Note 5 - Distressed Residential Mortgage Loans (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2014

Note 5 - Distressed Residential Mortgage Loans (Tables) [Line Items]

Schedule of Additional Information of Distressed Residential Mortgage Loans Acquired [Table Text Block]

	September 30, 2014
Contractually required principal and interest	$	90,080
Non-accretable yield		(15,939	)
Expected cash flows to be collected		74,141
Accretable yield		(23,626	)
Fair value at the date of acquisition	$	50,515

Schedule of Distressed Residential Mortgage Loans Activity [Table Text Block]

	September 30, 2014
Balance at beginning of period	$	171,112
Additions		181,324
Disposals		(73,906	)
Accretion		(14,400	)
Balance at end of period	$	264,130

Schedules of Concentration of Risk, by Risk Factor [Table Text Block]

	September 30, 2014			December 31, 2013
New York		35.6	%		35.9	%
Massachusetts		24.8	%		24.6	%
New Jersey		10.8	%		10.4	%
Florida		6.1	%		5.8	%
Connecticut		5.9	%		5.6	%

Residential Distressed Mortgage Loans Held in Securitization Trust [Member]

Note 5 - Distressed Residential Mortgage Loans (Tables) [Line Items]

Schedules of Concentration of Risk, by Risk Factor [Table Text Block]

	September 30, 2014			December 31, 2013
California		13.7	%		14.4	%
Florida		11.5	%		8.3	%
New York		7.7	%		8.1	%
Texas		6.8	%		6.6	%