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Related Party Transaction
6 Months Ended
Jul. 31, 2020
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transaction Related Party TransactionOn October 7, 2016, the Company entered into an equity distribution agreement with Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. (the “Agent”). On December 18, 2019, the Company and Agent entered into an Amended and Restated equity distribution agreement (the “Equity Distribution Agreement”). Pursuant to the Equity Distribution Agreement, the Company may sell up to 500,000 shares of 9.00% Series A Cumulative Preferred Stock (the “Preferred Stock”), par value $1.00 per share through an at-the-market (“ATM”) offering program administered by the Agent. The Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-President of the Agent is the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board. Under the Equity Distribution Agreement, the Agent will be entitled to compensation of up to 2.0% of the gross proceeds from the sale of Preferred Stock under the ATM offering program. As of January 31, 2020, we had issued 994,046 shares of our Series A Preferred Stock. The 994,046 shares represent 100% of the Series A Preferred Stock available for sale through our ATM offering program and therefore no shares were available for issuance subsequent to January 31, 2020. For the three and six months ended July 31, 2019, the Company issued 70,282 and 86,938 shares of Preferred Stock under the ATM offering program, respectively. Gross proceeds from these sales for the three and six months ended July 31, 2019 were approximately $1.7 million and $2.1 million, respectively, and the Agent received compensation of approximately $34,000 and $42,000, respectively. The Non-Executive Chairman of the Board received no portion of this compensation.