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Description of Business and Significant Accounting Policies Description of Business and Significant Accounting Policies (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2015
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract] |
Schedule Of Retrospective Application Of The Equity Method Of Accounting [Table Text Block] | The effects of the retrospective application of the equity method of accounting to the Company's December 31, 2014 Balance Sheet were as follows:
| December 31, 2014
| Previously Reported |  | As Revised
Net real estate assets | $ | 3,481,406 |  |  | $ | 3,452,006 |
Investments in and advances to unconsolidated affiliates | $ | 27,071 |  |  | $ | 50,685 |
Total Assets | $ | 4,004,909 |  |  | $ | 3,999,123 |
Financing obligations | $ | 23,519 |  |  | $ | 8,962 |
Distributions in excess of net income available for common stockholders | $ | (966,141 | ) |  | $ | (957,370 | )
Total Liabilities, Noncontrolling Interests in the Operating Partnership and Equity | $ | 4,004,909 |  |  | $ | 3,999,123 |

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