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Related Party Transactions
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2019
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions

15. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Master Transfer Agreement

On April 30, 2019, the Company entered into a Master Transfer Agreement (the “MTA”) with Comstock Development Services, LC (“CDS”), an entity wholly owned by Christopher Clemente, the Chief Executive Officer of CHCI, and FR54, LC (“FR54”), an entity also controlled by Mr. Clemente, that sets forth a series of transactions that completed CHCI’s previously announced exit from the homebuilding and land development business in favor of a migration to an asset management model.  Refer to Note 1 – Organization and Basis of Presentation, Note 14 – Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities and Note 20- Subsequent Events for a discussion regarding the future accounting treatment related to these transactions

Asset Management Agreement

On April 30, 2019, CDS Asset Management, L.C. (“CAM”), an entity wholly owned by the Company, entered into an amended and restated master asset management agreement (the “2019 AMA”) with CDS, which amends and restates in its entirety the asset management agreement between the parties dated March 30, 2018 with an effective date as of January 1, 2018. Pursuant to the 2019 AMA, CDS will engage CAM to manage and administer CDS’ commercial real estate portfolio (“CRE Portfolio”) and the day to-day operations of CDS and each property-owning subsidiary of CDS (collectively, the “CDS Entities”).

Business Management Agreement

On April 30, 2019, CAM entered into a Business Management Agreement (the “Management Agreement”) with Comstock Investors X, L.C. (“Investors X”), an entity owned and controlled by CDS subsequent to the ownership transfer transactions set forth in the MTA, whereby CAM will provide Investors X with asset and professional services related to the wind down of the Company’s divested homebuilding operations and the continuation of services related to the Company’s divested land development activities. The aggregate fee payable to CAM from Investors X under the Management Agreement is $937,500, payable in fifteen quarterly installments of $62,500 each.  

Private Placements and Promissory Notes

On December 29, 2015, the Company and Stonehenge Funding, L.C. (“Stonehenge”), an entity wholly owned by our Chief Executive Officer, entered into a Note Exchange and Subscription Agreement pursuant to which the note in the original principal amount of $4.5 million issued to the Company by Stonehenge was cancelled in its entirety and exchanged for 772,210 shares of the Company’s Series B Non-Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share and a stated value of $5.00 per share (the “Series B Preferred Stock”). The number of shares of Series B Preferred Stock received by Stonehenge in exchange for the note represented the principal amount outstanding plus accrued interest under the note as of December 29, 2015, which was $3.9 million. The holders of Series B Preferred Stock earned dividends at a rate of 8.75% per annum accruing from the effective date of the Note Exchange and Subscription Agreement. During 2016 all of the Series B Non-Convertible Preferred Stock were exchanged for an identical number of shares of Series C Preferred Stock.

On December 29, 2015, Comstock Growth Fund II, L.C. (“CGF II”), an administrative entity managed by the Company, was created for the purpose of extending loans to the Company. CGF II entered into a subscription agreement with CDS pursuant to which CDS purchased membership interests in CGF II for an initial aggregate principal amount of $5.0 million (the “CGF II Private Placement”). Also on December 29, 2015, the Company entered into a revolving line of credit promissory note with CGF II whereby CGF II made a loan to the Company in the initial principal amount of $5.0 million. On May 23, 2018, the Company entered into a Note Exchange and Subscription Agreement (the “Note Exchange Agreement”) in which a note (“CGF2 Note”) with an outstanding principal and accrued interest balance of $3.7 million was exchanged for 738,390 shares of the Company’s Series C Non-Convertible Preferred Stock, par value $0.01 per share and a stated liquidation value of $5.00 per share (the “Series C Preferred Stock”), issued by the Company to Comstock Growth Fund II, L.C. (“CGF2”), a Company wholly owned by our Chief Executive Officer. The CGF2 Note was cancelled in its entirety effective as of the Effective Date.

See Note 9 for a summary of the Comstock X Private Placement which involved certain of our officers and directors and Note 14 to the consolidated financial statements for further description of the CGF Private Placement.

Lease for Corporate Headquarters

The Company has a lease for its corporate headquarters from an affiliate wholly-owned by our CEO. Future minimum lease payments under this lease, which expires on September 30, 2019, is $153 thousand.

For each of the three and six months ended June 30, 2019 total rental payments made were $153 thousand and $299 thousand, respectively. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2018 total rental payments made were $53 thousand and $107 thousand, respectively.