Statements” for additional information regarding our line of credit and term loans.
Mortgage Notes. As of September 30, 2023, we had property-level borrowings of approximately $1.7 billion of principal outstanding with a weighted-average remaining term of 2.8 years. These borrowings are secured by mortgages or deeds of trust and related assignments and security interests in the collateralized properties, and had a weighted-average interest rate of 3.91%. Refer to “Note 6 to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements” for additional information regarding the mortgage notes.
Debt Covenants. Our line of credit, term loan and mortgage note agreements contain various property-level covenants, including customary affirmative and negative covenants. In addition, the agreements governing our line of credit and term loans contain certain corporate level financial covenants, including leverage ratio, fixed charge coverage ratio, and tangible net worth thresholds. These covenants may limit our ability to incur additional debt, to make borrowings under our line of credit, or to pay distributions. We were in compliance with all of our debt covenants as of September 30, 2023.
Leverage. We use financial leverage to provide additional funds to support our investment activities. We may finance a portion of the purchase price of any real estate asset that we acquired with borrowings on short or long-term basis from banks, institutional investors and other lenders. We calculate our leverage for reporting purposes as the outstanding principal balance of our borrowings less cash and cash equivalents divided by the fair value of our real property plus our investment in our unconsolidated joint venture partnership and investments in real estate debt and securities, as determined in accordance with our valuation procedures. We had leverage of 37.3% as of September 30, 2023. Our management believes our strong equity raise and the timing of our deployment of capital accounts for our lower leverage as of September 30, 2023 and expects that as we deploy capital going forward, our leverage will near approximately 50%. Due to the recent increase in interest rates, increased market volatility, and the potential of a global recession in the near-term, the cost of financing or refinancing our purchase of assets may affect returns generated by our investments. Additionally, these factors may cause our borrowing capacity to be reduced, which could similarly delay or reduce benefits to our stockholders.
Future Minimum Lease Payments Related to the DST Program. As of September 30, 2023, we had $1.4 billion of future minimum lease payments related to the DST Program. The underlying interests of each property that is sold to investors pursuant to the DST Program are leased back by an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of the Operating Partnership on a long-term basis of up to 29 years.
Offering Proceeds. For the nine months ended September 30, 2023, aggregate gross proceeds raised from our public offering, including proceeds raised through our distribution reinvestment plan, were $240.4 million ($233.4 million net of direct selling costs).
Distributions. We intend to continue to accrue and make distributions on a regular basis. For the nine months ended September 30, 2023, no portion of our total gross distributions were paid from cash flows from operating activities, as determined on a GAAP basis, and 100.0% of our total gross distributions were funded from sources other than cash flows from operating activities, as determined on a GAAP basis; specifically, 47.6% were funded with proceeds from shares issued pursuant to our distribution reinvestment plan and 52.4% were funded with proceeds from financing activities. Some or all of our future distributions may be paid from sources other than cash flows from operating activities, such as cash flows from financing activities, which include borrowings (including borrowings secured by our assets), proceeds from the issuance of shares pursuant to our distribution reinvestment plan, proceeds from sales of assets, net proceeds from primary shares sold in our public offerings and from our sale of DST Interests. We have not established a cap on the amount of our distributions that may be paid from any of these sources. The amount of any distributions will be determined by our board of directors, and will depend on, among other things, current and projected cash requirements, tax considerations and other factors deemed relevant by our board.
For the fourth quarter of 2023, our board of directors authorized monthly distributions to all common stockholders of record as of the close of business on the last business day of each month, or October 31, 2023, November 30, 2023 and December 29, 2023 (each a “Distribution Record Date”). The distributions were authorized at a quarterly rate of (i) $0.15 per Class I share of common stock and (ii) $0.15 per Class T share and per Class D share of common stock, less the respective annual distribution fees that are payable monthly with respect to such Class T shares and Class D shares. This quarterly rate is equal to a monthly rate of (i) $0.05 per Class I share of common stock and (ii) $0.05 per Class T share and per Class D share of common stock, less the respective annual distribution fees that are payable with respect to such Class T shares and Class D shares. Distributions for each month of the fourth quarter of 2023 have been or will be paid in cash or reinvested in shares of our common stock for those electing to participate in our distribution reinvestment plan following the close of business on the respective Distribution Record Date applicable to such monthly distributions.
There can be no assurances that the current distribution rate or amount per share will be maintained. In the near-term, we expect that we may need to continue to rely on sources other than cash flows from operations, as determined on a GAAP basis, to pay distributions, which if insufficient could negatively impact our ability to pay such distributions. In certain years and certain individual quarters, total distributions were not fully funded by cash flows from operations. In such cases, the shortfalls were funded from