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Derivatives and Hedging Activities
 3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities Disclosure [Abstract]  
Derivatives and Hedging Activities Derivatives and Hedging Activities
Risk Management Objective of Using Derivatives. The Company is exposed to certain risks arising from both its business operations and economic conditions. The Company principally manages its exposures to a wide variety of business and operational risks through management of its core business activities. The Company manages economic risks, including interest rate, liquidity, and credit risk primarily by managing the type, amount, sources, and duration of its debt funding and the use of derivative financial instruments. Specifically, the Company enters into derivative financial instruments to manage exposures that arise from business activities that result in the receipt or payment of future known and uncertain cash amounts, the value of which are determined by interest rates. The Company's derivative financial instruments are used to manage differences in the amount, timing, and duration of the Company's known or expected cash receipts and its known or expected cash payments principally related to the Company's investments and borrowings.
Cash Flow Hedges of Interest Rate Risk. The Company's objectives in using interest rate derivatives are to add stability to interest expense, to manage its exposure to interest rate movements and therefore manage its cash outflows as it relates to the underlying debt instruments. To accomplish these objectives, the Company primarily uses interest rate swaps as part of its interest rate risk management strategy relating to certain of its variable rate debt instruments. Interest rate swaps designated as cash flow hedges involve the receipt of variable-rate amounts from a counterparty in exchange for the Company making fixed-rate payments over the life of the agreements without exchange of the underlying notional amount.
The changes in the fair value of derivatives designated and that qualify as cash flow hedges is recorded in accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) and is subsequently reclassified into earnings in the period that the hedged forecasted transaction affects earnings. The Company did not incur any ineffectiveness during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023.
During July 2022, the Company transitioned its four interest rate swap agreements with its counterparties to a benchmark rate of Term SOFR. The swaps were designated as cash flow hedges of the risk in variability attributable to changes in the Term SOFR swap rates on its $300,000 SOFR-indexed variable rate unsecured term loan. Accordingly, changes in fair value of the swaps are recorded in other comprehensive income (loss) and reclassified to earnings as interest becomes receivable or payable. The swaps expire in January 2025. During the next 12 months, the Company estimates that an additional $8,126 will be reclassified as a decrease in interest expense if the swaps remain outstanding.
As of March 31, 2024, the Company had the following outstanding interest rate derivatives that were designated as cash flow hedges of interest rate risk:
Interest Rate DerivativeNumber of InstrumentsNotional
Interest Rate Swaps4$300,000
The table below presents the fair value of the Company's derivative financial instruments as well as their classification on the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets:
 As of March 31, 2024As of December 31, 2023
Derivatives designated as hedging instruments:Balance Sheet LocationFair ValueBalance Sheet LocationFair Value
Interest Rate SwapsOther Assets$8,370 Other Assets$9,471 
The table below presents the effect of the Company's derivative financial instruments on the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023:
Derivatives in Cash FlowAmount of Gain (Loss)
Recognized in OCI on Derivatives
March 31,
Amount of (Income) Loss
Reclassified from Accumulated OCI into Income(1)
March 31,
Hedging Relationships2024202320242023
Interest Rate Swaps$1,715 $(1,019)$(2,816)$(2,171)
The Company's share of non-consolidated entity's interest rate cap147 (45)(106)(285)
Total$1,862 $(1,064)$(2,922)$(2,456)
(1)    Amounts reclassified from accumulated other comprehensive income (loss) to interest expense within the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations.
Total interest expense presented in the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of operations, in which the effects of cash flow hedges are recorded was $16,984 and $11,393 for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
The Company's agreements with the swap derivative counterparties contain provisions whereby if the Company defaults on the underlying indebtedness, including default where repayment of the indebtedness has not been accelerated by the lender, then the Company could also be declared in default of the swap derivative obligation. As of March 31, 2024, the Company had not posted any collateral related to the agreements.