Property held for sale (Details) - Lakeland Bank Property [Member] - USD ($)	3 Months Ended	6 Months Ended
Jul. 31, 2016	Apr. 30, 2016	Oct. 31, 2015
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Rental properties		$ 2,700,000	$ 2,700,000
Straight-line rent receivable on property held for sale		500,000	$ 500,000
Maximum purchase price of property		3,000,000
Lost annual rents due to sale of property		$ 241,000
Scenario, Forecast [Member]
Real Estate Properties [Line Items]
Agreed sales price of property held for sale	$ 3,100,000
Expected gain on sale of property held for sale	$ 260,000

Lost annual rents due to sale of property.

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The maximum price to be received by the seller from the tenant upon purchase of the property.

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Straight-line rent receivable on property held for sale.

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Amount of gain (loss) on sale or disposal of property, plant and equipment assets, excluding oil and gas property and timber property.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 205
-SubTopic 20
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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.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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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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Carrying amount of income producing properties held for rental.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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-SubTopic 210
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