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Loans Payable, Senior Notes and Mortgage Company Loan Facility Loans Payable (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Apr. 30, 2015
Debt Disclosure [Abstract] |
Schedule of Debt [Text Block] | At April 30, 2015 and October 31, 2014, loans payable consisted of the following (amounts in thousands):
|  | April 30, 2015 |  | October 31, 2014
Senior unsecured term loan |  | $ | 500,000 |  |  | $ | 500,000 |
Loans payable - other |  | 174,817 |  |  | 154,261 |
|  | $ | 674,817 |  |  | $ | 654,261 |

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