Commonwealth Income & Growth Fund VII, LP (the “Partnership”)
is a Pennsylvania limited partnership that was formed on November 14, 2008.
Its General Partner is Commonwealth Income & Growth Fund, Inc., and is responsible
for managing the affairs of the Partnership on a day-to-day basis pursuant to
the partnership agreement. The General Partner is also responsible for identifying
and making investments on behalf of the Partnership. The offering of limited
partnership interests, registered pursuant to a registration statement on Form
S-1, was declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission on November
13, 2009 (the “Effective Date”). As of the Effective Date, the Partnership
received an initial capital contribution of $1,000 from its General Partner.
The offering was described in detail in the prospectus constituting a part of
such registration statement. The offering was a best-efforts, minimum/maximum
offering, with a minimum requirement of $1,150,000 and a maximum offering of
$50,000,000. All proceeds were held in escrow pending the receipt of the minimum
amount. The Partnership reached the minimum amount in escrow and commenced operations
on March 31, 2010. The Partnership utilized the offering proceeds to purchase
and lease information technology, telecommunications, medical technology and
other similar types of equipment. The offering terminated on November 22, 2011
with 1,572,900 units sold for a total of approximately $31,432,000 in limited
partner contributions.
The Partnership was formed for the purpose of acquiring various types of equipment,
including computer information technology and other similar capital equipment.
The Partnership utilized the net proceeds of the offering to purchase information
technology and other similar capital equipment. The Partnership has utilized
retained proceeds and debt financing (not in excess of 30% of the aggregate
cost of the equipment owned or subject to conditional sales contract by the
Partnership at the time the debt is incurred) to purchase additional equipment.
The Partnership acquires and leases equipment principally to U.S. corporations
and other institutions pursuant to operating leases. The Partnership retains
the flexibility to enter into full payout net leases and conditional sales contracts,
but has not done so.The Partnership’s principal investment objectives
are to:
acquire, lease and sell equipment to generate revenues from operations sufficient
to provide annual cash distributions to Limited Partners;
preserve and protect Limited Partners’ capital;
use a portion of cash flow and net disposition proceeds derived from the sale,
refinancing or other disposition of equipment to purchase additional equipment;
and
refinance, sell or otherwise dispose of equipment in a manner that will maximize
the proceeds to the Partnership.
The Partnership invests in various types of equipment subject to leases. Our
investment objective is to acquire primarily high technology equipment including,
but not limited to: servers, desktops, laptops, workstations, printers, copiers,
and storage devices. Our General Partner believes that dealing in high technology
equipment is particularly advantageous due to a robust aftermarket. Information
technology has developed rapidly in recent years and is expected to continue
to do so. Technological advances have permitted reductions in the cost of computer
processing capacity, speed, and utility. In the future, the rate and nature
of equipment development may cause equipment to become obsolete more rapidly.
We also may acquire high technology medical, telecommunications and inventory
management equipment. Our General Partner will seek to maintain an appropriate
balance and diversity in the types of equipment acquired. The medical equipment
we acquire may consist of IV pumps, long acute care beds, CT scanners, MRIs,
flow cytometers, and other medical technology devices. The telecom equipment
we acquire may include Cisco switches, routers, blade switches, wireless access
points, and video conferencing systems. The inventory management equipment we
acquire may consist of inventory control systems, lift trucks and tractors.
The market for high technology medical equipment is growing each year. Generally
this type of equipment will have a longer useful life than information technology
equipment. This allows for increased re-marketability, if it is returned before
its economic or announcement cycle is depleted.
Other Equipment Restrictions. The Partnership generally acquires information
technology, telecommunications and medical technology equipment. The General
Partner is also authorized to cause the Partnership to invest in other types
of business-essential capital equipment. The Partnership may not invest in any
of such other types of equipment (i) to the extent that the purchase price of
such equipment, together with the aggregate purchase price of all such other
types of equipment then owned by the Partnership, is in excess of 25% of the
total cost of all of the assets of the Partnership at the time of the Partnership’s
commitment to invest therein and (ii) unless the General Partner determines
that such a purchase is in the best economic interest of the Partnership at
the time of the purchase. There can be no assurance that any equipment investments
can be found which meet this standard. Accordingly, there can be no assurance
that investments of this type will be made by the Partnership.