Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. Announces Quarterly Common Dividend

MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mid-America Apartment
Communities, Inc. (NYSE: MAA) today announced that its board of directors
approved a quarterly common dividend of $0.615 per share payable on October
30, 2009 to shareholders of record on October 15, 2009.

As established in prior quarters, the Company is declaring its quarterly
common dividend in advance of its earnings' announcement, which it expects to
make on November 5, 2009.

About Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.
Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. is a self-administered, self-managed
apartment-only real estate investment trust, which currently owns or has
ownership interest in 42,685 apartment units throughout the Sunbelt region of
the U.S. For further details, please refer to the Mid-America website at
www.maac.net or contact Investor Relations at investor.relations@maac.net or
(901) 435-5371 or by mail at 6584 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, TN 38138.

Certain matters in this press release may constitute forward-looking
statements within the meaning of Section 27-A of the Securities Act of 1933
and Section 21E of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934. Such statements
include, but are not limited to, statements made about anticipated growth rate
of revenues and expenses at Mid-America's properties, anticipated lease-up
(and rental concessions) at development properties, costs remaining to
complete development properties, planned disposition, disposition pricing, and
planned acquisitions and developments. Actual results and the timing of
certain events could differ materially from those projected in or contemplated
by the forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including a
downturn in general economic conditions or the capital markets, competitive
factors including overbuilding or other supply/demand imbalances in some or
all of our markets, construction delays that could cause new and add-on
apartment units to reach the market later than anticipated, changes in
interest rates and other items that are difficult to control such as insurance
rates, increases in real estate taxes in many of our markets, as well as the
other general risks inherent in the apartment and real estate businesses.
Reference is hereby made to the filings of Mid-America Apartment Communities,
Inc., with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including quarterly reports
on Form 10-Q, reports on Form 8-K, and its annual report on Form 10-K,
particularly including the risk factors contained in the latter filing.

SOURCE Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.

Investor Relations of Mid-America Apartment Communities, +1-901-682-6600, or
investor.relations@maac.net