Organization Description of Business
Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. (the “Company”) is an internally managed real estate company that acquires, owns and manages primarily single-tenant properties that are net leased on a long-term basis to middle-market companies operating service-oriented or experience-based businesses. The Company generally invests in and leases freestanding, single-tenant commercial real estate facilities where a tenant services its customers and conducts activities that are essential to the generation of the tenant’s sales and profits.
The Company was organized on January 12, 2018 as a Maryland corporation. It elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) for federal income tax purposes beginning with the year ended December 31, 2018, and it believes that its current organizational and operational status and intended distributions will allow it to continue to so qualify. Substantially all of the Company’s business is conducted directly and indirectly through its operating partnership, Essential Properties, L.P. (the “Operating Partnership”).
On June 25, 2018, the Company completed the initial public offering (“IPO”) of its common stock. The common stock of the Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “EPRT”.
COVID-19 Pandemic
On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) a pandemic. For much of 2020, the global spread of COVID-19 created significant uncertainty and economic disruption, which has appears to have subsided over the course of 2021, primarily due to the widespread availability of multiple vaccines. However, the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its duration are unclear, and variants of the virus, such as Delta and Omicron, and vaccine hesitancy in certain areas could erode the progress that has been made against the virus, or exacerbate or prolong the impact of the pandemic. Conditions similar to those experienced in 2020, at the height of the pandemic, could return should the vaccines prove ineffective against future variants of the virus. Should the impact of a variant of the virus cause conditions to occur that are similar to those experienced in 2020, uncertainty and instability in the macro-economic environment could occur and government restrictions could force the Company’s tenants' businesses to shut-down or limit their operations, which would adversely impact the Company’s operations, its financial condition, liquidity, and prospects. Further, the extent and duration of any such conditions cannot be predicted with any reasonable certainty.
The Company continues to closely monitor the ongoing developments surrounding COVID-19 on all aspects of its business, including its portfolio and the creditworthiness of its tenants. In 2020, the Company entered into deferral agreements with certain of its tenants and recognized contractual base rent related to these agreements as a component of rental revenue in its consolidated statements of operations for 2020. These rent deferrals were negotiated on a tenant-by-tenant basis, and, in general, allowed a tenant to defer all or a portion of their rent for a portion of 2020, with all of the deferred rent to be paid to the Company pursuant to a schedule that generally extends up to 24 months from the original due date of the deferred rent. While the Company’s tenants' businesses and operations have largely returned to pre-pandemic levels, any new developments that cause a deterioration, or further deterioration, in the Company's tenants’ ability to operate their businesses, or delays in the supply of products or services to the Company's tenants from vendors required to operate their businesses, may cause the Company's tenants to be unable or unwilling to meet their contractual obligations to the Company, including the payment of rent (including deferred rent), or to request further rent deferrals or other conces
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