Discontinued Operations and Properties Held for Sale (Details) (USD $)	3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2013	Jun. 30, 2013 property
Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Line Items]
Number of Real Estate Properties		2
Disposal Group, Including Discontinued Operation, Revenue		$ 500,000
Proceeds from Sale of Property Held-for-sale	6,300,000.0	700,000
Gain (Loss) on Sale of Assets and Asset Impairment Charges	$ 900,000
Occupied [Member]
Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Line Items]
Number of Real Estate Properties		1
Vacant [Member]
Long Lived Assets Held-for-sale [Line Items]
Number of Real Estate Properties		1

Number Of Real Estate Properties, Held for Sale

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- Definition

Amount of sales or other form of revenues attributable to the disposal group, including a component of the entity (discontinued operation), during the reporting period.

+ References

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

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 205

-SubTopic 20

-Section 50

-Paragraph 1

-Subparagraph (c)

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- Definition

Amount of gain (loss) from the difference between the sale price or salvage price and the book value of an asset that was sold or retired, and gain (loss) from the write down of assets from their carrying value to fair value.

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- Definition

The cash inflow from the sale of formerly productive land held for sale, anything permanently fixed to it, including buildings, structures on it, and so forth.

+ References

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

-Publisher FASB

-Name Accounting Standards Codification

-Topic 230

-SubTopic 10

-Section 45

-Paragraph 12

-Subparagraph (c)

-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=31042434&loc=d3e3179-108585

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