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Equity method investments summarized financial information cash.

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Total income (loss) from unconsolidated joint ventures.

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Ownership percentage of partner in Joint Venture.

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Cash received from the sale of real estate that is held for investment, that is, it is part of an investing activity during the period.

Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 12
-Subparagraph (c)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=118932676&loc=d3e3179-108585

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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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