Scott Musil
Analyst · KeyBanc Capital Markets, Please go ahead
Hey, Craig. The Pier 1, the non-payment of the rent the last -- the vacancy, we're assuming that will not impact our $900,000 per quarter bad debt assumption. So, that's out of it.Now, if we bill rent in May or June and we don't collect it; that will impact our bad debt expense. But as far as -- so when you look at what we've established for bad debt expense and our guidance for the second, third, and fourth quarter, it's about $900,000. And we'll give you a construct of how we came up with that number.The first thing we did is we look back to our experience back during the Great Recession, and the worst years we had were 2008-2009. And bad debt expense was about 85 basis points of gross revenues during that period. So, the $900,000 per quarter for the second, third, and fourth quarter is about 85 basis points of our gross revenues. So that was our starting point.Then we asked ourselves with COVID-19, it could get a little bit worse than what the Great Recession was. But we said to ourselves, in the past 10 years, we've done a lot to improve this portfolio and tenant equality. Specifically, on the tenant quality front, we've sold a lot of buildings that had a lot of tenants in it. And if you look at our average size tenant today, it's about twice the size of our tenant about 10 years ago. So, we think the tenant quality today and the portfolio quality is better.So, if we had this same portfolio back in 2008-2009, we think our bad debt experience would have been less than 85 basis points. So, due to those facts we were comfortable with the $900,000 per quarter that we established for bad debt expense.