Gladstone Commercial Corporation

Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Gladstone Commercial Corporation's first quarter 2019 earnings conference call and webcast. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session, and instructions will follow at that time. If anyone should require assistance during the conference, please press star, then zero on your touchtone telephone. As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to introduce your host for today's conference, Mr. David Gladstone. Sir, you may begin.

All right. Thank you, Lauren. That was a nice introduction. Thank you all for tuning in and listening to us. I was with a group of brokers yesterday and it's so nice to talk to people and get questions back. Hope we have a lot of good questions today. We really do enjoy this time we have with you on the phone and wish there were more times to talk. Please come and visit us if you're ever in the Washington, D.C. area. We're in a suburb called McLean, Virginia at and you have an open invitation to stop by and see us here at the office. Now I'm going to hear from Michael LiCalsi, our General Counsel and Secretary. He's also the President of Gladstone Administration, which serves as an administrator to all of the Gladstone Public Traded Funds. He'll make a brief announcement regarding some of the legal and regulatory matters concerning this report. Michael? Thanks, David, and good morning.

Today's report may include forward-looking statements under the Securities Act of 1933. the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including those regarding our future performance. These forward-looking statements involve certain risks and uncertainties that are based on our current plans, which we believe to be reasonable. And many factors may cause our actual results to be materially different from any future results expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements, including all risk factors in our Forms 10-Q, 10-K, and other documents that we file with the SEC. You can find all these on our website, www.gladstonecommercial.com, specifically the investor relations page, or on the SEC's website, which is www.sec.gov. And we undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any of these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, except as required by law. And today we will discuss FFO, which is funds from operations. FFO is a non-GAAP accounting term defined as net income Thank you for joining us. can also be found on Facebook. Keyword there is the Gladstone Company, and on Twitter, and the handle there is at Gladstone Comps. Today's call is simply an overview of our results, so we ask that you review our press release and Form 10Q, both issued yesterday, for more detailed information. Those can be found on the Investor Relations page of our website. Now I'll turn the presentation back over to Bob Cutlip, Gladstone Commercial's President.