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Allowance for Doubtful Accounts
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2017
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts  
Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

 

Note 8  — Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

 

The Company maintains an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated losses resulting from the inability of a tenant to make required rent and other payments.  If the financial condition of a specific tenant were to deteriorate, adversely impacting its ability to make payments, allowances may be required.  At September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, there was no balance in allowance for doubtful accounts.

 

The Company records bad debt expense as a reduction of rental income and/or tenant reimbursements.

 

The Company recorded bad debt expense of  $310,000 during the nine months ended September 30, 2017.  Such bad debt expense related to rental income and tenant reimbursements due from tenants at four properties that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  The Company sold one of these properties, located in Niles, Illinois, in August 2017 (see Note 5). Each tenant accounted for less than 1.2% of rental income for each of the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016.  In addition, during the nine months ended September 30, 2017, the Company wrote-off (i) $362,000 of unbilled straight-line rent receivable and $67,000 of unamortized intangible lease assets as a reduction to rental income and (ii) $884,000 of tenant origination costs as an increase to depreciation expense related to these tenants.  Except with respect to its property located in Ann Arbor, Michigan (discussed below), the Company has determined that no impairment charge is required with respect to the two other properties, which at September 30, 2017, had an aggregate net book value of $2,382,000.  There was no bad debt expense in the three months ended September 30, 2017.

 

The Company recorded bad debt expense of $190,000 during the nine months ended September 30, 2016, respectively, related to rental income and tenant reimbursements due from Sports Authority, the former tenant at its Greenwood Village, Colorado property, that filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in March 2016.  This tenant accounted for less than 1% of the Company’s rental income for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016.  The Company sold this property in May 2017 (see Note 5).  There was no bad debt expense in the three months ended September 30, 2016.

 

Impairment Loss

 

As of September 30, 2017, the Company determined that it was more likely than not that its property formerly tenanted by Joe’s Crab Shack, located in Ann Arbor, Michigan would be disposed of before the end of its previously estimated useful life.  Subsequent to September 30, 2017 the Company entered into a contract to sell the property. As the sales price is less than the book value, the Company determined that the property is impaired and recorded an impairment loss of $153,000 representing the difference between the expected net sales price and the net book value as of September 30, 2017.