Note 8 - Note purchase agreement and consulting agreement with G FarmaLabs Limited

On March 17, 2017, the Company entered into a Notes Purchase Agreement with G FarmaLabs Limited (“G Farma”), a Nevada corporation. Under the Agreement, the Company purchased two secured promissory notes from G Farma in an aggregate principal amount of $500,000, both of which bore interest at 7.42% per annum, with monthly payments beginning on April 15, 2017 and maturity on April 15, 2022. The two G Farma notes, as amended by subsequent addenda, are secured by all property, real and personal, tangible, or intangible of G Farma and are guaranteed by GF Brands, Inc. and two majority shareholders of G Farma. As of March 4, 2019, the Company and G Farma had executed eight addenda subsequent to the original agreement. Addendum II through Addendum VIII increased the aggregate principal face amount of the working capital note to $990,000 and increased the monthly payments on the working capital note to $10,239 per month beginning March 15, 2019. G Farma has not made scheduled payments on the notes receivable since February 19, 2019.

On February 22, 2019, the City of Corona Building Department closed access to G Farma’s corporate location and posted a notice preventing entry to the facility; the Company was not informed by G Farma of this incident until March 14, 2019. The notice cited unpermitted modifications to electrical, mechanical, and plumbing, including all undetermined building modifications, as the reason for the closure. On April 24, 2019, the Company was notified that certain G Farma assets at the corporate location, including equipment leased to G Farma by Mentor Partner I valued at approximately $427,804, were impounded by the Corona Police. This event significantly impacted G Farma’s financial position and its ability to make future payments under the notes purchase agreements and the finance leases receivable, described in Note 9, due the Company.

G Farma has not made scheduled payments on the notes receivable or the G Farma finance lease receivable since February 19, 2019. All arrangements with G Farma, were placed on non-accrual basis effective April 1, 2019. Accrual of interest on notes receivable and finance leases, as well as consulting revenue, was suspended April 1, 2019. The notes receivable balances of $1,039,501 and $1,039,501 at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively, are fully reserved and reflected in the consolidated balance sheet as $0 and $0 at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.

On November 4, 2020, the Court granted Mentor Capital, Inc.’s and Mentor Partner I’s motion for summary adjudication as to all four causes of action: both causes of action against G FarmaLabs Limited for breach of the two promissory notes totaling $1,166,570 and one cause of action against each of Mr. Gonzalez and Ms. Gonzalez related to their duties as guarantors of G FarmaLabs Limited’s obligations under the promissory notes. See legal proceedings described in Note 18.

On August 27, 2021, the Company and Mentor Partner I entered into a Settlement Agreement and Mutual Release with the G Farma Entities and guarantors (“G Farma Settlors”) to resolve and settle all outstanding claims (“Settlement Agreement”). The Settlement Agreement requires the G Farma Settlors to pay the Company an aggregate of $500,000 plus interest, payable monthly as follows: (i) $500 per month for 12 months beginning on September 5, 2021, (ii) $1,000 per month for 12 months beginning September 5, 2022, (iii) $2,000 per month for 12 months beginning September 5, 2023, and (iv) increasing by an additional $1,000 per month on each succeeding September 5th thereafter, until the settlement amount and accrued unpaid interest are paid in full. Interest on the unpaid balance shall initially accrue at the rate of 4.25% per annum, commencing February 25, 2021, compounded monthly, and shall be adjusted on February 25th of each year to equal the Prime Rate as published in the Wall Street Journal plus 1%. In the event that the G Farma Settlors fail to make any monthly payment and have not cured two such defaults within 10 days of notice from the Company, the parties have stipulated that an additional $2,000,000 should be added to the amount payable by the G Farma Settlors.

On October 12, 2021, the parties filed a Stipulation for Dismissal and Continued Jurisdiction with the Superior Court of California in the County of Marin. The Court ordered that it retain jurisdiction over the parties under Section 664.6 of the California Code of Civil Procedure to enforce the Settlement Agreement until the performance in full of its terms is met.

Mentor Capital, Inc.

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

December 31, 2023 and 2022

In August 2022, September 2022, and October 2022, the G Farma Settlors failed to make monthly payments and failed to cure each default within 10 days’ notice from the Company pursuant to the Settlement Agreement. As a result, $2,000,000 was added to the amount payable by the G Farma Settlors in accordance with the terms of the Settlement Agreement. The Company and Partner I sought entry of a stipulated judgment against the G Farma Settlors for (1) $494,450, the remaining amount of the $500,000 settlement amount, which has not yet been paid by the G Farma Settlors plus $2,000,000 and all accrued unpaid interest, (2) the Company’s incurred costs, and (3) attorneys’ fees paid by the Company to obtain the judgment.

On July 11, 2023, the Court entered judgment against the G Farma Settlors and in favor of Mentor and Partner I in the amount of $2,539,597, which is comprised of $2,494,450 in principal (calculated as the aggregate settlement amount, less payments made by the G Farma Settlors, plus the default addition) plus accrued and unpaid interest of $40,219, costs of $1,643, and attorneys’ fees of $3,285 incurred by Mentor and Mentor Partner I in connection with obtaining the judgment. The judgment also accrues post-judgment interest at the rate of 10% from July 11, 2023 until such time as the judgment is paid in full.

The Company has retained the full reserve on unpaid notes receivable balance and collections of the unpaid lease receivable balance due to the long history of uncertain payments from G Farma and the G Farma Settlors. Payments from G Farma Settlors will be recognized in Other Income as they are received. Recovery payments of $0 and $3,550 are included in other income in the consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. The $2,539,597 judgment and interest receivable of $120,370 for the twelve months ended December 31, 2023 is fully reserved pending the Company’s collection process. See Notes 1 and 18.