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Income Taxes - (Details 5) (USD $)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2012
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]      
Valuation Allowance, Deferred Tax Asset, Change in Amount $ 100,000us-gaap_ValuationAllowanceDeferredTaxAssetChangeInAmount    
Operating Loss Carryforwards Utilized During Period 154,400,000aiv_OperatingLossCarryforwardsUtilizedDuringPeriod    
Income Taxes (Textual) [Abstract]      
Net deferred tax expense resulting from intercompany sale of tax credit business 6,500,000aiv_Netdeferredtaxexpenseresultingfromintercompanysaleoftaxcreditbusiness    
Portion of unrecognized tax benefit that, if recognized, would impact the effective tax rate 2,200,000us-gaap_UnrecognizedTaxBenefitsThatWouldImpactEffectiveTaxRate    
Excess tax benefits recognized related to employee stock option exercises and vested restricted stock awards 800,000us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationTaxBenefitFromCompensationExpense 600,000us-gaap_EmployeeServiceShareBasedCompensationTaxBenefitFromCompensationExpense  
Consolidated income (loss) subject to tax 137,000,000aiv_ConsolidatedIncomeLossSubjectToTax 46,600,000aiv_ConsolidatedIncomeLossSubjectToTax 19,000,000aiv_ConsolidatedIncomeLossSubjectToTax
Cash paid for income taxes 1,657,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxesPaid 629,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxesPaid 1,056,000us-gaap_IncomeTaxesPaid
Operating loss carryforwards 6,700,000us-gaap_OperatingLossCarryforwards    
Net deferred tax asset related to tax credit carryforwards 30,200,000us-gaap_TaxCreditCarryforwardAmount    
Net deferred tax asset related to credits 29,700,000us-gaap_DeferredTaxAssetsTaxCreditCarryforwardsOther    
Operating Loss Carryforwards, Valuation Allowance $ 3,600,000us-gaap_OperatingLossCarryforwardsValuationAllowance    
Minimum [Member]      
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]      
Expiration years of net operating loss carryforwards Jan. 01, 2027    
Tax Credit Carryforward, Expiration Date Jan. 01, 2017    
Maximum [Member]      
Operating Loss Carryforwards [Line Items]      
Expiration years of net operating loss carryforwards Jan. 01, 2033    
Tax Credit Carryforward, Expiration Date Jan. 01, 2032