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Related Party Transactions and Arrangements
 6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
Related Party Transactions and Arrangements

NOTE 7: Related Party Transactions and Arrangements

Fees and Expenses Paid to Our Advisor

Effective as of May 7, 2013, we entered into the Second Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement, or the amended and restated advisory agreement. The amended and restated advisory agreement was adopted primarily to adjust the advisor’s compensation and modify its duties to us.

Pursuant to the terms of the amended advisory agreement, our advisor is compensated as follows:

 

  •   Quarterly base management fee of 0.1875% of average gross real estate assets as of the last day of such quarter. Average gross real estate assets means the average of the aggregate book value of our real estate assets before reserves for depreciation or other similar noncash reserves and excluding the book values attributable to the eight properties that were acquired prior to August 16, 2013. We compute average gross real estate assets by taking the average of these book values at the end of each month during the quarter for which we are calculating the fee. The fee is payable quarterly in an amount equal to 0.1875% of average gross real estate assets as of the last day of such quarter. For the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2015, our advisor earned $1,046 and $2,047 of base management fees, respectively. For the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2014, our advisor earned $347 and $493 of base management fees, respectively.

 

  •   We pay our advisor an incentive fee based on our pre-incentive fee core funds from operations, or Core FFO, a non-GAAP measure, as defined in the advisory agreement. The incentive fee is computed at the end of each fiscal quarter as follows:

 

  •   no incentive fee in any fiscal quarter in which our pre-incentive fee Core FFO does not exceed the hurdle rate of 1.75% (7% annualized) of the cumulative gross amount of equity capital we have obtained; and

 

  •   20% of the amount of our pre-incentive fee Core FFO that exceeds 1.75% (7% annualized) of the cumulative gross proceeds from the issuance of equity securities we have obtained.

 

  •   For the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2015, our advisor earned $214 and $425 of incentive fees, respectively. For the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2014, our advisor earned $154 and $154 of incentive fees. These fees are included within asset management fees in our consolidated statements of operations.

As of June 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014 we had liabilities payable to our advisor for base management fees and incentive fees of $1,260 and $644, respectively, which is included in accounts payable and accrued expenses in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.

Property Management Fees Paid to Our Property Manager

We have entered into property management agreements with RAIT Residential, or our property manager, which is majority owned by RAIT, with respect to each of our properties. Pursuant to the property management agreements, we pay our property manager property management and leasing fees on a monthly basis of an amount up to 4.0% of the gross revenues from the property for each month. Additionally, we may pay our property manager a separate fee for the one-time initial rent-up or leasing-up of newly constructed properties in an amount not to exceed the fee customarily charged in arm’s length transactions by others rendering similar services in the same geographic area for similar properties as determined by a survey of brokers and agents in such area. Each management agreement has an initial one year term, subject to automatic one-year renewals unless either party gives prior notice of its desire to terminate the management agreement. For the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2015 our property manager earned $764 and $1,519, respectively, of property management and leasing fees. For the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2014 our property manager earned $411 and $732, respectively, of property management and leasing fees. As of June 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014, we had liabilities payable to our property manager for property management and leasing fees of $262 and $205, respectively, which is included in accounts payable and accrued expenses in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.