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American Community Properties Trust (ACPT) is a publicly-held company with operations in the United States and Puerto Rico. Our principal lines of business include land development, including the development of large-scale planned communities in San Juan and Southern Maryland, and property management. American Rental Management Company (ARMC) is the operating company for the assets and employees in the U.S., and Interstate General Properties L.P. is the operating company for the assets and employees in Puerto Rico.

The growth and progress of any company depends on employees with initiative, creativity, and enthusiasm, working in an atmosphere of respect and harmony. We believe we have such people at American Community Properties Trust, and we continually seek to maintain a blend of experienced and new employees that will work together for our common success.

Since its inception, ACPT has established a solid reputation for the high quality of service it provides for its customers. At ACPT, we place the highest priority on providing apartment residents and land buyers with professional and courteous service.

At the same time, ACPT fully realizes that its greatest asset is its personnel. Consequently, we seek to establish a strong mutual commitment between the Company and our employees. In accepting a position with the company, each person should be willing to work to the maximum of their capacity, talent and ability. All personnel have basic obligations to the company, as employment is a two‑-way agreement: honesty, hard work, and the willingness to do a good job. ACPT employs "front runners"; those people who are leaders and willing to pull more than their own weight. Management believes that all personnel, no matter the level or position, should be dedicated to the goals of the company and work in such a manner to achieve success. In return, we provide our employees with an excellent compensation and benefits package.

ACPT's corporate offices are located in St. Charles, Maryland. In addition, we staff apartment management offices located in St. Charles and Germantown, Maryland, Richmond ,Virginia, and WashingtonD.C. (two sites). In addition to apartment management positions such as General Manager, leasing consultants, resident relations, collections and maintenance, our corporate office has positions in accounting, information systems, land development, land sales, public relations, human resources, office management and general administration.

Company Benefits

American Community Properties Trust, through the management company, American Rental Management Company, offers an attractive and competitive benefits package as part of the overall compensation package. The benefit plans are designed to meet the personal and family needs of our team members. Listed below is a sampling of benefits offered to full time eligible employees.

• Group Insurance Plan - includes medical, dental, prescription, life, LTD, AD&D and short-term salary continuance. Employees share in 25% of the cost for the medical, dental and prescription coverage.
   
•  Flexible Spending Account Plan – offers the opportunity to pay for certain health care and dependent care expenses with dollars that are not taxed.
   
• Retirement Plan – A defined contribution 401k plan that includes an employer contribution of 5.7% of base salary up to the FICA wage base and 11.4% beyond that up to the annual compensation limit and an opportunity for employees to make a pre-tax contribution of 1-10% of their pay. Participants are vested 100% immediately.
   
• Annual leave – employees accrue vacation time based on length of service and position within the company.
   
• Personal illness leave – employees accrue sick leave so that they may have time off for their own illness and medical/dental appointments.
   
• Family Care leave – takes from the personal illness accrued leave bank for those times when an employee has to care for family illness or for taking family to medical/dental appointments.
   
• Family and Medical Leave Act – provides unpaid leave for an employee's serious health conditions and to care for family members under certain circumstances.
   
• Holidays – the company observes the following holidays as paid time off for full-time employees: New Year's, Martin Luther King's Birthday, Inaugural Day, President's Day, Good Friday (half day), Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Thanksgiving Day and the Friday following, and Christmas Day.
   
• Christmas Bonus – for employees who meet the hours worked requirement a bonus is issued in early December.
   
• Educational Assistance Program – provides tuition reimbursement for full-time employees with at least 6 months service who engage in self-improvement through courses that pertain to the employee's current job or job path.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

ACPT operates under the affirmative action belief which specifies "Equal Employment Opportunity" for all of its employees. It is our policy to assure that applicants are considered and employees are treated during their tenure without regard to their age, sex, sexual orientation, race, religion, ancestry, color or country of national origin, marital status, veteran's status, physical or mental handicap.

Management of ACPT will not tolerate discrimination regarding any acts based on the following criteria: age, sex, sexual orientation, race, religion, ancestry, color or country of national origin, marital status, veteran's status, physical or mental handicap unrelated in nature and extent to an individual's ability to perform the job. Management will discipline or discharge any employee who violates this policy.

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