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Fair Value Measurements - Assets Measured on a Nonrecurring Basis (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions | 3 Months Ended | 12 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2016 | Sep. 30, 2015
Financial Services [Member] |  |
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items] |  |
Mortgage loans held for sale | $ 654.0 | $ 631.0
Real estate owned | 0.8 | 0.6
Nonrecurring [Member] | Level 2 [Member] | Financial Services [Member] |  |
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items] |  |
Mortgage loans held for sale | 1.6 |
Other mortgage loans | 0.0 |
Real estate owned | 0.0 |
Nonrecurring [Member] | Level 3 [Member] | Financial Services [Member] |  |
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items] |  |
Mortgage loans held for sale | 2.4 | 0.0
Other mortgage loans | 3.8 | 15.2
Real estate owned | 0.1 | 0.5
Inventories [Member] | Nonrecurring [Member] | Level 2 [Member] | Homebuilding [Member] |  |
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items] |  |
Inventory held and used | 0.0 |
Inventories [Member] | Nonrecurring [Member] | Level 3 [Member] | Homebuilding [Member] |  |
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items] |  |
Inventory held and used | 5.2 | 10.1
Fair Value Adjusted - Available for Sale [Member] [Member] | Nonrecurring [Member] | Level 2 [Member] | Homebuilding [Member] |  |
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items] |  |
Inventory held and used | 0.0 |
Fair Value Adjusted - Available for Sale [Member] [Member] | Nonrecurring [Member] | Level 3 [Member] | Homebuilding [Member] |  |
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items] |  |
Inventory held and used | $ 0.8 | $ 2.8
Minimum [Member] | Inventories [Member] | Homebuilding [Member] |  |
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items] |  |
Fair Value Inputs, Discount Rate | 10.00% | 10.00%
Maximum [Member] | Inventories [Member] | Homebuilding [Member] |  |
Fair Value, Assets and Liabilities Measured on Recurring and Nonrecurring Basis [Line Items] |  |
Fair Value Inputs, Discount Rate | 14.00% | 14.00%

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- Definition Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 820 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (bbb) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66048111&loc=d3e19207-110258 + Details
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- Definition Fair value portion of loan receivable, including, but not limited to, mortgage loans held for investment, finance receivables held for investment, policy loans on insurance contracts. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 310 -SubTopic 10 -Glossary Loan -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6517073 + Details
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