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Related Party Transactions
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions
5. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Through January 31, 2013, the Company had a property management agreement with CHG Properties, Inc. ("CHG") to manage all of its properties at rates up to 5% of gross income. The Company paid CHG total management fees of approximately $113,000 in the quarter ended March 31, 2013.

During the term of the property management agreement, the Company had an option to acquire the business conducted by CHG. The option was exercisable, with the approval of a majority of the Company's directors not otherwise interested in the transaction, without any consent of the property manager, its board or its shareholders. The option price to be paid in shares of the Company was determined by a predefined formula based on the net income of CHG during the 6-month period immediately preceding the month in which the acquisition notice is delivered. In January 2013, he Company completed the purchase CHG.

The Company leases a portion of its corporate headquarters at Pacific Oaks Plaza in Escondido, California to an entity 100% owned by the Company's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and another related party.  Total rents charged and paid by these affiliates was approximately $4,000 and $11,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2014 and 2013, respectively.

In January 2014, the former limited partner of NetREIT 01, LP, a consolidated subsidiary of the Company (the "Partnership") that owns the Presidio, exercised its option to convert approximately 52.8% of its ownership interests in the Partnership in exchange for approximately 21,000 shares of Company common stock. After conversion, our interest in the Partnership increased to approximately 89%. In January 2014, the Company agreed to purchase all of these shares from the limited partner at a price per share that was determined when the Partnership was formed, which, adjusted for stock dividends, was $7.858 per share. The stock purchase transaction was subjected to the Company's related party transaction policy which requires a review of the transaction by the uninterested parties of the Audit Committee and a subsequent vote by the Company's Board of Directors and was formally approved in December 2013.

Effective March 1, 2014, the former limited partner elected to convert all remaining interests in the Partnership in exchange for 18,807 shares of Company common stock. The Company will buy these shares back in January 2015 for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $147,800.

The limited partner of NetREIT 01, LP is the Allen Trust DTD 7-9-1999. William H. Allen, a Director of the Company and Chairman of the Audit Committee, is a beneficiary and a trustee of the trust. The Partnership was formed approximately one year before Mr. Allen became a Board Member.