COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE LOANS HELD-FOR-INVESTMENT - Loan Portfolio Activity (Details) - USD ($)		3 Months Ended
		Mar. 31, 2025	Mar. 31, 2024
Commercial Mortgage Loans Held-for-Investment
Beginning Balance	[1]	$ 1,048,803,078
Principal payments		(54,977,677)	$ (80,093,383)
Accretion of purchase discount		487,996	711,236
Accretion of deferred loan fees		523,944	$ 57,323
Ending Balance	[1]	988,781,424
Commercial Real Estate Portfolio Segment
Commercial Mortgage Loans Held-for-Investment
Beginning Balance		1,048,803,078
Principal payments		(54,977,677)
Origination and other loan fees		(315,943)
Accretion of purchase discount		487,996
Accretion of deferred loan fees		523,944
Provision for credit losses		(5,739,974)
Ending Balance		$ 988,781,424

[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 March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024, assets of consolidated VIEs totaled $996,233,424 and $1,058,138,406, respectively and the liabilities of consolidated VIEs totaled $774,692,458 and $831,001,605 respectively. See Note 4 for further discussion.