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Notes Payable - Related Parties

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Notes Payable - Related Parties
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2017
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
Notes Payable - Related Parties

5. NOTES PAYABLE – RELATED PARTIES

 

The Company has the following related parties notes payable:

 

Note   Issuance Date   Maturity Date   Interest Rate     Original Borrowing     Balance at
March 31, 2017
    Balance at
December 31, 2016
 
                                 
Note 1   Year 2015   April 1, 2017     12.0 %   $ 1,203,242     $ 1,198,883     $ 1,198,883  
Note 2   December 1, 2015   April 1, 2017     12.0 %     189,000       189,000       189,000  
Note 3   December 1, 2015   April 1, 2017     12.0 %     111,901       111,901       111,901  
Note 4   August 4, 2016   August 4, 2017     12.0 %     343,326       343,326       343,326  
Note 5   August 4, 2016   August 4, 2017     12.0 %     121,875       121,875       121,875  
                                         
Total notes payable – related parties, net                   $ 1,964,985     $ 1,964,985  

 

On various dates during the year ended December 31, 2015, Rory J. Cutaia, the Company’s majority shareholder and Chief Executive Officer, loaned the Company total principal amounts of $1,203,242. The loans were unsecured and all due on demand, bearing interest at 12% per annum. On December 1, 2015, the Company entered into a Secured Convertible Note agreement with Mr. Cutaia whereby all outstanding principal and accrued interest owed to Mr. Cutaia from previous loans amounting to an aggregate total of $1,248,883 and due on demand, was consolidated under a note payable agreement, bearing interest at 12% per annum, and converted from due on demand to due in full on April 1, 2017. In consideration for Mr. Cutaia’s agreement to consolidate the loans and extend the maturity date, the Company granted Mr. Cutaia a senior security interest in substantially all current and future assets of the Company. Per the terms of the agreement, at Mr. Cutaia’s discretion, he may convert up to $374,665 of outstanding principal, plus accrued interest thereon, into shares of common stock at a conversion rate of $0.07 per share. As of March 31, 2017 and December 31, 2016, the principal amount of the notes payable was $1,198,883.

 

On December 1, 2015, the Company entered into an Unsecured Convertible Note with Mr. Cutaia in the amount of $189,000, bearing interest at 12% per annum, representing a portion of Mr. Cutaia’s accrued salary for 2015. The note extends the payment terms from on-demand to due in full on April 1, 2017. The outstanding principal and accrued interest may be converted at Mr. Cutaia’s discretion into shares of common stock at a conversion rate of $0.07.
   
On December 1, 2015, the Company entered into an Unsecured Note agreement with a consulting firm owned by Michael Psomas, a former member of the Company’s Board of Directors, in the amount of $111,901 representing unpaid fees earned for consulting services previously rendered but unpaid as of November 30, 2015. The outstanding amounts bear interest at 12% per annum, and are due in full on April 1, 2017, and is currently past due.
   
On April 4, 2016 the Company issued a secured convertible note to the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) and a director of the Company, in the amount of $343,325, which represents additional sums of $93,326 that the CEO advanced to the Company during the period from December 2015 through March 2016, and the conversion of $250,000 other pre-existing notes. This note bears interest at the rate of 12% per annum, compounded annually. In consideration for this agreement to extend the repayment date to August 4, 2017, the Company granted to the CEO the right to convert up to 30% of the amount of the such note into shares of the Company’s common stock at $0.07 per share and issued 2,452,325 share purchase warrants, exercisable at $0.07 per share until April 4, 2019, which warrants represent 50% of the amount of such note.
   
April 4, 2016 the Company issued an unsecured convertible note payable to the CEO in the amount of $121,875, which represents the amount of the accrued but unpaid salary owed to the CEO for the period from December 2015 through March 2016. In consideration for this agreement to extend the payment date to August 4, 2017, the Company granted to the CEO the right to convert the amount of the such note into shares of the Company’s common stock at $0.07 per share, which approximated the trading price or the Company’s common stock on the date of the agreement. This note bears interest at the rate of 12% per annum, compounded annually.

 

Total interest expense for notes payable to related parties for the three months ended March 31, 2017 and 2016 was $58,142 and $53,944, respectively.