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The aggregate market value of voting and nonvoting common equity held by non-affiliates of the Registrant, as of June 28, 2019, the last business day of the registrant’s most recently completed second fiscal quarter, was approximately $2,583,714 based on the closing sales price as reported on the NASDAQ Capital Market as of such date.

The number of shares of the Registrant’s common stock outstanding as of April 14, 2020 was 3,320,261.

On November 2, 2018, the Company invested cash by purchasing a Securities Purchase Agreement (the “IIU SPA”) from IIU Inc. (“IIU”), a synergistic Virginia based travel insurance brokerage company controlled by Craven House North America, LLC (“Craven”) N.A., (whose ownership excluding unexercised warrants was approximately 20% of the Company’s outstanding stock at the time of the acquisition) pursuant to which IIU issued to the Company a Senior Convertible Promissory Note (“IIU Note”) in the original principal amount of $1,500,000. The maturity date of the Note was 360 dates after the date of issuance (subject to acceleration upon an event of default). The Note carried a 3.0% interest rate, with accrued but unpaid interest being payable on the Note’s maturity date.

On January 16, 2019, the Company entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement with Craven to purchase all of outstanding capital stock of IIU as a possible synergistic effort to diversify revenue sources that are believed to be accretive to earnings. IIU provides global medical insurance products for international travelers, specializing in policies covering high-risk destinations, emerging markets and foreign travelers coming to the United States. All policies are fully underwritten with no claim risk remaining with IIU.

The Company purchased 100% of the issued and outstanding capital stock of IIU from Craven for $5,089,357 subject to adjustment as set forth in the IIU SPA. IIU was required to have a minimum net working capital of $15,000 and at least $152,000 in cash. The Company paid the Purchase Price under the IIU SPA at closing as follows:

On December 20, 2019, the Company loaned $1.5 million to Craven (“Craven Secured Promissory Note”) which had an initial maturity date of April 15, 2020 and carried an interest rate of 0.5% that is to be paid monthly. The Company subsequently extended the due date of the Craven Secured Promissory Note to August 1, 2021. The Craven Secured Promissory Note is secured by, among other things, Stock Pledge of Craven’s 640,000 Common Shares of the Company and the Assignment of the assets of Craven in favor of the Company.

On January 8, 2020, the Company entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (“SPA”) with Craven pursuant to which the Company sold to Craven all of the issued and outstanding shares of IIU, Inc., a Virginia based travel insurance brokerage company and wholly owned subsidiary of LMFA (“IIU”), for $3,562,569. The purchase price was paid by Craven through the cancellation of the $3,461,782 Convertible Promissory Note issued by LMFA to Craven dated January 16, 2019 plus forgiveness of $100,787 of accrued interest. LMFA originally paid $4,969,200 for the purchase of IIU in January 2019, which included a negative $720,386 net fair value of assets and $5,689,586 of goodwill. LMFA estimates the sale of IIU will result in a loss of approximately $1.65 million.

On March 23, 2020, the Company entered into a Share Exchange Agreement, dated March 23, 2020 (the “Share Exchange Agreement”), with Hanfor (Cayman) Limited, a Cayman Islands exempted company (“Hanfor”), and BZ Industrial Limited, a British Virgin Islands business company and the sole stockholder of Hanfor (“Hanfor Owner”). The Share Exchange Agreement provides for a business combination transaction in which Hanfor Owner will transfer and assign to the Company all of the share capital of Hanfor in exchange for a number of shares of the Company’s common stock that will result in Hanfor Owner owning 86.5% of the outstanding common stock of the Company (the “Hanfor Exchange Transaction”). Upon the closing of the Hanfor Exchange Transaction, Hanfor will become a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company. The parties’ respective obligations to complete the Hanfor Exchange Transaction are subject to various closing conditions, including the approval of the Hanfor Exchange Transaction by the Company’s stockholders at a duly called stockholder meeting; the receipt of a fairness opinion by the Company’s board of directors for the Hanfor Exchange Transaction; the absence of a material adverse change in the business, assets, or operations of Hanfor; the exercise of outstanding warrants to purchase at least 729,167 shares of Company common stock (or Hanfor Owner’s purchase of shares in a private placement in lieu thereof); and various customary closing conditions. The conditions to Hanfor Owner’s and Hanfor’s obligation to complete the Hanfor Exchange Transaction will include the continued listing of the Company’s common stock on the Nasdaq Stock Market; the absence of a material adverse change in the business, assets, or operations of the Company; and other customary closing conditions. In addition to the foregoing, the Share Exchange Agreement contains other customary and negotiated representations, warranties, and covenants, including a covenant not to solicit alternative transactions. Under the agreement, Hanfor Owner is required to deliver to the Company audited financial statements for Hanfor for the 2019 and 2018 fiscal years, with such audited financial statements required to be delivered by May 31, 2020 (subject to extension to June 30, 2020 under specified circumstances). In connection with the execution of the Share Exchange Agreement, the Company and Hanfor Owner entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement, dated March 23, 2020, pursuant to which Hanfor Owner purchased from Company an aggregate of 520,833 shares of the Company’s common stock at a price of $2.40 per share.

On March 27, 2020, the Company received a notification letter from the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications department of The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) stating that the Company has not regained compliance with Nasdaq Continued Listing Rule 5550(a)(2), which requires the Company’s listed securities to maintain a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share (the "Minimum Bid Price Rule"). Additionally, on January 3, 2020, the Company received a deficiency letter from Nasdaq, indicating that it was in violation of Listing Rules 5620(a) and 5810(c)(2)(G) by virtue of passing the applicable deadline for holding of its annual general meeting of shareholders for the financial year ended December 31, 2018. The notification stated that the Company’s securities would be delisted from the Nasdaq Capital Market on April 7, 2020 unless the Company timely requested a hearing before a Nasdaq Hearing Panel. The Company has timely requested a hearing, which has been scheduled for April 30, 2020. The delisting of the Company’s securities has been stayed pending the Nasdaq Hearing Panel’s decision of whether to grant the Company additional time to regain compliance with the Nasdaq listing requirements.

We purchase an Associations’ right to receive a portion of the Association’s collected proceeds from owners that are not paying their assessments. After taking assignment of an Association’s right to receive a portion of the Association’s proceeds from the collection of delinquent assessments, we engage law firms to perform collection work on a deferred billing basis wherein the law firms receive payment upon collection from the account debtors or a predetermined contracted amount if payment from account debtors is less than legal fees and costs owed. Under this business model, we typically fund an amount equal to or less than the statutory minimum an Association could recover on a delinquent account for each Account, which we refer to as the “Super Lien Amount”. Upon collection of an Account, the law firm working on the Account, on behalf of the Association, generally distributes to us the funded amount, interest, and administrative late fees, with the law firm retaining legal fees and costs collected, and the Association retaining the balance of the collection. In connection with this

line of business, we have developed proprietary software for servicing Accounts, which we believe enables law firms to service Accounts efficiently and profitably.

Under the New Neighbor Guaranty program, an Association will generally assign substantially all of its outstanding indebtedness and accruals on its delinquent units to us in exchange for payment by us of monthly dues on each delinquent unit. This simultaneously eliminates a substantial portion of the Association’s balance sheet bad debts and assists the Association to meet its budget by receiving guaranteed monthly payments on its delinquent units and relieving the Association from paying legal fees and costs to collect its bad debts. We believe that the combined features of the program enhance the value of the underlying real estate in an Association and the value of an Association’s delinquent receivables. We intend to leverage our proprietary software platform, as well as our industry experience and knowledge gained from our original line of business, to expand the New Neighbor Guaranty program in certain situations and to potentially develop other new products in the future.

Because we acquire and collect on the delinquent receivables of Associations, the Account debtors are third parties about whom we have little or no information. Therefore, we cannot predict when any given Account will be paid off or how much it will yield. In assessing the risk of purchasing Accounts, we review the property values of the underlying units, the governing documents of the relevant Association, and the total number of delinquent receivables held by the Association.

Our original product relies upon Florida statutory provisions that effectively protect the principal amount invested by us in each Account. In particular, Section 718.116(1), Florida Statutes, makes purchasers and sellers of a unit in an Association jointly and severally liable for all past due assessments, interest, late fees, legal fees, and costs payable to the Association. As discussed above, the Florida Statutes grants to Associations a so-called “super lien”, which is a category of lien that is given a statutorily higher priority than all other types of liens other than property tax liens. The amount of the Association’s priority over a first mortgage holder that takes title to a property through foreclosure (or deed in lieu), referred to as the Super Lien Amount, is limited to twelve months’ past due assessments or, if less, one percent (1.0%) of the original mortgage amount. Under our contracts with Associations for our original product, we pay Associations an amount up to the Super Lien Amount for the right to receive all collected interest and late fees on Accounts purchased from the Associations.

In other states in which we have offered our original product, which are currently only in Washington, Colorado and Illinois, we rely on statutes that we believe are similar to the above-described Florida statutes in relevant respects. A total of approximately 22 U.S. states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia have super lien statutes that give Association assessments super lien status under some circumstances, and of these states, we believe that all of these jurisdictions other than Alaska have a regulatory and business environment that would enable us to offer our original product to Associations in those states on materially the same basis.

In 2012, we began development of a new product, the New Neighbor Guaranty, wherein an Association assigns substantially all of its outstanding indebtedness and accruals on its delinquent units to us in exchange for payments in an amount equal to the regular ongoing monthly or quarterly assessments for delinquent units when those amounts would be due to the Association. We assume both the payment and collection obligations for these assigned Accounts under this product. This simultaneously eliminates an Association’s balance sheet bad debts and assists the Association to meet its budget by receiving guaranteed assessment payments on its delinquent units and relieving the Association from paying legal fees and costs to collect its bad debts. We believe that the combined features of the product enhance the value of the underlying real estate in an Association and the value of an Association’s delinquent receivables.

Before we implement the New Neighbor Guaranty program, an Association typically asks us to conduct a review of its accounts receivable. After we have conducted the review, we inform the Association which Accounts we are willing to purchase and the terms of such purchase. Once we implement the New Neighbor Guaranty program, we begin making scheduled payments to the Association on the Accounts as if the Association had non-delinquent residents occupying the units underlying the Accounts. Our New Neighbor Guaranty contracts typically allow us to retain all collection proceeds on each Account other than special assessments and accelerated assessment balances. Thus, the Association foregoes the potential benefit of a larger future collection in exchange for the certainty of a steady stream of immediate payments on the Account.

According to the Community Association Institute (“CAI”), as of January 2017, 65 million people lived in 344,500 Associations in the United States. As a percentage, homeowners associations accounted for between 54-60% of the total and condominium associations accounted for between 38-42% of the total, with cooperatives comprising the balance. As of December 2017, Florida had nearly 9.8 million residents living in more than 48,000 community associations. Assuming the national distribution of property types exists in Florida, Florida has approximately 27,000 homeowners associations and 21,000 condominium associations. We believe opportunity remains abundant in our other geographic markets.

Associations typically address delinquencies by paying lawyers or collection agencies to recover amounts owed. While Associations seek recovery of delinquent amounts, budgets go underfunded causing the need to cut services or raise assessments further. The real estate downturn in 2008 made delinquency issues an acute problem for a large number of Associations. We were organized in 2008 to immediately address the financial problems faced by Associations as a result of delinquent unit owners.

According to the CAI, as of December 2016, in Florida where we have primarily operated, Associations annually assess their residents $9 billion and nationwide, annual assessments by Associations are $65 billion. We believe we offer Associations a better financial solution to Account delinquencies and that Associations will increasingly turn to us and our products as a solution to handle Account delinquencies.

Our primary objective is to utilize our competitive strengths, including our proprietary technology and our management’s experience and expertise in buying and collecting Association Accounts, to grow our business in Florida by identifying, evaluating, pricing, and acquiring Association Accounts and maximizing collections of such Accounts in a cost efficient manner. The principal elements of our strategy and competitive advantage are as follows:

IIU through its wholly owned subsidiary Wallach and Company (“Wallach”) offers health insurance, travel insurance and other travel services to:

These services are typically sold through a policy offered by Wallach and fully underwritten by a third party insurance company. The policies offered include:

The international travel insurance industry is highly competitive with a number of companies providing such services ranging in size from billion dollar companies such as AXA Insurance to smaller specialized firms such as IIU. The U.S. Travel Insurance Association estimated in 2016 that consumers spent approximately $2.8 billion on various types of travel insurance products, an increase of 19.1% from 2014. The main types of travel insurance include: trip cancellation/interruption/delay; baggage loss/delay on personal effects insurance; travel medical insurance; medical evacuation insurance; and cancel for any reason coverage.

Our strategy is to expand our customer base by identifying business partners who focus on overseas citizens who travel to the United States that are currently underserved by other competitors and identifying other United Stated based travel providers who can increase revenues by partnering with IIU for providing travel insurance.

On January 8, 2020, the Company entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Craven SPA”) with Craven pursuant to which the Company sold to Craven all of the issued and outstanding capital stock of IIU for $3,562,769. The purchase price under the Craven SPA was paid by Craven through the cancellation of the Craven Convertible Note, plus forgiveness of $100,787 of accrued interest as of January 8, 2020.

the issued and outstanding common stock of LMFA, thereby making LM Funding, LLC a wholly-owned subsidiary of LMFA. As used in this discussion and analysis, unless the context requires otherwise, references to “LMF,” “LM Funding,” “we,” “us,” “our,” “the Company,” “our company,” and similar references refer to (i) following the date of the Corporate Reorganization, LM Funding America, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its consolidated subsidiaries, and (ii) prior to the date of the Corporate Reorganization, LM Funding, LLC, a Florida limited liability company, and its consolidated subsidiaries. All of our business is conducted through LM Funding, LLC and its subsidiaries.

IIU, Inc., our former wholly-owned subsidiary, was organized in April 2018 as a Virginia corporation. IIU, Inc. owns Wallach and Company, a Virginia corporation, which was organized in January 1989. As described above, we sold IIU, Inc. and its subsidiary, Wallach and Company, on January 8, 2020 pursuant to the terms of the Craven SPA.

We are required to file annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K and other information, including our proxy statement, with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The public can obtain copies of these materials by accessing the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. In addition, as soon as reasonably practicable after these materials are filed with or furnished to the SEC, we will make copies available to the public free of charge through our website, https://www.lmfunding.com. The information on our website is not incorporated into, and is not part of, this Annual Report on Form 10-K or our other filings with the SEC.

You should carefully consider each of the risks described below, together with all of the other information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, before making an investment decision with respect to our securities. If any of the following risks actually occur, our business, financial condition, results of operations, or cash flow could be materially and adversely affected and you may lose all or part of your investment.

Our quarterly operating results may fluctuate and cause our stock price to decline.

Because of the nature of our business, our quarterly operating results may fluctuate, which may adversely affect the market price of our common stock. Our results may fluctuate as a result of the following factors:

Any future acquisitions that we make may prove unsuccessful or strain or divert our resources.

We may seek to grow through acquisitions of related businesses. Such acquisitions present risks that could materially adversely affect our business and financial performance, including:

In addition, future acquisitions by us may result in potentially dilutive issuances of our equity securities, the incurrence of additional debt, and the recognition of significant charges for depreciation and amortization related to goodwill and other intangible assets.

Although we have no definitive plans or intentions to make acquisitions of related businesses, we continuously evaluate such potential acquisitions. However, we have not reached any agreement or arrangement with respect to any particular acquisition and we may not be able to complete any acquisitions on favorable terms or at all.

Concerns are rapidly growing about the global outbreak of a novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19). The virus has spread rapidly across the globe, including the U.S. The pandemic is having an unprecedented impact on the U.S. economy as federal, state and local governments react to this public health crisis, which has created significant uncertainties. These uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the potential adverse effect of the pandemic on the economy, our customers and the legal system which we use to collect for our customers.

We believe that the wide-spread unemployment crisis will impact the ability of community associations to pay vendors and provide basic services and amenities to their residents. Our funding products fill the void created when homeowners do not pay their dues. We are then able to work with delinquent homeowners to establish payment plans to save their homes from foreclosure. Homeowners’ inability to pay their associations creates an opportunity to sell our products. However, homeowners’ continued inability to pay their associations’ assessments due to unemployment resulting from a pandemic could adversely affect our revenues and profitability until unemployment subsides.

As the pandemic continues to grow, consumer fear about becoming ill with the virus and recommendations and/or mandates from federal, state and local authorities to avoid large gatherings of people or self-quarantine may continue. The extent of the impact of the pandemic on our business and financial results will depend largely on future developments, including the duration of the spread of the outbreak within the U.S., the impact on capital and financial markets and the related impact on consumer confidence and spending, all of which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted. This situation is changing rapidly, and additional impacts may arise that we are not aware of currently.

Our investments in other businesses and entry into new business ventures may adversely affect our operations.

We have made and may continue to make investments in companies or commence operations in businesses and industries that are not identical to those with which we have historically been successful. If these investments or arrangements are not successful, our earnings could be materially adversely affected by increased expenses and decreased revenues.

Our organizational documents and Delaware law may make it harder for us to be acquired without the consent and cooperation of our Board of Directors and management.

Certain provisions of our organizational documents and Delaware law may deter or prevent a takeover attempt, including a takeover attempt in which the potential purchaser offers to pay a per share price greater than the current market price of our common stock. Under the terms of our certificate of incorporation, our Board of Directors has the authority, without further action by our stockholders, to issue shares of preferred stock in one or more series and to fix the rights, preferences, privileges and restrictions thereof. In addition, our directors serve staggered terms of one to three years each and, as such, at any given annual meeting of our stockholders, only a portion of our Board of Directors may be considered for election, which may prevent our stockholders from replacing a majority of our Board of Directors at certain annual meetings and may entrench our management and discourage unsolicited stockholder proposals. The ability to issue shares of preferred stock could tend to discourage takeover or acquisition proposals not supported by our current Board of Directors.

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market could cause a decrease in the market price of our common stock. We had 3,320,261 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of April 15, 2020. We may issue additional shares in connection with our business and may grant stock options to our employees, officers, directors and consultants under our stock option plans or warrants to third parties. If a significant portion of these shares were sold in the public market, the market value of our common stock could be adversely affected.

Craven House Capital North America, LLC owns 25% of our company and may exert significant influence over our company, reducing the influence of our other stockholders.

As of April 14, 2020, Craven House Capital North America, LLC (“Craven”) beneficially owned, in the aggregate, 25% of our outstanding shares of common stock. As a result, Craven may be able to influence the actions that require stockholder approval, including the election of a majority of our directors and the approval of mergers, sales of assets or other corporate transactions or matters submitted for stockholder approval. In addition, Craven’s influence could deter or preclude any unsolicited acquisition of us and consequently materially adversely affect the price of our common stock.

We may not be able to purchase Accounts at favorable prices, or on sufficiently favorable terms, or at all.

Our success depends upon the continued availability of Association Accounts. The availability of Accounts at favorable prices and on terms acceptable to us depends on a number of factors outside our control, including:

In addition, our ability to purchase Accounts, in particular with respect to our original product, is reliant on state statutes allowing for a Super Lien Amount to protect our principal investment; any change of those statutes and elimination of the priority of the Super Lien Amount, particularly in Florida, could have an adverse effect on our ability to purchase Accounts. If we were unable to purchase Accounts at favorable prices or on terms acceptable to us, or at all, it would likely have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

We may not be able to recover sufficient amounts on our Accounts to recover charges to the Accounts for interest and late fees necessary to fund our operations.

We acquire and collect on the delinquent receivables of Associations. Since Account debtors are third parties that we have little to no information about, we cannot predict when any given Account will pay off or how much it will yield. In order to operate profitably over the long term, we must continually purchase and collect on a sufficient volume of Accounts to generate revenue that exceeds our costs.

We are subject to intense competition seeking to provide a collection solution to Associations for delinquent Accounts.

Lawyers, collection agencies, and other direct and indirect competitors vying to collect on Accounts all propose to solve the problem delinquent Accounts pose to Associations. Additionally, Associations and their management companies sometimes try to solve their delinquent Account problems in house, without the assistance of third-party collection agencies. An Account that an Association attempts to collect through any of these other options is an Account we cannot purchase and collect. We compete on the basis of reputation, industry experience, performance and financing dollars. Some of these competitors have greater contacts with Associations, greater financial resources and access to capital, more personnel, wider geographic presence and greater resources than we have. In addition, we expect the entry of new competitors in the future given the relatively new nature of the market in which we operate. Aggressive pricing by our competitors could raise the price of acquiring and purchasing Accounts above levels that we are willing to pay, which could reduce the number of Accounts suitable for us to purchase or if purchased by us, reduce the profits, if any, generated by such Accounts. If we are unable to purchase Accounts at favorable prices or at all, the revenues generated by us and our earnings could be materially reduced.

Although we utilize our proprietary software and in-house staff to track, monitor, and direct the collection of our Accounts, we depend upon third-party law firms to perform the collection work. As a result, we are dependent upon the efforts of our third-party law firms, particularly Business Law Group, P.A. (“BLG”) to service and collect our Accounts. As of December 31, 2019, BLG was responsible for servicing over 98% of our Accounts. Our revenues and profitability could be materially affected if:

If we are unable to access external sources of financing, we may not be able to fund and grow our operations.

We depend upon loans from external sources from time to time to fund and expand our operations. Our ability to grow our business is dependent on our access to additional financing and capital resources. The failure to obtain financing and capital as needed would limit our ability to purchase Accounts and achieve our growth plans.

We may incur substantial indebtedness from time to time in connection with the purchase of Accounts and could be subject to risks associated with incurring such indebtedness.

We may incur substantial indebtedness from time to time in connection with the purchase of Accounts and could be subject to risks associated with incurring such indebtedness, including:

We may encounter difficulties managing changes in our business including cyclical growth and declines, which could disrupt our operations, and there is no assurance that any such growth (if experienced) can be sustained.

From time to time since our inception, we have experienced periods of significant growth and declines. Although there is no assurance that we will again experience periods of significant growth or continued declines in the future, if we do, there can be no assurance that we will be able to manage our changing operations effectively or that we will be able to maintain or accelerate our growth, and any failure to do so could adversely affect our ability to generate revenues and control expenses. Future growth will depend upon a number of factors, including:

Due to our limited financial resources and the limited experience and size of our management team, we may not be able to effectively manage the growth of our business. Significant growth may lead to significant costs and may divert our management and business development resources. Any inability to manage growth could delay the execution of our business strategy or disrupt our operations.

Government regulations may limit our ability to recover and enforce the collection of our Accounts.

Federal, state and municipal laws, rules, rules, regulations and ordinances may limit our ability to recover and enforce our rights with respect to the Accounts acquired by us. These laws include, but are not limited to, the following federal statutes and regulations promulgated thereunder and comparable statutes in states where Account debtors reside and/or located:

We may be precluded from collecting Accounts we purchase where the Association or its prior legal counsel, management company, or collection agency failed to comply with applicable laws in charging the account debtor or prosecuting the collection of the Account. Laws relating to the collection of consumer debt also directly apply to our business. Our failure to comply with any laws applicable to us, including state licensing laws, could limit our ability to recover our Accounts and could subject us to fines and penalties, which could reduce our revenues.

We may become regulated under the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, and have not developed compliance standards for such oversight.

The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (2010), or Dodd-Frank Act, represents a comprehensive overhaul of the financial services industry within the U.S. The Dodd-Frank Act allows consumers free access to their credit score if their score negatively affects them in a financial transaction or a hiring decision, and also gives consumers access to credit score disclosures as part of an adverse action and risk-based pricing notice. Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act establishes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, within the Federal Reserve Board, and requires the CFPB and other federal agencies to implement many new and significant rules and regulations. Significant portions of the Dodd-Frank Act related to the CFPB became effective on July 21, 2011. The CFPB has broad powers to promulgate, administer and enforce consumer financial regulations, including those applicable to us and possibly our funded Associations. Under the Dodd-Frank Act, the CFPB is the principal supervisor and enforcer of federal consumer financial protection laws with respect to nondepository institutions, or “nonbanks”, including, without limitation, any “covered person” who is a “larger participant” in a market for other consumer financial products or services. We do not know if our unique business model makes us a covered person.

The CFPB has started to exercise authority to define unfair, deceptive or abusive acts and practices and to require reports and conduct examinations of these entities for purposes of (i) assessing compliance with federal consumer financial protections laws; (ii) obtaining information about the activities and compliance systems or procedures of such entities; and (iii) detecting and assessing risks to consumers and to markets for consumer financial products and services. The exercise of this supervisory authority must be risk-based, meaning that the CFPB will identify nonbanks for examination based on the risk they pose to consumers, including consideration of the entity’s asset size, transaction volume, risk to consumers, existing oversight by state authorities and any other factors that the CFPB determines to be relevant. When a nonbank is in violation of federal consumer financial protection laws, including the CFPB’s own rules, the CFPB may pursue administrative proceedings or litigation to enforce those laws and rules. In these proceedings, the CFPB can obtain cease and desist orders, which can include orders for restitution or rescission of contracts, as well as other kinds of affirmative relief, and monetary penalties ranging from $5,000 per day for ordinary violations of federal consumer financial protection laws to $25,000 per day for reckless violations and $1 million per day for knowing violations. Also, where a company has violated Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act or CFPB regulations under Title X, the Dodd-Frank Act empowers state attorneys general and state regulators to bring civil actions for the kind of cease and desist orders available to the CFPB (but not for civil penalties). If the CFPB or one or more state officials believe that we have committed a violation of the foregoing laws, they could exercise their enforcement powers in a manner that could have a material adverse effect on us.

At this time, we cannot predict the extent to which the Dodd-Frank Act or the resulting rules and regulations, including those of the CFPB, will impact the U.S. economy and our products and services. Compliance with these new laws and regulations may require changes in the way we conduct our business and could result in additional compliance costs, which could be significant and could adversely impact our results of operations, financial condition or liquidity.

Current and new laws may adversely affect our ability to collect our Accounts, which could adversely affect our revenues and earnings.

Because our Accounts are generally originated and collected pursuant to a variety of federal and state laws by a variety of third parties and may involve consumers in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, there can be no assurance that all Associations and their management companies, legal counsel, collections agencies and others have at all times been in compliance with all applicable laws relating to the collection of Accounts. Additionally, there can be no assurance that we or our law firms have been or will continue to be at all times in compliance with all applicable laws. Failure to comply with applicable laws could materially adversely affect our ability to collect our Accounts and could subject us to increased costs, fines, and penalties. Furthermore, changes in state law regarding the lien priority status of delinquent Association assessments could materially and adversely affect our business.

Class action suits and other litigation could divert our management’s attention from operating our business, increase our expenses, and otherwise harm our business.

Certain originators and servicers involved in consumer credit collection and related businesses have been subject to class actions and other litigation. Claims include failure to comply with applicable laws and regulations such as usury and improper or deceptive origination and collection practices. From time to time we are a party to such litigation, and as a result, our management’s attention may be diverted from our everyday business activities and implementing our business strategy, and our results of operations and financial condition could be materially adversely affected by, among other things, legal expenses and challenges to our business model in connection with such litigation.

If our technology and software systems are not operational or are subject to cybersecurity incidents, our operations could be disrupted and our ability to successfully acquire and collect Accounts could be adversely affected.

Our success depends in part on our proprietary software. We must record and process significant amounts of data quickly and accurately to properly track, monitor and collect our Accounts. Any failure of our information systems and their backup systems, including by means of cybersecurity attacks, breaches or other incidents, would interrupt our operations. We may not have adequate backup arrangements for all of our operations and we may incur significant losses if an outage occurs. In addition, we rely on third-party law firms who also may be adversely affected in the event of a cybersecurity breach or attack or other outage in which the third-party servicer does not have adequate backup arrangements. Any interruption in our operations or our third-party law firms’ operations could have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.

Insolvency of BLG could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Our primary Account servicer, BLG, deposits collections on the Accounts in its Interest on Lawyers Trust Account (“IOLTA Trust Account”) and then distributes the proceeds to itself, us and the Associations pursuant to the terms of the purchase agreements with the Associations and applicable law. We do not have a perfected security interest in the amounts BLG collects on the Accounts while such amounts are held in the IOLTA Trust Account. BLG has agreed to promptly remit to us all amounts collected on the Accounts that are owed to us. If, however, BLG were to become subject to any insolvency law and a creditor or trustee-in-bankruptcy of BLG were to take the position that proceeds of the Accounts held in BLG’s IOLTA Trust Account should be treated as assets of BLG, an Association or another third party, delays in payments from collections on the Accounts held by BLG could occur or reductions in the amounts of payments to be remitted by BLG to us could result, which could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Associations do not make any guarantee with respect to the validity, enforceability or collectability of the Accounts acquired by us.

Associations do not make any representations, warranties or covenants with respect to the validity, enforceability or collectability of Accounts in their assignments of Accounts to us. If an Account proves to be invalid, unenforceable or otherwise generally uncollectible, we will not have any recourse against the respective Association. If a significant number of our Accounts are later held to be invalid, unenforceable or are otherwise uncollectible, our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows could be adversely affected.

All of our Accounts are located in Florida, and any adverse conditions affecting Florida could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Our primary business relates to revenues from Accounts purchased by us, which are all based in Florida, and our primary source of revenue consists of payments made by condominium and home owners to satisfy the liens against their condominiums and homes. As of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, Florida represented 100% of our Accounts. An economic recession, adverse market conditions in Florida, and/or significant property damage caused by hurricanes, tornadoes or other inclement weather could adversely affect the ability of these condominium and home owners to satisfy the liens against their condominiums and homes, which could, in turn, have a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

Foreclosure on an Association’s lien may not result in our company recouping the amount that we invested in the related Account.

All of the Accounts purchased by us are in default. The Accounts are secured by liens held by Associations, which we have an option to foreclose upon on behalf of the Associations. Should we foreclose upon such a lien on behalf of an Association, we are generally entitled pursuant to our contractual arrangements with the Association to have the Association quitclaim its interests in the condominium unit or home to us. In the event that any Association quitclaims its interests in a condominium unit or home to us, we will be relying on the short-term rental prospects, to the extent permitted under bylaws and rules applicable to the Association, and value of its interest in the underlying property, which value may be affected by numerous risks, including:

It is possible that as a result of a decrease in the value of the property or any of the other factors referred to in this paragraph, the amount realized from the sale of such property after taking title through a lien foreclosure may be less than our total investment in the Account. If this occurs with regard to a substantial number of Accounts, the amount expected to be realized from the Accounts will decrease and our financial condition and results of operations could be harmed.

If Account debtors or their agents make payments on the Accounts to or negotiate reductions in the Accounts with an Association, it could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

From time to time Account debtors and/or their agents may make payments on the Accounts directly to the Association or its management company. Our sole recourse in this instance is to recover these misapplied payments through set-offs of payments later collected for that Association by our third-party law firms. A significant number of misapplied or reduced payments could hinder our cash flows and adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

Account debtors are subject to a variety of factors that may adversely affect their payment ability.

Collections on the Accounts have varied and may in the future vary greatly in both timing and amount from the payments actually due on the Accounts due to a variety of economic, social and other factors. Failures by Account debtors to timely pay off their Accounts could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

Defaults on the Accounts could harm our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

We take assignments of the lien foreclosure rights of Associations against delinquent units owned by Account debtors who are responsible for payment of the Accounts. The payoff of the Accounts is dependent upon the ability and willingness of the condominium and home owners to pay such obligations. If an owner fails to pay off the Account relating to his, her or its unit or home, only net amounts recovered, if any, will be available with respect to that Account. Foreclosures by holders of first mortgages generally result in our receipt of reduced recoveries from Accounts. In addition, foreclosure actions by any holder of a tax lien may result in us receiving no recovery from an Account to the extent excess proceeds from such tax lien foreclosure are insufficient to provide for payment to us. If, at any time, (i) we experience an increase in mortgage foreclosures or tax lien foreclosures or (ii) we experience a decrease in owner payments, our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows could be adversely affected.

Because the collection of Accounts requires special skill and diligence, any failure of BLG, or any other law firm utilized by us, to diligently collect the Accounts could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

The payoff amounts received by us from Accounts may be adversely affected due to a variety of factors beyond our control.

Several factors may reduce the amount that can be collected on any individual Account. The delinquent assessments that are the subject of the Accounts and related charges are included within an Association’s claim of lien under the applicable statute. In Florida, Association liens are recorded in the official county records and hold first priority status with respect to a first mortgage holder for an amount equal to the Super Lien Amount. Associations have assigned to us the right to direct law firms to collect on the liens and foreclose, subject to the terms and conditions of the purchase agreements between each Association and us.

Each Account presents a separate risk as to the creditworthiness of the debtor obligated to pay the Account, which, in general, is the owner of the unit or home when the Account was incurred and subsequent owners. For instance, if the debtor has incurred a property tax lien, a sale related to such lien could result in our complete loss of the Account. Also, a holder of a first mortgage taking title through a foreclosure proceeding in which the Association is named as a defendant must only pay the Super Lien Amount in a state with a super lien statute. Although we purchase Accounts at a discount to the outstanding balance and the owner remains personally liable for any deficiency, we may decide that it is not cost-effective to pursue such a deficiency. As a result, the purchase or ownership of a significant number of Accounts which result in payment of only the Super Lien Amount or less where no statute specifying a Super Lien Amount applies, could adversely affect our financial condition and results of operations.

The liens securing the Accounts we own may not be superior to all liens on the related units and homes.

Although the liens of the Associations securing the Accounts may be superior in right of payment to some of the other liens on a condominium unit or home, they may not be superior to all liens on that condominium unit or home. For instance, a lien relating to delinquent property taxes would be superior in right of payment to the liens securing the Accounts. In addition, if an Association fails to assert the priority of its lien in a foreclosure action, the Association may inadvertently waive the priority of its lien. In the event that there is a lien of superior priority on a unit or home relating to one of the Accounts, the Association’s lien might be extinguished in the event that such superior liens are foreclosed. In most instances, the unit or home owner will be liable for the payment of such Account and the ultimate payment would depend on the creditworthiness of such owner. In the case of a tax lien foreclosure, an owner taking title through foreclosure would not be liable for the payment of obligations that existed prior to the foreclosure sale. The purchase or ownership of a significant number of Accounts that are the subject of foreclosure by a superior lien could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

We may not choose to pursue a foreclosure action against condominium and home owners who are delinquent in paying off the Accounts relating to their units or homes.

Although we have the right to pursue a foreclosure action against a unit or home owner who is delinquent in paying off the Account relating to his or her unit or home, we may not choose to do so as the cost of such litigation may be prohibitive, especially when pursuing an individual claim against a single unit or home owner. Our choice not to foreclose on a unit or home may delay our ability to collect on the Account. If we decide not to pursue foreclosure against a significant number of Accounts, it could adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

It can take our third-party law firms anywhere from three months to ten years or longer to collect on an Account. Approximately 61% of our Accounts were purchased prior to 2016, with some being purchased as early as 2008. Due to various factors, including those discussed above, we cannot project the payoff date for any Account. This indeterminate holding period reduces our liquidity and ability to fund our operations. If our ability to collect on a material number of Accounts was significantly delayed, it could adversely affect our cash flows and ability to fund our operations.

Our business model and related accounting treatment may result in acceleration of expense recognition before the corresponding revenues can be recognized.

As we expand our business, we may incur significant upfront costs relating to the acquisition of Accounts. Under United States generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) such amounts may be required to be recognized in the period that they are expended. However, the corresponding revenue stream relating to the acquisition of such Accounts will not be recognized until future dates. Therefore, we may experience reduced earnings in earlier periods until such time as the revenue stream relating to the acquisition of such Accounts may be recognized.

We may be unable to complete the Hanfor Exchange Transaction, as the parties’ respective obligations to complete the transaction are subject to various material closing conditions, including the approval of the Hanfor Exchange Transaction by the Company’s stockholders at a duly called stockholder meeting; the Company’s receipt of audited financial statements for Hanfor for 2018 and 2019; the receipt of a fairness opinion by the Company’s board of directors for the Hanfor Exchange Transaction; the absence of a material adverse change in the business, assets, or operations of Hanfor; the exercise of outstanding warrants to purchase at least 729,167 shares of Company common stock (or Hanfor Owner’s purchase of shares in a private placement in lieu thereof); and various customary closing conditions. The conditions to Hanfor Owner’s and Hanfor’s obligation to complete the Hanfor Exchange Transaction will include the continued listing of the Company’s common stock on the Nasdaq Stock Market; the absence of a material adverse change in the business, assets, or operations of the Company; and other customary closing conditions. Any number of factors or circumstances could prevent one or more of the foregoing conditions from being satisfied. Failure to complete the Hanfor Share Exchange, or significant delays in completing the Hanfor Share Exchange, could negatively affect the future business, financial results, and prospects of the Company.

Our common shares and warrants could be delisted from the Nasdaq Capital Market.

On March 27, 2020, the Company received a notification letter from Nasdaq stating that the Company has not regained compliance with Nasdaq Continued Listing Rule 5550(a)(2), which requires the Company’s listed securities to maintain a minimum bid price of $1.00 per share. Additionally, on January 3, 2020, the Company received a deficiency letter from Nasdaq, indicating that it was in violation of Listing Rules 5620(a) and 5810(c)(2)(G) by virtue of passing the applicable deadline for holding of its annual general meeting of shareholders for the financial year ended December 31, 2018. The March 2020 notification stated that the Company’s securities would be delisted from the Nasdaq Capital Market on April 7, 2020 unless the Company timely requested a hearing before a Nasdaq Hearing Panel. The Company has timely requested a hearing, which has been scheduled for April 30, 2020, and the delisting of the Company’s securities has been stayed pending the Nasdaq Hearing Panel’s decision. There is no assurance that Nasdaq Hearing Panel will accept the Company’s plan to regain compliance with the Nasdaq listing rules and give the Company additional time to regain compliance.

Because the continued listing of our common stock on the Nasdaq Capital Market is a condition of Hanfor’s obligation to complete the Hanfor Exchange Transaction, our failure to retain our listing may result in the termination of the Hanfor Exchange Transaction unless Hanfor and the Hanfor Owner waive such condition. In addition, if a suspension or delisting were to occur, there would be significantly less liquidity in the suspended or delisted securities. In addition, our ability to raise additional necessary capital through equity or debt financing would be greatly impaired. Furthermore, with respect to any suspended or delisted common shares, we would expect decreases in investor demand, market making activity and information available concerning trading prices and volume. Additionally, fewer broker-dealers would be willing to execute trades with respect to such common shares. A suspension or delisting would likely decrease the attractiveness of our common shares to investors and cause the trading volume of our common shares to decline, which could result in a further decline in the market price of our common shares.

Future sales of our common stock by our affiliates or other stockholders may depress our stock price.

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market could cause a decrease in the market price of our common stock. We had authorized 30,000,000 shares of common stock and preferred stock, respectively as of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018.

We had 3,134,261 and 3,124,961 shares of common stock issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively. In addition, pursuant to our 2015 Omnibus Incentive Plan, options to purchase 19,300 and 19,300 respectively, shares of our common stock were outstanding as of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, of which 11,800 and 6,630, respectively were exercisable.

There were 3,959,287 and 3,843,587 warrants issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively that allowed for the issuance of 2,879,287 and 2,763,587 shares, respectively. The 1,200,000 warrants that were issued on October 23, 2015 can be exercised for one-tenth share at $12.50. On April 2, 2018 we issued warrants (subsequently adjusted for a reverse stock split and issuance of new common shares) to purchase 143,587 shares of our common stock in conjunction with a $500,000 senior secured indebtedness transaction. On October 31, 2018, the Company issued warrants as part of its secondary offering that allowed for the right to purchase 2,500,000 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $2.40 per share. These warrants have average remaining life of 3.8 years as of December 31, 2019. These warrants expire in the year 2023. On May 1, 2019, as a result of an underwriter agreement, we issued warrants to purchase 125,000 shares at an exercise price of $2.64 per share.

We may issue additional shares in connection with our business and may grant additional stock options or restricted shares to our employees, officers, directors and consultants under our present or future equity compensation plans or we may issue warrants to third parties outside of such plans. If a significant portion of these shares were sold in the public market, the market value of our common stock could be adversely affected.

The market price and trading volume of our units, shares of common stock and warrants may be volatile, and you may not be able to resell your shares of common stock or warrants (as the case may be) at or above the price you paid for them.

Our securities may trade at prices significantly below the price you paid for it, in which case, holders of our securities may experience difficulty in reselling, or an inability to sell, our securities. In addition, when the market price of a company’s equity drops significantly, equity holders often institute securities class action lawsuits against the company. A lawsuit against us could cause us to incur substantial costs and could divert the time and attention of our management and other resources away from the day-to-day operations of our business.

Securities analysts may not initiate coverage of our securities or may issue negative reports, which may adversely affect the trading price of our securities.

We cannot assure you that securities analysts will cover our company. As of December 31, 2019, no securities analyst covers our company. If securities analysts do not cover our company, this lack of coverage may adversely affect the trading price of our securities. In the event that securities analysts begin to cover our company, the trading market for our securities will rely in part on the research and reports that such securities analysts publish about us and our business. If one or more of the analysts who cover our company downgrades our securities, the trading price of our securities may decline. If one or more of these analysts then ceases to cover our company, we could lose visibility in the market, which, in turn, could also cause the trading price of our securities to decline. Further, because of our small market capitalization, it may be difficult for us to attract securities analysts to cover our company, which could significantly and adversely affect the trading price of our securities.

If we do not maintain an effective registration statement, you may not be able to exercise the warrants in a cash exercise.

For you to be able to exercise our publicly traded warrants, the resale of the shares of common stock to be issued to you upon exercise of the warrants must be covered by an effective and current registration statement. We have not maintained a current registration statement relating to the resale of the shares of common stock underlying the warrants. As a result, you would be unable to exercise the warrants in a cash exercise and will be required to engage in a cashless exercise in which a number of warrant shares equal to the fair market value of the exercised shares will be withheld. In those circumstances, we may, but are not required to, redeem the warrants by payment in cash. Consequently, there is a possibility that you will never be able to exercise the warrants and receive the underlying shares of common stock. This potential inability to exercise the warrants in a cash exercise, our right to cancel the warrants under certain circumstances, and the possibility that we may redeem the warrants for nominal value, may have an adverse effect on demand for the warrants and the prices that can be obtained from reselling them.

We are an “emerging growth company” and the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies may make our securities less attractive to investors.

We are an “emerging growth company,” or “EGC”, as defined under rules of the SEC adopted in connection with the Jumpstart our Business Startups Act, also known as the “JOBS Act”. We will remain an EGC until the earlier of: (i) the last day of the fiscal year in which we have total annual gross revenues of $1 billion or more; (ii) the last day of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the date of our initial public stock offering; (iii) the date on which we have issued more than $1 billion in nonconvertible debt during the previous three years; or (iv) the date on which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer under the rules of the SEC, which means the first day of the year following the first year in which the market value of our common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of June 30. For so long as we remain an EGC, we are permitted to rely on exemptions from certain disclosure requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies. These exemptions include:

We may choose to take advantage of some or all of the available exemptions. We have taken advantage of reduced reporting burdens in this report. Accordingly, the information contained herein may be different than the information you receive from other public companies in which you hold stock. We cannot predict whether investors will find our warrants or common stock less attractive if we rely on certain or all of these exemptions. If some investors find our warrants or common stock less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our warrants or common stock and the price of our warrants or common stock may be more volatile.

Our executive and administrative offices are located in Tampa, Florida, where we lease approximately 5,600 square feet of general office space for approximately $8,100 per month, plus utilities. The lease began July 15, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2022.

We are not currently a party to material litigation proceedings. However, we frequently become party to litigation in the ordinary course of business, including either the prosecution or defense of claims arising from contracts by and between us and client Associations. Regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on us because of prosecution, defense, and settlement costs, diversion of management resources and other factors.

Item 5. Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities.

Following our initial public offering, our units, consisting of one share of our common stock and one warrant to purchase one share of our comment stock, were quoted on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbol “LMFAU” until they ceased trading on December 7, 2015.

Effective December 8, 2015, our common stock and common stock warrants became separately quoted on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbols “LMFA” and “LMFAW,” respectively. On December 31, 2019 there was 2 holders of record of our common stock and 1 holder of record of our common stock warrants.

See “Equity Compensation Plan Information” in Part III, Item 12 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains certain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. All statements other than statements of historical facts included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including without limitation, statements regarding our future financial position, business strategy, budgets, projected revenues, projected costs and plans and objectives of management for future operations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements generally can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as “may,” “will,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “projects,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” “believes” or the negative thereof or any variation thereon or similar terminology or expressions.

We have based these forward-looking statements on our current expectations and projections about future events. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and assumptions about us that may cause our actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important factors which could materially affect our results and our future performance include, without limitation, our ability to purchase defaulted consumer receivables at appropriate prices, competition to acquire such receivables, our dependence upon third party law firms to service our accounts, our ability to obtain funds to purchase receivables, ability to manage growth or declines in the business, changes in government regulations that affect our ability to collect sufficient amounts on our defaulted consumer receivables, the impact of class action suits and other litigation, our ability to keep our software systems updated to operate our business, our ability to employ and retain qualified employees, our ability to establish and maintain internal accounting controls, changes in the credit or capital markets, changes in interest rates, deterioration in economic conditions, and negative press regarding the debt collection industry which may have a negative impact on a debtor’s willingness to pay the debt we acquire, as well as other factors set forth under “Risk Factors” in this report.

Except as required by law, we assume no duty to update or revise any forward-looking statements.

Through our specialty finance business, we provide funding to Associations primarily located in the state of Florida and, to a lesser extent, Associations in the states of Washington, Colorado, and, since February 2016, Illinois. We offer Associations a variety of financial products customized to each Association’s financial needs. Our original product offering consists of providing funding to Associations by purchasing their rights under delinquent Accounts that are selected by the Associations arising from unpaid Association assessments. We provide funding against such delinquent Accounts in exchange for a portion of the proceeds collected by the Associations from the Account debtors on the Accounts. More recently, we have started to engage in the business of purchasing Accounts on varying terms tailored to suit each Association’s financial needs, including under our New Neighbor Guaranty program.

Because of our role as a trusted advisor to our Association clients, we are exploring a potential product line which resembles a more traditional consulting model for Associations desirous of this relationship. Areas of our consultancy may include purchase money mortgage qualification consulting, accounts receivable management, reserve study recommendations, and property tax assessed value analysis. In the event we move forward with this new product line, we will seek to provide services and advice inside of our core competency of community association finance in an effort to drive demand for our financial products.

In our original product offering, we typically purchase an Association’s right to receive a portion of the proceeds collected from delinquent unit owners. Once under contract, we engage law firms, typically on behalf of our Association clients pursuant to a power of attorney, to perform collection work on delinquent unit Accounts. Our law firms typically service collection matters on a deferred billing basis whereby payment is received upon collection from the delinquent unit Account debtors or at a predetermined contractual rate if amounts collected from delinquent unit Account debtors are less than legal fees and costs incurred. We typically fund an amount less than or equal to the statutory “Super Lien Amount” an Association would recover at some point in the future based on the Association’s statutory lien priority. Upon collection of an Account, the law firm retained for the collection matter distributes proceeds pursuant to the terms of the agreement by and between the

Association and us. Not all agreements are the same, but our typical payoff distribution will result in us first recovering amounts advanced to the Association, interest, late fees, and costs advanced, with legal fees kept by the retained law firm, and assessment amounts remitted to the Association client. In connection with our business, we have developed proprietary software for servicing Accounts, which we believe enables law firms to service Accounts efficiently and profitably.

Under the New Neighbor Guaranty program, an Association will generally assign substantially all of its outstanding indebtedness and accruals on its delinquent units to us in exchange for payment by us of an amount less than or equal to the monthly assessment payment for each assigned delinquent unit Account. This simultaneously eliminates a substantial portion of the Association’s balance sheet bad debts and assists the Association in meeting its budget by both guaranteeing periodic revenues and relieving the Association of its legal fee and cost burdens typically incurred to collect bad debts.

In our initial underwriting of an Association and its individual Accounts, we review the property values of the underlying units, the governing documents of the Association, the total number of delinquent receivables held by the Association, the legal proceedings instituted, and many other factors. While we are relatively certain of the actions necessary to produce a revenue event, we cannot predict when an individual delinquent unit Account will have a revenue event or payoff.

Our former subsidiary IIU through its wholly owned company Wallach and Company (“Wallach”) offers health insurance, travel insurance and other travel services to:

These services are typically sold through a policy offered by Wallach and fully underwritten by a third party insurance company. The policies offered include: HealthCare Abroad, HealthCare Global, HealthCare America, HealthCare International, HealthCare War.

The Company was originally organized in January 2008 as a Florida limited liability company under the name LM Funding, LLC. Historically, all of our business was conducted through LM Funding, LLC and its subsidiaries (the “Predecessor”). Immediately prior to our initial public offering in October 2015, the members of the LM Funding, LLC contributed all of their membership interests to LM Funding America, Inc., a Delaware corporation incorporated on April 20, 2015 (“LMFA”), in exchange for an aggregate of 2,100,000 shares of the common stock of LMFA (the “Corporate Reorganization”). Immediately after such contribution and exchange, the former members of LM Funding, LLC became the holders of 100% of the issued and outstanding common stock of LMFA, thereby making LM Funding, LLC a wholly-owned subsidiary of LMFA. As used in this discussion and analysis, unless the context requires otherwise, references to “LMF,” “LM Funding,” “we,” “us,” “our,” “the Company,” “our company,” and similar references refer to (i) following the date of the Corporate Reorganization, LM Funding America, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and its consolidated subsidiaries, and (ii) prior to the date of the Corporate Reorganization, LM Funding, LLC, a Florida limited liability company, and its consolidated subsidiaries.

During the year ended December 31, 2019, total revenues decreased by $0.4 million, or 10.7%, to $3.0 million from $3.4 million in the year ended December 31, 2018. The decrease is due in part to a decrease in interest, administrative and late fees collected during the year offset by $0.6 million of net commission revenue.

The decrease in interest, administrative and late fees was the result of a decrease in the average revenue collected per unit. The average revenue per unit was up to $5,195 for the year ended December 31, 2019 compared with $3,415 for the year ended December 31, 2018. However, there was a 36% decrease in payoffs as the Company recorded approximately 502 payoff occurrences for the year ended December 31, 2019 compared with 785 payoff occurrences for the year ended December 31, 2018. “Payoffs” consist of recovery of the entire legally collectible portion, or a settlement thereof, of our principal investment, accrued interest, and late fees owed to us from the proceeds of the Accounts collected by the Associations in accordance with our contracts with Associations.

Rental revenue (which includes sales of units) for the year ended December 31, 2019 was $0.4 million as compared to $0.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2018. There were 13 rental units in the portfolio as December 31, 2019 compared with 17 rental units as of December 31, 2018.

During the year ended December 31, 2019, operating expenses increased $2.1 million, or 55%, to $5.9 million from $3.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2018. The increase in operating expenses can be attributed to various factors including a $1.65 million goodwill impairment, an increase in general and administrative expenses of $0.2 million as the result of the addition of IIU, higher professional fees of $0.5 million due to fees associated with strategic alternatives and insurance reimbursement of legal fees in 2018 of $0.2 million, offset in part by a $0.2 million reduction in real estate expenses and a $0.2 million recoupment of related party bad debt written off in 2017.

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company assessed the goodwill attached to the purchase of IIU, Inc. in light of the sale of that entity to Craven House Capital North America for approximately $3.6 million. As such, we determined that goodwill was negatively impacted and reduced goodwill by $1.65 million.

Legal fees (excluding fees paid pursuant to our service agreement with BLG), for the year ended December 31, 2019 were approximately $0.8 million compared with approximately $0.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2018 due in part to costs associated with strategic alternatives and other litigation. In the ordinary course of our business, we are involved in numerous legal proceedings. We regularly initiate collection lawsuits, using our network of third-party law firms, against debtors. In addition, debtors occasionally initiate litigation against us. Legal fees for BLG for the year ended December 31, 2019 were $1.1 million compared to $1.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2018. See Note 11. Related Party Transactions for further discussion regarding the service agreements with BLG.

During the year ended December 31, 2019, interest expense declined by $0.4 million to $0.1 million compared to $0.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2018.

Of the $0.5 million interest expense for 2018, $154 thousand was due to the issuance of warrants in conjunction with a $0.5 million loan that was treated as a discount which was amortized as interest expense. The remainder consisted of $30 thousand of cash interest expense and $0.3 million of debt issuance costs amortized during the year. The amortization of debt issuance costs is being reported as interest expense under ASU 2015-03 (ASC 835-30-45-3).

There was no loss on litigation for 2019. During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company settled the Solaris at Brickell Bay Condominium Association, Inc. v. LM Funding class action litigation and adjusted the $505,000 class action accrual that was incurred during the twelve months ended December 31, 2017 to $100,000 with the $405,000 change reflected as other income.

The Company did not record an income tax benefit or expense for the year ended December 31, 2019 or 2018 due to continuing losses.

Under ASC 740-10-30-5, Income Taxes, deferred tax assets should be reduced by a valuation allowance if, based on the weight of available evidence, it is more-likely-than-not (i.e., a likelihood of more than 50%) that some portion or all of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The Company considers all positive and negative evidence available in determining the potential realization of deferred tax assets including, primarily, the recent history of taxable earnings or losses. Based on operating losses reported by the Company during 2019 and 2018, the Company concluded there was not sufficient positive evidence to overcome this recent operating history. As a result, the Company believes that a valuation allowance continues to be necessary based on the more-likely-than-not threshold noted above. The Company recorded a valuation allowance of approximately $3.6 million and $3.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2019 and 2018, respectively

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company generated a net loss of $3.0 million as compared to a net loss of $0.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2018 for the reasons mentioned above.

As of December 31, 2019, we had cash and cash equivalents of $1.1 million compared with $3.5 million at December 31, 2018. The decrease in cash is due primarily to decrease in revenues and profitability along with a $1.5 million purchase of a senior secured convertible note.

Net cash used in operations was $1.2 million during the year ended December 31, 2019 compared with $0.8 million during the year ended December 31, 2018. This change was primarily driven by a $2.5 million reduction in net income which includes the $1.65 million goodwill impairment described above.

Net cash used in investing activities was $1.1 million during the year ended December 31, 2019 as compared to net cash used in investing activities of $1.1 million during the year ended December 31, 2018. For the year ended December 31, 2019, cash generated from our net finance receivables fell by $0.1 million compared to the year ended December 31, 2018. Our primary business relies on our ability to invest in Accounts, and during the year ended December 31, 2019, this balance decreased compared with the year ended December 31, 2018. This balance has been in consistent decline since 2012. This balance is very susceptible to housing market fluctuations.

Net cash used in financing activities was $0.2 million during the year ended December 31, 2019 as compared to net cash provided by financing activities of $4.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2018. During 2018, the Company generated $5.2 million from the issuance of shares offset in part by $0.3 million in debt issuance costs. During 2019, the Company repaid $0.2 million in principal repayments.

The Company is obligated to pay Associations with which it has contracts approximately $12,000 over the next 12 months for those units that are managed by us under our original product, and it is committed to pay approximately $36,000 to Associations with which it has contracts under the New Neighbor Guaranty program over the next 36 months.

	Year ended December 31,
	2019		2018
Financing agreement with FlatIron capital that is unsecured. Down payment of $28,125 was required upfront and equal installment payments of $8,701 to be made over a 10 month period. The note matured on May 31, 2019. Annualized interest is 5.99%	$	-	$	42,875

Financing agreement with FlatIron capital that is unsecured. Down payment of $19,170 was required upfront and equal installment payments of $11,590 to be made over a 11 month period. The note matures on June 1, 2020. Annualized interest is 6.8%		69,540		-

Senior secured convertible note to Craven House Capital North America LLC (Related Party), bearing interest at 3.0%. Note was issued on January 16, 2019 and either matured on either January 14, 2020 or became convertible into 1,436,424 shares of the Company's common stock. The value of the beneficial conversion feature as of January 16, 2019 was zero.*		3,461,782		-

Promissory note issued by a financial institution, bearing interest at 9.09%, interest and principal payments due monthly of $323. Note is secured by an automobile and was issued on July 26, 2019 with original borrowings of $12,892. The note matures on August 26, 2023.		11,802		-

Promissory note issued by a financial institution, bearing interest at 5.85%, interest and principal payments due monthly of $10,932. Note was issued on May 31, 2018 with original borrowings of $608,000 and subsequent borrowings of $141,000 and repayments of $51,000. The note matures on May 30, 2025 and can be prepaid at any time without penalty. This note is secured by the Company’s inventory, chattel paper, accounts, equipment and general intangible intangibles and deposit accounts.		606,454

	$	4,149,578	$	42,875

* The $3.5 million Craven was forgiven in connection with Craven’s repurchase of IIU on January 8, 2020 pursuant to the terms of the Craven SPA.

Minimum required principal payments on the Company’s debt as of December 31, 2019 are as follows :

In connection with the execution of the Share Exchange Agreement with Hanfor, the Company, and Hanfor Owner entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement, dated March 23, 2020, pursuant to which Hanfor Owner purchased from Company an aggregate of 520,833 shares of the Company’s common stock at a price of $2.40 per share, resulting in aggregate gross proceeds to the Company of $1.3 million. The Company did not have any financing transactions in 2019.

The Company has experienced operating losses over the past 4 years (2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019) with cumulative losses of approximately $14.5 million as a result of declining revenues and high expenses due to a number of factors. These losses resulted in the usage of all cash proceeds from the Company’s initial public offering in 2015.

The Company recently settled the $3,461,782 note and $100,787 accrued interest owed to Craven by exchanging the note and accrued interest for ownership of IIU, Inc. and received $1.25 million as part of a merger with Hanfor’s Owner.

However, we may not have enough cash to satisfy our estimated liquidity needs for the 12 months from the issuance of these financial statements. We cannot state with certainty that the Hanfor merger will close and depending upon the circumstances under which the merger would be terminated, we may not have sufficient liquidity to meet the obligations of the company.

The Financial Statements of the Company, the Notes thereto and the Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm thereon required by this Item 8 begin on page F-1 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K located immediately following the signature page.

Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.

Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures pursuant to Rule 13a-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), as of the end of the period covered by this Annual Report. In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. In addition, the design of disclosure controls and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and that management is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the benefits of possible controls and procedures relative to their costs.

Based on management’s evaluation (in accordance with Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(b)), our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2019, due to the weakness in internal control over financial reporting described below, our disclosure controls and procedures are not designed at a reasonable assurance level or effective to provide reasonable assurance that information we are required to disclose in reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the Commission’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. As discussed below, we plan on increasing the size of our accounting staff at the appropriate time for our business and its size to ameliorate our auditor’s concern that the Company does not effectively segregate certain accounting duties, which we believe would resolve the material weakness in internal control over financial reporting and similarly improve disclosure controls and procedures, but there can be no assurances as to the timing of any such action or that the Company will be able to do so.

Our management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting, as defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f). Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, conducted an evaluation of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting based on the criteria set

forth in Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission.

Our management assessed the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2019. Based on that assessment, our management determined that, as of December 31, 2019, the Company’s internal control over financial reporting was not effective for the purposes for which it is intended. Specifically, management’s determination was based on the following material weaknesses which existed as of December 31, 2019.

During 2017 to the present, the number of full time employees at the Company declined from 19 to 9. The Company has not expanded its accounting and finance staff since that time. From 2017 through 2019, the Company did not effectively segregate certain accounting duties due to the small size of its remaining accounting staff. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of control deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim consolidated financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. Notwithstanding the determination that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective, as of December 31, 2019, and that there was a material weakness as identified in this Annual Report, we believe that our consolidated financial statements contained in this Annual Report fairly present our financial position, results of operations and cash flows for the years covered hereby in all material respects.

This Annual Report does not include an attestation report by MaloneBailey LLP, our independent registered public accounting firm, regarding internal control over financial reporting. As a smaller reporting company, our management's report was not subject to attestation by our registered public accounting firm pursuant to rules of the SEC that permit us to provide only management’s report in this Annual Report.

We regularly review our system of internal control over financial reporting and make changes to our processes and systems to improve controls and increase efficiency. Changes may include such activities as implementing new, more efficient systems, consolidating activities, and migrating processes. There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the three months ended December 31, 2019 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. Although we plan to increase the size of our accounting staff at the appropriate time for our business and its size to ameliorate our auditor’s concern that the Company does not effectively segregate certain accounting duties, there can be no assurances as to the timing of any such action or that the Company will be able to do so.

The information required by this Item will be included in and is hereby incorporated by reference from our definitive proxy statement relating to our 2020 annual meeting of stockholders, which we intend to file within 120 days after the end of our fiscal year ended December 31, 2019.

Item 12. Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters.

Item 13. Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence.

1. Financial Statements. See the Index to Consolidated Financial Statements on page F-1.

(b) Exhibits. The exhibits listed on the Exhibit Index, which appears at the end of this report, are filed as part of, or are incorporated by reference into, this report.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of LM Funding America, Inc. and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Company”) as of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, and the related consolidated statements of operations, changes in stockholders’ equity, and cash flows for the years then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the years then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared assuming that the Company will continue as a going concern. As discussed in Note 14 to the financial statements, the Company has suffered recurring losses from operations and has a net capital deficiency that raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern. Management's plans in regard to these matters are also described in Note 14. The financial statements do not include any adjustments that might result from the outcome of this uncertainty.

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) ("PCAOB") and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity's internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

	December 31,			December 31,
	2019			2018
Assets
Cash	$	1,069,823		$	3,520,753
Finance receivables:
Original product (Note 2)		273,711			425,012
Special product - New Neighbor Guaranty program, net of allowance for credit losses of (Note 3)		129,272			237,043
Due from related party (Note 11)		152,783			25,507
Other investments - related party receivable		-			1,507,375
Prepaid expenses and other assets		147,568			155,420
Current assets		1,773,157			5,871,110

Fixed assets, net		35,533			33,818
Real estate assets owned (Note 5)		21,084			122,604
Operating lease - right of use assets (Note 8)		260,260
Other assets		11,021			32,036
Other investments - related party receivable		1,500,000			-
Goodwill (Note 6)		4,039,586			-

Long-term assets		5,867,484			188,458

Total assets	$	7,640,641		$	6,059,568

Liabilities and stockholders' equity
Accounts payable and accrued expenses		354,876			188,354
Related party convertible note payable		3,461,782			-
Notes payable - short-term (Note 7)		170,212			42,875
Tax liability		14,226
Other liabilities and obligations		21,153			19,690
Current liabilities		4,022,249			250,919

Notes payable - long-term (Note 7)		517,584			-
Operating lease liability (Note 8)		265,883			-
Long-term liabilities		783,467			-
Total liabilities		4,805,716			250,919

Stockholders' equity (Note 10)
Common stock, par value $.001; 30,000,000 shares authorized; 3,134,261 and 3,124,961 shares issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively		3,134			3,125
Additional paid-in capital		17,326,553			17,295,408
Accumulated deficit		(14,494,762	)		(11,489,884	)
Total stockholders' equity		2,834,925			5,808,649
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity	$	7,640,641		$	6,059,568

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

	Years ended December 31,
	2019			2018
Revenues
Interest on delinquent association fees	$	1,510,237		$	2,084,287
Administrative and late fees		145,295			230,756
Recoveries in excess of cost - special product		97,361			118,540
Underwriting fees and other revenues		215,068			246,904
Net commission revenue		639,815			-
Rental revenue		417,612			709,050
Total revenues		3,025,388			3,389,537

Operating expenses
Staff costs & payroll		1,409,321			1,374,129
Professional fees		1,872,305			1,331,482
Settlement costs with associations		68,188			40,027
Selling, general and administrative		515,488			323,030
Real estate management and disposal		460,978			627,384
Depreciation and amortization		63,760			68,263
Collection costs		(17,893	)		19,025
Recovery of cost from related party receivable		(190,000	)		-
Provision for credit losses		266			581
Impairment of goodwill		1,650,000			-
Other operating		62,113			17,964
Total operating expenses		5,894,526			3,801,885

Operating loss		(2,869,138	)		(412,348	)

Gain on disposal of assets		(6,421	)		-
Gain on litigation		-			(405,000	)
Interest expense		142,161			464,811
Total other expenses		135,740			59,811

Loss before income taxes		(3,004,878	)		(472,159	)

Income tax (reduction) benefit		-			-

Net loss to common stockholders	$	(3,004,878	)	$	(472,159	)

Loss per share attributable to the stockholders of LM Funding America, Inc.
Basic	$	(0.96	)	$	(0.47	)
Diluted	$	(0.96	)	$	(0.47	)
Weighted average number of common shares outstanding
Basic		3,133,689			996,710
Diluted		3,133,689			996,710

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

	Common Stock
	Shares			Amount		Additional paid-in capital			Accumulated Deficit			Total Equity
Balance - December 31, 2017		625,318		$	625	$	11,914,083		$	(11,017,725	)	$	896,983
Stock issuance for cash		2,500,000			2,500		5,203,773						5,206,273
Stock option expense		-			-		24,770			-			24,770
Warrants issued with debt							154,676						154,676
Purchase of fractional common shares		(357	)		-		(1,894	)					(1,894	)
Net loss		-			-		-			(472,159	)		(472,159	)
Balance - December 31, 2018		3,124,961			3,125		17,295,408			(11,489,884	)		5,808,649
Stock option expense		-			-		8,834			-			8,834
Stock issued for warrants exercised		9,300			9		22,311						22,320
Net loss		-			-		-			(3,004,878	)		(3,004,878	)
Balance - December 31, 2019		3,134,261		$	3,134	$	17,326,553		$	(14,494,762	)	$	2,834,925

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

	Years ended December 31,
	2019			2018
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
Net loss		(3,004,878	)		(472,159	)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to cash used in operating activities
Depreciation and amortization	$	63,760		$	68,263
Warrants issued with debt amortization		—			154,676
Right to use asset expense		51,809			—
Stock compensation		8,834			24,770
Goodwill impairment		1,650,000			—
Recovery of reserve from related party receivable		(190,000	)		—
Amortization of debt issuance costs		—			291,760
Gain on litigation		—			(405,000	)
Gain on termination of operating lease		(1,421	)		—
Gain on sale of fixed assets		(5,000	)		—
Interest income		—			(7,375	)
Change in operating assets and liabilities:
Prepaid expenses and other assets		176,093			31,517
Advances (repayments) to related party		62,724			(25,507	)
Accounts payable and accrued expenses		85,045			(389,599	)
Other liabilities and obligations		1,463			(29,663	)
Lease liability payments		(44,765	)		—
Deferred taxes		(14,200	)		—
Net cash used in operating activities		(1,160,536	)		(758,317	)
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
Net collections of finance receivables - original product		151,301			212,925
Net collections of finance receivables - special product		107,771			102,428
Net cash received from business acquisition		51,327
Cash paid to purchase fixed assets		(14,049	)		—
Investment in note receivable - related party		(1,500,000	)		(1,500,000	)
Cash received from sales of fixed assets		5,000
Proceeds for real estate assets owned		80,076			41,527
Net cash used in investing activities		(1,118,574	)		(1,143,120	)
CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:
Proceeds from issuance of common stock, net of issuance cost		—			5,206,273
Proceeds from borrowings		—			500,000
Principal repayments		(194,140	)		(580,823	)
Proceeds from exercise of warrants		22,320			—
Purchase of fractional common shares		—			(1,894	)
Debt issue costs		—			(291,760	)
Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities		(171,820	)		4,831,796
NET (DECREASE) INCREASE IN CASH		(2,450,930	)		2,930,359
CASH - BEGINNING OF YEAR		3,520,753			590,394
CASH - END OF YEAR	$	1,069,823		$	3,520,753

SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASHFLOW INFORMATION
Cash paid for interest	$	41,374		$	29,401
Cash paid for income taxes		-			-
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF NON-CASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Debt discount on issuance of warrants		-			154,676
Insurance financing		127,490			84,670
Financing loan for purchase of fixed asset		12,892			-
ROU asset obligation recognized		331,477			-

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial statements.

LM Funding America, Inc. (“LMFA” or the “Company”) was formed as a Delaware corporation on April 20, 2015. LMFA was formed for the purpose of completing a public offering and related transactions in order to carry on the business of LM Funding, LLC and its subsidiaries (the “Predecessor”). LMFA is the sole member of LM Funding, LLC and operates and controls all of its businesses and affairs.

LM Funding, LLC a Florida limited liability company organized in January 2008 under the terms of an Operating Agreement dated effective January 8, 2008 as amended, had two members: BRR Holding, LLC and CGR 63, LLC. The members contributed their equity interest to LMFA prior to the closing of its initial public offering.

The Company acquired IIU, Inc. (“IIU”), a Virginia based travel insurance brokerage company which provides global medical insurance products for international travelers, specializing in policies covering high-risk destinations, emerging markets and foreign travelers coming to the United States, on January 16, 2019.

On January 8, 2020, the Company entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Craven SPA”) with Craven House Capital North America LLC(“Craven”) pursuant to which the Company sold to Craven all of the issued and outstanding shares of IIU for $3,562,569. The purchase price was paid by Craven through the cancellation of the $3,461,782 Convertible Promissory Note issued by LMFA to Craven on January 16, 2019 in connection with the purchase of IIU (the “Craven Convertible Note”), plus forgiveness of $100,787 of accrued interest under the Craven Convertible Note. LMFA originally paid Craven $4,969,200 for the purchase of IIU in January 2019, which included a negative $720,386 net fair value of assets and $5,689,586 of goodwill. As a result goodwill was impaired by $1.65 million.

The Company has a specialty finance company that provides funding principally to Associations that are almost exclusively located in Florida. The business of the Company is conducted pursuant to relevant state statutes (the “Statutes”), principally Florida Statute 718.116. The Statutes provide each Association lien rights to secure payment from unit owners (property owners) for assessments, interest, administrative late fees, reasonable attorneys’ fees, and collection costs. In addition, the lien rights granted under the Statutes are given a higher priority (a “Super Lien”) than all other lien holders except property tax liens. The Company provides funding to Associations for their delinquent assessments from property owners in exchange for an assignment of the Association’s right to collect proceeds pursuant to the Statutes. The Company derives its revenues from the proceeds of Association collections.

The Statutes specify that the rate of interest an Association (or its assignor) may charge on delinquent assessments is equal to the rate set forth in the Association’s declaration or bylaws. In Florida if a rate is not specified, the statutory rate is equal to 18% but may not exceed the maximum rate allowed by law. Similarly, the Statutes in Florida also stipulate that administrative late fees cannot be charged on delinquent assessments unless so provided by the Association’s declaration or bylaws and may not exceed the greater of $25 or 5% of each delinquent assessment.

The Statutes limit the liability of a first mortgage holder for unpaid assessments and related charges and fees (as set forth above) in the event of title transfer by foreclosure or acceptance of deed in lieu of foreclosure. This liability is limited to the lesser of twelve months of regular periodic assessments or one percent of the original mortgage debt on the unit (the “Super Lien Amount”).

Our subsidiary IIU through its wholly owned company Wallach and Company (“Wallach”) offers health insurance, travel insurance and other travel services to:

These services are typically sold through a policy offered by Wallach and fully underwritten by a third party insurance company. The policies offered include:

Delaware	47-3844457
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
1200 Platt Street Suite 1000 Tampa, FL	33602
(Address of principal executive offices)	(Zip Code)


Title of each class:	Trading symbol	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock par value $0.001 per share	LMFA	The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
Warrants to Purchase Common Stock	LMFAW	The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (The Nasdaq Capital Market)

Large accelerated filer	☐	Accelerated filer	☐
Non-accelerated filer	☒	Smaller reporting company	☒
		Emerging growth company	☒

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PART I
Item 1.	Business	1
Item 1A.	Risk Factors	6
Item 1B.	Unresolved Staff Comments	16
Item 2.	Properties	16
Item 3.	Legal Proceedings	16
Item 4.	Mine Safety Disclosures	16

PART II
Item 5.	Market for Registrant’s Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities	17
Item 6.	Selected Financial Data	17
Item 7.	Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations	17
Item 7A.	Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk	24
Item 8.	Financial Statements and Supplementary Data	24
Item 9.	Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure	24
Item 9A.	Controls and Procedures	24
Item 9B.	Other Information	25

PART III
Item 10.	Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance	25
Item 11.	Executive Compensation	25
Item 12.	Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters	26
Item 13.	Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence	26
Item 14.	Principal Accounting Fees and Services	26

PART IV
Item 15.	Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules	26
Item 16.	Form 10-K Summary	26


Years Ending December 31
2020	$3,631,994
2021	107,013
2022	113,648
2023	119,090
2024	177,833
	$4,149,578

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm	F-2

Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2019 and 2018	F-3

Consolidated Statements of Operations for the Years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018	F-4

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ Equity for the Years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018	F-5

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years ended December 31, 2019 and 2018	F-6

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements	F-7