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Management Agreements and Leases
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2020
Leases [Abstract]  
Management Agreements and Leases
Note 5. Management Agreements and Leases
As of December 31, 2020, we owned 310 hotels included in seven operating agreements and 799 service-oriented retail properties net leased to 170 tenants. We do not operate any of our properties.
Hotel agreements
As of December 31, 2020, 305 of our hotels were leased to our TRSs and managed by independent hotel operating companies. As of December 31, 2020, our hotel properties were managed by separate subsidiaries of Sonesta, Marriott, Hyatt, Radisson and IHG under six agreements. We have entered into an agreement to sell five hotels and we have entered a short term lease of these properties with the buyer in anticipation of the sale. These hotel agreements had initial terms expiring between 2021 and 2037. Each of these agreements is for between one and 168 of our hotels. In general, the agreements contain renewal options for all, but not less than all, of the affected properties included in each agreement, and the renewal terms range between one to 60 years. Most of these agreements require the third party manager or tenant to: (1) make payments to us of minimum returns or minimum rents; (2) deposit a percentage of total hotel sales into FF&E reserves; and (3) for our managed hotels, make payments to our TRSs of additional returns to the extent of available cash flows after payment of operating expenses, payment of certain management fees, funding of our FF&E reserves, payment of our minimum returns, reimbursement of certain advances and replenishment of security deposits or guarantees. In the past, some of our managers or tenants or their affiliates provided deposits or guarantees to secure their obligations to pay us.
Sonesta agreement. As of December 31, 2020, Sonesta managed 38 of our full-service hotels, 121 extended stay hotels, and nine select service hotels pursuant to management agreements for each of the hotels. We are also party to pooling agreements that combine certain of our management agreements with Sonesta for purposes of calculating gross revenues, payment of hotel operating expenses, payment of fees and distributions and minimum returns due to us. See Notes 4 and 9 for further information regarding our relationship, agreements and transactions with Sonesta.
On February 27, 2020, we entered into a transaction agreement with Sonesta pursuant to which we and Sonesta restructured our business arrangements with respect to our hotels then managed by Sonesta as follows:
we and Sonesta had agreed to sell, rebrand or repurpose our 39 extended stay hotels then managed by Sonesta. We have since decided not to pursue the sale of these 39 hotels based on market conditions and the improved performance of these hotels during the pandemic;
the annual minimum returns due for the 14 full-service hotels that Sonesta then managed, and which it continues to manage, were reduced from $99,013 to $69,013 as of that date;
Sonesta issued to us a number of its shares of common stock representing approximately (but not more than) 34% of its outstanding shares of common stock (post-issuance) and we entered into a stockholders agreement with Sonesta, Adam Portnoy and the other stockholder of Sonesta, and a registration rights agreement with Sonesta;
we and Sonesta modified our then existing management agreements and pooling agreement so that up to 5% of the hotel gross revenues of each of our 14 full-service hotels then managed, and which it continues to manage, by Sonesta will be escrowed for future capital expenditures as FF&E reserves, subject to available cash flows after payment of the annual minimum returns due to us under the management agreements;
we and Sonesta modified the termination provisions of our then existing management agreements and pooling agreement and removed the provisions in our pooling agreement that allowed either us or Sonesta to require the marketing for sale of non-economic hotels; and
we and Sonesta extended the initial expiration date of the then existing management agreements for our full-service hotels managed by Sonesta located in Chicago, IL and Irvine, CA to January 2037 to align with the initial expiration date for our other full-service hotels then managed by Sonesta.
We refer to the amended and restated management agreements in effect as of February 27, 2020, as the legacy management agreements and we refer to the amended and restated pooling agreement that includes those legacy management agreements as the legacy pooling agreement.
We previously leased 48 vacation units to Wyndham Destinations, Inc. (NYSE: WYND) at our full service hotel located in Chicago, IL, which Sonesta began managing in November 2019 and which had previously been managed by Wyndham. Effective March 1, 2020, Sonesta commenced managing those units and those units were added to our legacy management agreement with respect to that Chicago hotel.
Between September 18, 2020 and December 15, 2020, we transferred the branding and management of 115 hotels previously managed by IHG, Marriott and Wyndham to Sonesta. In February 2021, we transferred the branding and management of 78 Marriott branded hotels to Sonesta and we expect to transition the branding and management of 10 additional Marriott hotels to Sonesta in March 2021. In addition, if our discussions with Hyatt do not result in a mutually acceptable agreement, we expect to transition management of the 22 hotels currently managed by Hyatt to Sonesta in April 2021. We entered into management agreements with Sonesta with respect to these hotels on terms substantially consistent with our legacy management agreements, except that the management agreements for these transitioned hotels expire on December 31, 2021 and automatically renew for successive one-year terms unless terminated earlier. We refer to these management agreements as the conversion hotel management agreements and we refer to the conversion hotel management agreements and the legacy management agreements collectively as our Sonesta agreements. We also entered into a separate pooling agreement with Sonesta with respect to the conversion hotel management agreements on substantially the same terms as the existing Sonesta pooling agreement.
Our Sonesta agreements provide that we are paid a fixed annual minimum return equal to 8% of our invested capital, as defined therein, if gross revenues of the hotels, after payment of hotel operating expenses and management and related fees (other than Sonesta’s incentive fee, if applicable), are sufficient to do so. Our fixed annual minimum return under our Sonesta agreements was $349,456 as of December 31, 2020. Our Sonesta agreements further provide that we are paid an additional return equal to 80% of the operating profits, as defined therein, after reimbursement of owner or manager advances, FF&E reserve escrows and Sonesta’s incentive fee, if applicable. Our Sonesta hotels generated net operating losses of $65,277 during the year ended December 31, 2020. Our funding of these losses is considered an owner advance, as defined, and is reimbursable to us from a share of future cash flows from the hotel operations in excess of the minimum returns due to us, if any, pursuant to the terms of our Sonesta agreements. We realized returns of $67,592 and $78,076 during the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively, under our Sonesta agreements. We do not have any security deposits or guarantees for our Sonesta hotels. Accordingly, the returns we receive from our Sonesta hotels are limited to the hotels’ available cash flows, if any, after payment of operating expenses, including management and related fees.
Our Sonesta agreements provide that Sonesta is entitled to receive, after payment of hotel operating expenses, a base management fee equal to 3.0% of gross revenues for our full-service hotels and 5.0% of gross revenues for our extended stay and select service hotels. Additionally, Sonesta is entitled to a reservation fee equal to 1.5% of gross room revenues, as defined in our Sonesta agreements, a system fee for centralized services of 1.5% of gross revenues, a procurement and construction supervision fee equal to 3.0% of third party costs of capital expenditures and an incentive management fee equal to 20.0% of operating profits remaining after reimbursement to us and to Sonesta of certain advances and payment of our minimum returns. Sonesta’s incentive management fee, but not its other fees, is earned only after our minimum returns are paid. Our Sonesta agreements also provide that the costs incurred by Sonesta for advertising, marketing, promotional and public relations programs and campaigns, including “frequent stay” rewards programs, for the benefit of our Sonesta hotels are subject to reimbursement by us or are otherwise treated as hotel operating expenses, subject to our approval.
Pursuant to our Sonesta agreements, we incurred management, reservation and system fees and reimbursement costs for certain guest loyalty, marketing program and third-party reservation transmission fees of $17,734, $36,169 and $34,821 for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, under our Sonesta agreements. These fees and costs are included in hotel operating expenses in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). In addition, we recognized procurement and construction supervision fees of $1,571, $3,320 and $2,374 for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, under our Sonesta agreements. These amounts have been capitalized in our consolidated balance sheets and are depreciated over the estimated useful lives of the related capital assets.
Our Sonesta agreements require us to fund capital expenditures that we approve or approved at our Sonesta hotels. Commencing February 27, 2020, each of our 14 full-service hotels operated under the legacy management agreements and all the hotels operated under the conversion hotel management agreements managed by Sonesta require that 5% of the hotel gross revenues be escrowed for future capital expenditures as FF&E reserves, subject to available cash flows after payment of the annual minimum returns due to us. Our legacy management agreements do not require FF&E escrow deposits for 39 extended stay hotels. No FF&E escrow deposits were required during the year ended December 31, 2020 under our Sonesta agreements. We funded $62,963, $114,082 and $82,329 for renovations and other capital improvements to certain hotels included in our Sonesta agreements during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. We owed Sonesta $26,096, $15,537 and $5,703 for 2020 operating losses generated by our Sonesta hotels, capital expenditure and other reimbursements or for previous overpayments of estimated minimum returns advanced at December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Amounts due from Sonesta are included in due from related persons and amounts owed to Sonesta are included in due to related persons in our consolidated balance sheets, respectively.
Our legacy management agreements with Sonesta expire in January 2037, and will be extended automatically for up to two successive 15 years renewal terms unless Sonesta elects not to renew any such agreement. Under the legacy pooling agreement, if Sonesta elects not to renew a legacy management agreement, that will be deemed to be a notice of non-renewal for all our legacy management agreements with Sonesta. The legacy pooling agreement includes only legacy management agreements with Sonesta.
In general, we may terminate any legacy management agreement with respect to a full-service hotel or an extended stay hotel for cause, casualty and condemnation events. We may terminate any legacy management agreement with respect to an extended stay hotel without cause upon 60 days’ notice. We also have the right to terminate a legacy management agreement with respect to a full-service hotel if our minimum return is less than 6% of our invested capital during any three of four applicable consecutive years; however, under the legacy pooling agreement, this termination right is subject to a portfolio wide performance test such that we may only terminate the legacy management agreement with respect to a full-service hotel if our aggregate minimum returns for all of our full-service hotels in the portfolio covered by the legacy pooling agreement are less than 6% of our aggregate invested capital during the applicable testing period. A termination fee may be payable under certain circumstances if a legacy management agreement with respect to a full-service hotel is terminated. The termination fee would be an amount equal to the present value of the payments that would have been made to Sonesta as a base management fee, reservation fee, system fee and incentive management fee between the date of termination of the applicable legacy management agreement and the scheduled expiration date of the term that was remaining prior to such termination, which present value is calculated based upon the average of each of such fees earned in each of the three years ended prior to the date of termination, discounted at an annual rate equal to 8%. No termination fee is payable if a legacy management agreement with respect to an extended stay hotel is terminated.
We or Sonesta may terminate any conversion hotel management agreement upon 30 days’ notice (if by us) or 60 days’ notice (if by Sonesta) or as otherwise provided in such agreement. No termination fee is payable if a conversion hotel management agreement is terminated.
Accounting for Investment in Sonesta:
We account for our 34% non-controlling interest in Sonesta under the equity method of accounting. As of December 31, 2020, our investment in Sonesta had a carrying value of $36,646. This amount is included in other assets in our consolidated balance sheets. The cost basis of our investment in Sonesta exceeded our proportionate share of Sonesta’s total shareholders’ equity book value on the date of acquisition, February 27, 2020, by an aggregate of $8,000. As required under GAAP, we are amortizing this difference to equity in earnings of an investee over 31 years, the weighted average remaining useful life of the real estate assets and intangible assets and liabilities owned by Sonesta as of the date of our acquisition. We recorded amortization of the basis difference of $216 in the year ended December 31, 2020. We recognized losses of $9,910 related to our investment in Sonesta for the year ended December 31, 2020. These amounts are included in equity in earnings (losses) of an investee in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).
We recorded a liability of $42,000 for the fair value of our initial investment in Sonesta, as no cash consideration was exchanged related to the modification of our management agreement with, and investment in, Sonesta. This liability for our investment in Sonesta is included in accounts payable and other liabilities in our consolidated balance sheet and is being amortized on a straight-line basis through January 31, 2037, as a reduction to hotel operating expenses in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). We reduced hotel operating expenses by $2,070 for the year ended December 31, 2020 for amortization of this liability. As of December 31, 2020, the unamortized balance of this liability was $39,931.
See Note 9 for further information regarding our relationship, agreements and transactions with Sonesta.
IHG agreement. Our historical management for 102 hotels and lease agreement for one hotel with IHG, or the IHG agreement, had provided that we were to be paid annual minimum returns and rents of $216,551. Pursuant to the IHG agreement, IHG had provided us with a security deposit to cover minimum payment shortfalls, if any. Under this agreement, IHG was required to maintain a minimum security deposit of $37,000 and this security deposit could be replenished and increased up to $100,000 from a share of cash flows from the hotels in excess of our minimum returns and rents, working capital advances and certain management fees, if any. During the year ended December 31, 2020, we had fully utilized the $75,717 security deposit we held to cover shortfalls in hotel cash flows available to pay the minimum returns due to us for the period. We terminated our agreement with IHG for failure to pay minimum returns and rents due to us during 2020 upon exhausting the security deposit. We transferred the branding and management of 102 of our 103 IHG hotels to Sonesta in December 2020 as described above.
On December 1, 2020 we entered into an agreement with IHG for one hotel located in Ravinia, GA. This agreement expires on January 31, 2026 and IHG has an option to acquire the hotel for the greater of $128,500, our historical investment in the property, and an amount based on the operating results of the hotel for the 24 months period prior to the option notice date, divided by 8%. IHG is paid a base management fee of 3% of gross revenues to operate this property.
We realized returns and rents of $107,888, $205,941 and $189,981 during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018 respectively, under our IHG agreement and the December 2020 agreement with IHG.
The IHG agreement required 5% of gross revenues from hotel operations be placed in an FF&E reserve. As a result of market conditions, we and IHG agreed to suspend contributions to the FF&E reserve under the IHG agreement beginning in March 2020 through the end of 2020.
In April 2020, we funded $37,000 of working capital advances under the IHG agreement to cover projected operating losses at our hotels managed by IHG.
Marriott agreement. Our management agreement with Marriott for 105 hotels, or the Marriott agreement, provides that, as of December 31, 2020, we were to be paid annual minimum returns of $176,416. Pursuant to the Marriott agreement, Marriott had provided us with a security deposit to cover minimum return payment shortfalls, if any. Under this agreement, this security deposit, if utilized, would be replenished and increased up to $64,700 from 60% of the cash flows realized from operations of the 122 hotels after payment of the aggregate annual minimum returns, Marriott’s base management fees and working capital advances, if any. Marriott had also provided us with a $30,000 limited guaranty to cover payment shortfalls up to 85% of our minimum returns after the available security deposit balance has been depleted. During the year ended December 31, 2020, we fully utilized the $33,445 security deposit we then held and exhausted the $30,000 limited guaranty to cover shortfalls in hotel cash flows available to pay the minimum returns due to us for the period. The Marriott agreement required 5.5% to 6.5% of gross revenues from hotel operations be placed in an FF&E reserve. As a result of current market conditions, we and Marriott agreed to suspend contributions to the FF&E reserve under the Marriott agreement from March through December 2020. We sent notices to Marriott terminating our agreement in October 2020 for its failure to cover the cumulative shortfall between the payments we had received to date and 80% of the cumulative priority returns due to us.
We and Marriott identified 33 of the 105 hotels covered by the Marriott agreement that will be sold or rebranded. On November 18, 2020, we sold eight of these hotels and on December 15, 2020, we transferred the branding and management of nine of these hotels to Sonesta. We had entered an agreement to sell the remaining 16 hotels, which were to be sold by December 15, 2020 under the terms we agreed to with Marriott but we did not reach acceptable terms with the buyer and terminated the agreement to sell these hotels. See Note 4 for further information on our disposition activity.
We are in dispute with Marriott and have submitted various claims for arbitration regarding the timing and characterization of certain payments made to us, including Marriott’s assertion we are required to refund $19,120 of minimum return advances made to us in 2020, and the validity of the timing of the termination of the Marriott agreements. We are also seeking repayment of certain working capital advances we made to Marriott during 2020. Despite the arbitration claims, we and Marriott agreed to an orderly transition and we transferred the branding and management of 78 Marriott hotels to Sonesta in February 2021 and expect to transfer the branding and management of 10 additional Marriott hotels to Sonesta in March 2021. We have also entered an agreement with Marriott regarding 16 hotels we previously agreed to sell, pursuant to which we agreed to have these hotels remain Marriott branded hotels until the arbitration is resolved.
We realized returns of $93,593, $190,492 and $186,822 during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, under our Marriott agreement.
In April 2020, we funded $30,000 of working capital advances under the Marriott agreement to cover projected operating losses at our hotels managed by Marriott. We expect Marriott to disburse to us any remaining working capital and FF&E upon resolution of the arbitration described above.
Hyatt agreement. Our management agreement with Hyatt for 22 hotels, or our Hyatt agreement, which expires in 2030, provides that, as of December 31, 2020 we are to be paid an annual minimum return of $22,037. We realized minimum returns of $22,037 during each of the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, under this agreement. Pursuant to our Hyatt agreement, Hyatt has provided us with a guaranty, which is limited to $50,000. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the hotels under this agreement generated cash flows that were less than the minimum rents due to us for the period and we exhausted the remaining $19,120 limited guaranty available to us to cover the shortfall. In January 2021, we received a notice of termination from Hyatt with respect to our management agreement with it for 22 hotels as a result of Hyatt’s guaranty being exhausted. We and Hyatt are currently in discussions regarding possible changes to the management agreement that may enable some or all of the hotels to continue to be managed by Hyatt. However, if such discussions do not result in a mutually acceptable agreement, we expect to transition management of the 22 hotels to Sonesta in April 2021.
During the year ended December 31, 2020, we funded $3,700 of working capital advances under our Hyatt agreement to cover projected operating losses at our hotels managed by Hyatt. Working capital advances are reimbursable to us from a share of future cash flows from the hotel operations in excess of the minimum returns due to us, if any, pursuant to the terms of the Hyatt agreement. Our Hyatt agreement requires 5% of gross revenues from hotel operations be placed in an FF&E reserve, subject to available cash flow.
Radisson agreement. Our management agreement with Radisson for nine hotels, or our Radisson agreement, which expires in 2035, provides that, as of December 31, 2020, we are to be paid an annual minimum return of $20,601. We realized minimum returns of $20,456, $20,056 and $16,183 during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively, under this agreement. Pursuant to our Radisson agreement, Radisson has provided us with a guaranty, which is limited to $47,523. During the year ended December 31, 2020, the hotels under this agreement generated cash flows that were less than the minimum returns due to us for the period and Radisson made $27,978 of guaranty payments to cover the shortfall. The available balance of the guaranty was $13,238 as of December 31, 2020. In addition to our minimum returns, our Radisson agreement provides for payment to us of 50% of the hotels’ available cash flows after payment of operating expenses, funding the required FF&E reserve, payment of our minimum returns, our working capital advances and reimbursement to Radisson of working capital and guaranty advances, if any.
Our Radisson agreement requires 5% of gross revenues from hotel operations be placed in an FF&E reserve. As a result of market conditions, we and Radisson agreed to suspend contributions to the FF&E reserve under our Radisson agreement for the period of April 2020 through December 2020.
Wyndham agreements. Our Wyndham hotels generated net operating losses of $9,295 during the year ended December 31, 2020. We realized returns of $20,023 and $23,562 during the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
In September and October 2020, we rebranded four hotels previously managed by Wyndham to Sonesta. In September 2020, we amended our management agreement with Wyndham with respect to 15 hotels so that it would remain as the manager for a limited period. Under the amended terms of this agreement, we paid Wyndham a management fee of 7% of hotel revenues, subject to certain minimums. On December 29, 2020, we sold ten Wyndham branded hotels and entered a short-term lease and revised purchase agreement for our five remaining Hawthorn Suites branded hotels with the same buyer. See Note 4 for further information regarding these sales. One Wyndham branded hotel we previously were marketing for sale ceased operations as a hotel on September 30, 2020. We are reviewing alternatives regarding this hotel including possibly remarketing it for sale or repurposing it. As of December 31, 2020, we no longer have any relationships with Wyndham.
Certain managers of our hotels are required to fund the shortfalls of minimum returns under the terms of our management agreements or their guarantees. We reflect such fundings (including security deposit applications) in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) as a reduction of hotel operating expenses. The net reduction to hotel operating expenses was $235,521, $29,162 and $5,569 for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
Net lease portfolio
As of December 31, 2020, we owned 799 net lease service-oriented retail properties with 13,455,405 square feet with annual minimum rent of $369,593 with a weighted (by annual minimum rents) average lease term of 10.9 years. The portfolio was 98.7% leased by 170 tenants operating under 127 brands in 22 distinct industries.
TA Leases
TA is our largest tenant, leasing 26.7% of our gross carrying value of real estate properties as of December 31, 2020. The number of travel centers, the terms, the annual minimum rent and the deferred rent balances owed to us by TA under our TA leases as of December 31, 2020, were as follows:
Number of Travel Centers
Initial Term End (1)
Annual Minimum Rent
Deferred Rent (2) (3)
TA No. 1 Lease36December 31, 2032$49,707 $10,487 
TA No. 2 Lease36December 31, 203144,077 9,740 
TA No. 3 Lease35December 31, 202942,409 9,602 
TA No. 4 Lease37December 31, 203348,263 9,803 
TA No. 5 Lease35June 30, 203561,654 — 
179$246,110 $39,632 
(1)TA has two renewal options of 15 years each under each of our TA leases.
(2)Commencing April 1, 2019, TA is required to pay us $70,458 in 16 quarterly installments of $4,404 for deferred rent TA owes us.
(3)Represents the balance as of December 31, 2020.
Our TA leases are “triple net” leases that require TA to pay all costs incurred in the operation of the leased travel centers, including personnel, utility, inventory, customer service and insurance expenses, real estate and personal property taxes, environmental related expenses, underground storage tank removal costs and ground lease payments at those travel centers at which we lease the property and sublease it to TA. Our TA leases generally require TA to indemnify us for certain environmental matters and for liabilities that arise during the terms of the leases from ownership or operation of the leased travel centers. In addition, TA is obligated to pay us at lease expiration an amount equal to an estimate of the cost of removing underground storage tanks on the leased properties. Our TA leases do not require FF&E escrow deposits. However, TA is required to maintain the leased travel centers, including structural and non-structural components. Under our TA leases, TA generally cannot own, franchise, finance, operate, lease or manage any travel center or similar property that is not owned by us within 75 miles in either direction along the primary interstate on which a travel center owned by us is located without our consent.
We recognized rental income from TA of $250,573, $262,038 and $302,309 for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively. Rental income for the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018 includes $13,156, $11,894 and $12,127, respectively, of adjustments to record the deferred rent obligations under our TA leases and the estimated future payments to us by TA for the cost of removing underground storage tanks on a straight line basis. As of December 31, 2020 and 2019, we had receivables for current rent amounts owed to us by TA and straight line rent adjustments of $55,530 and $68,653, respectively. These amounts are included in due from related persons in our consolidated balance sheets. For the year ended December 31, 2018, we recognized the deferred rent obligations under our TA leases as rental income on a straight line basis over the then in-place lease terms. Beginning in January 2019, our recognition of the amended deferred rent obligations are recorded on a straight line basis over the new lease terms of our TA leases. Commencing on April 1, 2019, TA paid us the first of the 16 quarterly installments of approximately $4,404 each (an aggregate of $70,458) to fully satisfy and discharge its $150,000 deferred rent obligation to us that otherwise would have become due in five installments between 2024 and 2030. TA paid to us $17,616 and $13,200 in respect of such obligation for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively.
On January 16, 2019, we sold to TA 20 travel center properties that TA previously leased from us for a total purchase price of $308,200. We recorded a gain of $159,535 as a result of these sales. Upon completing these sales, these travel center properties were removed from the TA leases and TA’s annual minimum rent payable to us decreased by $43,148
In addition to the payment of annual minimum rent, our TA Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 leases provide for payment to us of percentage rent based on increases in total non-fuel revenues over base year levels (3% of non-fuel revenues above 2015 non-fuel revenues, and, beginning with the year ending December 31, 2020, an additional half percent (0.5%) of non-fuel revenues above 2019 non-fuel revenues) and our TA No. 5 lease provides for payment to us of percentage rent based on increases in total non-fuel revenues over base year levels (3% of non-fuel revenues above 2012 non-fuel revenues, and, beginning with the year ending December 31, 2020, an additional 0.5% of non-fuel revenues above 2019 non-fuel revenues). The total amount of percentage rent from TA that we recognized was $2,764, $4,075 and $3,548 during the years ended December 31, 2020, 2019 and 2018, respectively.
Under our TA leases, TA may request that we fund capital improvements in return for increases in TA’s annual minimum rent according to the following formula: the annual minimum rent is increased by an amount equal to the amount funded by us multiplied by the greater of 8.5% or a benchmark U.S. Treasury interest rate plus 3.5%. TA is not obligated to request and we are not obligated to fund any such improvements. We funded $56,346 during the year ended December 31, 2018 for capital improvements to our travel center properties and, as a result, TA’s annual minimum rent payable to us increased by $4,789. We did not fund any improvements under these leases during the years ended December 31, 2020 or 2019.
See Notes 4 and 9 for further information regarding our relationship with TA.
Our net lease agreements generally provide for minimum rent payments and in addition may include variable payments. Rental income from operating leases, including any payments derived by index or market-based indices, is recognized on a straight-line basis over the lease term when we have determined that the collectability of substantially all of the lease payments is probable. Some of our leases have options to extend or terminate the lease exercisable at the option of our tenants, which are considered when determining the lease term. We recognized rental income from our other net lease properties (excluding TA) of $137,111 and $46,861 for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, which included $14,345 and $2,160, respectively, of adjustments to record scheduled rent changes under certain of our leases on a straight-line basis.
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, some of our tenants have requested rent assistance. During the year ended December 31, 2020, we collected 94.0% of rents due to us from our net lease tenants. In January 2021, we collected 89.3% of rents due to us from our net lease tenants. We have entered into rent deferral agreements with 46 net lease retail tenants with leases requiring an aggregate of $46,370 of annual minimum rents. These amounts do not include tenants that have withdrawn previously approved deferral requests. Generally, these rent deferrals are for one to four months of rent and were payable by the tenants over a 12 to 24 month period beginning in September 2020. We have deferred an aggregate of $12,115 of rent related to the 46 tenants as of February 26, 2021.
We have elected to use the FASB relief package regarding the application of lease accounting guidance to lease concessions provided as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The FASB relief package provides entities with the option to account for lease concessions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic outside of the existing lease modification guidance if the resulting cash flows from the modified lease are substantially the same as the original lease. Because the deferred rents referenced above will be repaid over a 12 to 24 month period, the cash flows from the respective leases are substantially the same as before the rent deferrals.
We continually review receivables related to rent, straight-line rent and property operating expense reimbursements and determine collectability by taking into consideration the tenant’s payment history, the financial condition of the tenant, business conditions in the industry in which the tenant operates and economic conditions in the area in which the property is located. The review includes an assessment of whether or not substantially all of the amounts due under a tenant’s lease are probable of collection. For leases that are deemed probable of collection, revenue continues to be recorded on a straight-line basis over the lease term. For leases that are deemed not probable of collection, revenue is recorded as cash is received. We recognize all changes in the collectability assessment for an operating lease as an adjustment to rental income and do not record an allowance for uncollectable accounts. We recorded reserves for uncollectable amounts against rental income of $9,892 and $5,981 for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. We had reserves for uncollectable rents of $15,873 and $5,981 as of December 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively, included in other assets on our consolidated balance sheets.
Additional lease information (as lessor). As of December 31, 2020, our leases with parties other than our TRSs provide for contractual minimum rents to be paid to us during the remaining current terms as follows:
2021$391,108 
2022386,145 
2023367,587 
2024359,875 
2025351,209 
Thereafter2,442,524 
Total$4,298,448 
Additional lease information (as lessee). As of December 31, 2020, 14 of our hotels were subject to ground leases where we are the lessee. In addition, our hotel operators enter various leases on our behalf in the normal course of business at our hotels, or our hotel operating leases. We calculated right of use assets and lease liabilities as the present value of the remaining lease payment obligations for our operating leases, which include the ground leases and hotel operating leases, over the remaining lease term using our estimated incremental borrowing rate. The right of use assets and related lease liabilities are included within other assets, net and accounts payable and other liabilities, respectively, in our consolidated balance sheets.
At December 31, 2020 and 2019, our right of use assets and related lease liabilities each totaled $84,924 and $75,040, respectively, which represented our future obligations under our operating leases and are included in other assets and other liabilities, respectively, in our consolidated balance sheets. Our operating leases require minimum fixed rent payments, percentage rent payments based on a percentage of hotel revenues in excess of certain thresholds, or rent payments equal to the greater of a minimum fixed rent or percentage rent. Rental expense related to our operating leases of $13,396 for the year ended December 31, 2020 is included in hotel operating expenses within our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). As of December 31, 2020, our operating leases provide for contractual minimum rent payments to third parties during the remaining lease terms, as follows:
2021$7,334 
20226,691 
20236,384 
20246,282 
20255,949 
Thereafter163,045 
Total lease payments195,685 
Less: imputed interest(110,761)
Present value of lease liabilities (1)
$84,924 
(1)    The weighted average discount rate used to calculate the lease liability and the weighted average remaining term for our ground leases (assuming all extension options) and our hotel operating leases are approximately 5.49% and 30 years (range of 11 years to 66 years) and 5.96% and 36 years (range of 1 month to 46 years), respectively.
As of December 31, 2020, 17 of our net lease properties are on land we leased partially or entirely from unrelated third parties. We are not required to record right of use assets and lease liabilities for these properties as we are not the primary obligor under the leases. The average remaining term of these 17 ground leases was 11 years (range of one to 30 years) with rents averaging $485 per year.
Generally, payments of ground lease obligations are made by our managers or tenants. However, if a manager or tenant did not perform obligations under a ground lease or did not renew any ground lease, we might have to perform obligations under the ground lease or renew the ground lease in order to protect our investment in the affected property.