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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2021
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

NOTE 8 — RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Office leases

As discussed in Note 5 – Lease Liabilities and Right of Use Assets, in the fourth quarter of 2021 we assumed two lease agreements for office space in Miami Beach, Florida, from Sero Capital, LLC (“Sero Capital”), a stockholder who owns more than 10% of the outstanding shares of common stock of the Company. The sole member of Sero Capital is David Moradi, a director and the Company’s Chief Executive Officer. Because the office space is predominately used by Mr. Moradi and other key company executives for their work with the Company, the audit committee deemed the assumption of the lease from Sero Capital and the related expense to be appropriately borne by the Company. The audit committee also determined that the material terms of the lease were market and no less favorable than the Company could have received on an arm’s length basis. The lease agreements assigned to the Company expire in May 2024 and provide for aggregate future lease payments totaling $554,000. In connection with the assignment of the leases, the Company paid Sero Capital $32,000 for the assignment of its rights to the security deposit.

In the second quarter of 2021, we terminated a lease with a company controlled by our Executive Chairman and closed our Scottsdale, AZ office. For the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2020, rent payments for this office space totaled $24,000 and $70,000, respectively.

Related party credit facility

On August 14, 2019, we entered into a Loan Agreement with Sero Capital. The Loan Agreement extended through August 14, 2020 and provided the Company with an unsecured credit facility under which we could have borrowed up to the aggregate principal amount of $2,000,000. No amounts were drawn under the credit facility though its expiration on August 14, 2020.

 

In consideration for the Loan Agreement, we issued to Sero Capital common stock warrants to acquire up to a total of 146,667 shares of the Company’s common stock at an exercise price of $6.00 per share. The warrants were fully exercised in August 2020 and the warrant liability was extinguished.