Related Party Transactions

Ashford Inc.

Advisory Agreement

Ashford LLC, a subsidiary of Ashford Inc., acts as our advisor. Our Chairman Mr. Monty J. Bennett, also serves as Chairman of the board of directors and Chief Executive Officer of Ashford Inc. Under our advisory agreement, we pay advisory fees to Ashford LLC. Through December 31, 2018, we were required to pay Ashford LLC a monthly base fee that is 1/12th the sum of (i) 0.70% of our total market capitalization for the prior month plus the Key Money Asset Management Fee (as defined in our advisory agreement), subject to a minimum monthly base fee, as payment for managing our day-to-day operations in accordance with our investment guidelines. Total market capitalization included the aggregate principal amount of our consolidated indebtedness (including our proportionate share of debt of any entity that is not consolidated but excluding our joint venture partners’ proportionate share of consolidated debt).

On January 15, 2019, the Company entered into Amendment No. 1 to the Fifth Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement with Ashford Inc.(“Amendment No. 1”). Amendment No. 1 revised the formula for calculating the base fee to be equal to 1/12^th of the sum of (i) 0.70% of the total market capitalization of our company for the prior month, plus (ii) the Net Asset Fee Adjustment (as defined), if any, on the last day of the prior month during which our advisory agreement was in effect; provided, however in no event shall the base fee for any month be less than the minimum base fee as provided by our advisory agreement. The base fee is payable on the 5^th business day of each month.

The minimum base fee for Braemar for each month will be equal to the greater of:


(i)	90% of the base fee paid for the same month in the prior year; and


(ii)	1/12^th of the G&A Ratio (as defined) multiplied by the total market capitalization of Braemar.

We are also required to pay Ashford LLC an incentive fee that is measured annually (or for a stub period if the advisory agreement is terminated at other than year-end). Each year that our annual total stockholder return exceeded the average annual total stockholder return for our peer group we would pay Ashford LLC an incentive fee over the following three years, subject to the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (“FCCR”) Condition, as defined in the advisory agreement, which relates to the ratio of adjusted EBITDA to fixed charges. We also reimburse Ashford LLC for certain reimbursable overhead and internal audit, risk management advisory and asset management services, as specified in the advisory agreement. We also recorded equity-based compensation expense for equity grants of common stock and LTIP units awarded to officers and employees of Ashford LLC in connection with providing advisory services.

The following table summarizes the advisory services fees incurred (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2019		2018
Advisory services fee
Base advisory fee	$	2,660	$	2,107
Reimbursable expenses ⁽¹⁾	580		420
Equity-based compensation ⁽²⁾	1,470		2,547
Incentive fee	1,314		170
Total	$	6,024	$	5,244

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⁽¹⁾	Reimbursable expenses include overhead, internal audit, risk management advisory and asset management services.


⁽²⁾	Equity-based compensation is associated with equity grants of Braemar’s common stock, PSUs, LTIP units and Performance LTIP units awarded to officers and employees of Ashford LLC.

In accordance with our advisory agreement, our advisor, or entities in which our advisor has an interest, have a right to provide products or services to us or our hotel properties, provided such transactions are evaluated and approved by our independent directors. The following tables summarize the entities in which our advisor has an interest with which we or our hotel properties contracted for products and services, the amounts recorded by us for those services and the applicable classification on our condensed consolidated financial statements (in thousands):



		Three Months Ended March 31, 2019
Company	Product or Service	Total		Investments in Hotel Properties, net ⁽¹⁾		Indebtedness, net ⁽²⁾			Other Hotel Revenue		Other Hotel Expenses		Advisory Services Fee		Corporate General and Administrative
Ashford LLC	Insurance claims services	$	30	$	—	$	—		$	—	$	—	$	—	$	30
J&S	Audio visual commissions	79		—		—			79		—		—		—
Lismore Capital	Mortgage placement services	275		—		(275		)	—		—		—		—
OpenKey	Mobile key app	5		—		—			—		5		—		—
Premier	Project management services	3,553		3,441		—			—		—		112		—
Pure Wellness	Hypoallergenic premium rooms	29		17		—			—		12		—		—
RED Leisure	Watersports activities and travel/transportation services	180		—		—			—		180		—		—

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⁽¹⁾	Recorded in furniture, fixtures and equipment and depreciated over the estimated useful life.


⁽²⁾	Recorded as deferred loan costs, which are included in “indebtedness, net” on our consolidated balance sheets and amortized over the initial term of the applicable loan agreement.



		Three Months Ended March 31, 2018
Company	Product or Service	Total		Other Hotel Expenses		Corporate General and Administrative
Ashford LLC	Insurance claims services	$	38	$	—	$	38
OpenKey	Mobile key app	8		8		—
Pure Wellness	Hypoallergenic premium rooms	9		9		—
RED Leisure	Watersports activities and travel/transportation services	180		180		—

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⁽¹⁾	Recorded in furniture, fixtures and equipment and depreciated over the estimated useful life.


⁽²⁾	Recorded as deferred loan costs, which are included in “indebtedness, net” on our consolidated balance sheets and amortized over the initial term of the applicable loan agreement.

The following table summarizes the due to Ashford Inc. (in thousands):



		Due to Ashford Inc.
Company	Product or Service	March 31, 2019		December 31, 2018
Ashford LLC	Advisory services	$	2,940	$	2,264
Ashford LLC	Insurance claims services	30		37
J&S	Audio visual services	44		—
OpenKey	Mobile key app	12		13
Premier	Project management services	2,071		1,657
Pure Wellness	Hypoallergenic premium rooms	17		30
		$	5,114	$	4,001

In 2015, $2.0 million of key money consideration was invested in furniture, fixtures and equipment by Ashford Inc. to be used by Braemar, which represented all of the key money consideration for the Bardessono Hotel. Upon adoption of ASC 842, we evaluated this arrangement, which is accounted for as a lease that will expire in 2020. Under the applicable accounting guidance in ASC 842, as the related party lease is provided rent-free, there is no economic substance related to the lease which results in not recording an operating lease right-of-use asset, an operating lease liability or lease expense.

Enhanced Return Funding Program

Concurrent with the Amendment No. 1, on January 15, 2019, the Company also entered into the Enhanced Return Funding Program Agreement (the “ERFP Agreement”) with Ashford Inc. The “key money investments” concept previously contemplated by our advisory agreement was replaced in the ERFP Agreement. The Amended and Restated Advisory Agreement was also amended to name Ashford Inc. and its subsidiaries as the Company’s sole and exclusive provider of asset management, project management and other services offered by Ashford Inc. or any of its subsidiaries. The independent members of our board of directors and the independent members of the board of directors of Ashford Inc., with the assistance of separate and independent legal counsel, engaged to negotiate the ERFP Agreement on behalf of Ashford Inc. and Braemar, respectively.

The ERFP Agreement generally provides that Ashford LLC will provide funding to facilitate the acquisition of properties by Braemar OP that are recommended by Ashford LLC, in an aggregate amount of up to $50 million (subject to increase to up to $100 million by mutual agreement). Each funding will equal 10% of the property acquisition price and will be made either at the time of the property acquisition or at any time generally within the two-year period following the date of such acquisition, in exchange for FF&E for use at the acquired property or any other property owned by Braemar OP.

The initial term of the ERFP Agreement is two years (the “Initial Term”), unless earlier terminated pursuant to the terms of the ERFP Agreement. At the end of the Initial Term, the ERFP Agreement shall automatically renew for successive one-year periods (each such period a “Renewal Term”) unless either Ashford Inc. or Braemar provides written notice to the other at least sixty days in advance of the expiration of the Initial Term or Renewal Term, as applicable, that such notifying party intends not to renew the ERFP Agreement. As a result of the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe acquisition, Braemar is entitled to receive $10.3 million from Ashford LLC in the form of future purchases of FF&E at Braemar hotel properties that will be leased to us by Ashford LLC rent free.

Project Management Agreement

In connection with Ashford Inc.’s August 8, 2018 acquisition of Remington Lodging’s project management business, we entered into a project management agreement with Ashford Inc.’s indirect subsidiary, Premier Project Management LLC (“Premier”), pursuant to which Premier provides project management services to our hotels, including construction management, interior design, architectural services, and the purchasing, freight management, and supervision of installation of FF&E and related services. Pursuant to the project management agreement, we pay Premier: (a) project management fees of up to 4% of project costs; and (b) for the following services as follows: (i) architectural (6.5% of total construction costs); (ii) construction management for projects without a general contractor (10% of total construction costs); (iii) interior design (6% of the purchase price of the FF&E designed or selected by Premier); and (iv) FF&E purchasing (8% of the purchase price of FF&E purchased by Premier; provided that if the purchase price exceeds $2.0 million for a single hotel in a calendar year, then the purchasing fee is reduced to 6% of the FF&E purchase price in excess of $2.0 million for such hotel in such calendar year).

Remington Lodging

On August 8, 2018, Ashford Inc. completed the acquisition of Premier As a result of Ashford Inc.’s acquisition, the project management services are no longer provided by Remington Lodging. Remington Lodging continues to provide property management services to the Company with respect to three of our hotel properties. will now be provided by a subsidiary of Ashford Inc. under the respective project management agreement with each customer, including Ashford Trust and Braemar.

At March 31, 2019, Remington Lodging managed three of our thirteen hotel properties and we incurred the following fees related to the management agreements with the related party (in thousands):



	Three Months Ended March 31,
	2019		2018
Property management fees, including incentive property management fees	$	409	$	438
Market service and project management fees	—		1,369
Corporate general and administrative expenses	87		82
Total	$	496	$	1,889

Certain employees of Remington Lodging, who perform work on behalf of Braemar, were granted shares of restricted stock under the Braemar Stock Plan. These share grants were accounted for under the applicable accounting guidance related to share-based payments granted to non-employees and are recorded as a component of “management fees” in our condensed consolidated statements of operations. For the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, expense related to such grants was $39,000 and $47,000, respectively. The unamortized compensation expense of these grants was $461,000 as of March 31, 2019, which will be amortized over a period of 2.9 years.