The number of real estate properties owned as of the balance sheet date.

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The amount of financial or other support the reporting entity has provided (explicitly or implicitly) to the Variable Interest Entity (VIE) that it was not previously contractually required to provide or that the reporting entity intends to provide, including, for example, situations in which the reporting entity assisted the VIE in obtaining another type of support.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 810
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 5A
-Subparagraph (c)
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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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Variable Interest Entity, Nonconsolidated, Future Additional Equity and Debt Contributions

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Variable Interest Entity, Qualitative or Quantitative Information, Number of Joint Venture Arrangements

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Variable Interest Entity, Qualitative or Quantitative Information, Number of VIE Entities

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Variable Interest Entity, Qualitative or Quantitative Information, Number of VIE's Guaranteed by Company

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Variable Interest Entities (Narrative) (Details) $ in Millions	9 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2018 USD ($) property joint_venture	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2018 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017 property joint_venture
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Number of VIE real estate joint ventures guaranteed by company	1			1
Consolidated Variable Interest Entities [Member]
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Number of VIE real estate joint ventures	9			9
Number of real estate properties \| property	21			22
Variable Interest Entity, Financial or Other Support, Amount \| $	$ 0.1	$ 0.1
Unconsolidated Variable Interest Entities [Member]
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Number of VIE real estate joint ventures	2			2
Number of joint venture arrangements	1
Variable interest entity, nonconsolidated, additional future funding \| $	$ 69.0
Scenario, Forecast [Member] \| Consolidated Variable Interest Entities [Member]
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Variable Interest Entity, Financial or Other Support, Amount \| $			$ 0.0