Michael LiCalsi
Management
Good morning everyone. The report that you are about to hear may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements with regard to the future performance of the company. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that are based on our current plans, which we believe to be reasonable. There are many factors that may cause our actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including all those factors listed under the caption Risk Factors of our Forms 10-K and 10-Q that we filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. They can be found on our web site at www.gladstonecommercial.com, and on the SEC's web site, www.sec.gov. The company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law. And in report today, we plan to speak about funds from operations, or FFO, and since FFO, which is a non-GAAP accounting term, defined as net income excluding the gains or losses from the sale of real estate and any impairment losses from property, plus depreciation and amortization of real estate assets. And the National Association of REITs, or NAREIT, has endorsed FFO as one of the non-accounting standards that we can use in discussion of REITs. Please see our Form 10-Q, filed yesterday with the SEC, and our financial statements for a detailed description of FFO. We also plan to discuss core FFO today, which is our FFO adjusted for property acquisition costs. We believe that this is a better indication of our operating results of our portfolio and allows comparability of period-over-period performance. To stay up-to-date, you can sign up on our web site to get updates by e-mail on the latest news involving Gladstone Commercial and our other Gladstone publicly traded funds and you can follow us on Twitter, user name GladstoneComps; and on Facebook, keyword, The Gladstone Companies. And can you go to our general web site to see more information about our companies at www.gladstone.com. The presentation today is an overview, and we ask you to read our press release issued yesterday and also review our Form 10-Q, for the quarter ended September 30, 2014. You can find both on our web site and on the SEC's web site. And now we will begin with the presentation today, by hearing from our president, Bob Cutlip.