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Covid-19 Pandemic
12 Months Ended
Oct. 31, 2022
Covid-19 Pandemic [Abstract]  
COVID-19 pandemic

Note 16 – COVID-19 pandemic:

The international spread of COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. Beginning in March 2020 and throughout most of 2020, many states in the U.S., including New Jersey, New York and Maryland, where our properties were located, implemented stay-at-home and shut down orders for all "non-essential" business and activity in an aggressive effort to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. The Company continues to monitor changes in the collectability assessment of its tenant receivables resulting from the lingering effects that the COVID-19 pandemic and preventive measures taken to mitigate the spread had on some of its commercial tenants. For the fiscal years ended October 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, rental revenue deemed uncollectible of approximately $0.6

million, $1.3 million and $1.4 million (with a consolidated impact to FREIT of approximately $0.3 million, $0.8 million and $0.9 million), respectively, was classified as a reduction in rental revenue based on our assessment of the probability of collecting substantially all of the remaining rents for certain tenants. During the period beginning March 2020 through October 31, 2021, FREIT has applied, net of amounts subsequently paid back by tenants, an aggregate of approximately $397,000 of security deposits from its commercial tenants to outstanding receivables due. During the year ended October 31, 2022, there were no security deposits from its commercial tenants applied to outstanding receivables due. On a case by case basis, FREIT has offered some commercial tenants deferrals of rent over a specified time period totaling approximately $0, $132,000 and $206,000 (with a consolidated impact to FREIT of approximately $0, $81,000 and $192,000) and rent abatements totaling approximately $9,000, $239,000 and $238,000 (with a consolidated impact to FREIT of approximately $9,000, $158,000 and $156,000) for the fiscal years ended October 31, 2022, 2021 and 2020, respectively.

Cobb Theatre, an anchor tenant movie theatre at the Rotunda Property filed for bankruptcy and rejected its lease at the Rotunda property as of June 30, 2020. As a result of the rejection of this lease, uncollected rents in the amount of approximately $0.3 million and a straight-line rent receivable of approximately $0.4 million were reversed against revenue, and unamortized leasing commissions in the amount of approximately $0.2 million were written off and fully expensed in Fiscal 2020 resulting in a net impact to net income of approximately $0.9 million (with a consolidated impact to FREIT of approximately $0.5 million) for the year ended October 31, 2020. Tenant improvements related to the Cobb Theatre with a net book value of approximately $7.3 million (with a consolidated impact to FREIT of approximately $4.4 million) as of October 31, 2020 were deemed to be impaired, written off and charged to operations in the consolidated statement of income for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2020. On December 30, 2021, the Rotunda property owned by Grande Rotunda was sold. (See Note 2 for additional details.)

As a result of the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic at our commercial properties, in Fiscal 2020 we were granted debt payment relief from certain of our lenders on such properties in the form of deferral of principal and/or interest payments for a three-month period, resulting in total deferred payments of approximately $1,013,000, which will become due at the maturity of the loans. As of October 31, 2022 and 2021, approximately $623,000 and $162,000, respectively, of this amount has been repaid, there will be no further deferrals of principal and/or interest payments on these loans and the balance due has been included in mortgages payable on the consolidated balance sheets as of October 31, 2022 and 2021. (See Note 5)