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Financing Activities - Distributions (Details) - $ / shares | 1 Months Ended | 3 Months Ended
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Feb. 28, 2017 | Mar. 31, 2017 | Mar. 31, 2016
Distributions (Numeric) [Abstract] |  |  |
Dividend payable date of quarterly common stock dividend | Apr. 03, 2017 |  |
Current quarterly common stock dividend (in dollars per share) | $ 0.395 | $ 0.3950 | $ 0.38
Annualized current quarterly common stock dividend (in dollars per share) | $ 1.58 |  |

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