Investment in Unconsolidated Joint Ventures - Investment (Details) $ in Thousands	3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($) property	Mar. 31, 2015 USD ($)
Investment in Unconsolidated Joint Ventures
Income from unconsolidated joint ventures	$ 272	$ 116
Distribution from unconsolidated joint ventures	268
Joint Venture
Investment in Unconsolidated Joint Ventures
Common members capital account balance	$ 0
Joint Venture \| Primary beneficiary
Investment in Unconsolidated Joint Ventures
Number of properties owned by joint venture \| property	4
Initial preferred capital contribution in joint venture provided at closing.	$ 20,143
Additional preferred capital contributions in joint venture commited	5,507
Total preferred capital contributions in joint venture	$ 25,650
Preferred return percentage	15.00%
Income from unconsolidated joint ventures	$ 272
Distribution from unconsolidated joint ventures	$ 268

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Represents the preferred capital contribution in the joint venture provided at closing.

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Amount of joint venture capital account attributable to common members.

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Represents the preferred return percentage on the invesment in the joint venture.

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Represents the number of properties owned by the joint venture.

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Represents the total preferred capital contributions in the joint venture.

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This item represents disclosure of the amount of dividends or other distributions received from unconsolidated subsidiaries, certain corporate joint ventures, and certain noncontrolled corporation; these investments are accounted for under the equity method of accounting. This element excludes distributions that constitute a return of investment, which are classified as investing activities.

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This item represents the entity's proportionate share for the period of the net income (loss) of its investee (such as unconsolidated subsidiaries and joint ventures) to which the equity method of accounting is applied. This item includes income or expense related to stock-based compensation based on the investor's grant of stock to employees of an equity method investee.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 28
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-Section 45
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Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher SEC
-Name Regulation S-X (SX)
-Number 210
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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