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Loans Receivable, net (Details 6) (USD $)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2013 loans	Mar. 31, 2012 loans
Troubled debt restructurings
Unfunded commitments	$ 21,500,000
Senior mortgages
Troubled debt restructurings
Number of Loans	1	5
Pre-Modification Outstanding Recorded Investment	72,674,000	305,780,000
Post-Modification Outstanding Recorded Investment	65,000,000	260,307,000
Non-performing senior mortgages
Troubled debt restructurings
Recorded investment of loans whose maturity was extended	72,700,000
Pre-modification recorded investment		247,700,000
Financing receivable modification charge offs		45,500,000
Non-performing first mortgage with recorded chargeoffs and rate reductions
Troubled debt restructurings
Financing receivable modifications recorded investment of contracts whose maturity extended and reduced principal		181,500,000
Repayment of debt
Troubled debt restructurings
Recorded investment of loans whose maturity was extended	13,300,000
Performing senior mortgages
Troubled debt restructurings
Pre-modification recorded investment		$ 58,100,000

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 310

-SubTopic 10

-Section 50

-Paragraph 33

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=7512638&loc=SL6953676-111524

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