MODIFICATION OF PROMISSORY NOTE AND LOAN AGREEMENT THIS MODIFICATION OF PROMISSORY NOTE AND LOAN AGREEMENT is made and entered into on November 28, 2007 by and between SUMMIT HOTEL PROPERTIES, LLC, a South Dakota limited liability company...

Exhibit 10.18

MODIFICATION OF PROMISSORY NOTE AND LOAN AGREEMENT

THIS MODIFICATION OF PROMISSORY NOTE AND LOAN AGREEMENT is made and entered into on November
28, 2007 by and between SUMMIT HOTEL PROPERTIES, LLC, a South Dakota limited liability company
(“Borrower”), and ING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY COMPANY, a Connecticut corporation (“Lender”).

WITNESSETH:

          WHEREAS, Lender made a loan (the “Loan”) to Borrower evidenced by that certain Promissory Note dated June 15, 2006 made by Borrower to the order of Lender in the original principal amount of $36,600,800.00 (the “Note”); and

          WHEREAS, to further evidence the Loan Borrower and Lender entered into that certain Loan Agreement dated June 15, 2006, as modified by First Modification of Loan Agreement dated April 24, 2007 (collectively, the “Loan Agreement”);

          WHEREAS, Borrower and Lender desire to amend the Note and the Loan Agreement as hereinafter set forth;

          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing premises and the mutual covenants herein contained and TEN AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($10.00), and other good and valuable consideration, the receipt, adequacy and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, Borrower and Lender, intending to be legally bound, agree that the Note and the Loan Agreement are modified as follows:

     1. The Note is hereby modified as follows. Notwithstanding anything in the Note to the contrary, from and after the date hereof the Note shall be repaid by Borrower to Lender as follows:

          (a) On December 1, 2007, a payment of $262,912.81 shall be due and payable, which shall be applied first to accrued and unpaid interest and the remainder to the outstanding principal amount of the Note; and

          (b) Thereafter, payments of principal and interest shall be made in successive monthly installments commencing on January 1, 2008, and continuing on the first day of each and every calendar month thereafter up to and including July 1, 2012, all but the final installment thereof to be in the amount of Two Hundred Forty-Three Thousand Three Hundred Twenty-Eight and 52/100 Dollars ($243,328.52), and the final installment payable on July 1, 2012, to be in the full amount of outstanding principal of this Note, interest and all other sums remaining unpaid hereunder and under the Mortgage (as in the Note).

     2. The Loan Agreement is hereby modified to delete the chart appearing in Section 3.07(i) in its entirety and insert in its place the following:

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				PRINCIPAL				ALLOCATION				RELEASE
		PROPERTY		ALLOCATION				PERCENTAGE				FACTOR
(1)		Comfort Inn		$	3,170,287.75				9.7544673746941500	%			110	%
		0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
(2)		Hampton Inn		$	5,390,417.41				16.5854505946194000	%			120	%
		0000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx. Xxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx
(3)		Courtyard by Marriott		$	5,464,102.75				16.8121685721773000	%			125	%
		0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xx. Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
(4)		Comfort Inn		$	2,244,914.73				6.9072429032856400	%			110	%
		0000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Xx. Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
(5)		Hawthorn Suites		$	5,366,493.60				16.5118408616461000	%			120	%
		000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxx. Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
(6)		Hampton Inn		$	5,610,516.47				17.2626601379741000	%			125	%
		0000 Xxxx Xxxxxxxx Xx. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
(7)		Comfort Suites		$	2,770,281.62				8.5237126393800300	%			120	%
		00000 Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xx. Xxxxx, Xxxx
(8)		Fairfield Inn		$	2,483,865.76				7.6424569162232900	%			125	%
		0000 Xxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx
TOTAL PRINCIPAL OUTSTANDING				$	32,500,880.10				100.000	%

3. Except as expressly modified hereby, the Note and Loan Agreement shall remain in full force and effect, Borrower and Lender hereby ratifying and affirming the same.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Modification to be executed as of the day and year first above-written.

	BORROWER: SUMMIT HOTEL PROPERTIES, LLC, a South Dakota limited liability company
	By:	/s/ Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
		Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx,
		Chief Financial Officer

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	LENDER:
	ING LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITY COMPANY, a Georgia corporation
	By:	ING Investment Management LLC, as Authorized Agent

	By:	/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxx
		Name:	Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxxxx
		Title:	Vice President

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