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Note 2
Investments in Real Estate
As of December 31, 2008, the Company owned 21 hotels, all of which were purchased during 2008. The hotels are located in 11
states with an aggregate of 2,478 rooms, and consist of the following: six Hilton Garden Inn hotels, two Homewood Suites hotels, six
Hampton Inn hotels, three Courtyard hotels, three Residence Inn hotels and one Fairfield Inn hotel.
Investment in real estate at December 31, 2008, consisted of the following (in thousands):
Land ......................................................... $ 38,549
Building and Improvements ..................... 289,672
Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment ..........
20,479
348,700
Less Accumulated Depreciation ..............
(2,277)
Investment in real estate, net .................... $ 346,423
The following table summarizes the location, brand, manager, gross purchase price, number of hotel rooms and date of purchase
by the Company for each hotel. All dollar amounts are in thousands.
Gross
Purchase
Date of
Location
Brand
Manager
Price
Rooms
Purchase
Tucson, AZ ................................................. Hilton Garden Inn
Western
$ 18,375
125
7/31/2008
Santa Clarita, CA ........................................ Courtyard
Dimension
22,700
140
9/24/2008
Charlotte, NC .............................................. Homewood Suites
McKibbon
5,750
112
9/24/2008
Allen, TX .................................................... Hampton Inn & Suites
Gateway
12,500
103
9/26/2008
Twinsburg, OH ........................................... Hilton Garden Inn
Gateway
17,792
142
10/7/2008
Lewisville, TX ............................................ Hilton Garden Inn
Gateway
28,000
165
10/16/2008
Duncanville, TX ......................................... Hilton Garden Inn
Gateway
19,500
142
10/21/2008
Santa Clarita, CA ........................................ Hampton Inn
Dimension
17,129
128
10/29/2008
Santa Clarita, CA ........................................ Residence Inn
Dimension
16,600
90
10/29/2008
Santa Clarita, CA ........................................ Fairfield Inn
Dimension
9,337
66
10/29/2008
Beaumont, TX ............................................ Residence Inn
Western
16,900
133
10/29/2008
Pueblo, CO ................................................. Hampton Inn & Suites
Dimension
8,025
81
10/31/2008
Allen, TX .................................................... Hilton Garden Inn
Gateway
18,500
150
10/31/2008
Bristol, VA .................................................. Courtyard
LBA
18,650
175
11/7/2008
Durham, NC ............................................... Homewood Suites
McKibbon
19,050
122
12/4/2008
Hattiesburg, MS .......................................... Residence Inn
LBA
9,793
84
12/11/2008
Jackson, TN ................................................ Courtyard
Vista
15,200
94
12/16/2008
Jackson, TN ................................................ Hampton Inn & Suites
Vista
12,600
83
12/30/2008
Pittsburgh, PA ............................................. Hampton Inn
Vista
20,458
132
12/31/2008
Fort Lauderdale, FL .................................... Hampton Inn
Vista
19,290
109
12/31/2008
Frisco, TX ................................................... Hilton Garden Inn
Western
15,050
102
12/31/2008
Total
$ 341,199
2,478
The purchase price for the hotels, net of debt assumed, was funded primarily by the Company’s ongoing best-efforts offering of
Units. The Company assumed approximately $34.5 million of debt secured by three of its hotel properties. In addition, the Company
assumed a non-mortgage note payable of $3.8 million in connection with the Lewisville, Texas Hilton Garden Inn Hotel (see Note 3).
The Company leases all of its hotels to its wholly-owned taxable REIT subsidiary (or a subsidiary thereof) under master hotel lease
agreements. The Company also used the proceeds of its ongoing best-efforts offering to pay approximately $6.8 million, representing
2% of the gross purchase price for these hotels, as a brokerage commission to ASRG (see Note 7) and to pay approximately $3.0
million of transaction costs, including title, legal and other related costs. These costs have been capitalized to Investment in real estate,
net in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2008.