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Organization
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Organization
General
 
Organization

Rangers Sub I, LLC ("Rangers") is a Maryland limited liability company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of RLJ Lodging Trust, L.P. ("RLJ LP"). Rangers owns an indirect 99% partnership interest in FelCor Lodging Limited Partnership ("FelCor LP"). Rangers General Partner, LLC, also a wholly-owned subsidiary of RLJ LP, owns the remaining 1% partnership interest and is the sole general partner of FelCor LP. Rangers and FelCor LP are collectively referred to as the "Company." Substantially all of the Company’s assets and liabilities are held by, and all of its operations are conducted through FelCor LP. The Company owns primarily premium-branded, upper-upscale hotels located in major markets and resort locations.

As of March 31, 2020, the Company owned 28 hotel properties with approximately 8,100 rooms, located in 13 states.  The Company, through wholly-owned subsidiaries, owned a 100% interest in 25 hotel properties, a 95% controlling interest in The Knickerbocker, and 50% interests in entities owning two hotel properties. The Company consolidates its real estate interests in the 26 hotel properties in which it holds a controlling financial interest, and the Company records the real estate interests in the two hotels in which it holds an indirect 50% interest using the equity method of accounting. The Company leases 27 of its 28 hotel properties to subsidiaries of RLJ LP.

Liquidity and Management's Plans

The Company's hotel property-owning subsidiaries (the “Lessors”) lease the hotel properties to property-operating lessees owned by TRS subsidiaries of RLJ (the “Lessees”). The Company receives related party lease revenue from these lease agreements, including percentage rent. The percentage rent amounts are calculated based on a percentage of room revenues, food and beverage revenues and other revenues at the hotel properties. In response to the near elimination of travel and hotel demand resulting from the spread of the novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) and the related government mandates, RLJ has temporarily suspended operations at approximately 50% of the Company's hotel properties. As a result, the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the hotel properties' operations have had, and will continue to have, a material adverse impact on the Company's financial results and liquidity, and such adverse impact may continue well beyond the containment of such outbreak. Since the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacts our operations will depend on future developments that are highly uncertain, the Company cannot estimate the impact on its business, financial condition or near- or longer-term financial or operational results with reasonable certainty.

In May 2020, RLJ LP contributed $50.0 million to the Company to ensure that the Company can service its debt and maintain its operations. In addition, given the elimination of lodging demand, the Company has taken various actions to help mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on its operating results and to preserve liquidity:

Capital Investment Reduction:  The Company has reduced its 2020 capital expenditure program by deferring a vast majority of capital investments, other than completing projects that are substantially underway and nearing completion; and

Return on Investment ("ROI") Project Suspensions:  The Company suspended a vast majority of the 2020 ROI projects.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Lessees had not previously experienced a suspension of hotel operations. As described in Note 12, as of May 8, 2020, RLJ had temporarily suspended operations at 13 of the Company's hotel properties due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.