Our principal investment objectives are to generate income from renting properties so we can distribute the funds to our stockholders in the form of monthly cash distributions. We seek to grow these cash distributions over time and we expect an increase in distributions to increase the value of our common stock. Our primary strategy to achieve our investment objectives is to invest in and own a diversified portfolio of leased industrial and commercial real estate that we believe will produce stable cash flow and increase in value.

We expect to sell some of our real estate assets from time to time when our Adviser determines that doing so would be advantageous to us and our stockholders. We also expect to occasionally make mortgage loans secured by income-producing commercial or industrial real estate, which loans may have some form of equity participation. Additionally, we may purchase mortgage-backed securities, including mortgage pass-through certificates, collateralized mortgage obligations and other securities representing interests in or obligations backed by pools of mortgage loans, however, this is not our main business.

Our strategy includes the use of leverage so that we may make more investments than would otherwise be possible in order to maximize potential returns to stockholders. Our board of directors has adopted a policy that our aggregate borrowing will not result in a total debt to total equity ratio greater than two and one half-to-one, but we are not otherwise limited with respect to the amount of leverage that we may use for the acquisition of any specific property. We intend to use non-recourse mortgage financing that will allow us to limit our loss exposure on any property to the amount of equity invested in that property. We may also borrow funds on a short-term basis or incur other indebtedness. Some of our investments may be made through joint ventures that will permit us to own interests in large properties without restricting the diversity of our portfolio.