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Loans Payable, Senior Notes and Mortgage Company Loan Facility Loans Payable (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Jul. 31, 2014
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Debt [Text Block] | At July 31, 2014 and October 31, 2013, loans payable consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):
|  | July 31, 2014 |  | October 31, 2013
Senior unsecured term loan |  | $ | 485,000 |  |  |
Loans payable - other |  | 151,126 |  |  | $ | 107,222 |
|  | $ | 636,126 |  |  | $ | 107,222 |

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