Good day, and welcome to the LTC Properties Third Quarter 2019 19 Analyst and Investor Conference Call. All participants will be in a listen only mode. After today's presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Before management begins its presentation, please note that today's comments, including the question and answer session, may include forward looking statements subject to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results and events to differ materially. These risks and uncertainties are detailed in LTC Properties' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time, including the company's most recent 10 ks dated December 31, 2018, LTC undertakes no obligation to revise or update these forward looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this presentation.
Please note that this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to Ms. Wendy Simpson. Please go ahead.
Thank you, operator, and good morning. Welcome, everyone, to LTC's 2019 Q3 conference call. Joining me today are Pam Kessler, our Chief Financial Officer and Clint Malan, our Chief Investment Officer. LTC is positioning itself for future success by overcoming recent partner challenges, providing creative recent partner challenges, providing creative financing solutions to take advantage of pipeline opportunities and identifying dispositions that strengthen our portfolio by removing non strategic assets and diversifying partner concentration. Today, we will discuss our progress.
I'm happy to report that most of the portfolio challenges we've discussed are being resolved. Our Thrive portfolio is 100% transitioned and Anthem continues to improve performance. As Clint will discuss later, we are in the process of successfully transitioning the LTC owned properties operated by Preferred Care. Senior Care Centers remains the one over which we have the most limited control as they continue to work through the bankruptcy process. The judge in the proceedings entered an order allowing Senior Care to assume their LTC lease.
This order requires payment of our cure claim, which consists of unpaid December 2018 rent, late fees and legal fees totaling approximately $1,600,000 as of the date of the order. The payment is due either upon the effective date of Senior Care's plan of reorganization or December 16, whichever comes first. On October 22, the judge approved the disclosure statement and scheduled a confirmation hearing on December 4 to approve Senior Care's plan of reorganization. From that point, subject to Senior Care securing exit financing, we anticipate it will take approximately 2 to 4 weeks for reorganization to become effective and for their emergence from bankruptcy. This issue aside, we are optimistic about our future prospects, including our current pipeline.
In an environment that remains saturated with capital, we see opportunities in the smaller yet strategic deals on which other capital providers are not as focused. We are often approached by regional operators who not only want to grow their businesses, but also have the operational resources to do so, and we are working closely with them to offer an array of financial structures that work for them and for us. To give us additional flexibility, we recently termed out some of our line of credit, providing us with more liquidity for future investments. Pam will provide additional details in a moment. Our creativity and flexibility allow LTC to remain competitive, providing us with solid opportunities to add new partners and communities to our portfolio.
At the same time, we continue to evaluate our portfolio for divestiture opportunities where we believe we can redeploy the capital in to better, more strategic investments. Our preferred care portfolio is the perfect example. However, reinvesting cash at today's yields makes it a challenge to immediately achieve the same returns earned on older assets. Anticipating significant capital gains helps with the cash to be reinvested, but there may not be an immediate result as we work to redeploy the proceeds. In the interim, the proceeds will immediately reduce amounts outstanding under our line, which costs us approximately 3.4%.
Regarding 2019 guidance, we are currently estimating FFO will be between $2.97 $3.02 for the year. We have generally provided guidance in a fairly tight range as there are not a lot of moving parts in any given quarter. Currently, however, there remains some timing uncertainty related to Senior Care. Should we not receive the payment of our entire cure claim by year end, FFO will most likely be at the bottom of the range, while the top of the range estimate reflects full payment of our cured claim among other things. Although I am not prepared to provide formal guidance for next year, we are very comfortable that our dividend will continue to be well covered in 2020.
Projected revenue increases from Anthem and from our former Thrive assets, combined with the 2019 investments, should partially offset and replace the preferred care rent. And we expect to have less debt after having deployed the proceeds from the potential sale of the Preferred Care assets to pay down on our line of credit prior to reinvesting these proceeds at higher returns than the 3.4% interest savings on our line. Now, I'll turn the call over to Pam. Thank you, Wendy. Revenues increased $5,300,000 for the 2019 Q3 from a year ago.
$3,800,000 of the increase was due to property tax revenue recorded in accordance with the new lease accounting guidance requires us to record the property tax escrows we collect from our tenants as revenue with a corresponding expense. Accordingly, 2019 revenue includes property tax income, while 2018 does not. The remaining $1,500,000 increase relates to revenues from acquisitions, loan originations and additional funding for expansion and renovation projects, rent from completed development projects and increased rent from Anthem, partially offset by lower rental revenue due to properties sold in 2018 and the 2019 lease transition. NAREIT FFO was $0.77 per diluted share for the Q3 of 2019 and $0.75 for the year ago Q3. Net income available to common shareholders decreased $7,700,000 from the prior year due to a lower gain on sale this year compared with last year and higher expenses, partially offset by an increase in revenues.
During the Q3 of this year, we recognized a 6 $200,000 gain on the sale of a skilled nursing center in Georgia. We sold the property for $7,900,000 and received $7,800,000 in net proceeds, which were used to pay down our line of credit. This asset was part of a master lease and rent under the master lease was not reduced as a result of the sale. Interest expense increased about $330,000 from last year's Q3 due mainly to higher debt balances resulting from acquisitions, development and CapEx funding, partially offset by lower interest on our senior unsecured notes that resulted from scheduled principal pay downs. G and A expense was in line with the prior year.
We anticipate G and A expense to be in the $4,600,000 to $4,700,000 range in the 4th quarter. During the 2019 Q3, as previously announced, we invested approximately $22,000,000 in 1 new skilled nursing center in the Kansas City metro area and one parcel of land to develop another skilled nursing center with the same operator. Clint will provide additional details. We received a $3,400,000 partial pay down on a mezzanine loan and $3,200,000 from the payoff of a mezzanine loan that was accounted for as an unconsolidated joint venture. During the Q3, we also funded $3,100,000 in development and capital improvement projects on properties we own and another $1,200,000 under existing mortgage loans as well as LTC's $0.19 per share monthly dividend.
Dividend payments during the 3rd quarter totaled $22,700,000 At September 30, we owned 2 properties under development with remaining commitments totaling $22,900,000 and one property under renovation with the remaining commitment of $4,400,000 We also have remaining mortgage loan commitments of $13,700,000 related to expansions and renovations on 7 properties in Michigan and $1,600,000 remaining under a deferred equity commitment. We borrowed $18,500,000 under our line of credit for acquisitions during the Q3 and made $10,500,000 of scheduled principal payments under our senior unsecured notes. As Wendy mentioned, we recently termed out some of our line of credit using proceeds from the sale of $100,000,000 of 3.85 percent senior unsecured notes to Prudential. You can find additional details about the transaction in the 8 ks we filed on October 10. We remain focused on maintaining a strong balance sheet to provide us with sufficient flexibility and the capacity to fund current and long term growth initiatives.
Taking into account the sale of notes to Prudential, we have $534,600,000 available under our line of credit, $200,000,000 under our ATM program and $7,500,000 under our shelf agreement with Prudential, providing LTC with total liquidity of just over $740,000,000 Our long term debt to maturity profile remains well matched to our projected free cash flow, helping moderate future refinancing risk. We have no significant long term debt maturities over the next 5 years. At the end of the 3rd quarter, our credit metrics remained well matched to the healthcare REIT industry average with debt to annualized adjusted EBITDA for real estate of 4.4 times an annualized adjusted fixed charge coverage ratio of 4.9 times and a debt to enterprise value of 25%. Now I'll turn the call over to Clint.
Thanks, Pam. I'll start my discussion with the Preferred Care properties. After the completion of a thorough evaluation of the sale and re leasing initiative of our skilled nursing portfolio with them, the majority of the properties are currently under contract for sale across multiple transactions. All buyers are currently in the process of conducting due diligence. And should these processes be completed successfully, some closings could occur in December 2019 and the remainder in the Q1 of 2020.
Also of note, we have applied preferred care security deposits to satisfy a majority of their outstanding rent obligation to us. However, this did not cover their full obligation, so there was a rent shortfall of $476,000 for the 3rd quarter. For the Q4, we anticipate receiving $55,000 per month in rent from Preferred Care, which equals the amount we are currently receiving, the amount we are including in guidance. On last quarter's call, I mentioned that 2 locations owned by an affiliate of Senior Lifestyle in which we hold a preferred equity investment on non accrual basis, we were under a letter of intent for sale. The buyer, a not for profit organization, ultimately decided not to proceed with the transaction.
With our Based on the sales price under the letter of intent, LTC anticipates a loss on its preferred equity investment in the range of $3,300,000 to 3,700,000 Concurrently, Senior Lifestyle is pursuing refinancing alternatives to take advantage of lower interest rates in today's market in the event the purchase and sale transaction is not consummated. I also noted that we anticipated receiving approximately 6 $100,000 of additional income in 2019 based on forecasts of net operating income through the remainder of this year as provided by Senior Lifestyle. As discussed, the $600,000 was not included in our 2Q 2019 guidance. Since our last call, we received $60,000 in Q3 and $125,000 to date in Q4. Of the remaining $415,000 of anticipated additional income for 2019, $250,000 is now included in the high end range of our 2019 FFO guidance.
The remaining $165,000 which is not included in guidance, is anticipated to be received in the Q1 of 2020. Since the original announcement of our investment in Ignite Medical Resorts, a new operating partner, we have commenced construction on a 90 bed skilled nursing center in the Kansas City metro area. Construction began on October 1, and we anticipate construction, certificate of occupancy and licensure to be completed in the Q4 of 2020. Total investment, which includes the purchase of a 90 bed post acute skilled nursing center built in 2018, also in the Kansas City metro area, is approximately $37,000,000 including the development commitment. As to portfolio numbers from which Preferred Care has been removed given the status of the pending asset sales I discussed, Q2 trailing 12 month EBITDARM and EBITDAR coverage using a 5% management fee was 1.44x and 1.22x respectively for our assisted living portfolio and 1.83x and 1.38x respectively for our skilled nursing portfolio.
I'll finish with some comments on our pipeline. We have identified several strategic opportunities to add quality growth oriented operators to our portfolio and to further improve the portfolio's average age. The current pipeline spans acquisitions, real estate joint ventures and mezzanine loans, both in assisted living, memory care and skilled nursing. There is a high likelihood that we can close north of $30,000,000 in investments between now and the end of January. These transactions would be with operators new to our portfolio.
Now I'll turn things back to Wendy for closing remarks.
Thank you, Pam and Clint. As we move through the remainder of this year and begin our transition into a more positive 2020, there is much about which to be optimistic. We are successfully executing on our strategy of a disciplined approach to building a more diversified asset and operator base, and the majority of our portfolio challenges have been addressed. We very much value each of our partners and will continue to do our best to support them in good times and bad, while maintaining 0 intentions of controlling our operations or entering into RIDEA agreements. Additionally, industry wide changes such as PDPM, which is now in its infancy, are anticipated to provide some upside going forward for our SNF partners.
Over the coming weeks months, we look forward to seeing how the SNF industry adjusts to this new payment model. In closing, I believe LTC has consistently demonstrated our ability to make progress through numerous real estate cycles and challenges by remaining creative, flexible and open to interesting opportunities that others may not appreciate. We look forward to updating you again next quarter. Thank you as always for joining us. Operator, we are now ready to take questions.
We will now begin the question and answer And our first question will come from Chad Vanacore of Stifel. Please go ahead.
Hey there, thanks. So on guidance, does your guidance in the Q4 assume the sale of preferred care closes? And then what's the impact to FFO assumed in 4Q and then into 1Q 2020?
Well, Chad, this is Pam. The impact is about $0.10 to the year on preferred care from our previous guidance. And we've assumed the sale at the end of this quarter in the end of the Q4. So we've assumed the $55,000 per month in October, November, December.
All right. So in that $0.10 of value, how much of that do you seem to get back post sale in terms of rent?
You mean from reinvesting? We have not we haven't we're not giving guidance in 2020 yet, so we haven't assumed anything. But obviously, the yield we were getting in the past on the preferred care is not the same as what we would get reinvesting in newer properties, whether they be skilled nursing or assisted living.
Okay. Any thoughts on where your preference is in that skilled nursing versus assisted living and member care spectrum?
We're agnostic still to both types of investments. It's really opportunistic, whichever type presents itself to us.
All right. And then just another question. Wendy, you mentioned dividend being secure. Between selling assets, booking gains and losses, deferred rents, where should we expect FFO and FAD payout ratios to be by, say, mid-twenty 20 compared to today?
It's still going to remain about 80% payout to FAD. So we're going to be as comfortable as it's always been.
Have you thought about how tight that gets from here to there between today and then you redeploying capital?
It won't get tight, it will get looser.
Okay. All right. That's it for me. I will hop back in the queue.
Thanks Chad.
And the next question will come from Michael Carroll of RBC Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Yes, thanks. I wanted to dive into the Preferred Care situation a little bit more. I guess, why did the tenant stop or decided to start paying $55,000 a month versus the previous rate of $1,000,000 And is there any chance that you could regain that loss rent in the future?
Good question, Mike. This is Clint. Right now, Preferred Care has been in bankruptcy for just shy of 2 years now. And they the case has been converted to a Chapter 7, which should be concluded here shortly. During the duration of that 2 year period, Preferred Care has downsized substantially as an organization, and they've had a lot of distraction going on.
So a lot of what we're seeing in the portfolio is a lot of expense control issues. Revenue and occupancy has stayed pretty much consistent. It's a lot on the expense control side. So and with that, they've had some challenges in their NOI performance. So that's the number they're able to pay to us, and we're appreciative of what they can pay, but we're obviously moving forward to transition these properties as quickly as possible.
This definitely is a legacy part of our portfolio And obviously, selling this and recycling the capital into newer assets is a strategic decision and makes a lot of sense for LTC.
Okay. And then, Clint, staying with you, can you talk a little bit about, what's how many assets that you're planning on selling here over the next several months? And what's the plan with the remaining assets that are not under contract to sell right now?
So right now for Preferred Care, of the 24 properties we have with them, 22 properties are now under contract. So the majority of the portfolio is under contract with due diligence being conducted. And we are negotiating a PSA right now on 1 of the 2 remaining properties. So making a lot of progress on that front. Beyond that going into 2020, we'll be opportunistic and look at opportunistic sales.
I don't see the significance of sales, obviously, is what we're doing with Personal Care, but we will continue as we have been in the past to selectively and strategically look at recycling capital on non core, non strategic assets.
Okay, great. And then Pam, last just a quick model question. How much GAAP rents did LTC record under the legacy Thrive assets during the quarter? And what's a good stabilized run rate? I'm assuming that's going to be fully stabilized as we go into the next quarter on a GAAP basis?
I don't have the quarterly number, but we gave projections last quarter that it would be $3,400,000 from the legacy
But also with that $5,200,000 in year 3, we do have the benefit of percentage rent on one of the assets and also the 2 buildings, 1 in South Carolina and 1 in Georgia are in a 2 year master lease with the ability to reset rents on those two buildings going forward. So hopefully that number of $5,200,000 would grow in after years.
So that was a cash number though, right, Pam? So is there a GAAP number? I'm assuming that these rents are straight lined. And was the GAAP number, I guess fully stabilized in the 3rd quarter? Or I guess what's the what kind of pickup should we expect on a GAAP basis between 3Q and 4Q related to those properties?
No, I gave you cash and GAAP because right now those properties are being accounted for still on a cash basis due to the transition and lease up nature of them. And then I'll give you a refresher on the fund collectability analysis. You have to be 90 it has been more than likely that you will collect 90% of your projected future cash flows over the life of the lease, so over 10 years. And if it doesn't meet that threshold, you won't record straight line rent. So we haven't met that threshold yet because my crystal ball isn't good enough for that.
So right now we're on a cash basis till we get some history and cash flow on these properties. Okay. So perhaps at some point in the future, we will have that certainty. But right now that certainty doesn't exist with
us. Okay, great. Thanks.
And our next question will come from Tayo Okusanya with Mizuho. Please go ahead.
Hi, yes. Good morning, everyone. I just wanted to talk about senior care for a second. Again, realizing that you guys have very little control of the process as you've said. I mean, at this point, do you have any sense what the emerging entity could look like?
And the reason I ask that is just, again, you guys have always expressed some hesitation about a continued relationship with senior care, whether it's company specific, whether it's just because of everything that's going on in Texas with Medicaid. But I'm just kind of curious how you kind of think about an emergent entity and how you kind of deal with that against the back against the tough Medicaid backdrop in Texas?
Tayo, this is Clint. Good question. Thank you for that. Right now for the disclosure statement that was approved by the court, the entity that's proposed to emerge would have 22 properties under their operation, which will all be leased. And LPC's portfolio would comprise half of that 22 building portfolio.
So we'd make up a material part of the Emerge organization. Obviously, LTC has had concern and we filed an objection to the lease assumption. We did not prevail on that. So we made an effort to try to transition these to another operator. And one of the concerns going forward is just the capital structure.
Obviously, the unsecured creditors will have a position in the ongoing entity. So that's what the structure would look like. The management team will have a portion of ownership and the remainder will be the unsecured creditors effectively. So that's something we will monitor going forward. And there's always going to be a concern, I think, potentially of some type of exit or recapitalization in the future.
But we have they are replacing their lender. And so the new lender is doing deep due diligence and will not provide them with a line of credit on the receivables without having some confidence that it will be a profitable entity. We haven't seen the last budget to come out of bankruptcy yet. Our assets are still doing well. So we hope at this point, we wish them well and profitability in the future.
They are they have asked us to approve to the future and doing some strategic business planning.
So And also as I said, we're going to be a material part of that organization. So I think they've obviously been adamant about assuming our leases and out of the 100 plus buildings that within the senior care portfolio, our 11 survives. So we like the assets. Obviously, senior care does as well. And we think we're in a good position.
But is there any risk just as you mentioned of the entity that survives ends up having such a poor capital structure that you could really kind of run into this issue again, whether it's 12 or 24 months down the line?
It's always potential, but we have credit enhancements under the lease. We have financial covenants that would trigger incremental credit enhancements. We have an operator that we have worked with, as we talked about on previous calls, to be prepared to take over these buildings if we have the opportunity. So something we're going to closely monitor. We do have, as I mentioned, credit enhancements on this, and it's something we'll be paying a lot of attention to as we go forward and the company likely emerges from bankruptcy.
Our next question will come from John Kim of BMO Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Thank you. Good morning. On the preferred care, I think if I heard you correctly, your preference is to sell the assets. Should we assume it's going to be a double digit cap rate on the last annualized rent of $12,000,000 just based on the performance of the portfolio?
This is Matt.
I think that's probably I mean double digits is an accurate number. I mean this is a legacy part of our portfolio in an older component of skilled nursing buildings. I think that would be priced along those lines. Right now, we do have it's our intent. We have 22 of the buildings into contract.
So our intent is to move forward with the sale of these properties, and there is due diligence being conducted. So if we get through the due diligence period with the buyers, we'll be able to provide more visibility in the future regarding the price point.
Okay. And, Clint, on the investment pipeline, in the $30,000,000 you expect to close potentially by the end of January, Is there going to be more focus on acquisitions and loans rather than developments just because of the earnings gap?
These will be acquisitions.
Acquisition.
Okay. And can you discuss the mezz loan environment given your cost
of capital has improved, cost of
debt is coming down and are you willing to set the lower rates on mezz debt?
It's something that we it's an option for us and it's a tool in selling and forming relationships with operating companies. So it's something that we will continue to look at strategically as one component to deploy capital. It's obviously not exclusive that we do that, but if there are situations that arise where it's opportunistic for us to be able to provide that type of financing. And I think with our cost of capital, we have the ability to be flexible and strategic in working with companies to develop relationships. And if that is an investment structure that we can do, we'll absolutely take advantage of that.
Okay. And then a final question on assisted living. You've had an occupancy increase sequentially for the past several quarters. Do you expect a similar increase in the Q3 just with the seasonal pickup? And can you just discuss the ability for your operators to increase occupancy despite the supply headwinds?
We would see that occupancy would continue hopefully to grow a little bit. I mean Anthem has been performing stronger in their occupancy. And as you go to, I guess, a seasonal aspect, you would hope to see some continued increase in that occupancy number. I mean, I wouldn't expect large jumps, but
I think
that continued improvement is what we're expecting.
It that your markets are not seeing as much supply pressure from other REITs?
Yes. I mean there's not as there are still start there are still building openings. There's not as many starts. So we're not seeing as much in our markets. So that's what we're seeing right now.
Our next question will come from Jordan Sadler of KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please go ahead.
Thank you. Another one on preferred care. What was the trailing EBITDAR coverage and occupancy of these assets that you could sort of point to?
I don't think we've given trailing occupancy or trailing coverage for this portfolio, Jordan. But as I mentioned in my early comments, we have seen deterioration in that EBITDAR and that's a function of where we're at in regard to where we're at with rent. So it has definitely declined in that portfolio. Again, we think that the buyer population really is not necessarily looking so much at the bottom line, they're looking more at occupancy and revenue because they have the ability to come in and and implement their operating procedures and their cost efficiencies on that as long as the occupancy and revenues continue in place.
So how low of occupancy is calculated at this point?
I'm sorry, say that again.
So what do occupancies look like? Where are they at this level that they're looking at that opportunistically?
I think across the portfolio, it's let me get that number for you just a second. It should be right around the 80% mark, I believe.
The positive part of the preferred portfolio is that the revenues have stayed fairly high. And I'm sure part of their cost challenges are labor costs because they're probably using a lot of agency. It's hard to hire permanent people in an asset that's going to be sold. So and nobody is really paying attention to cost controls and that sort of thing. So the good part of the preferred assets are that the revenue continues to hold.
And as Barry said, clearly, the costs are coming up.
I have my question for you, little bigger picture on preferred carriers. I kind of feel like this is coming as a bit of a surprise to us in a way in that, I don't know if it's a year ago when we well, no, would you say 2 years, I mean, the bankruptcy. So it's going it's been in bankruptcy for quite some time. Immediately, you guys kind of made sure that we all understood that it wasn't necessarily your properties that were exposed to the bankruptcy, if I'm not mistaken. It's kind of been status quo.
And then more recently you said, we're going to look to we're going to evaluate whether or not it makes sense to sell some of these assets.
Now all of a sudden,
you're getting $55,000 of rent instead of per month instead of $1,000,000 I mean, did like what was the catalyst for this and why are we so surprised and why are you not receiving rent? I mean, I think Clint kind of went through a little bit that there's been some struggling this has languished and but can't you like I thought your properties are not part of the bankruptcy. What am I missing?
Jordan, this is Glenn. I think it's a good question. The master lessee was part of the bankruptcy. Sub tenants that hold the licenses, they were not part of the bankruptcy. Remember, when First Care filed, they only filed on a portion of their company, they're not the entire organization.
So that's the aspect regarding the bankruptcy.
And at that time, they told us that they intended to operate these properties and affirm the lease and this was going to be part of their emergence from bankruptcy. When that changed, we were very transparent and said ProCare has decided they're going to be a much smaller company and that smaller company will not include our assets. And that was earlier this year.
Yes. We were under the 1st year.
So was that a firm lease under the bankruptcy, under sort of the purview of the bankruptcy court?
It would have been, but remember, yes, remember earlier this year, we said probably it was our Q1 call or year end call, we said that lease did not get affirmed. They did not affirm it by the deadline and that was something different than they had told us they intended to.
Even after that, they told us they because they didn't affirm it, they wanted to continue to operate there. So I think their decision process and their organization, Jordan, I think it evolved and changed over time as they're looking at how they downsize their organization. So obviously, the fact that it wasn't assumed in bankruptcy when they told us it would be assumed, after that deadline passed, they told us they still wanted to be in the building. And then through that process, they changed their mind. They wanted to exit certain geographies of which our buildings happen to fall into, which then changed their mind to further want to or made the decision they want to get out of our buildings, potentially stay in a couple of our buildings.
And then during the duration of this, the focus on operations and expense control caused a deterioration in the cash flow. So it's a culmination of a number of things that have happened rather quickly as they're looking at it rightsizing whatever remaining organization they'll have going forward. I think it's going to be a much smaller organization than they originally intended to have. And it's going to be a different company that even they expected, I think, back when they were before this was converted to a Chapter 7. Again, that Chapter 7 being on very specific entities, not the entire organization.
So and look, I can appreciate all this, but like I feel like in the last 2 years, when you've had quite a bit of time to sort of stew on this and watch this play out. I guess I'm curious, 1, why haven't you looked to replace the operator, at least find an operator who could just jump in. I'm not as close to the properties or the property level, but it sounds like some people would be interested at this rent or at the legacy rent because at some point they were performing. And it seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, over the last few years, the environment for SNFs has gotten better, not worse in a way, or at least valuation, right? Interest rates are extraordinarily low.
I feel like the reimbursement environment has been benign to positive. What am I missing?
Those are good questions. So we strategically said back we approach Preferred Care to try to sell these assets back to them before they filed bankruptcy. So we were looking at actually working with Preferred Care to strategically sell these over a period of time to them, then they file bankruptcy. So that discussion with them to strategically sell them, we weren't able to do that. And as we've seen through the senior care process, the ability to change an operator in the course of a bankruptcy case is not easy.
And so given that it's been 2 years since that timeframe, the ability to change the operator in a bankruptcy, we're not in control of that.
And these are not properties we intend to hold long term. And we've said that for a while with that lease maturity coming up in 2021 that these properties were not the type we were buying today and we had always intended to recycle the capital out of them. It was just a matter of timing.
Okay. I guess my sense is that maybe you would have been able to preserve value to a greater extent had you lined up an alternative operator?
But Jordan before we could line up another operator really before they filed bankruptcy and our discussion with Preferred Care about selling the assets to them, we could have only sold the building subject to existing leasehold. We didn't have the ability to sell to or bring another operator before they filed bankruptcy. And it made a lot of sense to as we were discussing the settlement for repair to sell the buildings to them.
Okay. So now as it stands, you didn't get $476,000 of the $1,000,000 in the 3rd quarter that they would sorry, of the 3,000,000 dollars that they would have paid you ordinarily in the Q3, right? So that was the shortfall in 3Q. And then as you transition to 4Q, the other question for you Pam, in terms of revenue. Now the $2,500,000 that you got in 3Q is only going to be 150,000 or something like that, right?
And that's really what's happening. So I guess the offset and the upside to the low end of guidance, what's sort of offsetting that deterioration because you obviously had this negative in guidance. So what's driving what's sort of helping support you sequentially?
On the upside, it's the senior care potential payment. So you have a deterioration of
Just a 1,000,000,000
Yes, you have a deterioration of $0.10 coming from preferred care and then you have a counterbalance of $0.04 from senior care and then another $0.01 from kind of miscellaneous things.
Okay. But I think correct me if I'm wrong, senior care, you have 0, I thought Wendy said, at the low end?
No. At the low end, we don't have the $1,600,000 So the 2.97 dollars of guidance, the low end of guidance assumes we do not get that payment this year. And the high end of guidance assumes we get that payment, which is $0.04 And then there's another $0.01 that's just a bunch of miscellaneous things like percentage rent and things that we don't typically model.
But so if we're trying to get to like sort of a run rate as we look through to 1Q 'twenty, that 1.6 is only a one time item anyway that's $0.04 or so. So it's really the low end number that's sort of a better run rate or at least the difference between your year to date in 'nineteen and the 297, that's sort of almost a better run rate going forward.
That's correct. Yes.
Okay. And then just a similar clarification on senior lifestyle. You're recording in terms of income there, nothing on a it's like only on a cash basis. You said you received 60,000 dollars in 3Q, dollars 125,000,000 so far in 4Q and the high end of the range has $250,000,000 I caught all that. What happens to the loss?
Where will that be booked? And will that be an FFO at all? No. It's not the end of the loan. And ultimate okay, it's ultimately a realized loss on those properties.
Right, if we end up selling it. Right now, we've kind of pegged it 50% chance it will get sold and 50% chance that it will get refinanced.
Okay. Okay.
And those are the underlying properties refinancing, not us refinancing. We bought that with cash. But the underlying properties are looking at a refinance.
Okay. Okay, that helps. Thank you.
Thank you.
And our next question will come from Connor Seversky of Berenberg. Please go ahead.
Good morning, everyone. Just changing gears a little bit. With the implementation of PDPM October 1, just wondering what kind of feedback you've gotten from your skilled nursing operators. And then what kind of time frame do you think the business environment will kind of stabilize under PDPM?
We've had conversations with a number of our operators regarding PDPM, obviously, just being implemented on October 1, parties are going through and the coding process. Billing right now for October wouldn't occur until the 1st part of November. So with the operators that we've spoken with about that, they've been planning and training for this implementation and really no glitches or concerns that have been identified to us. So I think as we go into the next quarter, we'll have more visibility on that. But at this point, it really hasn't been any concern because a lot of companies have really prepared and trained employees for this.
And so once the billing takes place and then payments are made in middle of November, we start being able to see where those rates are compared to the PPS structure before. So I think it's a little premature right now to be able to assess where that's at. But overall, I think operators feel optimistic about that plus with the implementation of group and concurrent therapies as well.
Thanks for that. And then maybe for smaller mom and pop operators that aren't represented in your portfolio, do you think the moving goalposts to PDPM to some degree may result in some opportunities to acquire some properties and put in place maybe one of your operators? Or is it too still too early to tell?
No, absolutely. I think you're going to see a migration the more complex this business gets, especially under PDPM with the focus on more complex care. I think you're going to see people wanting smaller operators, mom and pops wanting to exit, would be my guess.
Great, great. And then you mentioned a bit of an expanded acquisition pipeline maybe going into 2020. Are you seeing any yield movement for your target properties, whether that be in assisted living or skilled nursing? And then maybe the same question as it pertains to any particular markets?
As far as yields, we're looking pretty much at the same type of yields and investments between the 7% to 7.5% on private pay, probably 8.5% to 9% on skilled is what we're looking at. Overall transaction cap rates, I think it changed a lot from what they've been in the past. As Wendy mentioned in her prepared remarks, there definitely is a tremendous amount of capital in the marketplace that's attractive both on the skilled side as well as on the private pay side. I think there's just a lot of price discovery going on still on the investment side. There are transactions we've seen that have come back around that haven't sold, coming back around for the 2nd or third time.
On the opposite side, we're seeing some assets that are getting tremendous price premiums where we have a disconnect of maybe 50% or more of valuation and looking at some broker deals. So the price point things fell a little bit all over the board and there's definitely some price discovery going on.
Got you. So do you think the competitive environment has remained relatively stable? And what do you think the outlook for that is going into 2020?
I think there's still a lot of capital looking at buildings. So I think it's going to remain competitive. Where we see the most opportunity is in one off transactions. We're not looking at larger marketed deals. We see the activity coming in, but given price points, we're probably more inclined to look at one off acquisitions where we can tuck into existing relationships or build upon new relationships.
All right, great. That helps
a lot. That's all from me.
Thank you.
Our next question will come from Todd Stender with Wells Fargo. Please go ahead. Thanks. And Clint, probably just to stick with you, just looking at the Missouri deals you announced in the quarter, they're interesting because you get a pretty good snapshot of an acquisition versus new construction with the same operator, same bed count. The acquisition was made above replacement cost.
I guess if you look at the cost of the new construction, but maybe that's too simplistic. I wonder if you could just expand
and make that difference.
It was
fairly full. It had, I mean, strong occupancy. So I mean, that's a function of where the buildings that you're not taking that risk associated with the lease up.
So you get the higher sure, you get the higher yield upfront, right, with the new construction. Any differences in mix or location, anything like that?
No. It would look to mirror the existing property.
All right. And then Pam, I think you talked about it, the Georgia SNF that you sold in the quarter. It was pretty good size, but the price seemed low. I don't know if that had been written down. And then you spoke about the rent within the master lease.
Any color you could expand there?
Well, I think the sales price and the fact that rent didn't change would imply that that was an older building not contributing a lot of cash flow to that master lease. So if you want to read that into the numbers, you can.
Okay. That's it for me. Thanks.
You're welcome.
Our next question will come from Daniel Bernstein of Capital One. Please go ahead.
Hi, good morning. Just a quick question, I hope I wasn't already asked or you addressed it, I came on late. Michigan Medicaid, there's been a proposal that could affect some, I guess, Medicaid payments in Michigan and you obviously have some exposure to Pristine, obviously a larger operator, but any thoughts on Michigan Medicaid and the impacts there potentially on your portfolio?
We've had a conversation with Prestige Healthcare regarding that proposed change on the Medicaid side. And it really affects the variable cost limit and it reduces that from the 80% to the 65% if it takes effect. With Prestige, they pretty much are operating in our portfolio at that 65% range. So it really only impacts you to the extent you exceed that variable cost limit. So they do have some properties that exceed that, but that's been sort of strategic from acquiring buildings from a not for profit, which has a higher cost structure and if they reduce that cost structure over time.
So there might be a little bit of hit on a couple of buildings, but by and large, it seems like they are going to have tremendous impact from that potential change that could take effect.
Okay. Yes, I mean, the Aka had indicated most of the larger regional should be able to weather it. So that I'm not surprised by your comments. Just want to verify it. And then the other question I had was on preferred care.
Are those sales to multiple parties or is it a single party that's buying those assets of platform?
It's multiple parties that are looking at the buildings. I mean, they're in different states. So most of it is targeted by state.
Okay. That's all I had. Thanks.
Thank you.
This concludes our question and answer session. I would like to turn the conference back over to Wendy Simpson for any closing remarks. Please go ahead, ma'am.
Thank you. And thank you all for your questions and for your attendance today. We look forward to updating you in the future. Have a great weekend.