Operator
Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Pure Cycle Corporation Year ended 2022 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions]. It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Mark Harding. Sir, the floor is yours.
Pure Cycle Corporation (PCYO)
Q4 2022 Earnings Call· Tue, Nov 15, 2022
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Operator
Operator
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Pure Cycle Corporation Year ended 2022 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions]. It is now my pleasure to turn the floor over to your host, Mark Harding. Sir, the floor is yours.
Mark Harding
Analyst
Thank you. Good morning, everyone. I'd like to welcome you to our year-end earnings call. Just a few housekeeping items. We do have a deck for this call, if you log in to our website at purecyclewater.com, there'll be a link over to the Investor page, and then there'll be a tab on that page that allows you to join. So click that join button and then I'll be able to advance the slides through the presentation and you'll have the deck on there, and then the deck will also be a PDF of the presentation will be on the website for reference on you want to get into reading it in a little bit more detail. With me today is both Kevin McNeill, who has been a little under the weather, so he's going to take a listen only mode on that as well as Dirk Lashnits who handles all of our land development activities. And so other than hearing from me, you'll have a chance to hear from Dirk on some of the land activities and our successes in that area as well. So with that, I'd like to just start with the presentation. And the first thing we need to do is talk about our safe harbor statement, which is that historical fact not contained or incorporated by reference in this presentation are forward-looking statements. I think you all are familiar with the forward-looking statements and the safe harbor statement so we can get the lawyers out of the room. I'm going to really kind of brief through some of the overview question -- overview of the company. Most of you are going to be familiar with the company. And if you're not, certainly, you can go back and take a look at this portion of the…
Dirk Lashnits
Analyst
Right. Thanks, Mark. Good morning, everyone. Land development is the Sky Ranch project, our Master Planned Community. This information is probably a little old hat, but it's will stay the same for the duration of the project. So we see that the slide of the iteration curve for the next several years to come. So Sky Ranch is 930 acres. We can accommodate up to 3,200 residential lots, about 2 million square feet of commercial development. Go to the next slide here. All right. So again, a little old had our first phase. This phase of the project kicked off in earnest in 2018. I think it gives a pretty good frame of reference for the overall project and sort of a basis. So this phase encompasses 509 lots. This is wrapping up as we speak. If you look at the top right-hand corner of the graphic on the page, you can see the last little bit of homes under construction right now. So we're finishing this project off. Based on the project off, we've sold all our taps. All the homes have been started. Last few residents are moving in. We've turned over all the infrastructure to the respective jurisdictions. We've collected all our lot revenue that's the $36.7 million. That's for our lot sales, $14 million for our tap. We also did a bond on these -- on this phase in 2019. That was about $30 million, something like that. And then we have some reimbursable costs accruing out here on these for future. All right. So then we move over to our second phase. This is the most current phase right across the street to the East. What you're looking at on the graphic, the lots are down in the right-hand corner and then the upper right-hand…
Mark Harding
Analyst
Great. Appreciate that. Thanks Dirk. So I want to talk a little about our last business segment, single-family rentals. More recently, we've added this new business really through retaining lots in our Master Planned Community. And so we want to develop these lots into single-family rentals mostly for the appreciation that we're getting and seeing in the Master Planned Community, we're actually causing that appreciation as we do what we do well on the development side, creating a nice place of home on that. We see a significant increase in value for those. And then it's a great opportunity for us to continue to invest in the company and provides ongoing cash flow. So we really like that complement to our water and land development activities. And so we're going to continue to see some more activity there. Some of the specifics on this are the trends in the consumer preferences, home versus apartments. We have a significant recalibration of consumers seeking more space rather than location. Affordability is a key driver in this area. And as Dirk mentioned, we've really concentrated on a broader product class. We've got more -- we've got paired homes. We've got townhomes, so they're all going to be delivering at an entry-level price point that's going to be more flexible for the consumer as well as for the renter. And so we have a number of different product offerings so that when somebody comes to us, with an interest to rent on a single-family home level, we have everything from a large 4-bedroom home with a dent to maybe a 2-bedroom home that would be in a townhome type product. So those price points will be flexible for all sorts of customers in there and really a continuing strengthening of the market for home…
Operator
Operator
[Operator Instructions]. Our first question is coming from Bill Miller, who is an Investor.
Bill Miller
Analyst
I congratulate you on a great quarter, and I'm just curious about a couple of things. One is your acquisitions that you alluded to, and where are you on any big further land acquisitions along I-70 or anywhere else? And secondly, the home rental market is obviously a home loan for you. Are you going to expand beyond the 100 a year or whatever number you have because that's certainly your highest return investment opportunity you have. So will you reallocate resources there? And finally, are you going to stop at 200,000? Or are you going to go beyond that? and how aggressively do you plan to pursue that at this price?
Mark Harding
Analyst
Yes. So let me take them in the order presented if I can remember that. So on the land acquisitions, we certainly do have a high degree of interest for that. And as we've talked in the past, I think we're very well known in the market segment. We have water, which most of these surrounding land, the interest do not have water. So the intrinsic value of us being able to acquire a piece of land at our water to it does add value in the equation. And while we have not broken any of those free yet, we are seeing a lot of movement in this area, so we're very interested to continue to pursue that. We're very active in pursuing that, and we have a high degree of liquidity to pursue that with. So we very much like that optionality and being able to do that. As you see, we continue to try and do some tuck-in acquisitions on the water side. I'd say our preference would be more land and water. But when water is available that we have that's going to be located near where our existing supplies are that make sense for us to add. We'll continue to do that. In taking a look at the single-family rental market, that's also a great opportunity for us. And what we're looking at with our builder partners, they've all done very well. We're concentrated in the right market segment of that at the entry-level home. Each of the builders did very well in Phase 1, we're continuing to roll that forward. And really, what we want to try to do is if somebody finds themselves to be overweighted in that segment, that may be an opportunity for us to take some of those lots back and…
Bill Miller
Analyst
Mark, how big a portion of your company, do you want to rental business to be.
Mark Harding
Analyst
It's a good question. If you take a look at the 3,200 single-family lots out there, a good growth target would be somewhere around that 12% to 15% of that market can be in our portfolio.
Bill Miller
Analyst
That's going to be a big business for you.
Mark Harding
Analyst
That is going to be a good business for us. And much to your point. I mean, it is 1 of those things where that asset continues to appreciate. Our customer is paying down the vertical cost of that through the mortgage rentals on that. And then it also provides cash flow to us. So it's going to be 1 of those -- it is a win-win segment. And it's one that we actually have a reason to be in. If you take a look at us being in the business just to be in the business, I would say it's a good business to be in and a lot of money is going towards that segment. But given the fact that we are able to carry forward the equity value that we have in the land and the equity value that we have in the water, it's a highly tax-efficient mechanism for us to invest in. So we're carrying that forward and it's appreciating. And so if it turns out that we find a great acquisition and we've got a few hundred homes that are out there, that can be an opportunity for us to spin that off and use that as monetizing for another land acquisition that might be a bit above our punching weight at the time and then continue to grow that back. So there's a real flex there for us on that business segment.
Operator
Operator
Our next question is coming from Geoffrey Scott with Scott Asset Management.
Geoffrey Scott
Analyst
Two questions. You didn't mention much about the commercial side. Can you talk about the development and potential timing of that.
Mark Harding
Analyst
Great question. And we have -- we're continuing to build up on that residential side. The commercial segment, I'd say still a bit out. I think they're looking for about -- most of what we would be putting up there would be looking for about 1,000 rooftops in and around the area. We do have neighboring developments that do provide a lot of density to the equation on this thing. And really, we're looking for the higher-value commercials there. We're looking for the big boxes. We're looking for the big -- not just a small grocery store, we want a big grocery store. We want big retail centers out there that are really high-volume stuff. And we also want to be opportunistic to be able to maybe partner on some of that, where we're able to bring the utilities and bring the land to the venture, much like we're doing in the single-family rental segment carrying forward some of that equity value. We're not going to go vertical on the commercial as like we are in the residential. But we do have opportunities to take a look at that and high-value margins for us being able to do that. So it's still a bit off, and I think that our patients here is going to be well rewarded by bringing in some of that big, big commercial, not just some small retail commercial that usually does like to lead that and then they end up getting in some preferred positions because people really pull that trigger a little too early, and then a lot of times those sites get redeveloped, we want to really kind of be patient and develop that out as a big commercial opportunity and mostly because of our location, right? Where we're located, we're located right off the interstate, we're located right next to the belt loop on it. We're just south of the interstate. So -- sorry, just out of the airport, and so that does pretend it's high-value use for large commercial. So I know I've said we're being patient on that, and we continue to be patient on that. I don't have a start date on that, but we continue to be very active on pursuing market opportunities for that.
Geoffrey Scott
Analyst
If I understood correctly, the big box kind of people want a lot more houses built, right? So they wouldn't be in a community of multiple thousands. So we're talking about development kind of 4 and 5 years away from now.
Mark Harding
Analyst
Yes, that's a hard one for me to say it's that far out. I'd say it's -- it might be a couple of years out, but not 4, 5 years out.
Geoffrey Scott
Analyst
Okay. Next question on page, whatever it was 26. You said you had 404.9 million gallons delivered. If my math is correct, that's kind of the 1,200 acre feet -- 1,300 acre feet, and you have 30,000. So you're selling, what, 3% to 4% of the acre feet that you currently have, why additional water acquisitions?
Mark Harding
Analyst
It's really just where we can. Once the water is purchased by a city municipality, it's gone forever. And so what we're looking at is not necessarily expanding the portfolio just anywhere. We're expanding our acquisitions where it's next to areas that we're already invested with. And so we -- it's an opportunity for us to continue to build that portfolio. We do know we're long on water. We don't want to be overly invested in that area, but we're where it's a strategic acquisition, we'd look to consider those. And it's a function of price. Is it a good price? Are we able to bring value with our infrastructure and our other water rights to that particular asset that really builds value beyond the acquisition cost of it.
Geoffrey Scott
Analyst
If I hear you correctly, it's really a defensive move to keep it out of governmental control?
Mark Harding
Analyst
Not necessarily out of governmental control. I mean once -- the other water provider, so it's very competitive. So we have 70 different water providers who were all out scouring opportunities for water supplies. And so you have diminishing acquisition opportunities and an increasing number of folks that are looking for those acquisition opportunities. And so we're looking at making sure that we can continue to grow that side of the business through logical acquisitions.
Geoffrey Scott
Analyst
Okay. Anything happening then on the reservoir?
Mark Harding
Analyst
No. We still look to partner with other regional interest on the reservoir assets that we have and whether that's with our neighbors or with our partners that we have in Wise with the South Metro Group, all of those studies, evaluations and smart consultants continue to take a look at that, but nothing really exciting to update you on.
Operator
Operator
Our next question is coming from Greg Malachowski with Benchmark.
Unidentified Analyst
Analyst
Just a couple -- mainly one general question and that kind of involves the single-family rental business. Has your approach to financing that changed at all with the -- I know the mortgage rates, you mentioned were in the high 3s or low 4s. Has there been any change in approach through how the company is anticipating funding future ones with the rise in mortgage rates? Or how are you guys evaluating that?
Mark Harding
Analyst
That's a good question. It has. The opportunity for us, we did lock in maybe that $4 million at some very attractive rates, and so we like that, and we will continue to keep those out there. As mortgage rates have gone up to 7% because of we have such strong equity value in that, we may look at instead of financing 80% of that, we may drop that down a bit and finance maybe 50% of that. So it's -- we will still use that financing mechanism. And I'd say we're going to be indicative to everybody else. It was better for it to be at 3%, 4%. It is not awful for it to be at 7%. And it's not always going to stay at 7%, right? This is the type of financing activity. And I think that that's where the millennials that are going to really be looking at buying a house. And they may be making the decision to buy a house for other reasons other than it's an investment or it's that there's a significant utility value in owning a house. And so taking a 7% mortgage on a house is more traditional and more in line with the long-term projection of that. And so I'd say, yes, we do have an appetite for continuing to finance those out to the extent that we're getting 4%, 4.5% on that. We may be able to get a better return by financing some of those ourselves because that's going to provide more cash flow to the bottom line when we have those opportunities to do that, but we're not going to be overweighted in it either. We like to continue to grow that segment. Our Board has said that this is a great segment for us, but we want to be able to leverage the vertical cost of that. We're going to carry forward the equity value, but we want to leverage some of that vertical cost. And 7% is still a very good rate for us to view that as some of the cheaper money because of the mortgage type lending activities there. So you're going to still see us pursue 50%, 60% of that into the mortgage side.
Unidentified Analyst
Analyst
Okay. And how do you see the overall rental market right now and maybe projecting going forward? What is the strength or weakness associated with that versus kind of what you guys loosely would underwrite when you're looking at picking up a home.
Mark Harding
Analyst
It's a great question, and it is strengthening. So what you're seeing is, to the extent that those former buyers that would be out there and maybe they lose the ability to qualify for the same house that they would have wanted at 4% compared to 7%, we're really getting a lot of referrals from our homebuilders to say, well, if you like the community, why don't you go talk to the developer who's got some units that are coming online for rental because it puts them -- it locks them into the market, right? There's that as a component of it. And then the second component of it that I think we're really excited about is really bringing online our school, right? That's a sense of community. That's a sense of place. That's a sense of education being the initiative of every new subdivision, new community. And so that's a strong driver for new families, particularly because we're opening up this K7. It will be a full K8 facility. We may not open all those grades all at once, but that's what the capacity of that is. And so we find that to be some good traffic flow on the single-family rental business, which is kind of putting a little bit of wind in our sale on why we may partner with some of our builders to claw back a few of those lots and cells.
Unidentified Analyst
Analyst
Okay. Yes, because that's what I was -- so you're saying the financing is still favorable. The rental market is robust. So I guess if I can float something that maybe I'm sure you guys have thought of something that looks really attractive. You look at capital allocation and you've talked about the land, the problem with land is one, land still is by no means cheap at all. And two, as you guys are obviously aware, you buy the land and want it costs a lot of -- it requires a lot of capital to develop. And two, it takes a lot of time, so with what kind of is already on our plate, I'm not really sure land is the best use of capital at this point. You look at the water rights and similar to the previous caller, it's nice, but when you're a public company in the market, just gives you no credit for the water assets you have, that might not be the best use of capital either. We've been over the back and one thing, I think, just in terms of looking at how you guys are approaching this, you mentioned investing in your own currency, but really, I think the correct way to view that is, if you put the first sale sign up and the company is worth, say, $25 a share, if you're capitalizing on an $8 print, you're creating immense value for the shareholders that continue to stay along for the ride. So you're doing that now, which I commend and I think that's great. And I think you guys should be aggressive at these prices. But then you get into the single-family rental business. And again, it's like buying back stock where your basically able to create a $400,000…
Mark Harding
Analyst
Yes. No, I agree with everything you said. What I do and what we are looking at is working with each of our builders to say, okay, let's take a look at this next takedown. we're ready to move forward on this next takedown, and you guys find yourselves to be a little bit long on your longer than you think you'd want to be, then we can pull back, not pull back on the start, but we'll pull back some of those lots. Instead of having 10 in that next subsecond section of that, maybe we have 50. Maybe we pull back some of those and we can develop those or we can have them build on them the same way they would be building the next door and then just deliver that house to us. And it's never been more relevant for them to have a guaranteed buyer. So that conversation is there, Greg, and we will take a look at something like that.
Unidentified Analyst
Analyst
All right. Yes, that's good. That's it for me. Just I think it's awesome. I think right now is where having been a conservative company being responsible with capital, you're going to win down the line by playing offense and being in a position to really capitalize on these things. So it's good to see you guys start looking that way. And the previous 12 months was excellent. So I'm excited about the new developments. And I think, again, you can look at the overall macro situation. But I think given what you guys control, I think it matters a whole lot less than people might think. So I'm happy to see you guys kind of looking at things through that lens as well. So take it easy and I look forward to the next call.
Mark Harding
Analyst
Great. Thanks.
Operator
Operator
[Operator Instructions]. Our next question is coming from Bill Cunningham, who is an investor.
Unidentified Analyst
Analyst
I actually have for starters, just a very basic financial presentation question for you. you earned $0.40 a share in the most recent fiscal year. The first 3 quarters were $0.17 a share, which I think means you had an absolutely fantastic final quarter of $0.23 per share. But it doesn't appear that you actually lay out anywhere the actual numbers specifically for the fourth quarter, unless I'm missing something.
Mark Harding
Analyst
You're right, we don't. And I apologize for that because it's always helpful for us to take a look at quarter-over-quarter. In this particular case, and one of the things that the fourth quarter did for us that really boosted that up was the ability to -- well, liquidity wise, it was the ability to get that next bond offering from the CAB, the delivery of all those finished lots. And so it was weighted into the finished lot category. So when we take a look at our builder agreements Three of the 4 builder agreements are lot delivery agreements where they pay us on that 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 principle. And the reason that, that fourth quarter, and it will always look like that on a quarterly presentation. It won't always be the fourth quarter, but it will always look like we'd get this huge weight because one of our builders is a finished lot delivery. They pay a premium for that. But that's why we'll always wait in one of the delivery quarters.
Unidentified Analyst
Analyst
Okay. I'm also looking at your Sky Ranch Co website, which it shows that 2 of the 4 builders in Phase 2 are simply coming soon, D.R. Horton and Lennar, so I'm wondering, is that actually updated that they're not selling homes there yet? Or what's the situation with those two?
Mark Harding
Analyst
So Lennar has probably got -- I'd say they've got 2, call it, 10 town homes under construction. And I would say 6 or 8 detached single-family homes under construction. So the -- they just haven't opened yet as a for sale. They have a -- they're not doing sales trailers, they're going to be selling out of a model home. I think their model home will be open before, say, the holidays. D.R. Horton is really -- they have yet to start out there. They were a little bit slow on getting their approvals for their home products through the county. So I think that they're set to get out there within the next 2 or 3 weeks to start their product. Horton typically has a more aggressive build cycle on that. They build more spec homes than most, but we'll see what they do in this market.
Unidentified Analyst
Analyst
Okay. So with Lennar actually building homes, obviously, they've purchase tap fees from you, but they haven't sold the homes yet. And -- I mean, how many tap fees have you sold in Phase 2, I'm wondering about.
Mark Harding
Analyst
Of the 230 lots, I think we've sold about 110 taps. That will give you an idea of the building permits that are in that.
Unidentified Analyst
Analyst
Is there likely to be a lull then with -- it sounds like you've kind of got a -- you're ahead of the ball there with a lot of tap fees already being sold and for homes that have not yet been sold. So I assume there might be a bit of a low on tap fees in the next couple of quarters. Is that.
Mark Harding
Analyst
Yes. If you're looking at a quarter-over-quarter, I probably wouldn't disagree with that. I try and caution you as well as the rest of the market that quarterly management of a company like ours is a little bit harder, but we still look at a great year, year-over-year.
Operator
Operator
Our next question is coming from John Rosenberg, who is with Lachlan Water.
John Rosenberg
Analyst
Most of my questions have been covered. Also, congratulations on your year and your results and your strategy. One of your last callers talked about -- questioned you and talked about your flexibility in moving more towards the rental segment as market conditions demand. And I just want to -- Well, first, I wanted to congratulate you on that segment and also ask you. So drilling a little bit more. So you have absolute flexibility in doing that. Is there any cap on how much you can do that per period or.
Mark Harding
Analyst
No, we really don't. And the reason we like it so much is that we have an advantaged to roll forward some of that cost. And so as Greg was mentioning, when we're carrying forward the equity value of the land and the water on that and really that's a tax-efficient strategy to be able to do that. And he's right. We're delivering a home that might be $550,000 home, if you take a look at the standard detached product base, and we've got a number of different categories. The reason we like really concentrating a bit more into the rental market here in the second phase is we've got 6 different product classes. And so we're not constrained to just the same type of rental customer. Right? It can be just -- it can be an individual that comes out and is taking a look at a town home or a duplex. It can be -- we got duplexes together, and it could be a family with bringing, say, renting both sides of it, where the parents may be on one side and the new family would be in the other side. And you have great opportunities for them shared spaces and things like that. So that's why we like, not only is that it's a great opportunity for us, but the diversity of the product mix in our second phase of this thing gives us a ton of optionality in what we're offering to the marketplace. It's not a homogeneous customer for us.
John Rosenberg
Analyst
No, that's great. I do appreciate that. And I think, yes, that was a very thoughtful move in terms of expanding your product range in Phase 2A. Additionally, just kind of a little bit of housekeeping. Your receivables from the CAB, I presume that's going to be very lumpy over time as needed.
Mark Harding
Analyst
It is. It is. It's every a couple of 3-year cycles between the 2 as you start and you build up AV, each of these bonds have kind of 5-year call restrictions on that. They're really 3-year plus premium calls in years 4 and 5. And as you do them, what happens is the AV, so the value of each of these homes continue to grow, and you have the same number of mills, so you increase your bonding capacity. So they are lumpy. I will say that our underwriters could not have been more complementary about our business model. And they took a look at it, and we were in a tough, tough market where not so much in terms of the interest rate market, but a lot of outflows from invested capital for municipal bonds. And so when you have all that money coming out and you have deals trying to hit the market, we were oversold 400% on our bond offering. So it really is a validation of how we do it, the care with which we do, how we're investing in this infrastructure. We're maturing that we're not over our skis on any component of the infrastructure or the delivery of lots and we have great partners in our homebuilders.
John Rosenberg
Analyst
That's great. And lastly, again, a bit more housekeeping, but I seem to recall from a prior conversation that when you do ultimately go to large commercial and perhaps I'm wrong, you'll be eligible for other types of infrastructure reimbursement perhaps from the state? Or am I incorrect in that?
Mark Harding
Analyst
You are correct. And the interesting thing about that is Colorado is what we call a sales tax incentive state. And so what we do is we weight the burden, the tax burden to the commercial base. So by a lot. I mean by 4x. So the same AV at the residential and commercial. If I take $1 million of AV at residential versus $1 million AV at commercial at the same mill rate, I get 4x the tax revenue on that. And so yes, it supercharges your ability to get back your reimbursables even to the point where we would no longer have reimbursables. We would be -- we would have more bond capacity that would be able to fund -- forward fund some of those public improvements.
John Rosenberg
Analyst
And I take it then, if I'm hearing you correctly, that also means that would also imply to me that the cadence of reimbursement would be somewhat accelerated from where it is now, once you do start actual commercial development?
Mark Harding
Analyst
Yes.
John Rosenberg
Analyst
Great. Okay. Well, thanks again. Congratulations and keep at it.
Operator
Operator
Our next question is coming from Greg Zena, who is a shareholder.
Unidentified Analyst
Analyst
Just have one quick question about the rental. Is the product when you're building a home, let's say, a single-family home in an area of $400,000, $500,000, is the product identical to the other homes that are -- does it look the same? Does it have the same amenities inside the home?
Mark Harding
Analyst
Yes. Typically, we do want to have it be consistent with what the other products are. They're not exactly the same because every homebuilder were owned their particular home plan, but it will be the same composition. So you're not going to see -- if we're in an area where we've got 2-story walkout basements, you're going to find a 2-story walkout basement -- if we're in an area of lab on grade crawl space, you're going to find the same home on that same block. So it won't be out of character to the blocks and to the overall community.
Unidentified Analyst
Analyst
Do you have any concern about the stigma , I don't know, let's say, it's Five years from now, I live in an area where developers were supposed to put in affordable housing in the neighborhood, and there was a stigma in the resale market that when something came up that -- well, this wasn't built by the builder this was built by -- and therefore, the valuation is not going to be the -- retail is not going to be different.
Mark Harding
Analyst
Yes. And I think that's the reason we're careful with what the product class is. And then we also -- I would probably tend to argue that in a large measure, we have some control over maintaining these properties. And so even after we're out of the Master Planned Community, we're still in a position to maintain this number of homes. And if we execute the way Bill Miller took a look and called me out on getting a foreshadow of what we think the community might pose for us. If we've got 12%, 15% of 3,000 homes, that's going to be 300, 400, 500 homes in that area. And so we'll have the ability to have enough staff to kind of maintain those properties. And so we will do that. We'll keep that for that very purpose. We want to have preferred rental pricing. We want to have good resale should we choose to monetize that particular asset. So we're conscious of that. And now we don't want to be slum lord in this area. We really very much like this community. We're vested in the community. We want to continue to invest and continue to generate the returns on that asset. So good stewardship of an asset is the DNA of this company. And you see it year-over-year in what we're doing and how we're investing. And so I would -- I can't speak to what's going to happen in 20 years when I may not be at the helm. But certainly, the footprint of what it is that we're doing is to continue to invest in our assets.
Unidentified Analyst
Analyst
Are the laws in Colorado tenant friendly? Or are they landlord friendly?
Mark Harding
Analyst
Good question. I think they're pretty consistent. The eviction process is pretty consistent. We haven't seen that. We haven't had that experience. But I would say it is probably landlord. I'd say it's neutral. It's not one or the other. It tends to be fair in the composition. I'm thinking back to that Michael Keaton movie about that San Francisco product blanking on what the movie was, but the Nightmare Tenant. So far, we -- I don't think we have that.
Unidentified Analyst
Analyst
Yes, it's early -- in the single-family area, do people maintain their yards themselves? Or is there an HOA that takes care of the landscaping.
Mark Harding
Analyst
No, everybody maintains their own property. Now some of the higher density like the townhomes and the duplexes do have a separate fee structure that does allow them to be maintained on a common maintenance basis. But the single-family detach are maintained by the homeowners.
Operator
Operator
Our next question is coming from Elliot Knight with Knight Advisors.
Elliot Knight
Analyst
I don't have a question, but I, as you know, have followed this company closely for 30 years. I have to say this has been the most productive Q&A session and presentation that I've heard. And I'd just like to thank everyone.
Mark Harding
Analyst
Well, thank you. The nice thing about it is you don't say -- we don't -- you know our personality. We don't really take bell lapse here. At the end of the day, I think what you've seen, and I think what everybody is really catching up on is kind of the discipline that the Board and management have on kind of continuing to do the right things, test the market, reinvest in those things that are working, modify those things that need some modification. And so we're very thrilled to have this kind of liquidity moving into what will be an interesting market. I don't think that there -- this overall interest rate market is recalibration more than it is anything else. We've got macroeconomic indicators that are much different than maybe what we saw in 2007. But more than anything, we have the ability to -- we have strength going into it. And so we're thrilled. If this presents an opportunity for us, you're going to see us take advantage of.
Elliot Knight
Analyst
I have seen you take advantage of things in the past. I have every confidence, Mark, that you're going to do it and you just keep up the good work.
Mark Harding
Analyst
That's on the back like that keep me going.
Operator
Operator
Thank you. First, at this time, there appear to be no further questions in queue. So I will hand it back to Mr. Harding for any closing comments you may have.
Mark Harding
Analyst
Terrific. Well, I'd like to again thank you all for your continued support to the extent that you didn't get an opportunity to bring in on a technical challenge, please don't hesitate to give me a call. I'd be happy to drill down on any of the specifics and continue to stay tuned. We have some exciting things that we're working on, and we'll look forward to executing and bringing those to increasing the value for all of our shareholders. So with that, I'll sign off, and thank you all.
Operator
Operator
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. This does conclude today's conference call. You may disconnect your lines at this time, and have a wonderful day. We thank you for your participation.
Mark Harding
Analyst
Thanks, Ali.