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Income (Loss) Per Share and Per Unit - Computation of Basic and Diluted Net Income Per Unit (Detail) - USD ($)	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2018	Mar. 31, 2017
Schedule Of Computation Of Basic And Diluted Earnings Per Common Share [Line Items]
Weighted average number of units outstanding	13,472,444	14,025,489
Earnings (loss) per unit attributable to operating partnership unitholders– basic and diluted	$ (0.02)	$ 0.13
Sotherly Hotels LP [Member]
Schedule Of Computation Of Basic And Diluted Earnings Per Common Share [Line Items]
Net income (loss) available to common unitholders for basic computation	$ (268,356)	$ 2,100,958
Weighted average number of units outstanding	15,892,513	16,252,691
Earnings (loss) per unit attributable to operating partnership unitholders– basic and diluted	$ (0.02)	$ 0.13

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Weighted average number of limited partnership units outstanding determined by relating the portion of time within a reporting period that limited partnership units have been outstanding to the total time in that period.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 505
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
-Paragraph 5
-Subparagraph (SAB Topic 4.F)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27012166&loc=d3e187171-122770

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