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Partners Capital Offering Costs

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- Details

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Amount of debt issuance costs (for example, but not limited to, legal, accounting, broker, and regulatory fees).

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Gross amount of debt extinguished.

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Monetary value of the issuance of new units of limited partnership interest in a public offering.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher SEC

-Name Regulation S-X (SX)

-Number 210

-Section 04

-Article 3

Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 505

-SubTopic 10

-Section S99

-Paragraph 5

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=27012166&loc=d3e187171-122770

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Monetary value of the issuance of new units of limited partnership interest in a public offering, net of offering costs. This is a parenthetical disclosure.