COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE LOANS HELD-FOR-INVESTMENT - Loan Portfolio Activity (Details) - USD ($)		6 Months Ended
		Jun. 30, 2025	Jun. 30, 2024
Commercial Mortgage Loans Held-for-Investment
Beginning Balance	[1]	$ 1,048,803,078
Purchases, advances and originations		3,605,000	$ 0
Principal payments		(118,376,467)	(162,272,158)
Accretion of purchase discount		1,181,563	1,423,822
Accretion of deferred loan fees		1,192,902	$ 114,645
Ending Balance	[1]	905,419,912
Commercial Real Estate Portfolio Segment
Commercial Mortgage Loans Held-for-Investment
Beginning Balance		1,048,803,078
Purchases, advances and originations		3,605,000
Principal payments		(118,376,467)
Transfer to Real Estate Owned		(26,867,505)
Charge offs		2,910,385
Origination and other loan fees		(1,186,611)
Accretion of purchase discount		1,181,563
Accretion of deferred loan fees		1,192,902
Provision for credit losses		(5,842,433)
Ending Balance		$ 905,419,912

[1] Our consolidated balance sheets include assets and liabilities of consolidated variable interest entities ("VIEs") as the Company was the primary beneficiary of these VIEs. As of June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, assets of consolidated VIEs totaled $934,090,475 and $1,058,138,406, respectively and the liabilities of consolidated VIEs totaled $712,768,638 and $831,001,605 respectively. See Note 4 for further discussion.