Debt Instrument, Covenant, Capitalization Ratio, Maximum

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Debt Instrument, Debt Covenant, Maximum Number Of Times Company Can Use Equity Cure Right

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Debt Instrument, Debt Covenant, Number Of Consecutive Fiscal Quarters For Equity Cure Right

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Debt Instrument, Debt Covenant, Threshold Consecutive Business Days

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Amount, after accumulated amortization, of debt issuance costs related to line of credit arrangements. Includes, but is not limited to, legal, accounting, underwriting, printing, and registration costs.

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The total amount of the contingent obligation under letters of credit outstanding as of the reporting date.

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The carrying value as of the balance sheet date of the current and noncurrent portions of long-term obligations drawn from a line of credit, which is a bank's commitment to make loans up to a specific amount. Examples of items that might be included in the application of this element may consist of letters of credit, standby letters of credit, and revolving credit arrangements, under which borrowings can be made up to a maximum amount as of any point in time conditional on satisfaction of specified terms before, as of and after the date of drawdowns on the line. Includes short-term obligations that would normally be classified as current liabilities but for which (a) postbalance sheet date issuance of a long term obligation to refinance the short term obligation on a long term basis, or (b) the enterprise has entered into a financing agreement that clearly permits the enterprise to refinance the short-term obligation on a long term basis and the following conditions are met (1) the agreement does not expire within 1 year and is not cancelable by the lender except for violation of an objectively determinable provision, (2) no violation exists at the BS date, and (3) the lender has entered into the financing agreement is expected to be financially capable of honoring the agreement.

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Maximum borrowing capacity under the credit facility without consideration of any current restrictions on the amount that could be borrowed or the amounts currently outstanding under the facility.

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Amount of borrowing capacity currently available under the credit facility (current borrowing capacity less the amount of borrowings outstanding).

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The lowest amount of net worth (total assets minus total liabilities) required by secondary market investors or state-imposed regulatory mandates.

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Amount of cash inflow from contractual arrangement with the lender, including but not limited to, letter of credit, standby letter of credit and revolving credit arrangements.

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Write-off of amounts previously capitalized as debt issuance cost in an extinguishment of debt.

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DEBT - Revolving Credit Facility (Details)		1 Months Ended	3 Months Ended
DEBT - Revolving Credit Facility (Details)	Feb. 06, 2020 USD ($)	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($) equity_cure_right	Mar. 31, 2020 USD ($) equity_cure_right fiscal_quarter	Mar. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2019 USD ($)	Jun. 29, 2018 USD ($)
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Borrowings on mortgage warehouse			$ 432,488,000	$ 159,522,000
Revolving credit facility borrowings		$ 485,000,000	485,000,000		$ 0
Letters of credit utilized		746,300,000	746,300,000		623,300,000
Revolving Credit Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Unamortized debt issuance costs		2,000,000.0	2,000,000.0		1,800,000
Letters of credit utilized		86,800,000	86,800,000		77,700,000
Line of credit available		228,200,000	228,200,000		$ 522,300,000
Revolving Credit Facility \| Restated Revolving Credit Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Maximum borrowing capacity on line of credit	$ 800,000,000.0					$ 600,000,000.0
Write-off of debt issuance costs	$ 1,700,000
Borrowings on mortgage warehouse		485,000,000.0
Revolving credit facility borrowings		$ 40,000,000.0	$ 40,000,000.0
Maximum consecutive days for financial covenant			5 days
Number of consecutive fiscal quarters in which equity cure right can be used twice (in fiscal quarter) \| fiscal_quarter			4
Maximum number of times equity cure right can be exercised \| equity_cure_right		5	5
364 Day Term Loan Debt Facility
Debt Instrument [Line Items]
Maximum capitalization ratio			60.00%
Minimum net worth required		$ 1,900,000,000	$ 1,900,000,000