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SENIOR AND CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES, NET

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SENIOR AND CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES, NET
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2017
Debt Disclosure [Abstract]  
SENIOR AND CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES, NET
SENIOR AND CONVERTIBLE SENIOR NOTES, NET
Senior and convertible senior notes, net consist of the following (in thousands):
 
 
As of
 
 
June 30, 2017
 
December 31, 2016
4.50% senior notes due 2018
 
$
175,000

 
$
175,000

7.15% senior notes due 2020. At June 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016 there was approximately $1,564 and $1,849 in net unamortized premium, respectively
 
301,564

 
301,849

7.00% senior notes due 2022
 
300,000

 
300,000

6.00% senior notes due 2025
 
200,000

 
200,000

5.125% senior notes due 2027
 
300,000

 

1.875% convertible senior notes due 2032
 
74,593

 
126,500

Net debt issuance costs
 
(10,883
)
 
(8,230
)
Total
 
$
1,340,274

 
$
1,095,119


On June 6, 2017, we completed an offering of $300.0 million aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes due 2027 (the "2027 Notes"). The 2027 Notes bear interest at 5.125% per annum, payable on June 6 and December 6 of each year, commencing on December 6, 2017.
The indentures for all of our senior notes contain covenants including, among others, limitations on the amount of secured debt we may incur, and limitations on sale and leaseback transactions and mergers. We believe we are in compliance with all such covenants as of June 30, 2017. Our convertible senior notes ("Convertible Notes") do not have any financial covenants.
The Convertible Notes are convertible into shares of our common stock at an initial conversion rate of 17.1985 shares of our common stock per $1,000 principal amount of convertible senior notes. This corresponds to an initial conversion price of $58.14 per share and represented a 47.5% conversion premium based on the closing price of our common stock on the issue date of the convertible senior notes. In June 2017, we repurchased in privately negotiated transactions $51.9 million of the Convertible Notes aggregate principal amount, incurring a loss on extinguishment of debt of $0.3 million included in Other income, net, in the accompanying consolidated income statements for the three and six months ended June 30, 2017. The Convertible Notes may be redeemed by the note-holders on the fifth, tenth and fifteenth anniversary dates of the Convertible Notes. On such dates, the note-holders may require us to repurchase all or any portion of their outstanding notes. The fifth anniversary of the Convertible Notes is September 15, 2017. On or after September 20, 2017, we may redeem for cash all or part of the Convertible Notes at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the notes being redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest to, but excluding, the redemption date. The Company intends to issue a notice of redemption to the holders of its Convertible Notes to redeem all outstanding Convertible Notes ($74.6 million as of June 30, 2017) on September 20, 2017.
Obligations to pay principal and interest on the senior and convertible notes are guaranteed by substantially all of our wholly-owned subsidiaries (each a “Guarantor” and, collectively, the “Guarantor Subsidiaries”), each of which is directly or indirectly 100% owned by Meritage Homes Corporation. Such guarantees are full and unconditional, and joint and several. In the event of a sale or other disposition of all of the assets of any Guarantor, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, or a sale or other disposition of all of the equity interests of any Guarantor then held by Meritage and its subsidiaries, then that Guarantor may be released and relieved of any obligations under its note guarantee. There are no significant restrictions on our ability or the ability of any Guarantor to obtain funds from their respective subsidiaries, as applicable, by dividend or loan. We do not provide separate financial statements of the Guarantor Subsidiaries because Meritage (the parent company) has no independent assets or operations and the guarantees are full and unconditional and joint and several. Subsidiaries of Meritage Homes Corporation that are nonguarantor subsidiaries are, individually and in the aggregate, minor.