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Minimum Rents (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2012
Operating Leases, Future Minimum Payments Receivable [Abstract] |
Schedule of Future Minimum Rents Scheduled to be Received Under Noncancellable Tenant Leases | Future minimum rents are scheduled to be received under non-cancellable tenant leases at December 31, 2012, as follows:
2013 | $ | 606,929 |
2014 | 531,262 |
2015 | 469,128 |
2016 | 398,254 |
2017 | 325,306 |
Thereafter | 1,071,570 |
| $ | 3,402,449 |

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