COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE LOANS HELD-FOR-INVESTMENT Summary of Commercial Mortgage Loans (Details)		12 Months Ended
		Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($) mortgage_loan	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($) mortgage_loan	Dec. 31, 2017 USD ($)
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
One month LIBOR rate		$ 0.0170	$ 0.0238
Weighted average LIBOR floor rate		0.0156	0.0118
Loans held for investment	[1]	635,260,420	555,172,891
Commercial Real Estate Portfolio Segment
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Unpaid Principal Balance		635,260,420	555,172,891
Carrying Value		$ 635,260,420	$ 555,172,891
Loan Count | mortgage_loan		51	44
Floating Rate Loan %		100.00%	100.00%
Weighted average, coupon rate, percentage		5.40%	6.40%
Weighted average, life (years)		3 years 9 months 18 days	4 years 1 month 6 days
Loans held for investment		$ 635,260,420	$ 555,172,891	$ 0
Outstanding senior secured loans from loan participants		6,102,464	4,617,388
Hunt CMT Equity, LLC | Commercial Real Estate Portfolio Segment
Accounts, Notes, Loans and Financing Receivable [Line Items]
Loans held for investment		$ 629,157,956	$ 550,555,503

[1] Our consolidated balance sheets include assets and liabilities of consolidated variable interest entities (“VIE's) as the Company was the primary beneficiary of these VIEs. As of December 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, assets of the consolidated VIEs related to Hunt CRE 2017-FL1, Ltd. and Hunt CRE 2018-FL2, Ltd. totaled $636,541,489 and $636,951,486, respectively and the liabilities of consolidated VIEs related to Hunt CRE 2017-FL1, Ltd. and Hunt CRE 2018-FL2, Ltd. totaled $506,662,238 and $504,846,712, respectively.