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Financial report summary
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- We have a substantial amount of debt and are subject to risks related to our debt, including our ability to refinance maturing debt and the cost of any such refinanced debt.
- We have a significant amount of scheduled lease expirations in 2024 and thereafter and we may be unable to lease our properties when our leases expire.
- Remote and other alternative work arrangements and changes in space utilization and other business practices may continue to reduce the demand for office leasing.
- Some of our properties depend upon a private sector single or majority tenant for all or a significant portion of their rental income; therefore, our financial condition, including our ability to pay distributions to our shareholders, may be adversely affected by bankruptcy or insolvency, a downturn in the business, or a lease termination of such a single or majority tenant.
- We currently have a concentration of properties in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. market area and are exposed to changes in market conditions in this area.
- Unfavorable market and industry conditions may have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition and ability to pay distributions to our shareholders.
- Our business depends upon our tenants satisfying their lease obligations to us, which, with respect to our private sector tenants, depends, to a large degree, on those tenants’ abilities to successfully operate their businesses, and, with respect to our government tenants, depends on discretionary funding from federal, state and local governments.
- Government budgetary pressures and priorities and trends in government employment and office leasing, including remote working and other space utilization trends, may adversely impact our business.
- A prolonged U.S. government shutdown may adversely impact our operations, financial results and liquidity.
- We may not succeed in selling properties we may identify for sale and any proceeds we may receive from sales we do complete may be less than expected, and we may incur losses with respect to any such sales.
- We are exposed to risks associated with property development, redevelopment and repositioning that could adversely affect us, including our financial condition and results of operations.
- We may be unable to grow our business by acquiring additional properties, and we might encounter unanticipated difficulties and expenditures relating to our acquired properties.
- REIT distribution requirements and limitations on our ability to access capital at reasonable costs or at all may adversely impact our ability to carry out our business plan.
- We face significant competition.
- Some tenants have the right to terminate their leases prior to their lease expiration date.
- We may fail to comply with the terms of our debt agreements, which could adversely affect our business and prohibit us from paying distributions to our shareholders.
- Secured debt exposes us to the possibility of foreclosure, which could result in the loss of our investment in certain of our subsidiaries or in a property or group of properties or other assets that secure that debt.
- High interest rates have significantly increased our interest expense and may otherwise materially and negatively affect us.
- Further downgrades in our credit ratings may increase our cost of capital and could otherwise materially adversely affect our business and financial condition.
- Ownership of real estate is subject to environmental risks and liabilities.
- We are subject to risks from adverse weather, natural disasters and adverse impacts from global climate change, and we incur significant costs and invest significant amounts with respect to these matters.
- RMR relies on information technology and systems in providing services to us, and any material failure, inadequacy, interruption or security breach of that technology or those systems could materially harm us.
- Sustainability initiatives, requirements and market expectations may impose additional costs and expose us to new risks.
- Insurance may not adequately cover our losses, and insurance costs may continue to increase.
- We are dependent upon RMR to manage our business and implement our growth strategy.
- RMR has broad discretion in operating our day to day business.
- Our management structure and agreements and relationships with RMR and RMR’s and its controlling shareholder’s relationships with others may create conflicts of interest, or the perception of such conflicts, and may restrict our investment activities.
- Our management agreements with RMR were not negotiated on an arm’s length basis and their fee and expense structure may not create proper incentives for RMR, which may increase the risk of an investment in our common shares.
- The termination of our management agreements with RMR may require us to pay a substantial termination fee, including in the case of a termination for unsatisfactory performance, which may limit our ability to end our relationship with RMR.
- Our management arrangements with RMR may discourage a change of control of us.
- We are party to transactions with related parties that may increase the risk of allegations of conflicts of interest.
- We may be at an increased risk for dissident shareholder activities due to perceived conflicts of interest arising from our management structure and relationships.
- We may change our operational, financing and investment policies without shareholder approval.
- Ownership limitations and certain provisions in our declaration of trust, bylaws and agreements, as well as certain provisions of Maryland law, may deter, delay or prevent a change in our control or unsolicited acquisition proposals.
- Our rights and the rights of our shareholders to take action against our Trustees and officers are limited.
- Shareholder litigation against us or our Trustees, officers, manager or other agents may be referred to mandatory arbitration proceedings, which follow different procedures than in-court litigation and may be more restrictive to shareholders asserting claims than in-court litigation.
- Our bylaws designate the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, Maryland as the sole and exclusive forum for certain actions and proceedings that may be initiated by our shareholders, which could limit our shareholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our Trustees, officers, manager or other agents.
- Disputes with RMR may be referred to mandatory arbitration proceedings, which follow different procedures than in-court litigation and may be more restrictive to those asserting claims than in-court litigation.
- Our failure to remain qualified for taxation as a REIT under the IRC could have significant adverse consequences.
- Distributions to shareholders generally will not qualify for reduced tax rates applicable to “qualified dividends.”
- REIT distribution requirements could adversely affect us and our shareholders.
- Even if we remain qualified for taxation as a REIT under the IRC, we may face other tax liabilities that reduce our cash flow.
- Legislative or other actions affecting REITs could materially and adversely affect us and our shareholders.
- Our quarterly cash distribution rate on our common shares is currently $0.01 per common share and future distributions may remain at this level for an indefinite period or be eliminated and the form of payment could change.
- The Notes and the Guarantees are structurally subordinated to the payment of all indebtedness and other liabilities of our subsidiaries that do not guarantee the 2029 Notes.
- The Notes, other than the 2029 Notes, or the Unsecured Notes, are unsecured and effectively subordinated to all of our and our subsidiary guarantors’ existing and future secured debt to the extent of the value of the assets securing such indebtedness.
- Federal and state statutes allow courts, under specific circumstances, to void guarantees and require holders of notes to return payments received from guarantors.
- There may be no public market for certain of the Notes, and one may not develop, be maintained or be liquid.
- Some or all of the Guarantees may be released automatically.
Management Discussion
- Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
- We are a REIT organized under Maryland law. As of December 31, 2023, our wholly owned properties were comprised of 152 properties and we had noncontrolling ownership interests of 51% and 50% in two unconsolidated joint ventures that owned three properties containing approximately 468,000 rentable square feet. As of December 31, 2023, our properties are located in 30 states and the District of Columbia and contain approximately 20,541,000 rentable square feet. As of December 31, 2023, our properties were leased to 258 different tenants, with a weighted average remaining lease term (based on annualized rental
- income) of approximately 6.4 years. The U.S. government is our largest tenant, representing approximately 19.5% of our annualized rental income as of December 31, 2023.