Summary of Significant Accounting Policies |
6 Months Ended |
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Jun. 30, 2020 | |
Accounting Policies [Abstract] | |
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies | 2.Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Significant Accounting Policies There were no material changes to our significant accounting policies disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2019. Use of Estimates The preparation of the financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. The most significant of these estimates include: (i) the underlying cash flows and holding periods used in assessing impairment; (ii) the determination of useful lives for tangible and intangible assets; and (iii) the assessment of the collectability of receivables, including deferred rent receivables. Due to the current pandemic of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, commencing in March 2020, authorities in jurisdictions where our properties are located issued stay-at-home orders and restrictions on travel and permitted businesses operations. The effects of COVID-19 have most significantly impacted the operations of many of our retail tenants, which generated approximately 7% of our revenue for the year ended December 31, 2019, our commercial parking revenue and our interest in the operations of the Crystal City Marriott and The Marriott Wardman Park hotels. The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacts us and our tenants will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain. The extent and duration of the stay-at-home orders and other effects of COVID-19 on us and our tenants will affect estimates used in the preparation of the underlying cash flows used in assessing our long-lived assets for impairment and the assessment of the collectability of receivables from tenants, including deferred rent receivables. We have made what we believe to be appropriate accounting estimates based on the facts and circumstances available as of the reporting date. To the extent these estimates differ from actual results, our consolidated financial statements may be materially affected. Recent Accounting Pronouncements Reference Rate Reform In March 2020, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update 2020-04, Reference Rate Reform ("Topic 848"). Topic 848 contains practical expedients for reference rate reform related activities that impact debt, leases, derivatives and other contracts. The guidance in Topic 848 is optional and may be elected over the period March 12, 2020 through December 31, 2022 as reference rate reform activities occur. During the six months ended June 30, 2020, we elected to apply the hedge accounting expedients related to (i) the assertion that our hedged forecasted transactions remain probable and (ii) the assessments of effectiveness for future LIBOR-indexed cash flows to assume that the index upon which future hedged transactions will be based matches the index on the corresponding derivatives. Application of these expedients preserves the presentation of our derivatives, which will be consistent with our past presentation. We will continue to evaluate the impact of the guidance and may apply other elections, as applicable, as additional changes in the market occur. COVID-19 Lease Modification Accounting Relief Due to the business disruptions and challenges severely affecting the global economy caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have provided rent deferrals and other lease concessions to certain of our tenants. In April 2020, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") issued a Staff Q&A that allows lessors to elect not to evaluate whether lease-related relief provided to mitigate the economic effects of COVID-19 is a lease modification under Accounting Standards Codification Topic 842, Leases ("Topic 842") if certain criteria are met. This election allows us to bypass a lease-by-lease analysis, and instead choose to either apply the lease modification accounting framework or not, with such election applied consistently to leases with similar characteristics and similar circumstances. We have elected to apply the lease modification policy relief and have accounted for lease-related relief provided to mitigate the economic effects of COVID-19 as lease modifications under Topic 842, regardless of whether the right to such relief was embedded within the terms of the lessee’s lease. During the three months ended June 30, 2020, we entered into rent deferral agreements with certain of our tenants, many of which were placed on the cash basis of accounting, resulting in the deferral to future periods of $1.2 million of rent that had been contractually due in the second quarter. We are in the process of negotiating additional rent deferrals and other lease concessions with some of our tenants. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2020, we recorded $3.6 million and $4.7 million of credit losses against billed rent receivables and $2.0 million and $3.6 million against deferred (straight-line) rent receivables due to the effects of COVID-19 related to certain of our tenants, primarily our retail tenants, that are unable to pay rent while businesses are closed or not operating at full capacity. During the three months ended June 30, 2020, we also recorded $2.4 million of reserves against receivables from one of our parking operators that filed for bankruptcy protection. Additionally, in connection with the preparation and review of our second quarter 2020 financial statements, we determined that our investment in the venture that owns The Marriott Wardman Park hotel was impaired due to a decline in the fair value of the underlying asset and recorded an impairment charge of $6.5 million, reducing the net book value of our investment to zero (see Note 4 for additional information). |