activities of Stanger include strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, advisory and fairness opinion services, capital formation services, asset and securities valuations, industry and company analysis, and litigation support and expert witness services in connection with both publicly registered and privately placed securities transactions. Stanger, as part of its financial advisory business, is regularly engaged in the valuation of businesses and their securities in connection with mergers, acquisitions, and reorganizations and for estate, tax, corporate and other purposes. In particular, Stanger’s valuation practice principally involves real estate investment trusts and partnerships, and the securities issued by and the assets owned through such entities including, but not limited to, real properties and property interests.
Stanger was selected because of its familiarity with our properties from its appraisal of our properties in the context of our determination of net asset value as of December 31, 2018, and because of its experience in the real estate industry, specifically with the valuation of real estate assets similar to ours and for its experience in connection with mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations and financial advisory services. We considered no other firm for purposes of rendering the opinion.
Summary of Materials Considered and Reviews Undertaken
Stanger’s analysis of our proposed liquidation involved, among other things, the review of the following information: (i) a draft of this proxy statement, which draft was substantially in the form finalized and filed with the SEC; (ii) our Annual Report on Form10-K for the year ended December 31, 2018, filed with the SEC on March 20, 2019, and our most recent Quarterly Report on Form10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2019, filed with the SEC on May 9, 2019; (iii) a current unit mix and rent roll for each property, together with historical operating statements for the annual periods 2016, 2017, 2018 and the 12 months ending April 2019 for our Summer Vista property and 2017, the twelve months ending June 2018 and partial year operating data for the twelve month period ending April 2019 for our Crossings at Riverview property, (iv) the 2019 asset management operating budgets and the 2019 asset management reforecast based on actual results through April 2019 for each of the properties, (v) asset management’s multi-year operating projections for each property, (vi) 2019 property capital expenditure budgets, including items identified as cured during January 2019 through April 2019; (vii) published national investor surveys relating to acquisition criteria for properties similar to our properties; (viii) appraisals of our properties as of December 31, 2018 (prepared by Stanger under a separate engagement); and (ix) internal financial analyses and projections prepared by us in connection with our calculation of the estimated range of liquidating distributions per share pursuant to the Plan of Dissolution, which estimate reflects our estimated range of liquidation values of our properties, the terms and conditions of our charter and bylaws, the Operating Partnership’s partnership agreement, and the agreements of other subsidiaries through which we hold interests in the properties, in each case relating to the sale of our assets and the Plan of Dissolution, and the terms of the advisory agreement with the Advisor and property management agreements.
In addition, representatives of Stanger performed site visits of our properties in December 2018 and January 2019 in the context of their appraisal of the properties for our December 31, 2018 net asset valuation and discussed with us any changes in the physical condition of the properties since the Stanger site visits, and reviewed information concerning regional and local market conditions at or around the date of its opinion. Stanger also discussed with our management, including our third-party property managers where appropriate, the conditions in senior care property markets in general, and the local market of each property, the current and projected operation and performance of each of the properties, the current debt encumbering each property, and our financial condition and future prospects
Stanger’s Analysis
Stanger’s analysis and reviews may be described as involving the following steps: (i) data gathering, including: reviewing local or regional market information; interviews with key Advisor personnel; reviews of published surveys of buyers’ acquisition criteria and related information; (ii) reviews of our estimated range of liquidation values for our properties; (iii) review of our liquidation cost estimates; and (iv) reviews of our estimated range of liquidating distributions per share.
Data Gathering
Stanger reviewed information on the properties provided by us and our property managers and also reviewed economic demographic and local, regional and national real estate market information, including regional property sales. Stanger also reviewed published national surveys relating to acquisition criteria used by real estate investors and buyers of properties similar to our properties.
Stanger also obtained information from our management personnel, relating to the condition of our properties, including any deferred maintenance, capital budgets, environmental conditions, and other factors affecting the physical condition of the property improvements and competitive conditions in the local markets. Stanger also reviewed historical property operating statements for the years 2016, 2017, 2018 and the 12 months ending April 2019 for our Summer Vista property, and 2017, the twelve months ending June 2018 and partial year operating data for the twelve month period ending April 2019 for our Crossings at Riverview property, the 2019 asset management operating budgets and the 2019 asset management reforecast based on actual results through April 2019 for each of the properties, along with available real estate tax information for each property. Stanger also reviewed the most recently available appraisals of our properties performed as of December 31, 2018 (prepared by Stanger).
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