NOTE 3 – MANAGER AND OTHER RELATED PARTIES

The Operating Agreement provides for compensation to the manager and for the reimbursement of qualifying costs as detailed below. RMC is entitled to 1% of the net income or loss of the company. RMC – at its sole discretion – collected less than the maximum allowable reimbursement of qualifying costs attributable to RMI IX (Costs from RMC on the Statements of Income), which increased the net income, cash available for distribution, and the net-distribution rate. The cost-reimbursement waivers in the three and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, by RMC were not made for the purpose of providing RMI IX with sufficient funds to satisfy any required level of distributions, as the Operating Agreement has no such required level of distributions, nor to meet withdrawal requests.

Mortgage servicing fees

The manager is entitled to receive a servicing fee of up to one-quarter of one percent (0.25%) annually of secured loan principal. The mortgage servicing fees are accrued monthly on all loans. Remittance to RMC is made monthly unless the loan has been assigned a specific loss reserve, at which point remittance is deferred until the specific loss reserve is no longer required, or the property securing the loan has been acquired by the company.

Asset Management Fees

The manager is entitled to receive a monthly asset management fee for managing RMI IX’s assets, liabilities, and operations in an amount up to three-quarters of one percent (0.75%) annually of the portion of the capital originally committed to investment in mortgages, not including leverage, and including up to two percent (2%) of working capital reserves.

Costs from RMC

The manager is entitled to request reimbursement for operations expense incurred on behalf of RMI IX, including without limitation, RMC’s personnel and non-personnel costs incurred for qualifying business activities, including investor services, accounting, tax and data processing, postage and out-of-pocket general and administration expenses. Qualifying personnel/compensation costs and consulting fees are tracked by business activity, and then costs of qualifying activities are allocated to RMI IX pro-rata based on the percentage of RMI IX’s members’ capital to the total capital of all related mortgage funds managed by RMC. Certain other non-personnel, qualifying costs such as postage and out-of-pocket general and administrative expenses can be tracked by RMC as specifically attributable to RMI IX; other non-personnel, qualifying costs (e.g., RMC’s accounting and audit fees, legal fees and expenses, occupancy, and insurance premiums) are allocated pro-rata based on the percentage of RMI’s members’ capital to total capital of the related mortgage funds managed by RMC.

The amount of qualifying costs attributable to RMI IX incurred by RMC was approximately $148 thousand and $115 thousand in the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and $288 thousand and $271 thousand in the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The reimbursement of costs waived by RMC was approximately $0 and $43 thousand in the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and $0 and $109 thousand in the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. In October 2024, RMC began collecting the full amount of the qualifying costs attributable to RMI IX to which it is entitled.

Loan administrative fees

The manager is entitled to receive a loan administrative fee of up to one percent (1%) of the principal amount of each new loan funded or acquired for services rendered in connection with the selection and underwriting of loans payable upon the closing or acquisition of each loan. Since August 2015, RMC, at its sole discretion, has waived loan administrative fees on new originations. The total amount of loan administrative fees waived was approximately $110 thousand and $269 thousand in the three months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and $212 thousand and $352 thousand in the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

Formation loan

Commissions for unit sales to new members paid to broker-dealers (“B/D sales commissions”) and premiums paid to certain investors upon the purchase of units were paid by RMC and were not paid directly by RMI IX out of unit-sales proceeds. Instead, RMI IX advanced to RMC amounts sufficient to pay the B/D sales commissions and premiums to be paid to investors. Such advances in total were not to exceed seven percent (7%) of offering proceeds, and when offerings of units to new members ended on April 30, 2019 totaled $5.6 million. The receivable arising from the advances is unsecured and non-interest bearing and is referred to as the “formation loan”.

The formation loan is being repaid in annual installments of approximately $208 thousand to coincide with the term of the company. The installments may be paid by RMC either in full on December 31st of each calendar year during the term of the company or in four equal quarterly installments. The primary source of repayment of the formation loan are the loan brokerage commissions earned by RMC. The formation loan is forgiven if the manager is removed and RMC is no longer receiving payments for services rendered. As such, the formation loan is presented as contra equity.

Redemptions of members’ capital

Pursuant to the Operating Agreement, unless waived by the manager, the company will not redeem in any calendar year more than five percent (5.0%) and in any calendar quarter one and one-quarter percent (1.25%) of the weighted average number of units outstanding in the twelve (12) month period immediately prior to the date of redemption. The manager has no present intention to exercise its discretionary power to waive or modify the enforcement of the redemption limitation in the foreseeable future.

Redemptions of members' capital received by the manager and unpaid at June 30, 2025 approximated $24.8 million, of which,

Eligible redemption requests are to be honored in the following order of priority:

Organization and offering expenses

The manager is required to be reimbursed for O&O expenses incurred in connection with the organization of the company and the offering of the units of membership interest including, without limitation, attorneys’ fees, accounting fees, printing costs and other selling expenses (other than sales commissions) in a total amount not exceeding 4.5% of the original purchase price of all units (other than DRIP units) sold in all offerings (hereafter, the “maximum O&O expenses”). RMC paid the O&O expenses in excess of the maximum O&O expenses.

The O&O expenses incurred by RMI IX are allocated to the members as follows – for each of forty (40) calendar quarters or portion thereof after December 31, 2015 that a member holds units (other than DRIP units), the O&O expenses incurred by RMI IX are allocated to and debited from that member’s capital account in an annual amount equal to 0.45% of the member’s original purchase price for those units, in equal quarterly installments of 0.1125% each commencing with the later of the first calendar quarter of 2016 or the first full calendar quarter after a member’s purchase of units, and continuing through forty (40) calendar quarters or the quarter in which such units are redeemed.

Other related party transactions

From time to time, in the normal course of business operations, the company may have payables to and/or receivables from related parties. At June 30, 2025, the payable to related parties balance of approximately $68 thousand consisted exclusively of accounts payable to the manager.

At December 31, 2024,the payable to related party balance of approximately $93 thousand consisted exclusively of accounts payable to the manager.

In the ordinary course of business, performing loans may be transferred by executed assignment, in-part or in-full, between the RMC managed mortgage funds at par value, which approximates market value.

No loans were transferred to or from related mortgage funds in the six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024.