SEC Comment Letter 0000000000-24-009772 to Worthy Property Bonds, Inc. (CIK 0001869222)
Worthy Property Bonds, Inc. (CIK 0001869222)
Date: Aug. 27, 2024 · CIK: 0001869222 · Accession: 0000000000-24-009772
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August 27, 2024
Dara Albright
Chief Executive Officer
Worthy Property Bonds, Inc.
11175 Cicero Dr., Suite 100
Alpharetta, GA 30022
Re:Worthy Property Bonds, Inc.
Post-Qualification Amendment to Offering Statement on Form 1-A
Filed August 15, 2024
File No. 024-11563
Dear Dara Albright:
We have reviewed your amendment and have the following comments.
Please respond to this letter by amending your offering statement and providing the
requested information. If you do not believe a comment applies to your facts and circumstances
or do not believe an amendment is appropriate, please tell us why in your response. After
reviewing any amendment to your offering statement and the information you provide in response
to this letter, we may have additional comments.
Post-Qualification Amendment to Offering Statement on Form 1-A
General
1.We note your response to comment 2. We also note that Item 6 to Part I to the August 19
post qualification amendment continues to only disclose the sale of common stock. Please
revise this section to disclose the sale of Worthy Property Bonds during the prior 12
months.
Cover Page
Revise the cover page, as well as the disclosure throughout the offering statement, to
clarify that you will file a post-qualification amendment or a supplement to the offering
statement to announce any increase in the interest rate above the 6% base rate, or any
extension of the current offering of higher rates. Please refer to Rule 252(a) of Regulation
A, including Item 14, paragraph (b)(1) of Part II of Form 1-A. Further, please note that
there is no ability to forward incorporate information from a Form 1-U to an offering
statement on Form 1-A, and that the obligation to file a 1-U is a separate filing obligation
than your filing obligations under Rule 252(f)(2)(ii) and Rule 253(g) of Regulation A. 2.
August 27, 2024
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Please revise the risk factor to clearly disclose the failure to file the post-qualification
amendment or supplement, as required by Regulation A.
Risk Factors, page 9
3.We note your response to comment 10, in which you state that you intend to issue no
more than $75 million total Worthy Property Bonds. Add a risk factor to discuss your
ability to sustain your lending operations as you cease to be able to raise additional funds
as you reach that cap.
Risks Related to Our Company, page 10
4.Add a risk factor that discusses the impact on your company in the event that your loan
loss reserves may prove inadequate to address your actual losses from any loans. For
instance, we note that you had $268,800 in loan loss reserves as of the end of the last
fiscal year, on total loans outstanding of over $25 million, and that you had to write off
over $200,000 in loans in the last fiscal year. Also, discuss the fact that your auditor has
noted that loan loss allowance and valuation of mortgage held for investment were critical
audit matters in their audit report. Investors must be able to appreciate the risks due to
inadequate loan losses, or from a failure to adequately analyze and value complex risks
and assets.
Use of Proceeds, page 18
5.We note your response to comment 10, in which you indicate that you will only offer just
under $9 million in additional Worthy Property Bonds. Revise this section to reflect the
remaining offering amount, to the extent that you intend to limit the total offering to $75
million. Also, to the extent that your actual use of proceeds to date do not reflect the use
of proceeds disclosed in this section, discus the reasons why you believe the revised
projected use of proceeds are appropriate.
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations , page
20
6.Revise this section to discuss how management intends to operate Worthy Property
Bond's business as you reach your self-imposed total offering limit of $75 million. In
particular, please discuss any other sources of capital that will remain that will allow you
to fund both your lending business, as well as to pay redemption requests for your bonds
and accrued interest. Make appropriate changes to your risk factors, cover page and
summary discussion based on your response.
We will consider qualifying your offering statement at your request. If a participant in
your offering is required to clear its compensation arrangements with FINRA, please have
FINRA advise us that it has no objections to the compensation arrangements prior to
qualification.
We remind you that the company and its management are responsible for the accuracy
and adequacy of their disclosures, notwithstanding any review, comments, action or absence of
action by the staff.
August 27, 2024
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Please contact Aisha Adegbuyi at 202-551-8754 or Christian Windsor at 202-551-3419
with any other questions.
Sincerely,
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Finance
cc:Clint J. Gage, Esq.