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Significant Tenant | 9 Months Ended
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Significant Tenant | Note 9. Significant Tenant Five Star is our former subsidiary. Rental income from Five Star represented 34.7% of our rental income for the three months ended September 30, 2014, and the properties Five Star leases from us represented 34.5% of our investments, at cost, as of September 30, 2014. As of September 30, 2014, Five Star also managed 44 senior living communities for our account. Subject to the information in the following paragraph, financial information about Five Star may be found on the website of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, by entering Five Star’s name at http://www.sec.gov/edgar/searchedgar/companysearch.html. Reference to Five Star’s financial information on this external website is presented to comply with applicable accounting guidance of the SEC. Except for such financial information contained therein as is included herein under such guidance, Five Star’s public filings and other information located in external websites are not incorporated by reference into these financial statements. In April 2014, Five Star filed with the SEC an amended Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2012 and amended Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2013 and June 30, 2013 that restated its financial results for 2011, 2012 and the first and second quarters of 2013 to correct certain errors in its previously filed financial reports for those periods. In addition, in April 2014, Five Star filed with the SEC its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2013 and in September 2014, Five Star filed with the SEC its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2013. In those filings, Five Star disclosed that it has material weaknesses in its internal control over financial reporting and that Five Star is currently in the process of developing a remediation plan for the material weaknesses. Five Star has not yet filed its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2014 and June 30, 2014. Five Star has publicly disclosed that it intends to file with the SEC its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2014, June 30, 2014 and September 30, 2014 on or about the same day, and that it currently expected those filings to occur by December 31, 2014. See Note 10 for further information relating to our leases and management arrangements with Five Star.

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