Line of Credit

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2022

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Line of Credit

NOTE 7 – LINE OF CREDIT

Activity involving the line of credit during the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 is presented in the following table ($ in thousands).

	2022			2021
Balance, January 1	$	—		$	2,453
Draws		11,000			16,847
Repayments		(1,000	)		(19,300	)
Balance, December 31,	$	10,000		$	—
Line of credit - average daily balance	$	8,454		$	6,417

In March 2020, RMI VIII entered into a revolving line of credit and term loan agreement with Western Alliance Bank (“bank”) which is governed by the terms of the Business Loan Agreement (Revolving Line of Credit and Term Loan Agreement) between bank and the partnership (“original credit agreement”), which was amended and modified by the First Loan Modification Agreement made effective March 4, 2022 (the “modification agreement” and together with the original credit agreement, the “credit agreement of 2022”).

Under the terms of the credit agreement of 2022, RMI VIII can borrow up to a maximum principal of $10 million subject to a borrowing base calculation set forth in the credit agreement and the amounts advanced under the credit agreement are secured by a first priority security interest in the notes and deeds of trust of the pledged loans included in the borrowing base. The maturity date is March 13, 2024 when all amounts outstanding are then due. RMI VIII has the option at the maturity date to convert - for a fee of one-quarter of one percent (0.25%) – the then outstanding principal balance to a two-year term loan maturing in March 2026.

Prior to the modification agreement, interest on outstanding principal was payable monthly and accrued at the per annum rate of the greater of (i) five percent (5%) or (ii) the sum of the one-month LIBOR rate plus three and one-quarter percent (3.25%). The modification agreement replaced LIBOR as the reference rate under the credit agreement with the 30-day American Interbank Offered Rate Term -30 Index published for loans in United States Dollars by the American Financial Exchange (“Ameribor”). Following the modification agreement, interest on the outstanding principal under the credit line is payable monthly and accrues at the annual rate that is the greater of: (i) the Ameribor Rate plus three and one-quarter percent (3.25%); and (ii) five percent (5.0%). The fair value of the balance on the line of credit is deemed to approximate the recorded amount because the reference rate plus 3.25% and the other terms and conditions, including the two-year term, of the Revolving Line of Credit and Term Loan Agreement are reflective of market rate terms (Level 2 inputs).

If the partnership does not maintain the required compensating balance with a minimum daily average of $1.0 million for the calendar quarter, the interest rate automatically increases by one-quarter of one percent (0.25%) above that rate which would otherwise be applicable for the next calendar quarter retroactive to the beginning of the calendar quarter in which the compensating balance is not maintained. At December 31, 2022, the interest rate was seven and fourteen one-hundredths percent (7.14%).

For each calendar quarter during which the aggregate average daily outstanding principal is less than fifty percent (50%) of the maximum principal of $10 million, there is a quarterly unused line fee equal to one-half of one percent (0.50%) per annum of the average daily difference between the average principal outstanding and fifty percent (50%) of the maximum principal of $10 million.

Advances on the line of credit are to be used exclusively to fund secured loans. The credit agreement provides for customary financial and borrowing base reporting by RMI VIII to the lending bank and specifies that the partnership shall maintain (i) minimum tangible net worth of $50 million, net of amounts due from related companies; (ii) debt service coverage ratio at all times of not less than 2.00 to 1.00; and (iii) loan payment delinquency of less than ten percent (10.0%) at calendar quarter-end, calculated as the principal of loans with payments over 61-days past due as determined by the lending bank’s guidance, less loan loss allowances, divided by total principal of the partnership’s loans. The loan agreement provides that in the event the loan payment delinquency rate exceeds 10.0% as of the end of any quarter, the bank will cease to make any further advances but agrees not to accelerate repayment of the loan.

At December 31, 2022 and 2021, aggregate principal of pledged loans was approximately $23.2 million and $21.5 million, respectively, with a maximum allowed advance thereon of approximately $10 million, subject to the borrowing base calculation.

The debt issuance costs from the original credit agreement were fully amortized in March 2022. Debt issuance costs of approximately $57 thousand from the modification agreement are being amortized over its two-year term. Amortized debt issuance costs included in interest expense approximated $34 thousand and $54 thousand for 2022 and 2021, respectively.