Craig MacNab
Analyst · Green Street Advisors.
Cedrik, let me answer the qualitative part first. We did, in this quarter, sell a couple of vacant properties, one of which was a vacant, formerly Walmart, in Winfield, Alabama that, to be honest, we took a bath on. We've tried to re-lease it for years. It was in a secondary, tertiary market. We'd owned it for, pick a number, 15 years beforehand, and we lost good money on it under any criteria. GAAP, cash, everything, we lost money. I mean, on GAAP, we had actually written it down, so it's kind of neutral. But I think in terms of a bigger point, the biggest dollars of a single property that we sold in the most recent quarter was kind of an interesting transaction. It's a property that, a tenant that we've got fairly modest exposure to, definitely a relationship tenant, and they opened an excellent store, very well-located, and it just did not work for them. And we've managed to enter into a deal with them, where they agreed to buy it back from us at effectively our cost, so there was really no gain or loss -- we had a little bit of dollars either way, but really small. But what that does for us is they were then able to finance it with bank debt and get a better deal for themselves, and we were able to get a losing property. And out of $1,900 or so, it's really at the margin, but it's symptomatic of how we think about in this company, every property is important. We manage every property carefully, and our relationship with the tenants is such that, that could be a win-win outcome. Now if you want the actual numbers, our dispositions were a small amount of cash lost, dramatically influenced by that former Walmart property overwhelmingly. In fact, it was all of it. And so I mean, to be honest, the decision there was after trying hard to lease it, do we just take our medicine? And that was an easy decision. Qualitatively, we took our medicine.