Organization and Business (Details) (USD $)									12 Months Ended
	Dec. 31, 2012	Dec. 31, 2011	Dec. 06, 2011	Dec. 06, 2011 Initial public offering	Dec. 06, 2011 Primary offering Initial public offering	Dec. 06, 2011 Distribution reinvestment plan Initial public offering	Dec. 31, 2012 Consolidated properties states sqft Property	Aug. 11, 2010 Cole holdings corporation	Dec. 31, 2012 Cole op
Organization and business [Line Items]
General partner partnership interest percentage									100.00%
Common stock, value, issued	$ 9,140	$ 6,800						$ 200,000
Common stock, value authorized				4,000,000,000	3,500,000,000	500,000,000
Aggregate subscription value			10,000,000
Escrowed deposit common stock offering			$ 10,000,000
Share price (in dollars per share)	$ 16.11			$ 15.00
Number of owned properties (in number of properties)							10
Number of states in which entity owns properties (in number of states)							8
Rentable square feet (in square feet)							225,041
Percentage of rentable space leased (in square feet)							100.00%