Organization (Details)	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2015 ft² Property Counterparty_Investment
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of limited partnerships in which the company is sole General Partner \| Counterparty_Investment	3
Number of partnerships that purchase and leaseback model homes from developers in which the company is a limited partner \| Counterparty_Investment	3
Key Provisions of Operating or Partnership Agreement, Description	The following partnership activity occurred during the periods covered by these consolidated financial statements: The Company is the sole General Partner in three limited partnerships (NetREIT Palm Self-Storage LP, NetREIT Casa Grande LP and NetREIT Garden Gateway LP), all with ownership in real estate income producing properties. The Company refers to these entities collectively, as the “NetREIT Partnerships”. The Company is a limited partner in three partnerships that purchase and leaseback Model Homes from developers (“Dubose Model Home Investors #201, LP”, “Dubose Model Homes Investors #202, LP”, and “NetREIT Dubose Model Home REIT, LP”). The Company refers to these entities collectively, as the “Model Home Partnerships”. The Company had previously been a limited partner in a number of Model Home partnerships, the last of which (Dubose Acquisition Partners II, Dubose Model Home Income Fund #3, LTD., Dubose Model Home Income Fund #4, LTD., and Dubose Model Home Investors Fund #113, LP) sold all of their Model Home assets and were dissolved before the end of 2014. These entities were referred to as the “Income Funds”. The Company has determined that the entities described above, where it owns less than 100%, should be included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements as the Company directs their activities and believes that it controls these limited partnerships through NetREIT, the Parent Company.
Self Storage Properties [Member]
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Area of Real Estate Property \| ft²	652,000
Number Of Real Estate Properties Sold	7
Real Estate Properties Sale date	Apr. 10, 2015
Office Properties [Member]
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of properties	19
Area of Real Estate Property \| ft²	1,500,000
Retail Properties [Member]
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of properties	6
Area of Real Estate Property \| ft²	236,000
Model Home [Member]
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of properties	4
Residential Properties [Member]
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Number of properties	62
Number of limited partnerships in which the company is sole General Partner \| Counterparty_Investment	3

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification

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