Really what it had offered investors what this cash-cow aspect, this large cash-earning and little-maintenance-capex-requiring asset class.
The adjustment we're talking about is to subtract maintenance-level capital expenditures, such as for boilers, plumbing and roofs.
The stock trades at 21 times its adjusted funds from operations (net plus depreciation minus maintenance-level capital outlays).
"We wanted something on the desktop that would be low maintenance - no hard drive and no floppy drive, " he said.
The thrill-ride expert says that during the recent recession, theme parks around the world went into maintenance-only modes in order to reduce operating costs.
If you are lucky, the REIT you are interested in will make a careful distinction between maintenance-type cap ex and the other kind--purchasing new properties.
His maintenance-free bike uses a "secret" mix of organic materials to make it waterproof and fireproof, and is then lacquered to give it a friendlier appearance.
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Mainly serving the Southeast states, Orlando-based AirTran has come a long way since the bleak time following the 1996 maintenance-related crash of one of its planes in the Florida Everglades.
This measure, an obsession of real estate research firm Green Street Advisors (which provides us with much of our REIT data), is net income plus depreciation minus maintenance-level capital expenditures.
The CSA collects regular payments from non-resident parents, but by October 2006 one in four applications for maintenance - received by the agency since 2003 - were still waiting to be cleared.
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The Afghan National Security Forces have improved but cannot function without international enablers -- in areas such as air support, medevac, intelligence and logistical assets and maintenance -- for several years to come.
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But recently, officials had been considering whether to delay this scheduled closure - for maintenance work - until the end of 2012, giving the LHC more time to hunt for the elusive particle.
Tax benefits aside, the floating lifestyle is high-maintenance and high-cost compared to a condo.
Hastings Water Works, a Brecksville, Ohio, pool-maintenance and lifeguard-staffing firm, uses Twitter and Facebook to find and hire summer employees.
But even the landlines need less human attention because Verizon is rapidly replacing old-fashioned copper lines with lower-maintenance, fiber-optic cables.
Like Salesforce.com , RightNow aimed to sell its customer relationship management (CRM) software as a low-maintenance, Web-based service, not a shrink-wrapped product.
One day, the company's engineers hope, drive-by-wire could link to the fancy cruise-control, lane-maintenance and vehicle-separation systems that are already being used in some Mercedes models.
Two days later all 17 workers of the car-maintenance department at a Wal-Mart in New Castle, Pennsylvania voted against joining the union.
The commercial and legal interactions between train-leasing companies, train operators, track-maintenance companies and Railtrack are mind-boggling.
At that time, Fiat was fiercely cutting costs by bringing everything from payroll systems to building maintenance in-house.
Aetna , an American health-maintenance organisation, reported that first-quarter net earnings had fallen by 40% on a year earlier.
The company has built a business model that is hard to replicate, partly because it does engineering, sales, installation and maintenance in-house.
The rest of it - the five watchtowers, concrete perimeter wall, 57 concrete 'kiosks' (which stored the nuclear warheads) and other testing and maintenance buildings - have deteriorated and the 'scheduled monument' has now been put on the at-risk register by English Heritage.
Lockheed Martin purchased the system in May, and their contract with D-Wave includes operations and maintenance by D-Wave.
Nine safety board teams will examine aspects such as train operations and communications, signals, tracks, crash-worthiness of equipment, maintenance and survivability -- ease of fleeing the trains after the crash and other survivability factors, Hersman said.
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This potential dispute relates to two contracts MITIE has held with the council - one covering repairs to council houses between 2006 and 2011, and a second ongoing contract over the maintenance of council-owned buildings, including schools, according to a leaked document seen by BBC political reporter Elizabeth Glinka.
As its initial action, the Task Force forged partnerships with the five largest manufacturing credentialing bodies to provide opportunities for service members to gain industry-recognized, nationally-portable certifications for high-demand manufacturing jobs -- including welding, machining, maintenance, and logistics -- almost all of which have median hourly wages above the national average.
Two were in-port for light maintenance and were conducting shore-based training events.
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Not only does it mean that the two sides do not work naturally together on day-to-day matters of maintenance, or on longer-term issues of investment.
Mr. Marsh and his brother-in-law Hyman Golden originally ran a Brooklyn-based window-washing and office-maintenance business.
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