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Investment in OC-BVI (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Summarized Financial Information of Unconsolidated Equity Method Investment [Table Text Block] | Summarized financial information for OC-BVI is as follows:
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
Current assets |  | $ | 2,835,614 |  | $ | 5,627,414 |
Non-current assets |  |  | 3,945,071 |  |  | 3,963,242 |
Total assets |  | $ | 6,780,685 |  | $ | 9,590,656 |
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
Current liabilities |  | $ | 218,753 |  | $ | 197,673 |
Non-current liabilities |  |  | 1,158,300 |  |  | 1,854,900 |
Total liabilities |  | $ | 1,377,053 |  | $ | 2,052,573 |
|  | Year Ended December 31, |
|  | 2017 |  | 2016 |
Revenues |  | $ | 2,874,936 |  | $ | 3,832,929 |
Cost of revenues |  |  | 1,759,285 |  |  | 2,107,557 |
Gross profit |  |  | 1,115,651 |  |  | 1,725,372 |
General and administrative expenses |  |  | 1,163,547 |  |  | 930,838 |
Long-lived asset impairment and disposition losses |  |  | 188,164 |  |  | - |
Income (loss) from operations |  |  | (236,060) |  |  | 794,534 |
Other income (expense), net |  |  | 587,859 |  |  | 51,475 |
Net income |  |  | 351,799 |  |  | 846,009 |
Income (loss) attributable to non-controlling interests |  |  | 58,202 |  |  | 69,975 |
Net income attributable to controlling interests |  | $ | 293,597 |  | $ | 776,034 |
Equity Method Investments [Table Text Block] | A reconciliation of the beginning and ending balances for the investment in OC-BVI for the year ended December 31, 2017:
Balance as of December 31, 2016 |  | $ | 4,086,630 |
Profit sharing and equity from earnings of OC-BVI |  |  | 174,377 |
Distributions received from OC-BVI |  |  | (1,477,125) |
Balance as of December 31, 2017 |  | $ | 2,783,882 |

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