The acquired real estate asset useful life.

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Mortgage Notes Payable, Real Estate Held-for-Sale

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Number Of Real Estate Properties, Held for Sale

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Number of Real Estate Properties Impaired

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Real Estate Held-for sale, Impaired Assets

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The charge against earnings in the period to reduce the carrying amount of real property to fair value.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2009/role/commonPracticeRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 28
-Subparagraph (b)
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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 360
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
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Carrying amount as of the balance sheet date of investments in land and buildings held for sale, excluding real estate considered to be inventory of the entity.

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-SubTopic 210
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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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Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (Real Estate Assets) (Details)	3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
	Jun. 30, 2019 USD ($) property	Jun. 30, 2018 USD ($)	Jun. 30, 2019 USD ($) property	Jun. 30, 2018 USD ($) property	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($) property
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Impairment	$ 13,082,000	$ 0	$ 33,155,000	$ 0
Number of properties impaired \| property			13	0
Impaired assets held-for-sale	$ 2,000,000,000		$ 2,000,000,000
Number of real estate property held for sale \| property	12		12		1
Assets held for sale	$ 269,695,000		$ 269,695,000		$ 6,780,000
Mortgage notes payable	$ 122,000,000		$ 122,000,000
Buildings
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Acquired real estate asset, useful life			40 years
Site improvements
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Acquired real estate asset, useful life			15 years