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NATURE OF BUSINESS AND OPERATIONS (Details) - USD ($)	12 Months Ended
NATURE OF BUSINESS AND OPERATIONS (Details) - USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
General Partner
Capital Unit [Line Items]
Capital contribution	$ 1,000
Distributable cash from operations allocated, excess	20.00%
Distributable cash from capital transactions allocated, excess	20.00%
Limited Partners
Capital Unit [Line Items]
Ownership interest	5.55%	5.55%
Income allocation to Limited Partners	100.00%
Losses allocated to Limited Partners until their aggregate capital account balances	100.00%
Losses allocated to Limited Partners, excess	100.00%
Distributable cash from operations allocated to Limited Partners	100.00%
Distributable cash from operations allocated, excess	80.00%
Distributable cash from capital transactions allocated to Limited Partners after receiving Preferred Return	100.00%
Distributable cash from capital transactions allocated to Limited Partners after receiving Adjusted Capital Contributions	100.00%
Distributable cash from capital transactions allocated, excess	80.00%

The percentage of distributable cash from capital transactions allocated after allocation to Limited Partners after receiving their Preferred Return and Adjusted Capital Contributions under the agreement.

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The percentage of distributable cash from capital transactions allocated to Limited Partners after receiving their Adjusted Capital Contributions under the agreement.

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The percentage of distributable cash from capital transactions allocated to Limited Partners after receiving their Preferred Return under the agreement.

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The percentage of distributable cash from operations allocated after allocation to Limited Partners after receiving their Preferred Return under the agreement.

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The percentage of distributable cash from operations allocated to Limited Partners after receiving their Preferred Return under the agreement.

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The percentage of income allocated to Limited Partners, after allocation to partners in proportion with capital accounts (deficit balances) and distributable cash as defined under the agreement.

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The percentage of losses allocated to Limited Partners after allocation of losses to their aggregate capital account balances over the aggregate Adjusted Capital Contributions and the allocation to Partners in proportion to their capital accounts (deficit balances) under the agreement.

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The percentage of losses allocated to Limited Partners until their aggregate capital account balances over the aggregate Adjusted Capital Contributions under the agreement.

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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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Percentage investment held by members or limited partners of limited liability company (LLC) or limited partnership (LP).

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 272
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (b)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6373374&loc=d3e70478-108055

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The cash inflow from the capital received in cash from a partner in a partnership during the period.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
-SubTopic 10
-Section 45
-Paragraph 14
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=98514028&loc=d3e3255-108585

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Resource Real Estate Investors 6 LP 10-K