Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. Announces Preferred H Dividend

MEMPHIS, Tenn., June 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. announced that the Board of Directors has declared a full quarterly dividend of $0.51875 per outstanding share of its Series H Cumulative Preferred Stock . The distribution is payable on June 23, 2009 to shareholders of record on June 12, 2009.

MAA is a self-administered, self-managed apartment-only real estate investment trust, which owns or has ownership interest in 42,157 apartment units throughout the Sunbelt region of the U.S. For further details, please refer to our website at http://www.maac.net/ or contact Investor Relations at [phone] or by mail at 6584 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN 38138.

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Web Site: http://www.maac.net/