SEC Company Response from RG America, Inc. (CIK 0001088401) — Dec 12, 2005
RG America, Inc. (CIK 0001088401)
Date: Dec. 12, 2005 · CIK: 0001088401 · Accession: 0001144204-05-039406
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File numbers found in text: 333-80429
Referenced dates: October 13, 2005, October 13, 2005
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Via
Facsimile and EDGAR
December
9, 2005
Linda
Cvrkel
Branch
Chief
Division
of Corporate Finance
United
States Securities and Exchange Commission
100
F
Street, N.E.
Washington,
D.C. 20549
Re:
RG
America, Inc. - Response to SEC Comment Letter dated October 13,
2005 and
August 18, 2005
Form
10-KSB for the Fiscal Year Ended
December 31, 2004
Form
10-QSB for the Quarter Ended March
31, 2005
Form
10-QSB for the Quarter Ended June 30,
2005
File
No. 333-80429
Dear
Ms.
Cvrkel,
We
are in
receipt of your letter dated October 13, 2005 in relation to the above
referenced item. We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the comments
and
also the assistance provided by the comments towards enhancing our filings
in
accordance with applicable disclosure requirements. Please find below our
response to the each of the comments.
Form
10-KSB for the Year Ended December 31, 2004
Item
10. Executive Compensation, Page 42
1.
We
note
your comment and will ensure that future filings reflect the correct fair
value
of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant and to clarify whether the
share and per share amounts disclosed are on a pre-split or post-split
basis.
Financial
Statements
Consolidated
Statements of Operations, page 6
2.
We
note
your comment and reiterate that on December 30, 2003, the Company acquired
Restoration Group America 2003, Inc. (RGA 2003) and its wholly owned
subsidiaries. The majority of the stockholders and directors of RGA 2003
and the
Company was the same prior to the transaction and accordingly, the transaction
was accounted for as a combination of entities under common
control.
RGA
2003
had 1,000 shares of common stock issued and outstanding prior to the
acquisition. The Acquisition Agreement detailed that the Company would issue
100,000 shares of its common stock for each share of common stock held by
RG
2003, thus a total of 100,000,000 shares (pre-split) or 16,666,667
(post-split).
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Ownership
of the 1,000 shares in RGA 2003 was as follows:
George
D. Mikez
40
J2
FAMILY, L.P., a Texas Limited Partnership
240
JAAVBR,
L.P., a Texas Limited Partnership
240
JADES
FAMILY, L.P., a Texas Limited Partnership
240
DKWFLP,
L.P., a Texas Limited Partnership
240
Total
1,000
Of
the
above, John E. Rea, our CEO and a Director, is the President of the General
Partner and a limited partnerJ2 Family, L.P. and James Rea, our COO and a
Director is the President of JAAVBR, L.P. George D. Mikez, was the Company’s
Vice President of Construction operations and together as a group, these
entities or individuals owned 52% of RGA 2003. Charles Douglas Morris is
the
President of DKWFLP, L.P. a 24% owner of RGA 2003 and Steve Mayor is the
President of JADES FAMILY, L.P., a 24% owner of RG 2003.
Ownership
of the Company prior to the merger was 8,440,040 shares (pre-split) and
1,406,673 shares (post-split). Of these shares, Rea Capital Corporation held
4,000,000 (pre-split), 666,667 (post-split) or 47.4% of the Company. Edward
P.
Rea, our Chairman of the Board is the Chairman of Rea Capital Corporation.
Additionally, the Crafters Marketplace, Ltd. owned 1,023,800 shares (pre-split)
170,633 shares (post-split), or approximately 12.1% of the Company. Edward
P.
Rea, our Chairman of the Board is also the Chairman of The Crafters Marketplace,
Ltd. As a result, Edward P. Rea controlled greater than 50% of the Company
and
additionally, John. E. Rea, who is Edward P. Rea’s son, was the President and is
now the CEO and was and is still a director of the Company, as well as a
major
owner in RG 2003.
Post
merger, the RGA 2003 owners mentioned above controlled greater than 50% of
the
Company. Additionally, three of the five RGA 2003 owners were officers of
the
Company.
For
the
above reasons, the transaction was properly accounted for as a combination
of
entities under common control.
Statements
of Shareholders’ Equity, page 7
3.
We
note
your comment to our response to prior comment number five and respond as
follows:
“In
January 2004, the Company issued 1,109,308 shares of common stock in conversion
of notes payable. This was comprised of 480,000 shares to a related party
at
approximately $0.36 per share (post-split), or a valuation of $173,735 and
629,308 shares to an unrelated party at approximately $0.33 per share
(post-split), or a valuation of $205,335.
We
have
revised our previous response as follows:
“The
valuation of the shares issued was through a negotiated price between the
parties taking into account the length of time the notes were outstanding,
the
business prospects for the Company, the recent market price of our common
stock
and recent sales of our common stock in our private placement offering. The
issuance of these shares was exempt from the registration requirements of
the
Act pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Act.”
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4.
We
note
your response to comment four and would respond that the issuance of 704,420
shares of common stock in September 2004 for the conversion of notes payable
at
$0.30 per share (post-split), or a valuation of $211,326 was based upon recent
sales of common stock through a private placement offering. The private
placement offering was $0.05 per share (pre-split) or $0.30 per share
post-split, or the same price that the shares were issued for. The issuance
of
these shares was exempt from the registration requirements of the Act pursuant
to Section 4(2) of the Act.
There
was
an agreement reached at $0.30 per share but the final paperwork was not
completed until a later time when the 2nd
private
placement was being offered at $0.60 per share.
5.
We
note
your comment to our response to prior comment number six and respond as
follows:
We
would
propose that the stockholders’ equity footnote be replaced with the
following:
“In
January 2004, we issued 737,328 shares of common stock at approximately $0.55
per share (post-split), or a valuation of $406,833, in conversion of trade
accounts payable. The valuation of the shares issued was based upon a negotiated
price between the parties taking into account the length of time the accounts
payable were outstanding, the business prospects for the Company, the recent
market price of our common stock and recent sales of our common stock in
our
private placement offering. The issuances of these shares were exempt from
the
registration requirements of the Act pursuant to Section 4(2) of the
Act.”
6.
We
note
your comment to our response to prior comment number seven and respond as
follows:
We
confirm that future filings for the statements of stockholders’ deficit have
been revised to correct the error.
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Marketable
Securities, page 17
7.
We
note
your comment to our response to prior comment number eight and respond as
follows:
The
entity that we received a warrant from is the RS Group of Companies (“RSGC”).
RSCG is the Florida based parent of a Canadian company that owns the Rent
Shield
™ product line for which we are a major North American distributor. The Rent
Shield product is discussed in “Our Companies” section of the 10-KSB under RG
Financial Services (“RGFS”). Rent Shield™ pairs well with our proprietary
PropertySMARTSM
product
line and RSGC would be introduced to our extensive relationships in the
multi-family arena and we would be able to add an additional valuable product
to
our revenue stream.
However,
the exercise price of the warrants was structured at a significant premium
to
the existing market price to provide an incentive for both companies to perform
currently and in the future. As
a
result, the exercise price is priced significantly above the current market
price and no value was attributed to the services as the services would be
based
upon future performance as an incentive. Accordingly, no valuation was recorded
in our financial statements for the warrant we received from RSGC based upon
our
evaluation of the warrant.
We noted
this in the marketable securities footnote and believe that the disclosure
remains correct.
Note
7, Acquisitions, page 17
8.
We
note
your comment to our response to prior comment number nine and respond as
follows:
In
relation to the PBS acquisition, the purchase price was 1,000,000 restricted
shares (pre-split) at a valuation of $350,000 or $0.35 per share. The $0.35
per
share was based upon the closing price of our common stock during the time
of
negotiations for the acquisition, which was throughout July 2004 and early
August 2004. These negotiations went on for a significant period of time
and we
utilized an agreed to price of $0.35 per share and then the documents were
finalized and signed. Subsequently and before the final documents were executed,
the price of our stock decreased but the agreed price of $0.35 per share
was not
modified per the agreement of both parties.
In
relation to your comment concerning the disclosure requirements of paragraph
51
of SFAS No. 141, we have reviewed the matter in conjunction with our Independent
Registered Public Accounting Firm, and believe that we have met these
requirements. We acknowledge and confirm that we will once again review the
requirements and comply with such disclosure requirements in future filings.
9.
We
note
your comment to our response to prior comment number seven and respond as
follows:
At
the
time of the acquisition, the Company ANTICIPATED that PBS would bring strong
existing relationships in the multi-family arena to join with our existing
relationships. We evaluated this in relation to the purchase price and the
allocation of the acquisition cost to the assets and liabilities acquired
with
the remainder recorded as goodwill.
However,
as it evidenced by the subsequent write off of the PBS goodwill and closing
of
this business line, there were many issues that we discovered during our
relationship with PBS and the intangible items you noted in your response
were
never readily identifiable and therefore, none of the purchase price was
allocated to these items.
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Note
9. Stockholders’ Deficit, page 22
Capital
Structure, page 22
10.
We
note
your comment to our response to prior comment number eleven and respond as
follows:
We
confirm that in future filings and to the extent we include disclosures
regarding the fiscal 2004 private placement offerings, such disclosures will
clarify that there were two offerings, when they were commenced and closed
and
the valuation of our common stock issued for each offering.
We
note
your comment and will revise future filings to correct the inconsistency
between
$0.30 per share and $0.60 per share disclosures as related to our 2004 private
placement offerings.
Issuances
of Common Stock, page 22
11.
We
note
your comment to our response to prior comment number twelve and respond as
follows:
As
we
noted previously, the Company was negotiating with several parties to resolve
outstanding obligations including notes payable, trade accounts payable,
property and equipment and services.
For
all
items that were not
based
upon either (1) recent sales of common stock or (2) current trading market
price
of our stock, we comment on them below:
For
property and equipment, we issued 81,667 shares of our common stock for a
total
valuation of $29,000 or approximately $0.36 per share. In January 2004, we
issued 15,000 shares of the 81,667 shares at $0.60 per share for the purchase
of
property and equipment. The valuation of the shares issued was based
upon a negotiated agreement with the third party property and equipment
provider.
The
issuance of these shares was exempt from the registration requirements of
the
Act pursuant to Section 4(2) of the Act.
We
believe that the above valuation is appropriate and as you noted in your
previous comments (see item 3 and 5 above), certain factors (i.e. the length
of
time that your notes payable and accounts payable) had an affect on the fair
value of our common stock and the negotiations we were having with third
parties
and is in accordance with appropriate accounting literature (i.e. EITF 96-18).
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12.
We
note
your comment as related to the 66,667 shares of common stock issued at $0.30
per
share. However, as we noted in our response, these shares were the last part
of
two issuances of shares for property and equipment.
We
issued
81,667 shares of our common stock for a total valuation of $29,000 or
approximately $0.36 per share. In January 2004, we issued 15,000 shares of
the
81,667 shares at $0.60 per share. The valuation of the shares issued was
based
upon a negotiated agreement with the third party property and equipment
provider. In June 2004, we issued the remaining 66,667 of the 81,667 shares
at
an agreed to price of $0.30 per share for the purchase of property and
equipment. The valuation of the shares issued was based upon recent sales