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Mortgages and Notes Receivable (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2011
Mortgages and Notes Receivable [Abstract] |
Mortgages and Notes Receivable | The following table sets forth our mortgages and notes receivable:
|  | September 30, 2011 |  | December 31, 2010 |
Seller financing (first mortgages) |  | $ | 17,180 |  | $ | 17,180 |
Less allowance |  |  | - |  |  | - |
|  |  | 17,180 |  |  | 17,180 |
Promissory notes |  |  | 2,071 |  |  | 2,732 |
Less allowance |  |  | (545 | ) |  | (868 | )
|  |  | 1,526 |  |  | 1,864 |
Mortgages and notes receivable, net |  | $ | 18,706 |  | $ | 19,044 |
Schedule of notes receivable allowance | The following table sets forth our notes receivable allowance, which relates only to promissory notes:
|  | Three Months Ended September 30, |  | Nine Months Ended September 30, |
|  | 2011 |  | 2010 |  | 2011 |  | 2010 |
Beginning notes receivable allowance |  | $ | 617 |  | $ | 771 |  | $ | 868 |  | $ | 698 |
Bad debt expense |  |  | - |  |  | 240 |  |  | 184 |  |  | 328 |
Write-offs |  |  | (1 | ) |  | (6 | ) |  | (365 | ) |  | (11 | )
Recoveries/other |  |  | (71 | ) |  | (55 | ) |  | (142 | ) |  | (65 | )
Total notes receivable allowance |  | $ | 545 |  | $ | 950 |  | $ | 545 |  | $ | 950 |

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- Definition Tabular disclosure for financing receivables. Examples of financing receivables include, but are not limited to, loans, trade accounts receivables, notes receivable, credit cards, and receivables relating to a lessor's right(s) to payment(s) from a lease other than an operating lease that is recognized as assets. + Details
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- Definition Tabular disclosure of financing receivables (examples of financing receivables include loans, trade accounts receivable and notes receivable) and activity in the allowance for credit losses account. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 310 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 11B -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6965416&loc=SL6953423-111524 + Details
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