordinated profits interests in the Operating Partnership (“Subordinated Profits Interests”) at a cost of $100,000 per unit for each $1.0 million in subscriptions up to ten percent of the proceeds from the primary shares under the Offering and the Follow-On Offering on a semi-annual basis beginning with the quarter ended June 30, 2010. Lightstone SLP II LLC may elect to purchase the Subordinated Profits Interests with either cash or an interest in real property of equivalent value. Any proceeds received from the cash sale of the Subordinated Profits Interests will be used to offset payments made by the Company from offering proceeds to pay the dealer manager fees, selling commissions and organization and other offering expenses.

 

From our inception through September 30, 2012, the Company’s Sponsor has contributed cash of approximately $0.2 million and elected to contribute equity interests totaling 45.1% in Brownmill, LLC (“Brownmill”) in exchange for a total of 46.0 Subordinated Profits Interests with an aggregate value of $4.6 million (see Note 4). The Company’s Sponsor may continue to elect to contribute interests in real property in lieu of cash in exchange for Subordinated Profits Interests in order to fulfill its semi-annual commitment.

   

  2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

Basis of Presentation

 

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Lightstone REIT II and its Operating Partnership and its subsidiaries (over which the Company exercises financial and operating control). As of September 30, 2012, the Lightstone REIT II had a 99.99% general partnership interest in the common units of the Operating Partnership. All inter-company balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

 

The accompanying unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and related notes should be read in conjunction with the audited Consolidated Financial Statements of the Company and related notes as contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011. The unaudited interim financial statements include all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring adjustments) and accruals necessary in the judgment of management for a fair statement of the results for the periods presented. The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements of the Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc. and its Subsidiaries have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Rule 8-03 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America for complete financial statements.

 

The unaudited consolidated statements of operations for interim periods are not necessarily indicative of results for the full year or any other period.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

Reclassifications

 

Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation.

 

New Accounting Pronouncements

  

On January 1, 2012, the Company adopted changes issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board to the presentation of comprehensive income. These changes give an entity the option to present the total of comprehensive income, the components of net income, and the components of other comprehensive income either in a single continuous statement of comprehensive income or in two separate but consecutive statements; the option to present components of other comprehensive income as part of the statement of changes in stockholders’ equity was eliminated. The items that must be reported in other comprehensive income or when an item of other comprehensive income must be reclassified to net income were not changed. Additionally, no changes were made to the calculation and presentation of earnings per share. Management elected to present the two-statement option. Other than the change in presentation, the adoption of these changes had no impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

 

The Company has determined that all other recently issued accounting pronouncements will not have a material impact on its consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows, or do not apply to its operations.

 

  3. Acquisitions

 

TownePlace Suites Hotel

 

On January 19, 2011, the Company, through LVP Metairie JV, LLC (“LVP Metairie JV”), a joint venture subsidiary of its Operating Partnership, completed the acquisition of a 95.0% ownership interest in a four-story, limited service extended-stay hotel located in Harahan, Louisiana (the “TownePlace Suites Hotel”) from Citrus Suites, LLC, an unrelated third party. The remaining 5.0% ownership interest was acquired by TPS Metairie, LLC, an unrelated third party.  During the first quarter of 2011, TPS Metairie, LLC contributed $0.7 million to LVP Metairie JV. The TownePlace Suites Hotel, which has immediate access to the New Orleans Airport, operates as a “TownePlace Suites” pursuant to a Relicensing Franchise Agreement (the “Franchise Agreement”) with Marriott International, Inc. (“Marriott”).

 

The aggregate purchase price for the TownePlace Suites Hotel was approximately $12.2 million, inclusive of closing and other transaction-related costs. Additionally, in connection with the acquisition, the Company’s advisor received an acquisition fee of $0.1 million which was equal to 0.95% of the Company’s proportionate share of the total contract price of $12.0 million, or $11.4 million. The Company’s share of the acquisition was funded with cash proceeds from the sale of shares of its common stock.

 

The Company has established a taxable REIT subsidiary, LVP Metairie Holding Corp. (“LVP Metairie Holding”), which has entered into an operating lease agreement for the TownePlace Suites Hotel. LVP Metairie Holding has also entered into management agreement (the “TownePlace Suites Management Agreement”) with Trans Inns Management, Inc., an unrelated third party, for the management of the TownePlace Suites Hotel, and the Franchise Agreement with Marriott.  The Towne Place Suites Management Agreement, which had an initial term of one-year commencing on January 19, 2011, provides for (i) monthly base management fees equal to 3% of gross revenues, as defined and (ii) certain incentive fees.  The TownePlace Suites Management Agreement, which was extended for an additional one-year commencing on January 19, 2012, now provides for eight additional one-year extensions and may be terminated by either party with no less than 90-days written notice, by either party, in advance of the anniversary date.

 

The Company’s interest in LVP Metairie JV is a managing interest. Generally, quarterly distributions from LVP Metairie JV are made (i) initially, to the Company and TPS Metairie, LLC on a pro rata basis in proportion to each member’s equity interest percentage until an annualized preferred return of 12.0% is achieved on their invested capital and (ii) thereafter, 85.0% to the Company and TPS Metairie, LLC pro rata in accordance with their respective ownership interest and 15.0% to the Sherman Family Trust, a third party related to TPS Metairie, LLC but not related to the Company. Beginning on January 19, 2011, the Company has consolidated the operating results and financial condition of TownePlace Suites and accounted for the ownership interest of TPS Metairie, LLC and any allocations of earnings and distributions to the Sherman Family Trust as noncontrolling interests.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

During the year ended December 31, 2011, LVP Metairie JV made total distributions of approximately $784 ($745 and $39 to the Company and TPS Metairie, LLC, respectively), all of which related to the annualized preferred return. During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, LVP Metairie JV made total distributions of approximately $6,120 ($5,814 and $306 to the Company and TPS Metairie, LLC, respectively). The 2012 distributions consisted of approximately $1,575 ($1,497 and $78 to the Company and TPS Metairie LLC, respectively) of annualized preferred returns and approximately $4,545 ($4,317 and $228 to the Company and LVP Metairie LLC, respectively) of return of invested capital. The 2012 distributions include the net proceeds from a $6.0 million mortgage loan obtained on March 14, 2012 (see Note 9).

 

The acquisition was accounted for under the purchase method of accounting with the LVP Metairie JV treated as the acquiring entity. Accordingly, the consideration paid by the LVP Metairie JV to complete the acquisition has been allocated to the assets acquired based upon their fair values as of the date of the acquisition. There was no contingent consideration related to this acquisition. Approximately $1.8 million was allocated to land, $9.9 million was allocated to building and improvements and $0.8 million was allocated to furniture and fixtures.

 

SpringHill Suites Hotel

 

On July 13, 2012, the Company, through LVP SHS Peabody, LLC (“LVP SHS”), a subsidiary of its Operating Partnership, entered into an Assignment and Assumption of Purchase and Sale Agreement (the “Assignment”) with Lightstone Acquisitions V LLC (the “Assignor”), an affiliate of the Company’s Sponsor.  Under the terms of the Assignment, LVP SHS was assigned the rights and assumed the obligations of the Assignor with respects to certain Purchase and Sale Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”), dated March 12, 2012, made between the Assignor as the Purchaser and Springhill Peabody HH LLC as the Seller, as amended, whereby the Assignor contracted to purchase a six story, 164-suite, limited services hotel located in Peabody, Massachusetts which operates as a SpringHill Suites by Marriott (the “SpringHill Suites Hotel”) which was constructed and commenced operations in July 2002.

 

On July 13, 2012, the Company, through LVP SHS, completed the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites Hotel from the Seller, an unrelated third party.  In connection with the acquisition, LVP SHS assumed the existing Management Agreement with Marriott and simultaneously gave the requisite 30-day notice for early termination, which required the payment of a termination fee (the “Termination Fee”) of approximately $1.2 million to Marriott. Contemporaneously, LVP SHS entered into a 20-year franchise agreement (the “Franchise Agreement”) with Marriott, pursuant to which the SpringHill Suites Hotel continued to operate as a SpringHill Suites by Marriott commencing on August 11, 2012. The Company has established a taxable subsidiary, LVP SHS Holding Corp (“LVP SHS TRS”), which has entered into an operating lease agreement for the SpringHill Suites Hotel.  LVP SHS TRS has also entered into a new management agreement (the SSH Peabody Management Agreement”) with SSH Peabody, LLC, an unrelated third party, for the management of the SpringHill Suites Hotel which commenced on August 11, 2012.

 

The Franchise Agreement requires the completion of certain improvements to the SpringHill Suites Hotel at an estimated cost of $2.3 million pursuant to a property improvement plan (the “PIP”) no later than August 11, 2013. The SSH Peabody Management Agreement has an initial term of one-year and automatically renews for additional one-year terms on the anniversary date provided 60-day advance written notice is not provided by either party. The SSH Peabody Management Agreement provides for (i) a basic management fee equal to 3% of total revenues, (ii) a centralized accounting services fee of $3 per month, subject annual increases based on the consumer price index, and (iii) an incentive management fee equal to 15% of the amount by which gross operating profit, as defined, exceeds a prescribed threshold, subject to a cap of 2.0% of total annual revenues.

 

The aggregate cost for the SpringHill Suites Hotel was approximately $10.1 million, including the Termination Fee and approximately $0.8 million for a furniture, fixtures and equipment reserve (the “FFE Reserve”) held in escrow by Marriott.  In connection with the acquisition, the Company’s incurred closing and other transaction costs of approximately $0.2 million, including an acquisition fee equal to 0.95% of the contractual purchase price of $8.9 million (excluding the Termination Fee), or approximately $85, paid to the Company’s advisor.  The acquisition was funded in part with cash and proceeds from a $5.3 million mortgage obtained by LVP SHS from the Bank of the Ozarks. The FFE Reserve was subsequently released from escrow by Marriott in October 2012 as a result of the termination of the existing Management Agreement.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

The acquisition was accounted for under the purchase method of accounting with LVP SHS treated as the acquiring entity. Accordingly, the consideration paid by the Company to complete the acquisition has been allocated to the assets acquired based upon their fair values as of the date of the acquisition. The fair value of the assets acquired of $13.6 million exceeded the aggregate cost of $10.1 million, resulting in the recognition of a bargain purchase gain of approximately $3.5 million in the consolidated statements of operations during the third quarter of 2012. The allocation of the purchase price is based upon certain preliminary valuations and other analyses that have not been completed as of the date of this filing. Any changes in the estimated fair values of the net assets recorded for this acquisition prior to the finalization of more detailed analyses will change the allocation of the purchase price. As such, the purchase price allocations for this transaction are preliminary estimates, which are subject to change within the measurement period. Any subsequent changes to the purchase price allocations that are material will be adjusted retroactively. There was no contingent consideration related to this acquisition. Approximately $2.8 million was allocated to land, $9.0 million was allocated to building and improvements and $1.0 million was allocated to furniture and fixtures. Additionally, the FFE Reserve, which is included in restricted escrows in the consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2012, was recorded at its cost of approximately $0.8 million.

 

The capitalization rate for the SpringHill Suites Hotel as of the closing of the acquisition was 10.5%. We calculate the capitalization rate for a real property by dividing net operating income of the property by the purchase price of the property, excluding costs. For purposes of this calculation, net operating income was determined using the projected or budgeted net operating income of the property based upon then-current projections. Additionally, net operating income is all gross revenues from the property less all operating expenses, including property taxes and management fees but excluding depreciation.

 

Financial Information

 

The following table provides the total amount of rental revenue and net income included in the Company’s consolidated statements of operations from the TownePlace Suites Hotel and the SpringHill Suites Hotel since their respective dates of acquisition for the periods indicated:

 

    For the Three Months Ended September 30,     For the Nine Months Ended September 30,  
    2012     2011     2012     2011  
Rental revenue   $ 2,116     $ 656     $ 4,025     $ 2,284  
Net income (1)   $ 3,699     $ 168     $ 4,308     $ 420  

 

Note :

(1) Includes the $3.5 million bargain purchase gain recorded in the third quarter of 2012 in connection with the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites Hotel.

 

The following table provides unaudited pro forma results of operations for the periods indicated, as if the TownePlace Suites Hotel and the SpringHill Suites Hotel had been acquired at the beginning of the earliest period presented. Such pro forma results are not necessarily indicative of the results that actually would have occurred had these acquisitions been completed on the dates indicated, nor are they indicative of the future operating results of the combined company.

 

    For the Three Months Ended September 30,     For the Nine Months Ended September 30,  
    2012     2011     2012     2011  
Pro forma rental revenue   $ 2,295     $ 1,641     $ 5,875     $ 5,118  
Pro forma net income/(loss) (1)   $ 280     $ 513     $ 1,295     $ (84 )
Pro forma net income/(loss) per Company's common share, basic and diluted (1)   $ 0.05     $ 0.12     $ 0.25     $ (0.03 )

 

Note :

(1) Excludes the $3.5 million bargain purchase gain recorded in the third quarter of 2012 in connection with the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites Hotel.

 

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

4. Investments in Unconsolidated Affiliated Entities

 

The entities listed below are partially owned by the Company. The Company accounts for these investments under the equity method of accounting as the Company exercises significant influence, but does not exercise financial and operating control, and is not considered to be the primary beneficiary of these entities. A summary of the Company’s investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities is as follows:

 

Entity   Date of Ownership   Ownership
Interest as of
September 30,
2012
    As of
September 30, 2012
    As of December
31, 2011
 
Brownmill LLC ("Brownmill")   Various     45.1 %   $ 3,719     $ 3,463  
LVP CP Boston, LLC ("CP Boston Joint Venture")   March 21, 2011     0.0 %     -       2,218  
LVP Rego Park, LLC ("Rego Park Joint Venture")   April 12, 2011     10.0 %     1,809       1,707  
Total investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities               $ 5,528     $ 7,388  

 

Brownmill

 

During 2010, 2011 and 2012, the Company, through its Operating Partnership, entered into four separate contribution agreements between the Operating Partnership and Lightstone Holdings LLC (‘‘LGH’’), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company’s Sponsor, pursuant to which LGH contributed to the Operating Partnership an approximate aggregate 45.1% equity interest (34.4%, 5.6% and 5.1% in 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively) in Brownmill in order to fulfill the Sponsor’s semi-annual commitment to purchase Subordinated Profits Interests with cash or contributed property. In exchange, the Operating Partnership issued an aggregate of 44 units (33, 6 and 5 in 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively) of Subordinated Profits Interests, at $100,000 per unit (at an aggregate total value of $4.4 million, of which $3.3 million, $0.6 million and $0.5 million were in 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively), to Lightstone SLP II LLC.

 

The aggregate fair value of the Company’s 45.1% interest in Brownmill, based on estimated fair values as of the effective dates of the applicable contributions, was approximately $14.8 million, of which $4.4 million was in the form of equity and $10.4 million was in the form of mortgage indebtedness.

 

As a result of these contributions in exchange for Subordinated Profit Interests, as of September 30, 2012, the Operating Partnership owns an approximate 45.1% membership interest in Brownmill. The Company’s interest in Brownmill is a non-managing interest. An affiliate of the Company’s Sponsor is the majority owner and manager of Brownmill. Profit and cash distributions are allocated in accordance with each investor’s ownership percentage. The Company recorded its investment in Brownmill in accordance with the equity method of accounting. Accordingly, its portion of Brownmill’s total indebtedness is not included in the investment. In connection with the contributions of the ownership interests in Brownmill, the Company did not incur any transactions fees. During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, Brownmill made distributions of $300 to its members, of which the Company’s share was $135.

 

Brownmill owns two retail properties known as Browntown Shopping Center, located in Old Bridge, New Jersey, and Millburn Mall, located in Vauxhaull, New Jersey, which collectively, are referred to as the ‘‘Brownmill Properties.’’

 

Brownmill Financial Information

 

The Company’s carrying value of its interest in Brownmill differs from its share of member’s equity reported in the condensed balance sheet of Brownmill due to the Company’s basis of its investment in excess of the historical net book value of Brownmill. The Company’s additional basis allocated to depreciable assets is being recognized on a straight-line basis over the lives of the appropriate assets.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

The following table represents the unaudited condensed income statement for Brownmill for the periods indicated:

 

    For the Three Months Ended
September 30,
    For the Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
    2012     2011     2012     2011  
Revenue   $ 893     $ 922     $ 2,730     $ 2,860  
                                 
Property operating expenses     319       390       946       1,151  
Depreciation and amortization     216       213       651       610  
                                 
Operating income     358       319       1,133       1,099  
                                 
Interest expense and other, net     (295 )     (295 )     (885 )     (878 )
Net income   $ 63     $ 24     $ 248     $ 221  
Company's share of net income   $ 28     $ 7     $ 106     $ 74  
Additional depreciation and amortization expense (1)     (67 )     (32 )     (214 )     (169 )
Company's loss from investment   $ (39 )   $ (25 )   $ (108 )   $ (95 )

 

Note :

(2)      Additional depreciation and amortization expense relates to the amortization of the difference between the cost of the Company’s investment in Brownmill and the amount of the underlying equity in net assets of Brownmill.

 

The following table represents the condensed balance sheets for Brownmill as of the dates indicated:

 

    As of     As of  
    September 30, 2012     December 31, 2011  
             
Investment property, at cost (net)   $ 16,947     $ 17,500  
Cash and restricted cash     762       642  
Other assets     1,636       1,677  
Total assets   $ 19,345     $ 19,819  
                 
Mortgage payable   $ 21,270     $ 21,589  
Other liabilities     498       602  
Members' deficiency     (2,423 )     (2,372 )
Total liabilities and members' deficiency   $ 19,345     $ 19,819  

 

CP Boston Joint Venture

 

On March 21, 2011, the Company and its Sponsor’s other public program, Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc. (“Lightstone REIT I”), acquired, through LVP CP Boston Holdings, LLC (the “CP Boston Joint Venture) a 366-room, eight-story, full-service hotel and a 65,000 square foot water park located at 50 Ferncroft Road, Danvers, Massachusetts from WPH Boston, LLC, an unrelated third party, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $10.1 million, excluding closing and other related transaction costs. The Company and Lightstone REIT I had 20.0% and 80.0% joint venture ownership interests, respectively, in the CP Boston Joint Venture and the Company’s share of the aggregate purchase price was approximately $2.0 million. Additionally, in connection with the acquisition, the Company’s Advisor received an acquisition fee equal to 0.95% of the acquisition price, or approximately $19.

 

On February 20, 2012, the Company completed the disposition of its 20.0% joint venture ownership interest in the CP Boston Joint Venture with an effective date of January, 1, 2012, to subsidiaries of Lightstone REIT I, which now owns 100.0% of the CP Boston Joint Venture. Under the terms of the agreement, the Company received approximately $3.0 million in total consideration, consisting of approximately $0.6 million of cash and a $2.4 million unsecured 10.0% interest-bearing demand note (the “Lightstone REIT I Note”) from the operating partnership of Lightstone REIT I, which is reflected in Note Receivable from Affiliate in the consolidated balance sheet as of September 30, 2012. The Lightstone REIT I Note requires monthly interest payments. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 the Company recognized $60 and $180, respectively, of interest income on the Lightstone REIT I Note. Additionally, the Company received a principal paydown of $60 during the second quarter of 2012 and the outstanding balance of the Lightstone REIT I Note was $2,340 as of September 30, 2012.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

In connection with the disposition of its 20.0% joint venture ownership interest in the CP Boston Joint Venture, the Company recognized a gain on disposition of investment in unconsolidated affiliated entity of $0.7 million in its consolidated statements of operations during the first quarter of 2012.

 

The Company’s 20.0% joint venture ownership interest in the CP Boston Joint Venture was a non-managing interest, which it accounted for in accordance with the equity method of accounting from the date of acquisition through the date of disposition.

 

CP Boston Joint Venture Financial Information

 

The following table represents the unaudited condensed income statement for the CP Boston Joint Venture for the periods indicated:

 

    For the Three
Months Ended
September 30, 2011
    For the Period
March 21, 2011 through
September 30, 2011
 
Revenue   $ 3,604     $ 7,819  
                 
Property operating expenses     3,259       7,742  
Franchise cancellation expense     -       1,234  
Depreciation and amortization     144       288  
Operating income/(loss)     201       (1,445 )
Other income, net     8       6  
Net income/(loss)   $ 209     $ (1,439 )
       
Company's share of net income/(loss)   $ 42     $ (288 )

 

The following table represents the unaudited condensed balance sheet for the CP Boston Joint Venture as of December 31, 2011:

 

    As of  
    December 31, 2011  
         
Investment property, at cost (net)   $ 10,820  
Intangible assets     93  
Cash and restricted cash     1,754  
Other assets     997  
Total assets   $ 13,664  
         
Other liabilities   $ 2,692  
Members' capital     10,972  
Total liabilities and members' capital   $ 13,664  

 

Rego Park Joint Venture

 

On April 12, 2011, LVP Rego Park, LLC, (“the Rego Park Joint Venture”) a joint venture in which the Company and Lightstone REIT I have 10.0% and 90.0%, ownership interests, respectively, acquired a $19.5 million, nonrecourse second mortgage note (the “Second Mortgage Loan”) for approximately $15.1 million from Kelmar Company, LLC ( “Kelmar”), an unrelated third party. The purchase price reflected a discount of approximately $4.4 million to the outstanding principal balance. The Company’s share of the aggregate purchase price was approximately $1.5 million. The Company accounts for its investment in the Rego Park Joint Venture in accordance with the equity method of accounting. Additionally, in connection with the purchase, the Company’s Advisor received an acquisition fee equal to 0.95% of its portion of the acquisition price, or approximately $14. The Company’s portion of the acquisition was funded with cash.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

The Second Mortgage Loan was originated by Kelmar in May 2008 with an original principal balance of $19.5 million, is due May 31, 2013 and is collateralized by a 417 unit apartment complex located in Queens, New York. The Second Mortgage Loan bears interest at a fixed rate of 5.0% per annum with monthly interest only payments of approximately $0.1 million through maturity. The Second Mortgage Loan is current with respect to debt service payments. The Rego Park Joint Venture is accreting the discount using the effective interest rate method through maturity. During the nine months ended September 30, 2012, the Rego Park Joint Venture made aggregate distributions of $1,340 to its members, of which the Company’s share was $134.

 

Rego Park Joint Venture Financial Information

 

The following table represents the unaudited condensed income statement for the Rego Park Joint Venture for the periods indicated:

 

    For the
Three Months Ended
September 30, 2012
    For the
Three Months Ended
September 30, 2011
    For the
Nine Months Ended
September 30, 2012
    For the Period
April 12, 2011 through
September 30, 2011
 
                         
Operating expenses   $ -     $ -     $ 4     $ 202  
Operating loss     -       -       (4 )     (202 )
Interest income     813       717       2,363       1,329  
Net income   $ 813     $ 717     $ 2,359     $ 1,127  
Company's share of net income   $ 81     $ 72     $ 236     $ 113  

 

The following table represents the unaudited condensed balance sheets for the Rego Park Joint Venture as of the dates indicated:

 

    As of     As of  
    September 30, 2012     December 31, 2011  
             
Cash and restricted cash   $ 44     $ 656  
Mortgage note receivable, net     17,847       16,260  
Other assets     45       -  
Total assets   $ 17,936     $ 16,916  
                 
Other liabilities   $ 1     $ -  
Members' capital     17,935       16,916  
Total liabilities and members' capital   $ 17,936     $ 16,916  

 

5. Marketable Securities, Margin Loan and Fair Value Measurements

 

Marketable Securities

 

The following is a summary of the Company’s available for sale securities as of the dates indicated:

 

    As of September 30, 2012  
    Adjusted Cost     Gross Unrealized Gains     Gross Unrealized
Losses
    Fair Value  
Equity Securities   $ 7,915     $     -     $ (332 )   $ 7,583  

 

    As of December 31, 2011  
    Adjusted Cost     Gross Unrealized Gains     Gross Unrealized
Losses
    Fair Value  
Equity Securities   $ 7,915     $   -     $ (2,214 )   $ 5,701  

 

The Company has not sold nor otherwise disposed of any of its marketable securities during this period.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

In July 2011, the Company obtained access to a margin loan from a financial institution that holds custody of certain of the Company’s marketable securities. The margin loan, which is due on demand, bears interest at Libor plus 0.85% (1.06% as of September 30, 2012) and is collateralized by the marketable securities in the Company’s account. The amounts available to the Company under the margin loan are at the discretion of the financial institution and not limited to the amount of collateral in its account. The amount outstanding under this margin loan was $2.9 million and $3.3 million as of September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, respectively. Interest expense on the margin loan was $9 and $27 during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012, respectively, and $9 and $9 during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, respectively.

 

The Company considers the declines in market value of its investment portfolio to be temporary in nature. When evaluating the investments for other-than-temporary impairment, the Company reviews factors such as the length of time and extent to which fair value has been below cost basis, the financial condition of the issuer and any changes thereto, and the Company’s intent to sell, or whether it is more likely than not it will be required to sell, the investment before recovery of the investment’s amortized cost basis. During the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2011, the Company did not recognize any impairment charges. As of September 30, 2012, the Company does not consider any of its investments to be other-than-temporarily impaired.

 

Fair Value Measurements

 

Fair value is defined as the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants on the measurement date. Valuation techniques used to measure fair value must maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs.

 

The standard describes a fair value hierarchy based on three levels of inputs, of which the first two are considered observable and the last unobservable, that may be used to measure fair value:

 

Level 1 – Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

 

Level 2 – Inputs other than Level 1 that are observable, either directly or indirectly, such as quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities; quoted prices in markets that are not active; or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

 

Level 3 – Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities.

 

As of September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, all of the Company’s equity securities were classified as Level 1 assets and there were no transfers between the level classifications during the nine months ended September 30, 2012.

 

6. Mortgage Loan Receivable

 

On June 29, 2010, the Company purchased a fixed-rate of 5.916%, nonrecourse mortgage note (the “Loan”) from Citigroup Global Markets Realty Corp. (“CGMC”), an unrelated third party, for $7.9 million. The Loan was originated by the CGMC in August 2007 with an original principal balance of $18.7 million and is collateralized by a 141-room limited service hotel located in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The hotel is currently operating under a franchise agreement with Marriott as a Fairfield Inn. The Loan was scheduled to mature in September 2017 under its original term, and has been in default since February 2009.

 

The Company initially recorded the Loan as a mortgage loan receivable at $7.9 million, net of a discount of $10.8 million, on its consolidated balance sheet. As the Loan is in default, the Company is not accreting the discount.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

The borrower under the loan agreement is required to transfer any excess cash to the Company on a monthly basis. Prior to April 1, 2011, the Company, was applying the excess cash to required funding for taxes and insurance and other escrow related disbursements and any remaining cash was applied to outstanding principal and the excess, if any, was to be recognized as interest income (the cost recovery method of income recognition). On April 1, 2011, the Company determined that it was no longer probable that it would take ownership in the foreseeable future and stopped applying the cost recovery method and instead began to apply the cash receipts method of income recognition, whereby the Company will recognize any excess cash, after the required funding for taxes and insurance and other escrow related disbursements, as interest income until such time as the borrower is current on all amounts owed to the Company for interest and then any remaining cash will be applied to outstanding principal. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 the Company recognized interest income of $99 and $288, respectively, on the mortgage loan receivable. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, the Company recognized interest income of $351 and $602, respectively on the mortgage loan receivable.

 

7. Option Agreement to Acquire an Interest in Festival Bay Mall

 

On December 8, 2010, FB Orlando Acquisition Company, LLC (the “Owner”), a previously wholly owned entity of Lichtenstein acquired Festival Bay Mall (the “Property”) for cash consideration of approximately $25.0 million (the “Contract Price”) from BT Orlando LP, an unrelated third party seller. Ownership of the Owner was transferred to the A.S. Holdings LLC (“A.S. Holdings”), a wholly-owned entity of Lichtenstein, on June 26, 2011 (the “Transfer Date”) pursuant to the terms of a transfer and exchange agreement between various entities, including a qualified intermediary.

 

On March 4, 2011, the Company, through its Operating Partnership, entered into an agreement with A.S. Holdings, providing the Operating Partnership an option to acquire a membership interest of up to 10.0% in A.S. Holdings. The option was exercisable in whole or in part, up to two times, by the Operating Partnership at any time, but in no event later than June 30, 2012. The Company did not exercise its option, in whole or in part, and it expired on June 30, 2012.

 

8. Selling Commissions, Dealer Manager Fees and Other Offering Costs

 

Selling commissions and dealer manager fees are paid to the Dealer Manager, pursuant to various agreements, and other third-party offering expenses such as registration fees, due diligence fees, marketing costs, and professional fees are accounted for as a reduction against additional paid-in capital (“APIC”) as costs are incurred. Organizational costs are expensed as general and administrative costs. The following table represents the selling commissions and dealer manager and other offering costs for the periods indicated:

 

    For the Three Months Ended September 30,     For the Nine Months Ended September 30,  
    2012     2011     2012     2011  
Selling commissions and dealer manager fees   $ 121     $ 219     $ 631     $ 693  
Other offering costs   $ 453     $ 297     $ 1,014     $ 1,018  

 

Since the Company’s inception through September 30, 2012, it has incurred approximately $5.2 million in selling commissions and dealer manager fees and $5.5 million of other offering costs in connection with the public offering of shares of its common stock.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

9. Mortgages Payable

 

Mortgages payable consisted of the following:

 

        Weighted
Average
              Loan Amount Outstanding  
Description   Interest Rate   Interest Rate
as of
September 30,
2012
    Maturity
Date
  Amount Due
at Maturity
    As of
September 30,
2012
    As of
December 31,
2011
 
                                 
TownePlace Suites Mortgage, secured by TownePlace Suites Hotel located in Metairie, Louisiana   Libor plus 3.75%, subject to 6.00% floor     6.00 %   March 14, 2015   $ 5,663     $ 5,950     $       -  
                                         
SpringHill Suites Hotel Mortgage, secured by SpringHill Suites Hotel located in Peabody, Massachusetts   Libor plus 3.75%, subject to 5.75% floor     5.75 %   July 13, 2015     4,966       5,258       -  
                                         
          5.88 %               $ 11,208     $ -  

 

TownePlace Suites Mortgage

 

On March 14, 2012, the LVP Metairie JV obtained a mortgage (the ‘‘TownePlace Suites Mortgage’’) in the principal amount of $6.0 million from the Bank of the Ozarks. The TownePlace Suites Mortgage has an initial term of 3 years with an initial maturity date of March 14, 2015, bears interest at a floating rate of Libor plus 3.75%, subject to a 6.00% floor, and requires monthly principal and interest payments through its stated maturity. The monthly principal payment resets each month based on the outstanding principal balance and the current interest rate pursuant to a 25-year amortization schedule less the number of payments made.

 

In connection with the financing, the LVP Metairie JV paid loan fees and expenses totaling approximately $0.2 million, which are being amortized into interest expense in accordance with the effective interest method over the initial term of the TownePlace Suites Mortgage. Subject to certain conditions, the Mortgage provides for two, one-year extension periods, at the borrowers option, that require the payment of an extension fee of 0.25% of the then outstanding principal balance. The TownePlace Suites Mortgage is secured by the TownePlace Suites Hotel and the Company has provided a guaranty to the lender for non-recourse carve-outs.

 

SpringHill Suites Mortgage

 

On July 13, 2012, the LVP SHS obtained a mortgage (the ‘‘SpringHill Suites Mortgage’’) in the principal amount of $5.3 million from the Bank of the Ozarks. The SpringHill Suites Mortgage has an initial term of 3 years with an initial maturity date of July 13, 2015, bears interest at a floating rate of Libor plus 3.75%, subject to a 5.75% floor, and requires monthly principal and interest payments through its stated maturity. The monthly principal payment resets each month based on the outstanding principal balance and the current interest rate pursuant to a 25-year amortization schedule less the number of payments made.

 

In connection with the financing, the LVP SHS paid loan fees and expenses totaling approximately $0.1 million, which are being amortized into interest expense in accordance with the effective interest method over the initial term of the SpringHill Suites Mortgage, and approximately $3.5 million of the loan proceeds were placed in an escrow for the PIP and the Termination Fee, which was subsequently repaid (see Note 3). Subject to certain conditions, the SpringHill Suites Mortgage provides for two, one-year extension periods, at the borrowers option, that require the payment of an extension fee of 0.25% of the then outstanding principal balance. The SpringHill Suites Mortgage is secured by the SpringHill Suites Hotel and the Company has provided a guaranty to the lender for non-recourse carve-outs and also provided a full recourse guaranty through the date the Franchise Agreement became effective, at which time the recourse guaranty was reduced to 50.0% of the SpringHill Suites Mortgage. Additionally, the SpringHill Suites Mortgage provides for an additional single loan advance of up to $1.0 million no later than six months prior to July 13, 2015, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including completion of the PIP and achievement of a debt service coverage ratio of at least 1.75.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

Principal Maturities

 

The following table, based on the initial terms of the mortgages, sets forth their aggregate estimated contractual principal maturities, including balloon payments due at maturity, as of September 30, 2012:

 

    Remainder of 2012     2013     2014     2015     Total  
Principal maturities   $ 51     $ 210     $ 223     $ 10,724     $ 11,208  

 

Libor as of September 30, 2012 was 0.21%. As of September 30, 2012, the estimated fair value of the mortgages payable approximated its carrying value.

 

Debt Compliance

 

Pursuant to the Company’s debt agreements, approximately $2.7 million was held in restricted escrow accounts as of September 30, 2012. Such escrows are subject to release in accordance with the applicable debt agreement for the payment of real estate taxes, insurance and capital improvements, as required. Certain of our debt agreements also contain clauses providing for prepayment penalties and require the maintenance of certain ratios, including debt service coverage. The Company is currently in compliance with respect to all of its debt covenants.

 

10. Earnings per Share

 

The Company had no potentially dilutive securities outstanding during the periods presented. Accordingly, earnings per share is calculated by dividing net income/(loss) attributable to common shareholders by the weighted-average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the applicable period.

 

11. Related Party Transactions

 

In addition to certain related party payments made to the Dealer Manager (see Note 8 for additional information), the Company also has agreements with the Advisor and Lightstone Value Plus REIT Management LLC (the “Property Manager”) to pay certain fees in exchange for services performed by these entities and other affiliated entities. The Company’s ability to secure financing and subsequent real estate operations are dependent upon its Advisor, Property Manager and their affiliates to perform such services as provided in these agreements.

 

The following table represents the fees incurred associated with the payments to the Company’s Advisor and Property Manager for the periods indicated:

 

    For the Three Months Ended September 30,     For the Nine Months Ended September 30,  
    2012     2011     2012     2011  
Acquisition fees   $ 85     $ -     $ 85     $ 141  
Asset management fees     95       71       240       194  
Total   $ 180     $ 71     $ 325     $ 335  

 

As of both September 30, 2012 and December 31, 2011, $0.1 million was due to the Company’s Sponsor for unpaid asset management fees. As of September 30, 2012, the Company owns a 45.1% membership interest in Brownmill and a 10.0% interest in the Rego Park Joint Venture. Affiliates of the Company’s Sponsor are the majority owners and managers of these entities. Additionally, as of September 30, 2012 the Company has a $2.3 million remaining outstanding balance on the Lightstone REIT I Note it received in connection with the sale of its 20.0% joint venture ownership interest in the CP Boston Joint Venture, effective January 1, 2012. See Note 4 for additional information.

 

12. Financial Instruments

 

The carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents, restricted escrows, accounts receivable (included in other assets in the consolidated balance sheet), note receivable from affiliate, accounts payable and accrued expenses, and the margin loan approximated their fair values as of September 30, 2012 because of the short maturity of these instruments. The estimated fair value of the mortgage loan receivable was approximated $11.8 million as of September 30, 2012 based upon current market information that would have been used by a market participant to estimate the fair value of such loan.

 

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Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

(Dollar amounts in thousands, except per share/unit data and where indicated in millions) (Unaudited)

 

13. Commitments and Contingencies

 

Legal Proceedings

 

From time to time in the ordinary course of business, the Company may become subject to legal proceedings, claims or disputes.

 

On July 13, 2011, JF Capital Advisors, filed a lawsuit against The Lightstone Group, LLC, the Company, and Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc. in the Supreme Court of the State of New York seeking payment for services alleged to have been rendered, and to be rendered prospectively, under theories of unjust enrichment and breach of contract. The plaintiff had a limited business arrangement with The Lightstone Group, LLC; that arrangement has been terminated. We filed a motion to dismiss the action and, on January 31, 2012, the Supreme Court dismissed the complaint in its entirety, but granted the plaintiff leave to replead two limited causes of action.

 

The plaintiff filed an amended complaint on May 18, 2012, bringing limited claims under theories of unjust enrichment and quantum meruit. We continue to believe these claims to be without merit and will defend the case vigorously, and anticipate filing another motion to dismiss shortly.

 

While any proceeding or litigation has an element of uncertainty, management currently believes that the likelihood of an unfavorable outcome with respect to the aforementioned legal proceeding is remote. No provision for loss has been recorded in connection therewith.

 

14. Subsequent Events

 

Distribution Payment

 

On October 15, 2012, the total distribution for the three-month period ending September 30, 2012 of approximately $846 was paid in full using a combination of cash and approximately 41,000 shares of the Company’s common stock issued pursuant to the Company’s DRIP, at a discounted price of $9.50 per share. The distribution was paid from offering proceeds (approximately $185 or 22%), cash flows provided from operations (approximately $268 or 32%) and excess cash proceeds from the issuance of common stock through REIT II's DRIP (approximately $393 or 46%).

 

Distribution Declaration

 

On November 9, 2012, the Board of Directors authorized and the Company declared a distribution for the three-month period ending December 31, 2012. The distribution will be calculated based on shareholders of record each day during this three-month period at a rate of $0.00178082191 per day, and will equal a daily amount that, if paid each day for a 365-day period, would equal a 6.5% annualized rate based on a share price of $10.00. The distribution will be paid in cash on January 15, 2013 to shareholders of record as of December 31, 2012. The shareholders have an option to elect the receipt of shares under our DRIP.

 

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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION, CONTINUED:

 

ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS.

 

The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the accompanying consolidated financial statements of Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc. and Subsidiaries and the notes thereto. As used herein, the terms “we,” “our” and “us” refer to Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc., a Maryland corporation, and, as required by context, Lightstone Value Plus REIT, L.P. and its wholly owned subsidiaries, which we collectively refer to as the “Operating Partnership”. Dollar amounts are presented in thousands, except per share data and where indicated in millions.

 

Forward-Looking Statements

 

Certain information included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains, and other materials filed or to be filed by us with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), contain or will contain, forward-looking statements. All statements, other than statements of historical facts, including, among others, statements regarding our possible or assumed future results of our business, financial condition, liquidity, results of operations, plans and objectives, are forward-looking statements. Those statements include statements regarding the intent, belief or current expectations of Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc. and members of our management team, as well as the assumptions on which such statements are based, and generally are identified by the use of words such as “may,” “will,” “seeks,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects,” “plans,” “intends,” “should” or similar expressions. Forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties that actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by such forward-looking statements.

 

Such statements are based on assumptions and expectations which may not be realized and are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which cannot be predicted with accuracy and some of which might not even be anticipated. Future events and actual results, financial and otherwise, may differ from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements.

 

Risks and other factors that might cause differences, some of which could be material, include, but are not limited to, economic and market conditions, competition, tenant or joint venture partner(s) bankruptcies, our lack of operating history, the availability of cash flows from operations to pay distributions, changes in governmental, tax, real estate and zoning laws and regulations, failure to increase tenant occupancy and operating income, rejection of leases by tenants in bankruptcy, financing and development risks, construction and lease-up delays, cost overruns, the level and volatility of interest rates, the rate of revenue increases versus expense increases, the financial stability of various tenants and industries, the failure of the Company to make additional investments in real estate properties, the failure to upgrade our tenant mix, restrictions in current financing arrangements, the failure to fully recover tenant obligations for common area maintenance, insurance, taxes and other property expenses, the failure of the Company to continue to qualify as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”), the failure to refinance debt at favorable terms and conditions, an increase in impairment charges, loss of key personnel, failure to achieve earnings/funds from operations targets or estimates, conflicts of interest with the Advisor and the Sponsor and their affiliates, failure of joint venture relationships, significant costs related to environmental issues as well as other risks listed from time to time in this Form 10-Q, our Form 10-K, our Registration Statements on Form S-11, as the same may be amended and supplemented from time to time, and in the Company’s other reports filed with the SEC.

 

We believe these forward-looking statements are reasonable; however, undue reliance should not be placed on any forward-looking statements, which are based on current expectations. All written and oral forward-looking statements attributable to us, or persons acting on our behalf, are qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements. Further, forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise forward-looking statements to reflect changed assumptions, the occurrence of unanticipated events or changes to future operating results over time unless required by law.

 

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Overview

 

Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc. (the “Lightstone REIT II”) and Lightstone Value Plus REIT II, LP, (the “Operating Partnership”) and its subsidiaries are collectively referred to as the ‘‘Company’’ and the use of ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘our,’’ ‘‘us’’ or similar pronouns refers to the Lightstone REIT II, its Operating Partnership or the Company as required by the context in which such pronoun is used.

 

Lightstone REIT II intends to continue to acquire and operate commercial, residential and hospitality properties, principally in North America. Principally through the Operating Partnership, our future acquisitions may include both portfolios and individual properties. We expect that our commercial holdings will consist of retail (primarily multi-tenanted shopping centers), lodging, industrial and office properties and that our residential properties located either in or near major metropolitan areas.

 

Capital required for the future purchases of real estate and/or real estate related investments is expected to be obtained from public offerings of shares of our common stock and from any indebtedness that we may incur either in connection with the acquisition of any real estate and real estate related investments or thereafter. We are dependent upon the net proceeds from public offerings of our common stock to conduct our proposed activities.

 

The Company’s registration statement on Form S-11, pursuant to which it offered to sell a maximum of 51,000,000 shares of its common stock (exclusive of 6,500,000 shares which were available pursuant to its distribution reinvestment plan (the “DRIP”), and 255,000 shares which were reserved for issuance under its Employee and Director Incentive Restricted Share Plan ), at a price of $10.00 per share (subject to certain volume discounts), was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Securities Act of 1933 on February 17, 2009, and on April 24, 2009 the Company commenced its initial public offering of common stock (the “Offering”). The Offering terminated on August 15, 2012.

 

The Company has filed a registration statement on Form S-11 (the “Follow-On Offering”), pursuant to which it is offering to sell a maximum of 30,000,000 shares of its common stock (exclusive of 6,500,000 shares available pursuant to its DRIP) and 255,000 shares reserved for issuance under the its Employee and Director Incentive Restricted Share Plan ), at a price of $10.00 per share (subject to certain volume discounts). The Follow-On Offering was declared effective by SEC under the Securities Act of 1933 on September 27, 2012.

 

We do not have employees. We entered into an advisory agreement, dated February 17, 2009, with Lightstone Value Plus REIT II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, which we refer to as the “Advisor,” pursuant to which the Advisor supervises and manages our day-to-day operations and selects our real estate and real estate related investments, subject to oversight by our board of directors. We pay the Advisor fees for services related to the investment and management of our assets, and we will reimburse the Advisor for certain expenses incurred on our behalf.

 

Current Environment

 

Our operating results as well as our investment opportunities are impacted by the health of the North American economies.  Our business and financial performance may be adversely affected by current and future economic conditions, such as availability of credit, financial markets volatility, and recession.

 

U.S. and global credit and equity markets have undergone significant volatility and disruption over the last several years, making it difficult for many businesses to obtain financing on acceptable terms or at all.  As a result of this disruption, in general there has been an increase in costs associated with borrowings and refinancing as well as limited availability of funds for borrowings and refinancing. If these conditions continue or worsen, our cost of borrowings may increase and it may be more difficult to finance investment opportunities in the short term.

 

We are not aware of any other material trends or uncertainties, favorable or unfavorable, other than national economic conditions affecting real estate generally, that may be reasonably anticipated to have a material impact on either capital resources or the revenues or income to be derived from the acquisition and operation of real estate and real estate related investments, other than those referred to in this Form 10-Q.

 

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Portfolio Summary –

 

Retail   Location   Year Built     Leasable
Square Feet
    Percentage Occupied
as of September 30,
2012
    Annualized Base Rent
as of September 30,
2012
    Annualized Based
Rents per
Square Foot as of
September 30, 2012
 
                                (not in thousands)  
Unconsolidated Affiliated Real Estate Entity:                                            
Brownmill LLC (2 retail properties)   Old Bridge and Vauxhall, New Jersey     1962       156,046       86 %      $2.7 million     $ 17.04  

 

 

Hospitality   Location   Year Built     Year to Date
Available
Rooms
    Percentage Occupied
for the Nine Months
Ended September 30,
2012
    Revenue per Available
Room ("RevPAR")
for the Nine Months
Ended September 30,
2012
 
                          (not in thousands)  
Consolidated Hospitality Properties:                                    
Towne Place Suites   Harahan, Louisiana     2000       33,976       79 %   $ 84  
                                     
SpringHill Suites   Peabody, Massachusetts     2002       15,088       82 %   $ 86  
                                     
Total Hospitality Properties               49,064   80 %    

 

Annualized base rent is defined as the minimum monthly base rent due as of September 30, 2012 annualized, excluding periodic contractual fixed increases and rents calculated based on a percentage of tenants’ sales. The annualized base rent disclosed in the table above includes all concessions, abatements and reimbursements of rent to tenants.

 

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

 

There were no material changes during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 to our critical accounting policies as reported in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011.

 

Results of Operations

 

The Company’s primary financial measure for evaluating its properties is net operating income (“NOI”). NOI represents revenues less property operating expenses, real estate taxes and general and administrative expenses. The Company believes that NOI is helpful to investors as a supplemental measure of the operating performance of a real estate company because it is a direct measure of the actual operating results of the Company’s properties.

 

For the periods presented, the Company’s consolidated operating properties included the TownePlace Suites Hotel, which was acquired on January 19, 2011, and the SpringHill Suites Hotel, which was acquired on July 13, 2012. See Note 3 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.

 

For the Three Months Ended September 30, 2012 vs. September 30, 2011

 

Consolidated

 

Rental revenue

 

Rental revenue increased by $1,460 to $2,116 during the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $656 for the same period in 2011. The increase consists of (i) $1,180 attributable to the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites Hotel and (ii) $280 for the TownePlace Suites Hotel which reflects higher RevPAR and occupancy during the 2012 period.

 

Property operating expenses

 

Property operating expenses increased by $852 to $1,221 during the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $369 for the same period in 2011. The increase is primarily attributable to the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites Hotel.

 

Real estate taxes

 

Real estate taxes increased by $47 to $79 during the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $32 for the same period in 2011. The increase is primarily attributable to the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites Hotel.

 

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General and administrative expenses

 

General and administrative expenses increased by $166 to $412 during the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $246 for the same period in 2011. The increase is primarily attributable to higher acquisition related costs in the 2012 period.

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

Depreciation and amortization expense increased by $106 to $188 during the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $82 for the same period in 2011. The increase is primarily attributable to the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites Hotel.

 

Interest and dividend income

 

Interest and dividend income decreased by $191 to $324 during the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $515 for the same period in 2011. The 2012 amount includes (i) $60 of interest on the note receivable from affiliate we received in connection with the disposition of our 20.0% joint venture ownership interest in LVP CP Boston Holdings, LLC (the “CP Boston Joint Venture”), effective January 1, 2012, (ii) $164 of dividend income earned on our investments in marketable securities, (iii) $99 of interest income on our mortgage loan receivable and (iv) $1 of interest on our cash and cash equivalents. The 2011 amount consisted of (i) $164 of dividend income on our investments in marketable securities, (ii) $351 of interest income on our mortgage loan receivable and (iii) $1 of interest on our cash and cash equivalents.

 

Income/(loss) from investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities

 

Our income from investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities during the three months ended September 30, 2012 was $42 compared to $89 for the same period in 2011. Our earnings from investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities are attributable to our investments in (i) Brownmill (45.1% and 34.4% ownership interests during the 2012 and 2011 periods, respectively), (ii) the CP Boston Joint Venture (20.0% ownership interest acquired on March 21, 2011 and disposed of effective January 1, 2012) and (iii) LVP Rego Park LLC (10.0% interest acquired on April 12, 2011). We account or accounted for our ownership interests in these unconsolidated affiliated entities under the equity method of accounting commencing with their respective date of acquisition through their respective date of disposition, if applicable. See Note 4 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.

 

Interest expense

 

Interest expense was $164 during the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $9 for the same period in 2011. Interest expense during the 2012 period consists of $156 and $8 related to our mortgage indebtedness and our margin loan, respectively. Interest expense during the 2011 period consisted of $9 related to our margin loan as we did not have any mortgage indebtedness during the 2011 period.

 

Other (expense)/income, net

 

Other expense, net was $90 during the three months ended September 30, 2012 compared to other income, net of $4 for the same period in 2011.

 

Bargain purchase gain

 

On July 13, 2102, we completed the acquisition of the Springhill Suites Hotel. In connection with the acquisition, we recognized a bargain purchase gain of $3,500 in our consolidated statements of operations during the third quarter of 2012. The gain represents the amount by which the estimated fair value of the assets acquired of $13.6 million exceeded our aggregate cost of $10.1 million. See Note 3 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.

 

Noncontrolling interests

 

The income or loss allocated to noncontrolling interests relates to (i) the interest in our Operating Partnership held by our Sponsor and (ii) membership interests held by others in the TownePlace Suites Hotel.

 

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For the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012 vs. September 30, 2011

 

Consolidated

 

Rental revenue

 

Rental revenue increased by $1,741 to $4,025 during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $2,284 for the same period in 2011. The increase consists of (i) $561 for the TownePlace Suites Hotel, which reflects the timing of the acquisition and higher RevPAR and occupancy during the 2012 period, and (ii) $1,180 attributable to the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites Hotel.

 

Property operating expenses

 

Property operating expenses increased by $972 to $2,085 during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $1,113 for the same period in 2011. The increase consists of (i) $273 for the TownePlace Suites Hotel, which reflects the timing of the acquisition and increased occupancy during the 2012 period, and (ii) $780 attributable to the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites Hotel.

 

Real estate taxes

 

Real estate taxes increased by $78 to $169 during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $91 for the same period in 2011. The increase is primarily attributable to the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites Hotel.

 

General and administrative expenses

 

General and administrative expenses decreased slightly by $80 to $1,205 during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $1,285 for the same period in 2011.

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

Depreciation and amortization expense increased by $153 to $372 during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $219 for the same period in 2011. The increase is primarily attributable to the timing of the acquisition of the TownePlace Suite Hotel and the acquisition of the SpringHill Suites Hotel.

 

Interest and dividend income

 

Interest and dividend income increased by $185 to $964 during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $779 for the same period in 2011. The 2012 amount consists of (i) $180 of interest on the note receivable from affiliate we received in connection with the disposition of our 20.0% joint venture ownership interest in the CP Boston Joint Venture effective January 1, 2012, (ii) $494 of dividend income earned on our investments in marketable securities, which were acquired in July 2011, (iii) $288 of interest income on our mortgage loan receivable and (iv) $2 of interest on our cash and cash equivalents. The 2011 amount consisted of (i) $164 of dividend income owned on our investments in marketable securities, (ii) $602 of interest income on our mortgage loan receivable and (iii) $13 of interest on our cash and cash equivalents.

 

Gain on disposition of unconsolidated affiliated entity

 

On February 20, 2012, we completed the disposition of our 20.0% joint venture ownership interest in the CP Boston Joint Venture with an effective date of January, 1, 2012, to subsidiaries of Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment, Inc. (“Lightstone REIT I”), our Sponsor’s other public program, which now owns 100.0% of the CP Boston Joint Venture. In connection with the disposition, we recognized a gain on disposition of investment in unconsolidated affiliated entity of $741 in our consolidated statements of operations during the first quarter of 2012. See Note 4 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

Bargain purchase gain

 

On July 13, 2102, we completed the acquisition of the Springhill Suites Hotel. In connection with the acquisition, we recognized a bargain purchase gain of $3,500 in our consolidated statements of operations during the third quarter of 2012. The gain represents the amount by which the estimated fair value of the assets acquired of $13.6 million exceeded our aggregate cost of $10.1 million. See Note 3 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements.

 

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Income/(loss) from investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities

 

Our income from investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 was $128 compared to a loss of $270 for the same period in 2011. Our income/(loss) from investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities is attributable to our investments in (i) Brownmill (40.0%, 45.1% and 45.1% ownership interest during the first, second and third quarters of 2012, respectively, and 34.4% ownership interest during the entire 2011 period), (ii) the CP Boston Joint Venture (20.0% ownership interest acquired on March 21, 2011 and disposed of effective January 1, 2012) and (iii) LVP Rego Park LLC (10.0% interest acquired on April 12, 2011). We account or accounted for our ownership interests in these unconsolidated affiliated entities under the equity method of accounting commencing with their respective date of acquisition through their respective date of disposition, if applicable. See Note 4 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.

 

Interest expense

 

Interest expense was $311 during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared to $9 for the same period in 2011. Interest expense in the 2012 period consists of $284 and $27 related to our mortgage indebtedness and our margin loan, respectively. Interest expense during the 2011 period consisted of $9 related to our margin loan as we did not have any mortgage indebtedness during the 2011 period.

 

Other (expense)/income, net

 

Other expense, net was $79 during the nine months ended September 30, 2012 compared other income, net of $12 for the same period in 2011.

 

Noncontrolling interests

 

The income or loss allocated to noncontrolling interests relates to (i) the interest in our Operating Partnership held by our Sponsor and (ii) membership interests held by others in the TownePlace Suites Hotel.

 

Financial Condition, Liquidity and Capital Resources

 

Overview:

 

For the nine months ended September 30, 2012, our primary sources of funds were $4.5 million of net proceeds from the sale of shares of common stock under our Offering and $11.0 million of aggregate net mortgage financing proceeds related to our TownePlace Suites Hotel and SpringHill Suites Hotel. We are dependent upon future net proceeds expected to be received from our public offerings to conduct our proposed activities. The capital required to purchase real estate investments is expected to be obtained from our public offerings and from any indebtedness that we may incur in either in connection with the acquisition or the operations of any real estate investments thereafter.

 

We have and intend to continue to utilize leverage either in connection with acquiring our properties or subsequent to their acquisition. The number of different properties we will acquire will be affected by numerous factors, including, the amount of funds available to us. When interest rates on mortgage loans are high or financing is otherwise unavailable on terms that are satisfactory to us or within a timeframe that is acceptable to us, we may purchase certain properties for cash with the intention of obtaining a mortgage loan at a later time.

 

Our future sources of funds will primarily be (i) the net proceeds from our public offerings, (ii) our operating cash flows, (iii) the repayment of the note receivable from affiliate, (iv) our borrowings and (v) funds held in restricted escrows. We currently believe that these resources will be sufficient to satisfy our cash requirements for the foreseeable future, and we do not anticipate a need to raise funds from other than these sources within the next twelve months.

 

We currently have mortgage indebtedness totaling $11.2 million and a margin loan of $2.9 million. We have and intend to continue to limit our aggregate long-term permanent borrowings to 75% of the aggregate fair market value of all properties unless any excess borrowing is approved by a majority of our independent directors and is disclosed to our stockholders. Market conditions will dictate the overall leverage limit; as such our aggregate long-term permanent borrowings may be less than 75% of aggregate fair market value of all properties. We may also incur short-term indebtedness, having a maturity of two years or less.

 

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Our charter provides that the aggregate amount of borrowing, both secured and unsecured, may not exceed 300% of net assets in the absence of a satisfactory showing that a higher level is appropriate, the approval of our Board of Directors and disclosure to stockholders. Net assets means our total assets, other than intangibles, at cost before deducting depreciation or other non-cash reserves less our total liabilities, calculated at least quarterly on a basis consistently applied. Any excess in borrowing over such 300% of net assets level must be approved by a majority of our independent directors and disclosed to our stockholders in our next quarterly report to stockholders, along with justification for such excess. Market conditions will dictate the overall leverage limit; as such our aggregate borrowings may be less than 300% of net assets. As of September 30, 2012, our total borrowings aggregated $14.1 million which represented 32% of our net assets.

 

Our future borrowings may consist of single-property mortgages as well as mortgages cross-collateralized by a pool of properties. Such mortgages may be put in place either at the time we acquire a property or subsequent to our purchasing a property for cash. In addition, we may acquire properties that are subject to existing indebtedness where we choose to assume the existing mortgages. Generally, though not exclusively, we intend to seek to encumber our properties with debt, which will be on a non-recourse basis. This means that a lender’s rights on default will generally be limited to foreclosing on the property. However, we may, at our discretion, secure recourse financing or provide a guarantee to lenders if we believe this may result in more favorable terms. When we give a guaranty for a property owning entity, we will be responsible to the lender for the satisfaction of the indebtedness if it is not paid by the property owning entity.

 

In general the types of future financing executed by us to a large extent will be dictated by the nature of the investment and current market conditions. For long-term real estate investments, it is our intent to finance future acquisitions using long-term fixed rate debt. However there may certain types of investments and market circumstances which may result in variable rate debt being the more appropriate choice of financing. To the extent floating rate debt is used to finance the purchase of real estate, management will evaluate a number of protections against significant increases in interest rates, including the purchase of interest rate caps instruments.

 

We may also obtain lines of credit to be used to acquire properties. If obtained, these lines of credit will be at prevailing market terms and will be repaid from offering proceeds, proceeds from the sale or refinancing of properties, working capital and/or permanent financing. Our Sponsor and/or its affiliates may guarantee our lines of credit although they are not obligated to do so. We may draw upon lines of credit to acquire properties pending our receipt of proceeds from our offerings. We expect that such properties may be purchased by our Sponsor’s affiliates on our behalf, in our name, in order to minimize the imposition of a transfer tax upon a transfer of such properties to us.

 

Additionally, in order to leverage our investments in marketable securities and seek a higher rate of return, we borrowed using a margin loan collateralized by the securities held with the financial institution that provided the margin loan. This loan is due on demand and will be paid upon the liquidation of securities.

 

In addition to making investments in accordance with our investment objectives, we expect to use our capital resources to make certain payments to our Advisor, our Dealer Manager, and our Property Manager during the various phases of our organization and operation. During our organizational and offering stage, these payments include payments to our Dealer Manager for selling commissions and the dealer manager fee, and payments to our Advisor for the reimbursement of organizational and other offering costs. During our acquisition and development stage, these payments will include asset acquisition fees and asset management fees, and the reimbursement of acquisition related expenses to our Advisor. During our operational stage, we will pay our Property Manager a property management fee and our Advisor an asset management fee. We will also reimburse our Advisor and its affiliates for actual expenses it incurs for administrative and other services provided to us. Additionally, the Operating Partnership may be required to make distributions to Lightstone SLP II LLC, an affiliate of the Advisor.

 

The following table represents the fees incurred associated with the payments to our Advisor and our Property Manager:

 

    For the Three Months Ended September 30,     For the Nine Months Ended September 30,  
    2012     2011     2012     2011  
Acquisition fees   $ 85     $ -     $ 85     $ 141  
Asset management fees     95       71       240       194  
Total   $ 180     $ 71     $ 325     $ 335  

 

In addition, total selling commissions and dealer manager fees incurred were $121 and $631 during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2012 , respectively, and $219 and $693 during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2011, respectively.

 

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Summary of Cash Flows

 

The following summary discussion of our cash flows is based on the consolidated statements of cash flows and is not meant to be an all-inclusive discussion of the changes in our cash flows for the periods presented below:

 

    For the Nine Months Ended September 30,  
    2012     2011  
             
Net cash provided by operating activities   $ 853     $ 1,095  
Net cash used in investing activities     (11,910 )     (20,551 )
Net cash provided by financing activities     13,117       5,687  
Net change in cash and cash equivalents     2,060       (13,769 )
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of the period     5,114       18,177  
Cash and cash equivalents, end of the period   $ 7,174     $ 4,408  

 

Our principal sources of cash flow were derived from net offering proceeds received and proceeds from mortgage financings. In the future, we expect to continue to acquire properties which should provide a relatively consistent stream of cash flow to provide us with resources to fund our operating expenses, scheduled debt service and any quarterly distributions authorized by our Board of Directors.

 

Our principal demands for liquidity currently are acquisition and development activities, including a required property improvement plan (the “PIP”) for our SpringHill Suites Hotel, which is currently expected to be completed by the end of the second quarter of 2013, scheduled debt service on our mortgages payable and costs associated with our public offerings. The principal sources of funding for our operations are currently the issuance of equity securities. The principal source of funding for the PIP is our restricted escrows. Additionally, we have a demand note receivable received from Lightstone REIT I in connection with the sale of our 20.0% joint venture ownership interest in the CP Boston Joint Venture with an outstanding balance of $2.3 million as of September 30, 2012. Furthermore, the mortgage on our SpringHill Suites Hotel provides for an additional single loan advance of up to $1.0 million no later than six months prior to July 13, 2015, subject to the satisfaction of certain conditions, including completion of the PIP and achievement of a debt service coverage ratio of at least 1.75. We currently do not expect the advance to be funded in the foreseeable future.

 

Operating activities

 

The net cash provided by operating activities of $0.9 million during the 2012 period primarily related to our net income of $5.1 million less (i) a nonrecurring third quarter bargain purchase gain of approximately $3.5 million related to our acquisition of the SpringHill Suites Hotel and (ii) a nonrecurring first quarter gain on disposition of approximately $0.7 million related to the disposition of our 20.0% joint venture ownership interest in the CP Boston Join Venture.

 

Investing activities

 

The net cash used in investing activities of $11.9 million during the 2012 period reflects (i) an aggregate of $10.1 million related to the acquisition of the Springhill Suites Hotel, including a restricted escrow of approximately $0.8 million and (ii) the placement in restricted escrows of approximately $2.7 million, including $2.4 million for the PIP (see Note 3 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information), partially offset by (i) $0.6 million of aggregate cash proceeds received from Lightstone I related to the disposition of our 20.0% joint venture ownership interest in the CP Boston Joint Venture and (ii) $0.3 million of aggregate distributions received from our investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities.

 

Financing activities

 

The net cash provided by financing activities of $13.1 million during the 2012 period primarily consists of (i) proceeds from the issuance of our common stock of $6.3 million and (ii) net mortgage financing proceeds totaling $11.0 million on our TownePlace Suites Hotel and SpringHill Suites Hotel partially offset by (i) the payment of selling commissions, dealer manager fees and other offering costs of $1.8 million, (ii) distributions to common stockholders of $1.2 million, (iii) distributions to noncontrolling interests of $0.3 million, (iv) redemptions and cancellations of shares of common stock of $0.4 million and (v) paydowns on our margin loan of $0.5 million.

 

We believe that these cash resources will be sufficient to satisfy our cash requirements for the foreseeable future, and we do not anticipate a need to raise funds from other than these sources within the next twelve months.

 

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Distribution Reinvestment Plan and Share Repurchase Program

 

Our DRIP provides our stockholders with an opportunity to purchase additional shares of our common stock at a discount by reinvesting distributions. As of September 30, 2012, we had 2,500,000 shares available for issuance under our DRIP and our DRIP price per share of common stock is $9.50. Our share repurchase program may provide our stockholders with limited, interim liquidity by enabling them to sell their shares of common stock back to us, subject to certain restrictions. From our inception through December 31, 2009, we did not receive any requests to repurchase shares under our share repurchase program. For the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, we received requests to redeem 48,154 and 2,675 shares of common stock, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 we received requests to repurchase 39,615 shares of common stock, pursuant to our share repurchase program. We repurchased 100% of the repurchase requests at an average price per share of $9.00 per share. We funded share redemptions for the periods noted above from the cumulative proceeds of the sale of our shares pursuant to our DRIP.

 

Our Board of Directors reserves the right to terminate either program for any reason without cause by providing written notice of termination of the DRIP to all participants or written notice of termination of the share repurchase program to all stockholders.

 

Contractual Obligations

 

The following is a summary of our estimated contractual obligations outstanding over the next five years and thereafter as of September 30, 2012.

 

    Remainder of                                      
Contractual Obligations   2012     2013     2014     2015     2016     Thereafter     Total  
Principal maturities (1)   $ 51     $ 210     $ 223     $ 10,724     $ -     $ -     $ 11,208  
Interest payments (2)     166       660       647       272       -       -       1,745  
Total   $ 217     $ 870     $ 870     $ 10,996     $ -     $ -     $ 12,953  

 

Notes:

(1) Our mortgages payable both provide for monthly principal payments during their initial terms. Their respective monthly principal payments reset each month based on their respective outstanding principal balance and their current interest rate pursuant to 25-year amortization schedules less the number of respective payments made. These amounts represent future estimated principal payments based on the respective floor interest rates, which were in effect as of September 30, 2012 for both of our mortgages payable.
(2) Our mortgages payable bear interest at Libor plus 3.75%, subject to floor rates. These amounts represent estimated future interest payments based on the applicable floor rates, which were in effect as of September 30, 2012.

 

In addition to the mortgages payable described above, in July 2011, we obtained access to and used a margin loan that was made available to us from a financial institution that holds custody of certain of our marketable securities. The margin loan is collateralized by the marketable securities in our account. The amounts available to us under the margin loan are at the discretion of the financial institution and not limited to the amount of collateral in our account. The amount outstanding under this margin loan was $2.9 million as of September 30, 2012 and is due on demand. The margin loan bears interest at Libor plus 0.85% (1.06% as of September 30, 2012).

 

Funds from Operations and Modified Funds from Operations

 

Due to certain unique operating characteristics of real estate companies, as discussed below, the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, Inc., or NAREIT, an industry trade group, has promulgated a measure known as funds from operations, or FFO, which we believe to be an appropriate supplemental measure to reflect the operating performance of a REIT. The use of FFO is recommended by the REIT industry as a supplemental performance measure. FFO is not equivalent to net income or loss as determined under generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, or GAAP.

 

We define FFO, a non-GAAP measure, consistent with the standards established by the White Paper on FFO approved by the Board of Governors of NAREIT, as revised in February 2004, or the White Paper. The White Paper defines FFO as net income or loss computed in accordance with GAAP, excluding gains or losses from sales of property and asset impairment write-downs, plus depreciation and amortization, and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures. Adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures are calculated to reflect FFO. Our FFO calculation complies with NAREIT’s policy described above.

 

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The historical accounting convention used for real estate assets requires depreciation of buildings and improvements, which implies that the value of real estate assets diminishes predictably over time, especially if such assets are not adequately maintained or repaired and renovated as required by relevant circumstances or as requested or required by lessees for operational purposes in order to maintain the value disclosed. We believe that, since real estate values historically rise and fall with market conditions, including inflation, interest rates, the business cycle, unemployment and consumer spending, presentations of operating results for a REIT using historical accounting for depreciation may be less informative. Additionally, we believe it is appropriate to disregard impairment charges, as this is a fair value adjustment that is largely based on market fluctuations and assessments regarding general market conditions which can change over time. An asset will only be evaluated for impairment if certain impairment indications exist and if the carrying, or book value, exceeds the total estimated undiscounted future cash flows (including net rental and lease revenues, net proceeds on the sale of the property, and any other ancillary cash flows at a property or group level under GAAP) from such asset. Investors should note, however, that determinations of whether impairment charges have been incurred are based partly on anticipated operating performance, because estimated undiscounted future cash flows from a property, including estimated future net rental and lease revenues, net proceeds on the sale of the property, and certain other ancillary cash flows, are taken into account in determining whether an impairment charge has been incurred. While impairment charges are excluded from the calculation of FFO as described above, investors are cautioned that due to the fact that impairments are based on estimated future undiscounted cash flows and the relatively limited term of our operations, it could be difficult to recover any impairment charges. Historical accounting for real estate involves the use of GAAP. Any other method of accounting for real estate such as the fair value method cannot be construed to be any more accurate or relevant than the comparable methodologies of real estate valuation found in GAAP. Nevertheless, we believe that the use of FFO, which excludes the impact of real estate-related depreciation and amortization and impairments, provides a more complete understanding of our performance to investors and to management, and when compared year over year, reflects the impact on our operations from trends in occupancy rates, rental rates, operating costs, general and administrative expenses, and interest costs, which may not be immediately apparent from net income. However, FFO and MFFO, as described below, should not be construed to be more relevant or accurate than the current GAAP methodology in calculating net income or in its applicability in evaluating our operating performance. The method utilized to evaluate the value and performance of real estate under GAAP should be construed as a more relevant measure of operational performance and considered more prominently than the non-GAAP FFO and MFFO measures and the adjustments to GAAP in calculating FFO and MFFO.

 

Changes in the accounting and reporting promulgations under GAAP (for acquisition fees and expenses from a capitalization/depreciation model to an expensed-as-incurred model) that were put into effect in 2009 and other changes to GAAP accounting for real estate subsequent to the establishment of NAREIT’s definition of FFO have prompted an increase in cash-settled expenses, specifically acquisition fees and expenses for all industries as items that are expensed under GAAP, that are typically accounted for as operating expenses.

 

Management believes these fees and expenses do not affect our overall long-term operating performance. Publicly registered, non-listed REITs typically have a significant amount of acquisition activity and are substantially more dynamic during their initial years of investment and operation. While other start up entities may also experience significant acquisition activity during their initial years, we believe that non-listed REITs are unique in that they have a limited life with targeted exit strategies within a relatively limited time frame after the acquisition activity ceases. We will use the proceeds raised in our offering to acquire properties, and we intend to begin the process of achieving a liquidity event (i.e., listing of our common stock on a national exchange, a merger or sale of the company or another similar transaction) within seven to ten years after the proceeds from the primary offering are fully invested. Thus, we will not continuously purchase assets and will have a limited life. Due to the above factors and other unique features of publicly registered, non-listed REITs, the Investment Program Association, or IPA, an industry trade group, has standardized a measure known as modified funds from operations, or MFFO, which the IPA has recommended as a supplemental measure for publicly registered non-listed REITs and which we believe to be another appropriate supplemental measure to reflect the operating performance of a non-listed REIT having the characteristics described above. MFFO is not equivalent to our net income or loss as determined under GAAP, and MFFO may not be a useful measure of the impact of long-term operating performance on value if we do not continue to operate with a limited life and targeted exit strategy, as currently intended. We believe that, because MFFO excludes costs that we consider more reflective of investing activities and other non-operating items included in FFO and also excludes acquisition fees and expenses that affect our operations only in periods in which properties are acquired, MFFO can provide, on a going forward basis, an indication of the sustainability (that is, the capacity to continue to be maintained) of our operating performance after the period in which we are acquiring our properties and once our portfolio is in place. By providing MFFO, we believe we are presenting useful information that assists investors and analysts to better assess the sustainability of our operating performance after our offering has been completed and our properties have been acquired. We also believe that MFFO is a recognized measure of sustainable operating performance by the non-listed REIT industry. Further, we believe MFFO is useful in comparing the sustainability of our operating performance after our offering and acquisitions are completed with the sustainability of the operating performance of other real estate companies that are not as involved in acquisition activities. Investors are cautioned that MFFO should only be used to assess the sustainability of our operating performance after our offering has been completed and properties have been acquired, as it excludes acquisition costs that have a negative effect on our operating performance during the periods in which properties are acquired.

 

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We define MFFO, a non-GAAP measure, consistent with the IPA’s Guideline 2010-01, Supplemental Performance Measure for Publicly Registered, Non-Listed REITs: Modified Funds from Operations, or the Practice Guideline, issued by the IPA in November 2010. The Practice Guideline defines MFFO as FFO further adjusted for the following items, as applicable, included in the determination of GAAP net income: acquisition fees and expenses; amounts relating to deferred rent receivables and amortization of above and below market leases and liabilities (which are adjusted in order to reflect such payments from a GAAP accrual basis to a cash basis of disclosing the rent and lease payments); accretion of discounts and amortization of premiums on debt investments; mark-to-market adjustments included in net income; nonrecurring gains or losses included in net income from the extinguishment or sale of debt, hedges, foreign exchange, derivatives or securities holdings where trading of such holdings is not a fundamental attribute of the business plan, unrealized gains or losses resulting from consolidation from, or deconsolidation to, equity accounting, and after adjustments for consolidated and unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures, with such adjustments calculated to reflect MFFO on the same basis. The accretion of discounts and amortization of premiums on debt investments, nonrecurring unrealized gains and losses on hedges, foreign exchange, derivatives or securities holdings, unrealized gains and losses resulting from consolidations, as well as other listed cash flow adjustments are adjustments made to net income in calculating the cash flows provided by operating activities and, in some cases, reflect gains or losses which are unrealized and may not ultimately be realized. While we are responsible for managing interest rate, hedge and foreign exchange risk, we do retain an outside consultant to review all our hedging agreements. Inasmuch as interest rate hedges are not a fundamental part of our operations, we believe it is appropriate to exclude such non-recurring gains and losses in calculating MFFO, as such gains and losses are not reflective of ongoing operations.

 

Our MFFO calculation complies with the IPA’s Practice Guideline described above. In calculating MFFO, we exclude acquisition related expenses, amortization of above and below market leases, fair value adjustments of derivative financial instruments, deferred rent receivables and the adjustments of such items related to noncontrolling interests. Under GAAP, acquisition fees and expenses are characterized as operating expenses in determining operating net income. These expenses are paid in cash by us, and therefore such funds will not be available to distribute to investors. All paid and accrued acquisition fees and expenses negatively impact our operating performance during the period in which properties are acquired and will have negative effects on returns to investors, the potential for future distributions, and cash flows generated by us, unless earnings from operations or net sales proceeds from the disposition of other properties are generated to cover the purchase price of the property, these fees and expenses and other costs related to such property. Therefore, MFFO may not be an accurate indicator of our operating performance, especially during periods in which properties are being acquired. MFFO that excludes such costs and expenses would only be comparable to non-listed REITs that have completed their acquisition activities and have similar operating characteristics as us. Further, under GAAP, certain contemplated non-cash fair value and other non-cash adjustments are considered operating non-cash adjustments to net income in determining cash flow from operating activities. In addition, we view fair value adjustments of derivatives and gains and losses from dispositions of assets as non-recurring items or items which are unrealized and may not ultimately be realized, and which are not reflective of ongoing operations and are therefore typically adjusted for when assessing operating performance. The purchase of properties, and the corresponding expenses associated with that process, is a key operational feature of our business plan to generate operational income and cash flows in order to make distributions to investors. Acquisition fees and expenses will not be reimbursed by the advisor if there are no further proceeds from the sale of shares in our offering, and therefore such fees and expenses will need to be paid from either additional debt, operational earnings or cash flows, net proceeds from the sale of properties or from ancillary cash flows.

 

Our management uses MFFO and the adjustments used to calculate it in order to evaluate our performance against other non-listed REITs which have limited lives with short and defined acquisition periods and targeted exit strategies shortly thereafter. As noted above, MFFO may not be a useful measure of the impact of long-term operating performance on value if we do not continue to operate in this manner. We believe that our use of MFFO and the adjustments used to calculate it allow us to present our performance in a manner that reflects certain characteristics that are unique to non-listed REITs, such as their limited life, limited and defined acquisition period and targeted exit strategy, and hence that the use of such measures is useful to investors. For example, acquisition costs are funded from the proceeds of our offering and other financing sources and not from operations. By excluding expensed acquisition costs, the use of MFFO provides information consistent with management’s analysis of the operating performance of the properties. Additionally, fair value adjustments, which are based on the impact of current market fluctuations and underlying assessments of general market conditions, but can also result from operational factors such as rental and occupancy rates, may not be directly related or attributable to our current operating performance. By excluding such changes that may reflect anticipated and unrealized gains or losses, we believe MFFO provides useful supplemental information.

 

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Presentation of this information is intended to provide useful information to investors as they compare the operating performance of different REITs, although it should be noted that not all REITs calculate FFO and MFFO the same way. Accordingly, comparisons with other REITs may not be meaningful. Furthermore, FFO and MFFO are not necessarily indicative of cash flow available to fund cash needs and should not be considered as an alternative to net income (loss) or income (loss) from continuing operations as an indication of our performance, as an alternative to cash flows from operations as an indication of our liquidity, or indicative of funds available to fund our cash needs including our ability to make distributions to our stockholders. FFO and MFFO should be reviewed in conjunction with other GAAP measurements as an indication of our performance. MFFO has limitations as a performance measure in an offering such as ours where the price of a share of common stock is a stated value and there is no net asset value determination during the offering stage and for a period thereafter. MFFO is useful in assisting management and investors in assessing the sustainability of operating performance in future operating periods, and in particular, after the offering and acquisition stages are complete and net asset value is disclosed. FFO and MFFO are not useful measures in evaluating net asset value because impairments are taken into account in determining net asset value but not in determining FFO or MFFO.

 

Neither the SEC, NAREIT nor any other regulatory body has passed judgment on the acceptability of the adjustments that we use to calculate FFO or MFFO. In the future, the SEC, NAREIT or another regulatory body may decide to standardize the allowable adjustments across the non-listed REIT industry and we would have to adjust our calculation and characterization of FFO or MFFO.

 

The below table illustrates the items deducted in the calculation of FFO and MFFO. Items are presented net of noncontrolling interest portions where applicable.

 

    For the Three Months Ended September 30,     For the Nine Months Ended September 30,  
    2012     2011     2012     2011  
Net income   $ 3,828     $ 526     $ 5,137     $ 88  
FFO adjustments:                                
Depreciation and amortization of real estate assets     188       82       372       219  
Bargain purchase gain     (3,500 )     -       (3,500 )     -  
Gain on disposition of unconsolidated affiliated entity     -       -       (741 )     -  
Adjustments to equity in earnings from unconsolidated entities, net     164       134       496       437  
FFO     680       742       1,764       744  
MFFO adjustments:                                
                                 
Other adjustments:                                
Acquisition and other transaction related costs expensed (1)     156       -       319       499  
Adjustments to equity in earnings from unconsolidated entities, net     (59 )     (54 )     (189 )     133  
Amortization of above or below market leases and liabilities (2)     -       -       -       -  
Accretion of discounts and amortizatio of premiums on debt investments     -       -       -       -  
Mark-to-market adjustments (3)     -       -       -       -  
Non-recurring gains/(losses) from extinguishment/sale of debt, derivatives or securities holdings (4)     -       -       -       -  
MFFO     777       688       1,894       1,376  
Straight-line rent (5)     -       -       -       -  
MFFO - IPA recommended format   $ 777     $ 688     $ 1,894     $ 1,376  
                                 
Net income/(loss)   $ 3,828     $ 526     $ 5,137     $ 88  
Less: income attributable to noncontrolling interests     (13 )     (2 )     (43 )     (16 )
Net income/(loss) applicable to Company's common shares   $ 3,815     $ 524     $ 5,094     $ 72  
Net income/(loss) per common share, basic and diluted   $ 0.74     $ 0.13     $ 1.03     $ 0.02  
                                 
FFO   $ 680     $ 742     $ 1,764     $ 744  
Less: FFO attributable to noncontrolling interests     (16 )     (13 )     (57 )     (33 )
FFO attributable to Company's common shares   $ 664     $ 729     $ 1,707     $ 711  
FFO per common share, basic and diluted   $ 0.13     $ 0.18     $ 0.35     $ 0.18  
                                 
MFFO - IPA recommended format   $ 777     $ 688     $ 1,894     $ 1,376  
Less: MFFO attributable to noncontrolling interests     (17 )     (13 )     (57 )     (54 )
MFFO attributable to Company's common shares   $ 760     $ 675     $ 1,837     $ 1,322  
                                 
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding, basic and diluted     5,159       4,107       4,936       3,844  

 

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(1) The purchase of properties, and the corresponding expenses associated with that process, is a key operational feature of our business plan to generate operational income and cash flows in order to make distributions to investors. In evaluating investments in real estate, management differentiates the costs to acquire the investment from the operations derived from the investment. Such information would be comparable only for non-listed REITs that have completed their acquisition activity and have other similar operating characteristics. By excluding expensed acquisition costs, management believes MFFO provides useful supplemental information that is comparable for each type of real estate investment and is consistent with management’s analysis of the investing and operating performance of our properties. Acquisition fees and expenses include payments to our advisor or third parties. Acquisition fees and expenses under GAAP are considered operating expenses and as expenses included in the determination of net income and income from continuing operations, both of which are performance measures under GAAP. Such fees and expenses are paid in cash, and therefore such funds will not be available to distribute to investors. Such fees and expenses negatively impact our operating performance during the period in which properties are being acquired. Therefore, MFFO may not be an accurate indicator of our operating performance, especially during periods in which properties are being acquired. All paid and accrued acquisition fees and expenses will have negative effects on returns to investors, the potential for future distributions, and cash flows generated by us, unless earnings from operations or net sales proceeds from the disposition of properties are generated to cover the purchase price of the property, these fees and expenses and other costs related to the property. Acquisition fees and expenses will not be paid or reimbursed, as applicable, to our advisor even if there are no further proceeds from the sale of shares in our offering, and therefore such fees and expenses would need to be paid from either additional debt, operational earnings or cash flows, net proceeds from the sale of properties or from ancillary cash flows.
(2) Under GAAP, certain intangibles are accounted for at cost and reviewed at least annually for impairment, and certain intangibles are assumed to diminish predictably in value over time and amortized, similar to depreciation and amortization of other real estate related assets that are excluded from FFO. However, because real estate values and market lease rates historically rise or fall with market conditions, management believes that by excluding charges relating to amortization of these intangibles, MFFO provides useful supplemental information on the performance of the real estate.
(3) Management believes that adjusting for mark-to-market adjustments is appropriate because they are nonrecurring items that may not be reflective of ongoing operations and reflects unrealized impacts on value based only on then current market conditions, although they may be based upon current operational issues related to an individual property or industry or general market conditions. The need to reflect mark-to-market adjustments is a continuous process and is analyzed on a quarterly and/or annual basis in accordance with GAAP.
(4) Management believes that adjusting for fair value adjustments for derivatives provides useful information because such fair value adjustments are based on market fluctuations and may not be directly related or attributable to the company’s operations.
(5) Under GAAP, rental receipts are allocated to periods using various methodologies. This may result in income recognition that is significantly different than underlying contract terms. By adjusting for these items (to reflect such payments from a GAAP accrual basis to a cash basis of disclosing the rent and lease payments), MFFO provides useful supplemental information on the realized economic impact of lease terms and debt investments, providing insight on the contractual cash flows of such lease terms and debt investments, and aligns results with management’s analysis of operating performance.

 

Distributions Declared by our Board of Directors and Source of Distributions

 

The following tables provides a summary of our quarterly distributions declared for the three months ended September 30, 2012, June 30, 2012 and March 31, 2012, respectively and the three months ended September 30, 2011, June 30, 2011 and March 31, 2011, respectively. The amount of distributions paid to our stockholders in the future will be determined by our Board of Directors and is dependent on a number of factors, including funds available for payment of dividends, our financial condition, capital expenditure requirements and annual distribution requirements needed to maintain our status as a REIT under the Internal Revenue Code. Additionally, our stockholders have the option to elect the receipt of shares in lieu of cash under our DRIP.

 

    Nine Months Ended September 30, 2012     Three Months Ended September 30, 2012     Three Months Ended June 30, 2012     Three Months Ended March 31, 2012  
          Percentage of
Distributions
    Q3 2012     Percentage of
Distributions
    Q2 2012     Percentage of
Distributions
    Q1 2012     Percentage of
Distributions
 
Distribution period:                                                                
                                                                 
Date distribution declared                     August 10, 2012               May 14, 2012               March 30, 2012          
                                                                 
Date distribution paid                     October 15, 2012               July 13, 2012               April 13, 2012          
                                                                 
Distributions paid   $ 1,293             $ 453             $ 433             $ 407          
Distributions reinvested     1,115               393               372               350          
Total Distributions   $ 2,408             $ 846             $ 805             $ 757          
                                                                 
Source of distributions:                                                                
Cash flows provided by operations   $ 853       35 %   $ 268       32 %   $ 200       25 %   $ 385       51 %
Offering proceeds     440       18 %     185       22 %     233       29 %     22       3 %
Proceeds from issuance of common stock through DRIP     1,115       47 %     393       46 %     372       46 %     350       46 %
Total Sources   $ 2,408       100 %   $ 846       100 %   $ 805       100 %   $ 757       100 %
                                                                 
Cash flows provided by/(used in) operations (GAAP basis)   $ 853             $ 268             $ 200             $ 385          
                                                                 
Number of shares (in thousands) of common stock issued pursuant to the Company's DRIP     116               41               39               36          

 

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    Nine Months Ended September 30, 2011     Three Months Ended September 30, 2011     Three Months Ended June 30, 2011     Three Months Ended March 31, 2011  
          Percentage of
Distributions
    Q3 2011     Percentage of
Distributions
    Q2 2011     Percentage of
Distributions
    Q1 2011     Percentage of
Distributions
 
Distribution period:                                                                
Date distribution declared                     May 13, 2011               May 13, 2011               March 4, 2011          
                                                                 
Date distribution paid                     July 15, 2011               July 15, 2011               April 15, 2011          
                                                                 
Distributions paid   $ 956             $ 347             $ 319             $ 290          
Distributions reinvested     914               326               300               288          
Total Distributions   $ 1,870             $ 673             $ 619             $ 578          
                                                                 
Source of distributions:                                                                
Cash flows provided by operations   $ 666       41 %   $ 347       52 %   $ 319       32 %   $ -       0 %
Offering proceeds     290       18 %     -       0 %     -       0 %     290       50 %
Proceeds from issuance of common stock through DRIP     914       41 %     326       48 %     300       68 %     288       50 %
Total Sources   $ 1,870       100 %   $ 673       100 %   $ 619       100 %   $ 578       100 %
                                                                 
Cash flows provided by/(used in) operations (GAAP basis)   $ 1,095             $ 1,471             $ 556             $ (932 )        
                                                                 
Number of shares (in thousands) of common stock issued pursuant to the Company's DRIP     96               34               32               30          

 

The table below presents our cumulative distributions paid and cumulative FFO:

 

    For the period April, 28, 2008  
    (date of inception) through  
    September 30, 2012  
FFO   $ 2,347  
Distributions   $ 6,784  

 

Information Regarding Dilution

 

In connection with the public offering of shares of our common stock, we are providing information about our net tangible book value per share. Our net tangible book value per share is a mechanical calculation using amounts from our consolidated balance sheet, and is calculated as (1) total book value of our assets (2) minus total liabilities, (3) divided by the total number of shares of common stock outstanding. It assumes that the value of real estate, and real estate related assets and liabilities diminish predictably over time as shown through the depreciation and amortization of real estate investments. Real estate values have historically risen or fallen with market conditions. Net tangible book value is used generally as a conservative measure of net worth that we do not believe reflects our estimated fair value per share. It is not intended to reflect the value of our assets upon an orderly liquidation of the Company in accordance with our investment objectives. Our net tangible book value reflects dilution in the value of our common stock from the issue price as a result of (i) operating losses, which reflect accumulated depreciation and amortization of real estate investments, (ii) the funding of distributions from sources other than our cash flow from operations, and (iii) fees paid in connection with our public offerings, including commissions, dealer manager fees and other offering costs. As of September 30, 2012, our net tangible book value per share was $8.36. The offering price of primary shares under our offering (ignoring purchase price discounts for certain categories of purchasers) as of September 30, 2012 was $10.00.

 

Our offering price was not established on an independent basis and bears no relationship to the net value of our assets. Further, even without depreciation in the value of our assets, the other factors described above with respect to the dilution in the value of our common stock are likely to cause our offering price to be higher than the amount you would receive per share if we were to liquidate at this time.

 

New Accounting Pronouncements

 

See Note 2 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further information of certain accounting standards that have been adopted during 2012 and certain accounting standards, if any, that we have not yet been required to implement and may be applicable to our future operations.

 

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Subsequent Events

 

See Note 14 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for further information related to subsequent events during the period from October 1, 2012 through the date of this filing.

 

ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK.

 

Market risk includes risks that arise from changes in interest rates, foreign currency exchange rates, commodity prices, equity prices and other market changes that affect market sensitive instruments. In pursuing our business plan, we expect that the primary market risk to which we will be exposed is interest rate risk.

 

We may be exposed to the effects of interest rate changes primarily as a result of borrowings used to maintain liquidity and fund the expansion and refinancing of our real estate investment portfolio and operations. Our interest rate risk management objectives will be to limit the impact of interest rate changes on earnings, prepayment penalties and cash flows and to lower overall borrowing costs while taking into account variable interest rate risk. To achieve our objectives, we may borrow at fixed rates or variable rates. We may also enter into derivative financial instruments such as interest rate swaps and caps in order to mitigate our interest rate risk on a related financial instrument. We will not enter into derivative or interest rate transactions for speculative purposes. As of September 30, 2012, we did not have any derivative agreements outstanding.

 

As of September 30, 2012, we held marketable securities with a fair value of a $7.6 million, which are available for sale for general investment purposes. We regularly review the market prices of our investments for impairment purposes. As of September 30, 2012, a hypothetical adverse 10.0% movement in market values would result in a hypothetical loss in fair value of approximately $0.7 million.

 

The following table shows our estimated principal maturities during the next five years and thereafter as of September 30, 2012:

 

    Remainder of                                      
Contractual Obligations   2012     2013     2014     2015     2016     Thereafter     Total  
Principal maturities   $ 51     $ 210     $ 223     $ 10,724     $ -     $ -     $ 11,208  

 

As of September 30, 2012, our mortgages payable both bore interest at a variable rate of Libor plus 3.75%, subject to various floor rates. Accordingly, the interest expense associated with these instruments are subject to changes in market interest rates. However, based on the Libor rate of 0.21% as of September 30, 2012, a 1% adverse movement (increase in Libor) would have no effect on our annual interest expense.

 

The carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents, restricted escrows, accounts receivable (included in other assets in our consolidated balance sheet), note receivable from affiliate, accounts payable and accrued expenses, and the margin loan approximated their fair values as of September 30, 2012 because of the short maturity of these instruments. The estimated fair value of our mortgage loan receivable was approximately $11.8 million as of September 30, 2012 based upon current market information that would have been used by a market participant to estimate the fair value of such loan. The estimated fair value of our mortgages payable is as follows:

 

    As of September 30, 2012  
    Carrying Amount     Estimated Fair
Value
 
Mortgages payable   $ 11,208     $ 11,208  

 

The fair value of our mortgages payable was determined by discounting the future contractual interest and principal payments by market interest rates.

 

 In addition to changes in interest rates, the value of our real estate and real estate related investments is subject to fluctuations based on changes in local and regional economic conditions and changes in the creditworthiness of tenants, which may affect our ability to obtain or refinance debt in the future. As of September 30, 2012, we had no off-balance sheet arrangements.

 

 We cannot predict the effect of adverse changes in interest rates on our debt and, therefore, our exposure to market risk, nor can we provide any assurance that long-term debt will be available at advantageous pricing. Consequently, future results may differ materially from the estimated adverse changes discussed above.

 

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ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

 

As of the end of the period covered by this report, management, including our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures. Based upon, and as of the date of, the evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that the disclosure controls and procedures were effective to ensure that information required to be disclosed in the reports we file and submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported as and when required.

 

There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the quarter ended September 30, 2012 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. There were no significant deficiencies or material weaknesses identified in the evaluation, and therefore, no corrective actions were taken.

 

PART II. OTHER INFORMATION:

 

ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS.

 

From time to time in the ordinary course of business, the Company may become subject to legal proceedings, claims or disputes.

 

On July 13, 2011, JF Capital Advisors, filed a lawsuit against The Lightstone Group, LLC, the Company, and Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust, Inc. in the Supreme Court of the State of New York seeking payment for services alleged to have been rendered, and to be rendered prospectively, under theories of unjust enrichment and breach of contract. The plaintiff had a limited business arrangement with The Lightstone Group, LLC; that arrangement has been terminated. We filed a motion to dismiss the action and, on January 31, 2012, the Supreme Court dismissed the complaint in its entirety, but granted the plaintiff leave to replead two limited causes of action.

 

The plaintiff filed an amended complaint on May 18, 2012, bringing limited claims under theories of unjust enrichment and quantum meruit. We continue to believe these claims to be without merit and will defend the case vigorously, and anticipate filing another motion to dismiss shortly.

 

While any proceeding or litigation has an element of uncertainty, management currently believes that the likelihood of an unfavorable outcome with respect to the aforementioned legal proceeding is remote. No provision for loss has been recorded in connection therewith.

 

As of the date hereof, the Company is not a party to any material pending legal proceedings of which the outcome is probable or reasonably possible to have a material adverse effect on its results of operations or financial condition, which would require accrual or disclosure of the contingency and possible range of loss.

 

ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS

 

We discuss in our Annual Report on Form 10-K various risks that may materially affect our business. We use this section to update this discussion to reflect material developments since our Form 10-K was filed. For the quarter ended September 30, 2012, there were no such material developments.

 

ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

 

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

 

During the period covered by this Form 10-Q, we did not sell any unregistered securities.

 

Use of Offering Proceeds

 

The Company’s sponsor is David Lichtenstein (“Lichtenstein”), who does business as The Lightstone Group (the “Sponsor”) and wholly owns the limited liability company of that name. The Company’s advisor is Lightstone Value Plus REIT II LLC (the “Advisor”), which is wholly owned by our Sponsor.

 

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The Company’s registration statement on Form S-11 (File No. 333-151532), pursuant to which it offered to sell up to 51,000,000 shares of its common stock at a price of $10.00 per share, subject to certain volume discounts, (exclusive of 6,500,000 shares which were available pursuant to its distribution reinvestment plan (the “DRIP”) at an initial purchase price of $9.50 per share and 255,000 shares which were reserved for issuance under its Employee and Director Incentive Restricted Share Plan ), was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) under the Securities Act of 1933 on February 17, 2009, and on April 24, 2009 the Company commenced its initial public offering of common stock (the “Offering”). The Offering, which terminated on August 15, 2012, raised aggregate gross proceeds of approximately $49.8 million from the sale of approximately 5.0 million shares of common stock. After allowing for the payment of approximately $5.2 million in selling commissions and dealer manager fees and $4.5 million in organization and other offering expenses, the Offering generated aggregate net proceeds of approximately $40.1 million. In addition, through August 15, 2012 (the termination date of the Offering), the Company had issued 299,854 shares of common stock under its DRIP, representing approximately $2.9 million of additional proceeds.

 

The Company’s registration statement on Form S-11 (File No. 333-177753) (the “Follow-On Offering”), pursuant to which it is offering to sell up to 30,000,000 shares of its common stock for $10.00 per share, subject to certain volume discounts (exclusive of 2,500,000 shares available pursuant to its DRIP at an initial purchase price of $9.50 per share and 255,000 shares reserved for issuance under its Employee and Director Incentive Restricted Share Plan ) was declared effective by SEC under the Securities Act of 1933 on September 27, 2012. As of September 30, 2012, the Company had not sold any shares of common stock under the Follow-On Offering, however, the Company intends to sell shares of its common stock under the Follow-On Offering until the earlier of the date on which all the shares are sold, or September 27, 2014, two years from the date the Follow-On Offering was declared effective by the SEC. The Company reserves the right to reallocate the shares of common stock it is offering between the primary offering and the DRIP. Additionally, the Follow-On Offering may be terminated at any time.

 

As of September 30, 2012, the Advisor owned 20,000 shares of common stock which were issued on May 20, 2008 for $200, or $10.00 per share. In addition, as of September 30, 2009, the Company had reached the minimum offering under its Offering by receiving subscriptions of its common shares, representing gross offering proceeds of approximately $6.5 million, and effective October 1, 2009 investors were admitted as stockholders and Lightstone Value Plus REIT II LP (the “Operating Partnership”) commenced operations. Through September 30, 2012, cumulative gross offering proceeds of $49.8 million were released to the Company. The Company invested the proceeds received from the Offering and from the Advisor in the Operating Partnership, and as a result, held a 99.99% general partnership interest as of September 30, 2012 in the Operating Partnership’s common units.

 

On May 20, 2008, the Advisor contributed $2 to the Operating Partnership in exchange for 200 limited partner units in the Operating Partnership. The limited partner has the right to convert operating partnership units into cash or, at the option of the Company, an equal number of common shares of the Company, as allowed by the limited partnership agreement.

 

Lightstone SLP II LLC, which is wholly owned by the Company’s Sponsor committed to purchase subordinated profits interests in the Operating Partnership (“Subordinated Profits Interests”) at a cost of $100,000 per unit for each $1.0 million in subscriptions up to ten percent of the proceeds from the primary shares under the Offering and the Follow-On Offering on a semi-annual basis beginning with the quarter ended June 30, 2010. Lightstone SLP II LLC may elect to purchase the Subordinated Profits Interests with either cash or an interest in real property of equivalent value. Any proceeds received from the cash sale of the Subordinated Profits Interests will be used to offset payments made by the Company from offering proceeds to pay the dealer manager fees, selling commissions and organization and other offering expenses.

 

From our inception through September 30, 2012, the Company’s Sponsor has contributed cash of approximately $0.2 million and elected to contribute equity interests totaling 45.1% in Brownmill, LLC (“Brownmill”) in exchange for a total of 46.0 Subordinated Profits Interests with an aggregate value of $4.6 million (see Note 4 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements). The Company’s Sponsor may continue to elect to contribute interests in real property in lieu of cash in exchange for Subordinated Profits Interests in order to fulfill its semi-annual commitment.

 

We have and expect to continue to utilize a portion of offering proceeds towards funding dealer manager fees, selling commissions and other offering costs.

 

Below is a summary of the expenses we have incurred from April 28, 2008 (date of inception) through September 30, 2012 in connection with the issuance and distribution of registered securities.

 

(Dollars in thousands)   Offering     Follow-On Offering     Total  
Type of Expense Amount                        
Underwriting discounts and commissions   $ 5,218     $ -     $ 5,218  
Other expenses incurred and paid to non-affiliates     4,522       954       5,476  
Total  offering expenses  incurred   $ 9,740     $ 954     $ 10,694  

 

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From our inception date through September 30, 2012, we have used the cumulative net offering proceeds received of approximately $39.1 million, after deducting offering expenses incurred of a$10.7 million, as follows:

 

(Dollars in thousands)      
Purchase of investment properties, net of mortgage financings   $ 13,063  
Purchase of investments in unconsolidated affiliated entities     3,993  
Purchase of restricted escrow     835  
Purchase of mortgage loan receivable, net of collections     7,029  
Purchase of marketable securities, net of margin loan     5,042  
Cash and cash equivalents (as of September 30, 2012)     7,174  
Cash distributions not funded by operations     1,708  
Funding of restricted escrows     421  
Other uses (primarily timing of payables)     (155 )
         
Total uses   $ 39,110  

 

Our share repurchase program may provide our stockholders with limited, interim liquidity by enabling them to sell their shares of common stock back to us, subject to certain restrictions. From our inception through December 31, 2009, we did not receive any requests to repurchase shares under our share repurchase program. For the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, we received requests to redeem 48,154 and 2,675 shares of common stock, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 we received requests to repurchase 39,615 shares of common stock, pursuant to our share repurchase program. We repurchased 100% of the repurchase requests at an average price per share of $9.00 per share. We funded share redemptions for the periods noted above from the cumulative proceeds of the sale of our shares pursuant to our DRIP.

 

Our Board of Directors reserves the right to terminate either program for any reason without cause by providing written notice of termination of the DRIP to all participants or written notice of termination of the share repurchase program to all stockholders.

 

ITEM 3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES

None.

 

ITEM 4. MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

None.

 

ITEM 5. OTHER INFORMATION

None.

 

ITEM 6. EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit

Number

 

 

Description

1.1*   Form Dealer Manager Agreement by and between Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc. and Orchard Securities, LLC.
31.1*   Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act, as amended.
31.2*   Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a) and Rule 15d-14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act, as amended.
32.1*   Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Pursuant to SEC Release 34-47551 this Exhibit is furnished to the SEC and shall not be deemed to be “filed.”
32.2*   Certification of Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Pursuant to SEC Release 34-47551 this Exhibit is furnished to the SEC and shall not be deemed to be “filed.”

 *Filed herewith

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements 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.

 

 

LIGHTSTONE VALUE PLUS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST II, INC.

   
Date: November 16, 2012 By: /s/ David Lichtenstein
  David Lichtenstein
 

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

Date: November 16, 2012 By:   /s/ Donna Brandin
  Donna Brandin
 

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(Duly Authorized Officer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

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LIGHTSTONE VALUE PLUS REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST II, INC.

 

32,500,000 SHARES

OF COMMON STOCK

$.01 PAR VALUE PER SHARE

 

FORM OF DEALER MANAGER AGREEMENT

 

August __, 2012

 

Orchard Securities, LLC

11650 South State Street, Suite 225

Draper, Utah 84020 

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

 

Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc. (the “ Company ”), a Maryland corporation, intends to qualify as a real estate investment trust (a “ REIT ”) under federal income tax laws. The advisor to the Company is Lightstone Value Plus REIT II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “ Advisor ”). Unless otherwise defined, capitalized terms used herein shall have the same meaning as in the Registration Statement on Form S-11.

 

The Company is offering (i) on a “best efforts” basis up to 30,000,000 shares of common stock, $.0l par value per share (the “ Shares ”) for a purchase price of $10.00 per Share with a minimum initial investment of $1,000 and (ii) up to 2,500,000 Shares for a purchase price of $9.50 per Share for issuance through the Company’s Distribution Reinvestment Plan, all upon other terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus, as described in Section 1(a) hereof. The subscribers, each of whom will be required to enter into a subscription agreement substantially similar to the form of Subscription Agreement (the “ Subscription Agreement ”) attached as Appendix C to the Prospectus, will, upon acceptance of their subscriptions by and in the discretion of the Company, become stockholders of the Company (the “ Stockholders ”).

 

1. Representation and Warranties of the Company . The Company hereby represents, warrants and agrees with you that:

 

(a) Registration Statement and Prospectus . A registration statement (SEC File No. 333-177753) on Form S-11 with respect to an aggregate of 32,500,000 Shares, including 2,500,000 Shares issuable pursuant to the Company’s Distribution Reinvestment Plan, has been prepared by the Company pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “ Act ”), and the rules and regulations (the “ Rules and Regulations ”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “ Commission ”) thereunder and has been filed with the Commission under the Act; one or more amendments to such registration statement have been or may be so prepared and filed. As used in this Agreement, the term “Registration Statement” means such registration statement in the form in which it becomes effective, the term “Effective Date” means the date upon which the Registration Statement is or was first declared effective by the Commission and the term “Prospectus” means the prospectus in the form constituting a part of the Registration Statement as well as in the form first filed with the Commission pursuant to its Rule 424 after the Registration Statement becomes effective. The Commission has not issued any stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement and no proceedings for that purpose have been instituted or are pending before or threatened by the Commission under the Act.

 

 
 

 

 

(b) Compliance with the Act . From the time the Registration Statement becomes effective and at all times subsequent thereto up to and including the Termination Date (as defined in Section 2(c) hereof) (i) the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any amendments or supplements thereto will contain all statements which are required to be stated therein by the Act and the Rules and Regulations and will comply in all material respects with the Act and the Rules and Regulations; and (ii) neither the Registration Statement nor the Prospectus nor any amendment or supplement thereto will at any such time include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

 

(c) No Subsequent Material Events . Subsequent to the respective dates as of which information is given in the Registration Statement and Prospectus and prior to the Termination Date, except as contemplated in the Prospectus or as disclosed in a supplement or amendment thereto or in the periodic financial statements of the Company, the Company has not and will not have (i) incurred any material liabilities or obligations, direct or contingent; or (ii) entered into any material transaction, not in the ordinary course of business and, except as so disclosed, there has not been and will not be any material adverse change in the financial position or results of operations of the Company.

 

(d) Corporate Status . The Company is a corporation duly formed and validly existing under the Maryland General Corporation Law.

 

(e) Authorization of Agreement . This Agreement has been duly and validly authorized, executed and delivered by or on behalf of the Company and constitutes the valid and binding agreement of the Company enforceable in accordance with its terms (except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws of the United States, any state or any political subdivision thereof which affect creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles relating to the availability of remedies). The performance of this Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated herein and the fulfillment of the terms hereof, do not and will not result in a breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute a default under, any statute, indenture, mortgage, deed of trust, voting trust agreement, note, lease or other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which the Company or its property is bound, or under any rule or regulation or order of any court or other governmental agency or body with jurisdiction over the Company or any of its properties; and no consent, approval, authorization or order of any court or governmental agency or body has been or is required for the performance of this Agreement or for the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby (except as have been obtained under the Act, from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (“ FINRA ”) or as may be required under state securities or blue sky laws in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares or under the laws of states in which the Company may own real properties in connection with its qualification to transact business in such states or as may be required by subsequent events which may occur).

 

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(f) Pending Actions . There is no material action, suit or proceeding pending or, to the knowledge of the Company, threatened, to which the Company is a party, before or by any court or governmental agency or body which adversely affects the offering of the Shares.

 

(g) Required Filings . There are no contracts or other documents required to be filed by the Act or the Rules and Regulations of the Commission thereunder as exhibits to the Registration Statement which have not been so filed.

 

(h) Federal Income Tax Laws . The Corporation has obtained an opinion of Proskauer Rose LLP stating that, under existing federal income tax laws and regulations, assuming the Company acts as described in the “Federal Income Tax Considerations” section of the Prospectus and timely files the requisite elections, counsel is of the opinion that the Company has been organized in conformity with the requirements for qualification as a REIT beginning with its taxable year ending December 31, 2009, and that its prior, current and anticipated methods of operation (as described in the Prospectus and represented by management) has enabled and should enable it to satisfy the REIT Requirements (as defined in the Prospectus).

 

(i) Independent Public Accountants . To the best of the Company’s knowledge, the accountants who have certified certain financial statements appearing in the Prospectus are independent public accountants within the meaning of the Act and the Rules and Regulations.

 

(j) Sales Literature . In addition to and apart from the Prospectus, the Company may use certain supplemental sales material in connection with the offering of the Shares. This material, prepared by the Advisor, may consist of a brochure describing the Advisor and its Affiliates and the objectives of the Company and may also contain pictures and summary descriptions of properties acquired by the Company or to be acquired by the Company that Affiliates of the Company have previously acquired. This material may also include a brochure, audio-visual materials and tape presentations highlighting and explaining various features of the Offering, properties of prior real estate programs and real estate investments in general; and articles and publications concerning real estate. Business reply cards, introductory letters and seminar invitation forms may be sent to Soliciting Dealers (as hereinafter defined) and prospective investors. Any such sales literature shall, to the extent required, be filed with and approved by the appropriate securities agencies and bodies; provided, however, that the Dealer Manager shall be responsible for filing all such sales literature with FINRA, to the extent required. Any and all Approved Sales Literature did not or will not, at the time provided for use, include any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading. Such sales literature shall be categorized as either: (i) “Broker/Dealer Use Only” educational materials, which are, for purposes of this Agreement, materials prepared for or by the Company or the Advisor for the sole purpose of educating the Dealer Manager or Soliciting Dealers, as the case may be, in preparation to solicit sales of the Shares and shall not be used with members of the general investing public (“ B/D Use Only Approved Sales Literature ”) or (ii) “Investor” sales materials, which are, for purposes of this Agreement, materials prepared for or by the Company or the Advisor and may be used by the Dealer Manager or Soliciting Dealers, as the case may be, with members of the general investing public (“ Investor Use Approved Sales Literature ” and, together with the B/D Use Only Approved Sales Literature, the “ Approved Sales Literature ”).

 

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Although it is believed that the information contained in the Approved Sales Literature will not conflict with any of the information set forth in the Prospectus, the Approved Sales Literature will not purport to be complete, and should not be considered as a part of the Prospectus, or as incorporated in the Prospectus by reference, or as forming the basis of the Offering.

 

(k) Authorization of the Shares . The Company has an authorized and outstanding capitalization as set forth in the Registration Statement and Prospectus. The sale of the Shares has been duly and validly authorized by the Company, and when subscriptions for the Shares have been accepted by the Company as contemplated in the Prospectus and the Shares have been issued to the respective subscribers, the Shares will represent ownership in the Company and will conform to the description thereof contained in the Prospectus. Stockholders have no preemptive rights to purchase or subscribe for securities of the Company, and the Shares are not convertible or subject to redemption at the option of the Company. The Shares are entitled to one vote per Share and do not have cumulative voting rights. Subject to the rights of the holders of any class of capital stock of the Company having any preference or priority over the Shares, the Stockholders are entitled to distributions in such amounts as may be declared by the Board of Directors from time to time out of funds legally available for such payments and, in the event of liquidation, to share ratably in any assets of the Company remaining after payment in full of all creditors and provisions for any liquidation preferences on any outstanding preferred stock ranking prior to the Shares.

 

2. Offering and Sale of the Shares . On the basis of the representations, warranties and agreements herein contained, and subject to the terms and conditions herein set forth, the Company hereby appoints you as its exclusive Dealer Manager to solicit and to cause other dealers (as described in Section 2(a) hereof) to solicit subscriptions for the Shares at the subscription price to be paid and otherwise upon the other terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus and in the Subscription Agreement, and you agree to use your best efforts as such Dealer Manager to procure subscribers for the Shares, during the period commencing with the Effective Date and ending on the Termination Date (the “ Offering Period ”).

 

(a) Sale of the Shares . You will assist the Company with the sale of the Shares either directly or through other securities broker-dealers that are members of FINRA (collectively, the “ Soliciting Dealers ”) and that have executed agreements with you substantially in the form of the Soliciting Dealers Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit A providing for, among other things, sales of Shares on a best-efforts basis without any commitment to purchase any Shares. Shares may also be sold through registered investment advisers (a) that are not affiliated with any securities broker-dealer or (b) that are affiliated with a Soliciting Dealer that has executed a Soliciting Dealers Agreement (collectively, “ RIAs ”) or through a bank trust account with decision-making authority granted to a bank trust department.

 

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(b) Subscription Agreements and Subscribers’ Funds . Each potential investor desiring to purchase Shares through you or any Soliciting Dealer shall be required to complete and execute the Subscription Agreement and deliver it to you or such Soliciting Dealer, as applicable, together with a check payable to “Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc.” in the amount of $10 per Share. You or such Soliciting Dealer, as applicable, shall forward such Subscription Agreement and check to the registrar and transfer agent for the Offering (the “ Transfer Agent ”) not later than noon of the next business day after receipt of such Subscription Agreement, unless such Subscription Agreement and payment are first forwarded to another of your offices or such Soliciting Dealer’s offices for internal supervisory review (which shall take place within the aforementioned time period), in which event such other office shall complete its review and forward such Subscription Agreement and payment to the Transfer Agent no later than noon of the next business day after its receipt thereof. Each subscription received by the Transfer Agent will be subject to acceptance or rejection by the Company by the end of the business day on which it is received. Each such subscription payment received by the Transfer Agent and accepted by the Company will be transmitted, as soon as practicable, but in any event by the end of the second business day following receipt thereof, to an account for the benefit of the Company. The Company undertakes to cause the Transfer Agent to promptly return to you or such Soliciting Dealer, as applicable, for return to any of your or their customers whose subscriptions are not accepted by the Company, their Subscription Agreements together with the related subscription payment within two business days of the Transfer Agent’s receipt of same. Unless and until an event requiring a refund occurs, an investor will have no right to withdraw his or her subscription payment. The Company has reserved the unconditional right to refuse to accept, in whole or in part, any subscription and related payment and to refuse to accept as an investor any person for any reason whatsoever or no reason.

 

Nothing contained in this Section 2 shall be construed to impose upon the Company the responsibility of assuring that prospective investors meet the suitability standards contained in the Prospectus or to relieve the Dealer Manager or any of the Soliciting Dealers of the responsibility of complying with any FINRA Rules.

 

(c) Termination of the Offering . The Offering Period will terminate on a date on or before one year from the date of the Prospectus (subject to requalification in certain states, the Company may extend the Offering Period from time to time, but in no event for longer than three years from the date of the original Prospectus), subject in any event to the Company’s right to terminate the Offering at any time (the “ Termination Date ”) and the proceeds will be applied as set forth in the Prospectus.

 

(d) Compensation .

 

(i) The Company agrees to pay (A) any Soliciting Dealer that sells Shares sales commissions in an amount equal to 7% of the sales price for each Share sold (except for volume discounts and Special Sales (as hereinafter defined) described below) from the 30,000,000 Shares offered on a “best efforts” basis, as set forth in the Prospectus under the caption “Plan of Distribution” and (B) you a dealer manager fee equal to 3% of the sales price for each Share sold from the 30,000,000 Shares offered on a “best efforts” basis, for your services in supervising the sales of Shares, for costs and expenses incurred in connection with holding or attending bona fide training and education seminars and conferences in compliance with FINRA’s Rules and to reimburse you, on a non-accountable basis, for wholesaling fees and expenses, of which a portion of such fee may be reallowed by the Dealer Manager subject to federal and state securities laws, to any Soliciting Dealer. As used herein, “Special Sales” will include all sales of Shares (i) through any RIA; (ii) through a bank trust account with respect to which the investor has delegated the decision-making authority for investments made through the account to a bank trust department; (iii) other than through clause (i) or (ii), to an investor whose contract for investment advisory and related brokerage services includes a fixed or “wrap” fee feature; (iv) pursuant to the Company’s Distribution Reinvestment Plan; (v) to the Company’s employees, directors and associates and its affiliates, the Advisor or affiliates of the Advisor or their respective officers and employees; (vi) to a Soliciting Dealer and its affiliates and its and their officers and employees and representatives; and (vii) credited to an investor as a result of a volume discount. The Dealer Manager agrees that it will not retain more than $500,000 of the Dealer Manager Fee during any twelve (12) month period.

 

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Single Purchasers (as defined below) purchasing more than $250,000 worth of Shares (25,000 Shares) will be entitled to a reduction in selling commissions payable in connection with the purchase of such Shares in accordance with the following schedule:

 

Amount of Single
Purchaser’s Investment
 

Purchase price per Share

for incremental Share in

discount range

 

Maximum

Commission

Per Share

 
$        1,000 - $     250,000   $ 10.00   $ 0.70  
$    250,001 - $     500,000   $ 9.85   $ 0.55  
$    500,001 - $     750,000   $ 9.70   $ 0.40  
$    750,001 - $  1,000,000   $ 9.60   $ 0.30  
$ 1,000,001 - $  5,000,000   $ 9.50   $ 0.20  

 

Any reduction from the amount of selling commissions otherwise payable to you or any Soliciting Dealer in respect of a purchaser’s subscription will be credited to the purchaser in the form of additional Shares purchased net of commissions. As to sales of Shares which are entitled to the above described volume discounts, the Company will pay the reduced selling commissions set forth above.

 

Selling commissions for purchases of $5,000,000 or more will, in the Company’s sole discretion, be reduced to $0.20 per Share or less. Selling commissions paid will in all cases be the same for the same level of sales. In the event of a sale of $5,000,000 or more, the Company will supplement the Prospectus in the manner described in the Prospectus under the section “Volume Discounts.”

 

Certain subscriptions may be combined for the purpose of crediting a purchaser or purchasers with additional Shares for the above described volume discount and for determining commissions payable to you or Soliciting Dealers so long as all such combined purchases are made through the same Soliciting Dealer and approved by the Company. As used herein, “Single Purchaser” will include (i) any person or entity, or persons or entities, acquiring Shares as joint purchasers; (ii) all profit-sharing, pension and other retirement trusts maintained by a given corporation, partnership or other entity; (iii) all funds and foundations maintained by a given corporation, partnership or other entity; and (iv) all profit-sharing, pension and other retirement trusts and all funds or foundations over which a designated bank or other trustee, person or entity (except an investment adviser registered under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940) exercises discretionary authority with respect to an investment in the Company.

 

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The investor must mark the “Additional Investment” space on the Subscription Agreement Signature Page, and set forth the basis for the discount and identity the orders to be combined in order for subscriptions to be combined. The Company is not responsible for failing to combine subscriptions, where the investor fails to mark the “Additional Investment” space.

 

If the Subscription Agreements for the subscriptions to be combined are submitted at the same time, then the additional Shares to be credited to the purchasers as a result of such combined purchases will be credited on a pro-rata basis. If the Subscription Agreements for the subscriptions to be combined are not submitted at the same time, then any additional Shares to be credited as a result of such combined purchases will be credited to the last component purchase, unless the Company is otherwise directed in writing at the time of such submission; except however, the additional Shares to be credited to any Tax-Exempt Entities whose subscriptions are combined for purposes of the volume discount will be credited only on a pro-rata basis based on the amount of the investment of each Tax-Exempt Entity and their combined purchases.

 

In the event that the dollar amount of commission paid for such combined purchases exceeds the maximum amount of commissions for such combined purchases (taking the volume discount into effect), such Soliciting Dealer will be obligated to forthwith return to the Company any excess commissions received. The Company may adjust any future commissions due to any Soliciting Dealer for any such excess commissions that have not been returned.

 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, it is understood and agreed that no commission shall be payable with respect to particular Shares if the Company rejects a proposed subscriber’s Subscription Agreement, which it may do for any reason or for no reason, as set forth in the Subscription Agreement.

 

Volume discounts will not be available to California residents to the extent that such discounts do not comply with the provisions of Rule 260.145.51 adopted pursuant to the California Corporate Securities Law of 1968, which provides that volume discounts can be made available to California residents only in accordance with the following conditions: (i) there can be no variance in the net proceeds to the Company from the sale of the Shares to different purchasers of the same offering; (ii) all purchasers of the Shares must be informed of the availability of volume discounts; (iii) the same volume discounts must be allowed to all purchasers of Shares which are part of the Offering; (iv) the minimum amount of

Shares as to which volume discounts are allowed cannot be less than $10,000; (v) the variance in the price of the Shares must result solely from a different range of commissions, and all discounts must be based on a uniform scale of commissions; and (vi) no discounts are allowed to any group of purchasers. Accordingly, volume discounts for California residents will be available in accordance with the foregoing table of uniform discount levels based on dollar volume of Shares purchased, but no discounts are allowed to any group of purchasers, and no subscriptions may be aggregated as part of a combined order for purposes of determining the number of Shares issued.

 

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(ii) All sales commissions payable to Soliciting Dealers will be paid by the Company within 30 days and shall be paid substantially concurrently with the acceptance of a subscriber as a stockholder by the Company. The dealer manager fee shall be paid by the Company promptly and substantially concurrently with the acceptance of a subscriber as a stockholder by the Company.

 

3. Covenants of the Company . The Company covenants and agrees with you as follows:

 

( a) Registration Statement . The Company will use its best efforts to cause the Registration Statement and any subsequent amendments thereto to become effective as promptly as possible and will not, at any time after the Effective Date, file any amendment to the Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus of which you shall not previously have been advised and furnished a copy at a reasonable time prior to the proposed filing or to which you shall have reasonably objected or which is not, to the best of the Company’s knowledge, in compliance with the Act and the Rules and Regulations. The Company will prepare and file with the Commission and will use its best efforts to cause to become effective as promptly as possible (i) any amendments to the Registration Statement or supplements to the Prospectus which may be required pursuant to the undertakings in the Registration Statement; and (ii) upon your reasonable request any amendments to the Registration Statement or supplements to the Prospectus which, in the opinion of you or your counsel, may be necessary or advisable in view of the requirements of the Act and the Rules and Regulations in connection with the offer and sale of the Shares during the Offering Period.

 

(b) Stop Orders . As soon as the Company is advised or obtains knowledge thereof, it will advise you of any request made by the Commission for amending the Registration Statement, supplementing the Prospectus or for additional information, or of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order or of any other order preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus or the institution of any proceedings for that purpose, and will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance or any such order and, if any such order is issued, to obtain the removal thereof as promptly as possible.

 

(c) Blue Sky Qualifications . The Company will use its best efforts to qualify the Shares for offering and sale under the securities or blue sky laws of such jurisdictions as you may reasonably request and to make such applications, file such documents and furnish such information as may be reasonably required for that purpose. The Company will, at your request, furnish you copies of all material documents and correspondence sent to or received from such jurisdictions (including, but not limited to, summaries of telephone calls and copies of facsimiles or emails) and will promptly advise you as soon as the Company obtains knowledge thereof to the effect that the Shares are qualified for offering and sale in each such jurisdiction. The Company will promptly advise you of any request made by the securities administrators of each such jurisdiction for revising the Registration Statement or the Prospectus or for additional information or of the issuance by such securities administrators of any stop order preventing or suspending the use of the Prospectus or of the institution of any proceedings for that purpose, and will use its best efforts to prevent the issuance of any such order and if any such order is issued, to obtain the removal thereof as promptly as possible. The Company will furnish you with a Blue Sky Survey dated as of the Effective Date, which will be supplemented to reflect changes or additions to the information disclosed in such survey.

 

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(d) Amendments and Supplements . If at any time when a Prospectus relating to the Shares is required to be delivered under the Act, any event shall have occurred to the knowledge of the Company as a result of which the Prospectus as then amended or supplemented would include any untrue statement of a material fact, or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements therein not misleading in light of the circumstances existing at the time it is so required to be delivered to a subscriber, or if it is necessary at any time to amend the Registration Statement or supplement the Prospectus relating to the Shares to comply with the Act, the Company will promptly notify you thereof and will prepare and file with the Commission an amendment or supplement which will correct such statement or effect such compliance.

 

(e) Copies of the Registration Statement . The Company will furnish you copies of the Registration Statement (only one of which need be signed and need include all exhibits), the Prospectus and all amendments and supplements thereto, including any amendment or supplement prepared after the Effective Date, and such other information with respect to the Company as you may from time to time reasonably request, in each case as soon as available and in such quantities as you may reasonably request.

 

(f) Qualification to Transact Business . The Company will take all steps necessary to ensure that at all times the Company will be validly existing as a Maryland corporation and will be qualified to do business in all jurisdictions in which the conduct of its business requires such qualification and where such qualification is required under local law.

 

(g) Authority to Perform Agreements . The Company undertakes to obtain all consents, approvals, authorizations or orders of any court or governmental agency or body which are required for the performance of this Agreement and under its bylaws or articles of incorporation, each as amended, or the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, respectively, or the conducting by the Company of the business described in the Prospectus.

 

(h) Copies of Reports . The Company will use its best efforts to furnish to you as promptly as shall be practicable the following (i) a copy of each report or general communication (whether financial or otherwise) sent to the Stockholders; (ii) a copy of each report (whether financial or otherwise) filed with the Commission; and (iii) such other information as you may from time to time reasonably request regarding the financial condition and operations of the Company including, but not limited to, copies of operating statements of properties acquired by the Company.

 

(i) Use of Proceeds . The Company will apply the proceeds from the sale of the Shares as stated in the Prospectus or, if for any reason whatsoever all or a portion of the proceeds of the Offering are not applied or committed for use as stated within 24 months of the Termination Date, the Company shall promptly return those proceeds from the sale of the Shares not so applied or committed, as stated in the Prospectus, with interest, to the subscribers, each subscriber sharing in the return in the ratio that the number of the Shares owned by such subscriber bears to the total number of the Shares owned by all subscribers.

 

 

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4. Covenants of the Dealer Manager . You covenant and agree with the Company on your behalf and on behalf of the Soliciting Dealers as follows:

 

(a) Compliance With Laws . With respect to your participation and the participation by each Soliciting Dealer in the offer and sale of the Shares (including, without limitation any resales and transfers of Shares), you agree, and each Soliciting Dealer agrees, to comply and shall comply with any applicable requirements of the Act, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “ Exchange Act ”), and the published rules and regulations of the Commission thereunder, and the applicable state securities or blue sky laws, and the FINRA Conduct Rules. The Dealer Manager agrees that it shall require each Soliciting Dealer to agree that such Soliciting Dealer will (i) not use any sales materials in connection with the solicitation of investors of the Shares except Approved Sales Literature; (ii) not use any B/D Use Only Approved Sales Literature with members of the general investing public; and (iii) to the extent the Company provides Investor Use Approval Sales Literature, not use such Investor Use Approved Sales Literature unless accompanied or preceded by the Prospectus, as then currently in effect, and as may be supplemented in the future. Soliciting Dealer will not publish, circulate or otherwise use any other advertisement or solicitation material in connection with the Offering without the Dealer Manager’s express prior written approval. The use of any other sales material is expressly prohibited. In addition, you shall, in accordance with applicable law or as prescribed by any state securities administrator, provide or cause Soliciting Dealers to provide to any prospective investor copies of any prescribed document which is part of the Registration Statement.

 

With respect to your and each Soliciting Dealer’s participation in any resales or transfers of the Shares, you agree, and each Soliciting Dealer agrees, to comply and shall comply with any applicable requirements as set forth above.

 

(b) No Additional Information . In offering the Shares for sale, you and each Soliciting Dealer shall not give or provide any information or make any representation other than those contained in the Prospectus, the sales literature or any other document provided to you for such purpose by the Company.

 

(c) Sales of Shares . You and each Soliciting Dealer shall solicit purchases of the Shares only in the jurisdictions in which you and such Soliciting Dealer are legally qualified to so act and in which you and each Soliciting Dealer have been advised by the Company that such solicitations can be made.

 

(d) Subscription Agreement . Subscriptions will be submitted by you and each Soliciting Dealer to the Transfer Agent using the Subscription Agreement. You and each Soliciting Dealer understand and acknowledge that each Subscription Agreement must be executed and initialed by the subscriber(s).

 

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(e) Suitabilit y. In offering the Shares to any person, you and each Soliciting Dealer shall not offer or sell Shares in any jurisdiction except to investors who satisfy the suitability and minimum investment requirements under the applicable provisions of the Prospectus or the laws of such jurisdiction (if they are more restrictive). You hereby acknowledge your firm’s obligations pursuant to FINRA rules, in general, and FINRA Conduct Rule 2310, in particular. Specifically, you agree to ensure that, in recommending the purchase, sale or exchange of Shares to an investor, each member of, or person associated with, your firm shall have reasonable grounds (as required by FINRA rules) to believe, on the basis of information obtained from the investor concerning his investment objectives, other investments, financial situation and needs, and any other information known to such member of, or person associated with your firm, that (i) the investor is or will be in a financial position appropriate to enable him to realize to a significant extent the benefits described in the Prospectus, including the tax benefits to the extent they are a significant aspect of the Company; (ii) the investor has a fair market net worth sufficient to sustain the risks inherent in an investment in Shares in the amount proposed, including loss, and lack of liquidity of such , and (iii) an investment in Shares is otherwise suitable for such investor. You further represent, warrant and covenant that you will: (x) require each member of, or person associated with your firm, to make diligent inquiry as to the suitability and appropriateness of an investment in Shares from each proposed investor, (y) retain in your records for a period equal to the longer of (A) six years from the date of the applicable sale of Shares or (B) five years from the end of the Offering Period, and (z) make available to us and the Company, upon request (and upon your firm’s receipt of an appropriate document subpoena from one of the following, to representatives of the Commission, FINRA and applicable State securities administrators) documents disclosing the basis upon which the determination as to suitability was reached as to each purchaser of Shares pursuant to a subscription solicited by your firm, whether such records relate to accounts which have been closed, accounts which are currently maintained, or accounts hereafter established. You shall not purchase any Shares for a discretionary account without obtaining the prior written approval of your customer and his signature on a Subscription Agreement.

 

Prior to the sale of the Shares, you and each Soliciting Dealer shall inform the prospective purchaser of all pertinent facts relating to the liquidity and marketability of the Shares during the term of the investment.

 

(f) Due Diligence . Prior to offering the Shares for sale, you and each Soliciting Dealer shall have conducted an inquiry such that you have reasonable grounds to believe, based on information made available to you by the Company through the Prospectus or other materials, that all material facts are adequately and accurately disclosed and provide a basis for evaluating the purchase of the Shares. In determining the adequacy of disclosed facts pursuant to the foregoing, you and each Soliciting Dealer may obtain, upon request, information on material facts relating at a minimum to the following:

 

(1) items of compensation; 

(2) Company properties, if any;  

(3) tax aspects;

(4) conflicts and risk factors; and

(5) appraisals and other pertinent reports.

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, you and each Soliciting Dealer may rely upon the results of an inquiry conducted by another Soliciting Dealer, provided that (i) such Soliciting Dealer has reasonable grounds to believe that such inquiry was conducted with due care; (ii) the results of the inquiry were provided to you with the consent of the Soliciting Dealer conducting or directing the inquiry; and (iii) no Soliciting Dealer that participated in the inquiry is an affiliate of the Company or the Advisor.

 

(g) Offering Price Adjustment . If, after the Effective Date, the Company shall adjust the initial purchase price of $10.00 per Share for the 30,000,000 Shares to be offered for sale on a “best efforts” basis in the Offering, you agree (and each Soliciting Dealer agrees) that the total sales commissions payable as provided in Section 2(d)(i) above, shall not exceed 7% of the sales price paid for the Shares and the dealer manager fee payable as provided in Section 2(d)(i) above, shall not exceed 3% of the sales price paid for the Shares.

 

(h) Notification of Conferences and Seminars . So that we may comply with FINRA requirements, we will require all Soliciting Dealers to notify us of any educational seminars or conferences that they conduct not in connection with us.

 

5. Expenses . The Company will pay all fees and expenses incident to the performance of its obligations under this Agreement, including, but not limited to:

 

(a) The Commission registration fee;

 

(b) Expenses of printing the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto and the expense of furnishing to the Dealer Manager copies of the Registration Statement, the Prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto, any Blue Sky Surveys, all sales materials and any other documents in connection with the offering, purchase, sale and delivery of the Shares as herein provided;

 

(c) Fees and expenses of the Company’s accountants and counsel in connection with the Offering contemplated by this Agreement;

 

(d) The FINRA filing fee;

 

(e) All state Blue Sky registration fees;

 

(f) The cost of preparing stock certificates, if any;

 

(g) The costs or expenses of any depositary escrow agent, transfer agent, or registrar;

 

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(h) All costs of licensing, registration, errors and omissions insurance, e-mail archiving, and other similar fees of any wholesalers;

 

(i) Bona fide due diligence fees and expenses reimbursements, if any, paid only upon receipt of a detailed and itemized invoice in accordance with FINRA’s Rules;

 

(j) All of your expenses in connection with the Offering, subject to the limitations contained in the Prospectus; including, but not limited to, the salaries, travel expenses and similar expenses of your employees and personnel incurred in connection with the Offering. Such expenses are limited to the 3% Dealer Manager Fee.

 

6. Conditions of Obligations . Your obligations hereunder shall be subject to the accuracy of the representations and warranties on the part of the Company contained in Section 1 hereof, the accuracy of the statements of the Company made pursuant to the provisions hereof, to the performance by the Company of its covenants, agreements and obligations contained in Sections 3 and 5 hereof, and to the following additional conditions:

 

(a) Effectiveness of the Registration Statement . The Registration Statement shall have become effective not later than 5:00 p.m., New York, New York time, on the day following the date of this Agreement, or such later time and date as you and the Company shall have agreed; no stop order suspending the effectiveness of the Registration Statement shall have been issued by the Commission and, to the best knowledge of the Company or you, no proceedings for that purpose shall have been instituted, threatened or contemplated by the Commission; and any request by the Commission for additional information (to be included in the Registration Statement or Prospectus or otherwise) shall have been complied with to the reasonable satisfaction of you or your counsel.

 

(b) Accuracy of the Registration Statement . You shall not have advised the Company that the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or any amendment or any supplement thereto, in the reasonable opinion of you or your counsel, contains any untrue statement of fact which is material, or omits to state a fact which is material and is required to be stated therein or is necessary to make the statements therein not misleading.

 

7. Indemnification.

 

(a) Subject to the limitations set forth below, the Company agrees to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the Dealer Manager, each Soliciting Dealer, each of the Dealer Manager’s and Soliciting Dealer’s respective officers, directors, employees, members, partners, affiliates, agents and representatives and each person, if any, who controls the Dealer Manager or any Soliciting Dealer within the meaning of the Act (collectively, the “ Indemnified Parties ”), from and against any losses, claims, expenses (including reasonable legal and other expenses incurred in investigating and defending such claims or liabilities), damages or liabilities, joint or several, to which any such Soliciting Dealer or the Dealer Manager or their respective Indemnified Parties, may become subject under the Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise, insofar as such losses, claims, expenses, damages or liabilities (or actions or omissions in respect thereof) arise out of or are based upon: (i) in whole or in part, any material inaccuracy in a representation or warranty contained herein by the Company, or any material breach of a covenant contained herein by the Company, or any material failure by the Company to perform its obligations hereunder or to comply with state or federal securities laws applicable to the Offering; (ii) any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement of a material fact contained (A) in the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto or in the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto, (B) in any Approved Sales Literature or (C) in any Blue Sky Survey based upon written information furnished by the Company; or (iii) the omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated in the Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment thereto or in the Prospectus or any amendment or supplement thereto necessary to make the statements therein, in light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading. Such indemnification shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 7(b) and (c) of this Agreement.

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The Company shall not provide indemnification for any liability or loss suffered by you, nor shall it provide that you be held harmless for any liability suffered by the Company, unless all of the following conditions are met: (i) the party seeking indemnification has determined, in good faith, that its course of conduct, if such course of conduct caused the loss or liability, was in the best interests of the Company; (ii) the person seeking indemnification was acting on behalf of or performing services on behalf of the Company; (iii) such liability or loss was not the result of gross negligence or willful misconduct on the part of the party seeking indemnification or the Indemnified Party; and (iv) such indemnification or agreement to be held harmless is recoverable only out of the assets of the Company and not from the Stockholders.

 

In no case shall the Company be liable under this indemnity agreement with respect to any claim made against any of the Indemnified Parties unless the Company shall have been notified in writing (in the manner provided in Section 10 hereof) of the nature of the claim within a reasonable time after the assertion thereof; but the failure to so notify the Company shall not relieve the Company from any liability which the Company would have incurred otherwise than on account of this indemnity agreement. The Company shall be entitled to participate, at its own expense, in the defense of, or if it so elects within a reasonable time after receipt of such notice, to assume the defense of any claim or suit for which any of the Indemnified Parties seek indemnification hereunder. If the Company elects to assume said defense, such defense shall be conducted by counsel chosen by it and reasonably satisfactory to the Indemnified Parties.

 

In the event that the Company elects to assume the defense of any such suit and retains such counsel, the Company shall not be liable under this Section 7 to the Indemnified Parties in the suit for any legal or other expenses subsequently incurred by the Indemnified Parties, and the Indemnified Parties shall bear the fees and expenses of any additional counsel retained by the Indemnified Parties unless: (A) the employment of counsel by the Indemnified Party has been authorized by the Company; or (B) the Company shall not in fact have employed counsel to assume the defense of such action, in either of which events such fees and expenses shall be borne by the Company.

 

The Company may advance amounts to the Indemnified Parties for legal and other expenses and costs incurred as a result of any legal action for which indemnification is being sought only if all of the following conditions are satisfied: (i) the legal action relates to acts or omissions with respect to the performance of duties or services by one or more Indemnified Parties for or on behalf of the Company; (ii) the legal action is initiated by a third party who is not a Stockholder or is initiated by a Stockholder acting in his or her capacity as such and a court of competent jurisdiction specifically approves such advancement; and (iii) the Indemnified Parties receiving such advances undertake to repay the advanced funds to the Company, together with the applicable legal rate of interest thereon, in cases in which such Indemnified Parties are thereafter found not to be entitled to indemnification.

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 7, the Company will not be liable in any such case to the extent that any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense arises out of or is based upon an untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with written information furnished to the Company by or on behalf of you or any Soliciting Dealer for use in the preparation of the Registration Statement (or any amendment thereof) or the Prospectus (or any supplement thereto). The foregoing indemnity agreement is subject to the further condition that, insofar as it relates to any untrue statement, alleged untrue statement, omission or alleged omission made in the Prospectus but eliminated or remedied in any amendment or supplement thereto, such indemnity agreement shall not inure to your benefit or to any Soliciting Dealer from whom the person asserting any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense purchased the Shares which are the subject thereof (or to the benefit of any person who controls you or any Soliciting Dealer), if a copy of the Prospectus as so amended or supplemented was not sent or given to such person at or prior to the time the subscription of such person was accepted by the Company; but only if a copy of the Prospectus (as so amended or supplemented) had been supplied by the Company to you or any Soliciting Dealer prior to such acceptance. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which the Company may otherwise have.

 

(b) The indemnification and agreement to hold harmless provided in subparagraph (a) of this Section 7 is further limited to the extent that no such indemnification by the Company of you or a Soliciting Dealer shall be permitted under this Agreement for or arising out of an alleged violation of federal or state securities laws unless one or more of the following conditions are met: (i) there has been a successful adjudication on the merits of each count involving alleged securities law violations by you or any Soliciting Dealer and a court of competent jurisdiction has approved indemnification of the litigation costs; (ii) such claims against you or any Soliciting Dealer have been dismissed with prejudice on the merits by a court of competent jurisdiction as to the particular indemnitee and the court has approved indemnification of the litigation costs; or (iii) a court of competent jurisdiction approves a settlement of the claims against you or any Soliciting Dealer and finds that indemnification of the settlement and related costs should be made and the court considering the request has been advised of the position of the Commission and of any state securities regulatory authority in which securities of the Company were offered and sold as to indemnification for securities law violations.

 

 

 

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(c) You and each Soliciting Dealer agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company, and each person, if any, who controls the Company within the meaning of the Act and any controlling person of the Company: (i) to the same extent as in the foregoing indemnity from the Company to you and each Soliciting Dealer, but only with reference to statements or omissions based upon the information relating to you or any Soliciting Dealer furnished in writing by you or such Soliciting Dealer or on your or their behalf for use in the Registration Statement or the Prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto; and (ii) for any violation by you or any Soliciting Dealer in the sale of the Shares of any applicable state or federal law or any rule, regulation or instruction thereunder, provided that such violation is not committed in reliance on any violation by the Company of such law, rule, regulation or instruction. You and each Soliciting Dealer further agree to indemnify and hold harmless the Company and any controlling person of the Company against any losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses to which the Company or any such controlling person may become subject under the securities or blue sky laws of any jurisdiction insofar as such losses, liabilities, claims, damages or expenses (or actions, proceedings or investigations in respect thereof) arise by reason of a sale of the Shares through the efforts of you (with respect to sales effected without the assistance of a Soliciting Dealer) or a Soliciting Dealer (with respect to sales effected by such Soliciting Dealer) which is effected other than in accordance with the Blue Sky Survey supplied to you by the Company (a “ Non-Permitted Sale ”), whether such Non-Permitted Sale is caused by a sale in a jurisdiction other than those specified in the Blue Sky Survey, by a sale in a jurisdiction in which you or the Soliciting Dealer is not registered to sell the Shares or which results in a sale in a jurisdiction in excess of the number of Shares permitted to be sold in such jurisdiction, and will reimburse the Company or any such controlling person for any legal fees, monetary penalties or other expenses reasonably incurred by any of them in connection with investigating, curing or defending against any such losses, liabilities, claims, damages, actions, proceedings or investigations. This indemnity agreement will be in addition to any liability which you or any Soliciting Dealer may otherwise have.

 

(d) The notice provisions contained in Section 7(a) hereof, relating to notice to the Company, shall be equally applicable to you and each Soliciting Dealer if the Company or any controlling person of the Company seeks indemnification pursuant to Section 7(c) hereof. In addition, you and each Soliciting Dealer may participate in the defense, or assure the defense, of any such suit so sought under Section 7(c) hereof and have the same rights and privileges as the Company enjoys with respect to such suits under Section 7(a) hereof.

 

8. Termination of this Agreement . This Agreement may be terminated by you or the Company upon either (i) a material breach of this Agreement by one of the parties hereto, subject to a thirty (30) day cure period following prior written notice thereof or, (ii) by the Company if the Company engages Lightstone Securities, LLC or another entity that is majority owned by David Lichtenstein as exclusive managing agent for the Offering. No termination of this Agreement shall affect any rights to receive compensation pursuant to this Agreement with respect to sales of Shares made prior to such termination and any rights to indemnification or contribution or expense reimbursement hereunder, and all representations, covenants and agreements contained in this Agreement which, by their terms, expire or will need to be performed after the termination date of this Agreement (including, but not limited to, the suitability record retention and disclosure covenants contained in Section 4 of this Agreement), shall survive such termination.

 

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In any case, this Agreement shall expire at the close of business on the effective date that the Offering is terminated. The provisions of Section 7 and 12 hereof shall survive such termination. In addition, the Dealer Manager, upon the expiration or termination of this Agreement, to the extent of a termination of this Agreement pursuant to the first sentence of this Section 8, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Company to accomplish any orderly transfer or management of the Offering to a party designated by the Company. Upon expiration or termination of this Agreement, the Company shall pay to the Dealer Manager all commissions to which the Dealer Manager is or becomes entitled under this Agreement at such time as the commissions become payable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall the Dealer Manager be entitled to payment of any compensation in connection with the offering of Shares that is not completed according to this Agreement or any previous written agreement providing for such compensation, except those negotiated and paid in connection with a transaction that occurs in lieu of the proposed offering as a result of the efforts of the Dealer Manager and related persons and provided, however, that the reimbursement of out-of-pocket accountable expenses actually incurred by the Dealer Manager or person associated with the Dealer Manager shall not be presumed to be unfair or unreasonable and shall be payable under normal circumstances.

 

9. Representations, Warranties and Agreements to Survive Delivery . All representations, warranties and agreements contained in this Agreement or contained in certificates of the Company submitted pursuant hereto shall remain operative and in full force and effect, regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of you or any person who controls you, or by or on behalf of the Company, and shall survive the Termination Date.

 

10. Notices . All communications hereunder shall be in writing and, if sent to you, shall be mailed by registered mail or delivered, facsimilied or telegraphed and confirmed in writing to Orchard Securities, LLC, 11650 South State Street, Suite 225, Draper, Utah 84020 and, if sent to the Company, shall be mailed by registered mail or delivered, facsimilied or telegraphed and confirmed in writing to Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc., 1985 Cedar Bridge Ave., Suite 1, Lakewood, New Jersey 08701.

 

11 . Parties . This Agreement shall inure to the benefit of and be binding upon you, the Company and the successors and assigns of you and the Company. This Agreement and the conditions and provisions hereof, are intended to be and shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and controlling persons, and for the benefit of no other person, firm or corporation, and the term “successors and assigns,” as used herein, shall not include any purchaser of Shares as such.

 

12. Applicable Law . This Agreement and any disputes relative to the interpretation or enforcement hereto shall be governed by and construed under the internal laws, as opposed to the conflicts of laws provisions, of the State of New York.

 

13. Effectiveness of Agreement . This Agreement shall become effective at 5:00 p.m., New York, New York time, on the Effective Date, or at such earlier time as you and the Company agree.

 

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14. Not a Separate Entity . Nothing contained herein shall constitute you and/or the Soliciting Dealers or any of them an association, partnership, limited liability company, unincorporated business or other separate entity.

 

If the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding of our agreement, kindly sign and return it to us, whereupon this instrument will become a binding agreement between you and the Company in accordance with its terms.

 

  LIGHTSTONE VALUE PLUS  
  REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT TRUST II,  
  INC., a Maryland corporation  
       
  By:    
    Name: David Lichtenstein  
    Title:   Chief Executive Officer  

 

 

Accepted as of the date first above written:

 

Orchard Securities, LLC,

a Utah limited liability company

 

 

By:    
  Name: Kevin C. Bradburn  
  Title:   President  

 

 

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  EXHIBIT 31.1

Certifications

  I, David Lichtenstein, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc.;

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this 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 report;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this 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 report;

 

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f), for the registrant and 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 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 and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

 

/s/ David Lichtenstein                      

David Lichtenstein

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

Date: November 16, 2012

  

 

 

EXHIBIT 31.2

Certifications

I, Donna Brandin, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc.;

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this 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 report;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this 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 report;

 

4. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f), for the registrant and 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 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 and presented in this report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based on such evaluation; and

 

d) Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

 

5. The registrant’s other certifying officer and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

 

a) All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

 

b) Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

 

/s/ Donna Brandin                    

Donna Brandin

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)  

 

 Date: November 16, 2012

 

 

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

 

I, David Lichtenstein, the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc. (the “Company”) certify, pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, that:

 

(1) The Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of the Company for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 (the “Report”) fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C 78m); and

 

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

 

 

/s/ David Lichtenstein                      

David Lichtenstein

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

Date: November 16, 2012

  

 

 

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

 

I, Donna Brandin, the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer of Lightstone Value Plus Real Estate Investment Trust II, Inc. (the “Company”) certify, pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, that:

 

(1) The Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of the Company for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 (the “Report”) fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (15 U.S.C 78m); and

 

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

 

 

/s/ Donna Brandin                      

Donna Brandin

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

Date: November 16, 2012