COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE LOANS HELD-FOR-INVESTMENT - Loan Portfolio Activity (Details) - USD ($)		9 Months Ended
		Sep. 30, 2025	Sep. 30, 2024
Commercial Mortgage Loans Held-for-Investment
Beginning Balance	[1]	$ 1,048,803,078
Purchases, advances and originations		3,605,000	$ 45,423,744
Principal payments		(156,526,714)	(247,009,674)
Accretion of purchase discount		1,537,970	2,656,178
Accretion of deferred loan fees		2,120,794	$ 172,598
Ending Balance	[1]	821,843,480
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		(167,141,808)
Transfer to Real Estate Owned		(62,580,330)
Charge offs		3,110,581
Origination and other loan fees		(1,801,036)
Accretion of purchase discount		1,537,970
Accretion of deferred loan fees		2,120,794
Provision for credit losses		(5,810,769)
Ending Balance		$ 821,843,480

[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 September 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, assets of consolidated VIEs totaled $894,395,215 and $1,058,138,406, respectively and the liabilities of consolidated VIEs totaled $672,585,820 and $831,001,605 respectively. See Note 4 for further discussion.