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General (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2014 segment
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Number of operating segments	1
Provision for federal or state income taxes	$ 0

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Represents the amount of provision established for federal or state income taxes as of the balance sheet date. As a REIT under Sections 856 through 860 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1982, as amended, the company is generally not taxed on income that is distributed to the stockholders.

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Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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