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Rental and Other Revenues; Rental Property and Other Expenses | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2013
Rental and Other Revenues; Rental Property And Other Expenses [Abstract] |
Rental and Other Revenues; Rental Property and Other Expenses | Rental and Other Revenues; Rental Property and Other Expenses Our real estate assets are leased to customers under operating leases. The minimum rental amounts under the leases are generally subject to scheduled fixed increases. Generally, the leases also provide that we receive cost recovery income from customers for increases in certain costs above the costs incurred during a contractually specified base year. The following table sets forth our rental and other revenues from continuing operations:
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2011
Contractual rents, net | $ | 474,163 |  |  | $ | 413,650 |  |  | $ | 374,674 |
Straight-line rental income, net | 17,226 |  |  | 16,104 |  |  | 11,536 |
Amortization of lease incentives | (1,409 | ) |  | (1,389 | ) |  | (1,302 | )
Cost recovery income, net | 43,586 |  |  | 38,547 |  |  | 32,602 |
Lease termination fees | 2,030 |  |  | 1,848 |  |  | 1,802 |
Fee income | 5,557 |  |  | 4,965 |  |  | 5,571 |
Other miscellaneous operating revenues | 15,657 |  |  | 11,321 |  |  | 7,073 |
| $ | 556,810 |  |  | $ | 485,046 |  |  | $ | 431,956 |
The following table sets forth our scheduled future minimum base rents to be received from customers for leases in effect at December 31, 2013 for the properties that we wholly own:
2014 | $ | 512,083 |
2015 | 486,862 |
2016 | 438,741 |
2017 | 375,264 |
2018 | 311,015 |
Thereafter | 1,111,421 |
| $ | 3,235,386 |
The following table sets forth our rental property and other expenses from continuing operations:
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2013 |  | 2012 |  | 2011
Utilities, insurance and real estate taxes | $ | 108,095 |  |  | $ | 94,710 |  |  | $ | 86,007 |
Maintenance, cleaning and general building | 75,969 |  |  | 65,430 |  |  | 55,260 |
Property management and administrative expenses | 12,429 |  |  | 11,718 |  |  | 10,492 |
Other miscellaneous operating expenses | 6,851 |  |  | 4,886 |  |  | 5,547 |
| $ | 203,344 |  |  | $ | 176,744 |  |  | $ | 157,306 |

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- Definition Represents (1) the aggregate revenue from real estate operations during the reporting period and (2) generally recurring costs associated with normal operations except for the portion of these expenses which can be clearly related to production and included in cost of sales or services. Excludes Selling, General and Administrative Expense. + References No definition available. + Details
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