Description of income tax.

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Investment in trusts.

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Real estate loan percentage of aggregate loan.

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Amount of short-term, highly liquid investments that are both readily convertible to known amounts of cash and so near their maturity that they present insignificant risk of changes in value because of changes in interest rates. Excludes cash and cash equivalents within disposal group and discontinued operation.

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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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Amount of the difference between reported income tax expense (benefit) and expected income tax expense (benefit) computed by applying the domestic federal statutory income tax rates to pretax income (loss) from continuing operations attributable to other adjustments.

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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Activities (Details) - USD ($)	1 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Dec. 22, 2017	Dec. 31, 2019	Dec. 31, 2018	Dec. 31, 2017
Effect of Fourth Quarter Events [Line Items]
Real estate loan percentage of total loan		82.80%
Investment in trusts		$ 403,000
Description of tax	The Tax Act was signed into law and includes numerous provisions that impact the Company, most notably a reduction in the corporate tax rate from the maximum rate of 35% to a flat rate of 21%.
Incremental income tax expense		(98,000)	$ (124,000)	$ (330,000)
Cash and cash equivalents		$ 6,000,000	$ 4,900,000
Fourth Quarter [Member]
Effect of Fourth Quarter Events [Line Items]
Incremental income tax expense	$ 2,400,000