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Notes Receivable, Interest Rate

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Face (par) amount of the original debt instrument that was repurchased.

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The designation of funds furnished by a borrower to a lender to assure future payments of the borrower's real estate taxes and insurance obligations with respect to a mortgaged property. Escrow deposits may be made for a variety of other purposes such as earnest money and contingent payments. This element excludes replacement reserves which are an escrow separately provided for within the US GAAP taxonomy.

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Period the instrument, asset or liability is expected to be outstanding, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Measure of dispersion, in percentage terms (for instance, the standard deviation or variance), for a given stock price.

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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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Interest rate used to find the present value of an amount to be paid or received in the future as an input to measure fair value. For example, but not limited to, weighted average cost of capital (WACC), cost of capital, cost of equity and cost of debt.

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Amount of cash (inflow) outflow from investing activities classified as other.

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Fair Value Measurements - Additional Disclosures (Details) $ in Thousands			3 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Oct. 27, 2017	Oct. 26, 2017	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($) loan	Sep. 30, 2017 USD ($) loan	Sep. 30, 2016 USD ($)	Sep. 30, 2015 USD ($)	Jul. 31, 2017 USD ($)
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Gain on restructured notes receivable			$ (3,000)	$ 3,048	$ 0	$ 0
Minimum
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Restructured notes receivable, estimated settlement amount			14,000	$ 14,000
2019 Convertible Notes
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Debt repurchase amount							$ 35,000
Convertible Hedges and Embedded Derivative Financial Instruments \| Recurring
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Expected volatility rate				36.00%	55.00%
Not primary beneficiary, variable interest
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Restructured notes receivable, estimated settlement amount			14,000	$ 14,000
Adjusted deferred compensation fee with early loan repayment			$ 10,000	10,000
Principal collections on notes receivable				$ 29,500
Number of promissory notes outstanding \| loan			2	2
Notes receivable, related party			$ 60,900	$ 60,900
Notes receivable outstanding balance			18,300	$ 18,300
Gain on restructured notes receivable			3,000
Notes receivable, net (including accreted deferred compensation of $0.1 million) \| Level 3 \| Income Approach Valuation Technique \| Minimum
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Notes receivable, interest rate				10.00%
Fair value assumptions, discount rate				8.00%
Notes receivable, net (including accreted deferred compensation of $0.1 million) \| Level 3 \| Income Approach Valuation Technique \| Maximum
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Notes receivable, interest rate				14.50%
Fair value assumptions, discount rate				15.00%
Subsequent event \| Notes receivable, net (including accreted deferred compensation of $0.1 million) \| Not primary beneficiary, variable interest
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Expected term	2 years
Subsequent event \| Dollars denominated notes interest \| Not primary beneficiary, variable interest
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Notes receivable, interest rate	10.00%	4.00%
Subsequent event \| Pesos denominated notes interest \| Not primary beneficiary, variable interest
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Notes receivable, interest rate	14.50%	7.50%
Fee Due Date One \| Not primary beneficiary, variable interest
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Restructured notes receivable, estimated settlement amount			6,000	$ 6,000
Fee Due Date Two \| Not primary beneficiary, variable interest
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Restructured notes receivable, estimated settlement amount			4,000	4,000
Fee Due Date Three \| Not primary beneficiary, variable interest
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Restructured notes receivable, estimated settlement amount			4,000	4,000
Escrow subject to indemnification claims \| Not primary beneficiary, variable interest
Fair Value, Balance Sheet Grouping, Financial Statement Captions [Line Items]
Escrow Deposit			$ 4,100	$ 4,100