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Subsequent Events
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent Events

NOTE 10 – SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

 

Management has evaluated subsequent events for disclosure and/or recognition in the financial statements through the date that the financial statements were issued and are disclosed herein.

 

On April 5, 2016 the Company awarded a total of 40,500 shares of restricted stock to Samuel A. Landy and Anna T. Chew, pursuant to their employment agreements. The grant date fair value of these restricted stock grants was $395,685. These grants vest ratably over 5 years.

 

On April 5, 2016, the Company granted options to purchase 527,000 shares of common stock to thirty-four participants in the Company’s 2013 Stock Option and Stock Award Plan. The grant date fair value of these options amounted to $457,389. These grants vest over one year. Compensation costs for grants issued to a participant who is of retirement age is recognized at the time of the grant. 

 

On April 5, 2016, the Company issued and sold 2,000,000 shares of its 8.0% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock in a registered direct placement at a sale price of $25.50 per share. The Company received net proceeds from the offering after expenses of approximately $49.1 million and intends to use the net proceeds for general corporate purposes, which may include purchase of manufactured homes for sale or lease to customers, expansion of its existing communities, potential acquisitions of additional properties and possible repayment of indebtedness on a short-term basis. The Series B Preferred Stock has no maturity and will remain outstanding indefinitely unless redeemed or otherwise repurchased. The Series B Preferred Stock ranks on a parity with the Company’s Series A Preferred Stock with respect to dividend rights and rights upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up.

 

In conjunction with the issuance of the Company’s Series B Preferred Stock, the Company filed with the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation (the “Maryland SDAT”), an amendment to the Company’s charter to increase the authorized number of shares of the Company’s common stock by 11,000,000 shares. As a result of this amendment, the Company’s total authorized shares were increased from 70,663,800 shares (classified as 62,000,000 shares of common stock, 3,663,800 shares of 8.25% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, 2,000,000 shares of 8.0% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock and 3,000,000 shares of excess stock) to 81,663,800 shares (classified as 73,000,000 shares of common stock, 3,663,800 shares of 8.25% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, 2,000,000 shares of 8.0% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock and 3,000,000 shares of excess stock). Immediately following this amendment, the Company filed with the Maryland SDAT Articles Supplementary reclassifying 2,000,000 shares of Common Stock as shares of Series B Preferred Stock. After the reclassification, the Company’s authorized stock consisted of 71,000,000 shares of common stock, 3,663,800 shares of 8.25% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock, 4,000,000 shares of 8.0% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock and 3,000,000 shares of excess stock.

 

On May 2, 2016, the Company obtained a $4,760,000 Freddie Mac mortgage through Wells Fargo on Waterfalls Village with an interest rate that is fixed at 4.38%. The Company also obtained a $3,498,000 Freddie Mac mortgage through Wells Fargo on Valley Hills with an interest rate that is fixed at 4.32%. These mortgages mature on June 1, 2026, with principal repayments based on a 30-year amortization schedule. Proceeds from these mortgages was used to repay existing mortgages on three communities with an average interest rate of 6.66%.