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Deferred Costs (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2012
Deferred Costs, Capitalized, Prepaid, and Other Assets Disclosure [Abstract] |
Deferred Costs |
| March 31, 2012
| Total Cost |  | Accumulated Amortization |  | Deferred Costs, net
Leasing Costs | $ | 136,932 |  |  | $ | (51,196 | ) |  | $ | 85,736 |
Financing Costs | 42,019 |  |  | (9,070 | ) |  | 32,949 |
Total | $ | 178,951 |  |  | $ | (60,266 | ) |  | $ | 118,685 |
| December 31, 2011
| Total Cost |  | Accumulated Amortization |  | Deferred Costs, net
Leasing Costs | $ | 140,772 |  |  | $ | (50,990 | ) |  | $ | 89,782 |
Financing Costs | 38,929 |  |  | (13,349 | ) |  | 25,580 |
Total | $ | 179,701 |  |  | $ | (64,339 | ) |  | $ | 115,362 |

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