The Company acquired ATHI on July 1, 2021, ATHI’s wholly owned subsidiary, Evernia Health Center, LLC (“Evernia”) had entered into an operating lease agreement for certain real property located at 950 Evernia Street, West Palm Beach, Florida (“Evernia Street”), with effect from February 1, 2019 for a period of three years, expiring on February 1, 2022. Under the terms of the lease agreement, the lease was extended during October 2021 for a further 5-year period until February 1, 2027.

On October 3, 2022, the Company entered into a purchase and sale agreement with Evernia Station Limited Partnership for the purchase of Evernia Street, the property in which it operates its treatment center, for gross proceeds of $5,500,000. On August 3, 2023, after 6 addendums to the agreement, the Company closed on the acquisition of Evernia Street. This resulted in the termination of the lease with Evernia station, resulting in the reversal of the remaining right-of-use asset of $1,226,080 and the associated operating lease liability of $1,328,803, which liability included $102,723 of accrued rental, which was offset against the rental expense.

On August 4, 2023, the Company immediately sold Evernia Street to Pontus EHC Palm Beach, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a portfolio company of Pontus Net Lease Advisors, LLC, and entered into a long-term lease for Evernia Street with an initial term of twenty years, and two ten-year extension options. The lessor is Pontus EHC Palm Beach, LLC, The lease is absolutely net and the lease cost for the initial year is $748,000 paid monthly. The lease increases at a rate of 2.75% per year for a total term lease obligation of $19,655,717 over the initial twenty-year term. The Lease is personally guaranteed by the Company President and the guarantee may be released after 5 years based on certain financial and performance metrics being met. Due to the initial lease term of twenty years, the Company is not certain that the extension periods will be exercised at this point in time and accordingly, these have been excluded from the present value of the minimum future lease payments.

To determine the present value of minimum future lease payments for operating leases at August 4, 2023, the Company was required to estimate a rate of interest that it would have to pay to borrow on a collateralized basis over a similar term in a similar economic environment (the "incremental borrowing rate" or "IBR").

The Company determined the appropriate IBR by identifying a reference rate and making adjustments that take into consideration financing options and certain lease-specific circumstances. For the reference rate, the Company used the Fannie Mae, in excess of $3,000,000 rate based on an 80% value to loan ratio, averaging the 15- and 30-year indicative rates, resulting in a rate of 7.70%. The Company determined that 7.70% per annum was an appropriate incremental borrowing rate to apply to its real estate operating lease.

The present value of the future minimum lease payments was valued at $9,333,953 on August 4, 2023. 

On May 1, 2024 the Company, through its subsidiary Evernia Health Center LLC, entered into a Definitive Agreement whereby the Company would assume the lease for suites 100, 101, 201, 202 and 203 located at 899 Meadows Road, Boca Raton, Florida (the “Leased Premises”) and the furniture, fixtures and equipment located therein, upon the assignment of the lease from the property owner. The lease was assigned on June 10, 2024 and the Company entered into a Bill of Sale to give effect to the Definitive Agreement.

The assigned lease has a remaining term of 3 years, expiring on June 30, 2027, with an initial monthly lease cost of $21,843 from July 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024, escalating by 2.9% per annum, each annual period being a calendar year.

To determine the present value of minimum future lease payments for operating leases at June 10, 2024, the Company was required to estimate a rate of interest that it would have to pay to borrow on a collateralized basis over a similar term in a similar economic environment (the "incremental borrowing rate" or "IBR").

The Company determined the appropriate IBR by identifying a reference rate and making adjustments that take into consideration financing options and certain lease-specific circumstances. For the reference rate, the Company used the Bank rate 3/1 adjustable-rate mortgage which represents the average rate for several mortgage lenders in the market of 6.36%. The Company determined that 6.36% per annum was an appropriate incremental borrowing rate to apply to its real estate operating lease.

The present value of the future minimum lease payments was valued at $744,256 on June 10, 2024.

As disclosed in note 4 above, in terms of an APA agreement entered into on October 22, 2024, on January 9, 2025, the Company consummated the acquisition of the Acquired Assets of ERC. Simultaneously, with the acquisition of the assets of ERC, BH Properties, a company controlled by Mr. Shawn Leon, the Company’s CEO and a related party, acquired certain of the real property associated with the operations of ERC.

The acquired properties are fully leveraged and required personal guarantees which the Company was unable to provide. The entities owning the real property were acquired in a separate transaction by BH Properties, which then, through its acquired subsidiaries entered into lease agreements with ARIA Kentucky on an arms-length basis, at market related rates.   

The Company entered into 7 lease agreements, effective January 1, 2025, with its related party, BH Properties, all of which were for an initial period of five years with an option to extend for an additional five years, since the transaction is between related parties the option is likely to be exercised, the lease agreements all include an annual escalation of 1.5% of the base rent and the lessee is responsible for utilities, property taxes, repairs and maintenance expenditure and insurance costs.

The Company also entered into a third-party lease agreement with Trent Developments, LLC for a property located at 141, 141.5 and 143 East Main Street, Morehead Kentucky. The lease is for a period of 6 years commencing on January 1, 2025, with a base annual rental of $138,000, escalating by 1.5% on the second anniversary of the lease term and each anniversary thereafter.

In addition, the Company entered into an assignment of lease agreement with MAT Properties, LLC for a property located at 154 S Owens Road, Morehead Kentucky. The original lease was modified and the term of the lease was extended to 3 years commencing on January 1, 2025, ending on December 31, 2027. The base rental of the lease is $180,000 per annum with no escalations.

The Company, through its subsidiary ARIA Kentucky, entered into 2 lease agreements, effective July 1, 2025, with its related party, BH Properties and its subsidiary, Viking Assets, LLC. The first lease is for property situated at 417 South 4^th Street, Paducah, Kentucky, with an annual base rent of $96,000 and the second lease is for property situated at 425 South 6^th Street, Paducah Kentucky, with an annual base rent of $72,000. Each lease is for an initial period of four years and six months with an option to extend for an additional five years, since the transaction is between related parties the option is likely to be exercised. Each lease agreement includes an escalation of 1.5% of the base rent, commencing on January 1, 2026, and annually thereafter. The Company is responsible for utilities, property taxes, repairs and maintenance expenditure and insurance costs.

To determine the present value of minimum future lease payments for the operating leases entered into, the Company used the borrowing rate of 7.72% at which it had recently secured to consummate the acquisition of the assets of Edgewater Recovery and is indicative of the borrowing costs the Company would expect to incur on asset funding.

The present value of the future minimum lease payments of the properties leased from related parties was $7,622,084 on January 9, 2025 and $1,243,831 on July 1, 2025, totaling $8,865,915 and the present value of future lease payments of properties leased from third parties was $1,149,642 on January 1, 2025.

Effective October 1, 2025, the Company enter into rental abatement agreements with its related party, ERC Investments, LLC, whereby cash rental on the 425 Clinic Drive and the 1111 US 60 W properties was abated for the three months ended December 31, 2025 by $60,000 and $90,000, respectively. This abatement was evaluated under ASC 842 and determined to be a lease modification. The Company re-evaluated the IBR rate at the date of modification and determined that the rate was 7.8% which was used to calculate the present value of future minimal lease payments of the 425 Clinic Drive and 1111 US 60 W properties at $5,409,062, a net reduction of $165,975, on the date of modification. The modification also resulted in a decrease in the rental smoothing liability of $45,761 on the date of modification, and an increase in the smoothing expense of $147,183 over the three-month period ended December 31, 2025, a net impact of $101,422 increase in rental smoothing liability for the year ended December 31, 2025. The net impact of the rental abatement on the statement of operations was a credit of $48,578.

The details of the related party property leases are as follows:

* During 2025, a once off rental abatement of $60,000 and $90,000 was granted to ARIA Kentucky by ERC Investments on the 425 Clinic Drive property and the 1111 US60W property, respectively.

Right of use assets are included in the consolidated balance sheet are as follows:

Lease costs consists of the following:  

Other lease information: 

Maturity of Leases

Finance lease liability

The amount of future minimum lease payments under finance leases at December 31, 2025 is as follows:

Operating lease liability

The amount of future minimum lease payments under operating leases are as follows: