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American Homes 4 Rent, et al. – ‘8-K’ for 6/1/20 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On: Monday, 6/1/20, at 9:31pm ET · As of: 6/2/20 · For: 6/1/20 · Accession #: 1562401-20-110 · File #s: 1-36013, 333-221878-02

  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

 6/02/20  American Homes 4 Rent             8-K:7,9     6/01/20   13:7.8M
          American Homes 4 Rent, L.P.

Current Report — Form 8-K — Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 8-K         Current Report                                      HTML     39K 
 2: EX-99.1     Miscellaneous Exhibit                               HTML     64K 
11: R1          Document and Entity Information                     HTML     65K 
 9: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     13K 
10: XML         XBRL Instance -- amh-20200601_htm                    XML     46K 
 8: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX      7K 
 4: EX-101.CAL  XBRL Calculations -- amh-20200601_cal                XML      7K 
 5: EX-101.DEF  XBRL Definitions -- amh-20200601_def                 XML     50K 
 6: EX-101.LAB  XBRL Labels -- amh-20200601_lab                      XML    103K 
 7: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- amh-20200601_pre               XML     50K 
 3: EX-101.SCH  XBRL Schema -- amh-20200601                          XSD     13K 
12: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks               16±    24K 
13: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001562401-20-000110-xbrl      Zip     37K

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Filing Submission 0001562401-20-000110 – Alternative Formats (Word / Rich Text, HTML, Plain Text, et al.)

American Homes 4 Rent, et al. – ‘8-K’ for 6/1/20 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

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