**Exhibit 31.1**

 

CERTIFICATION OF CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER PURSUANTTO SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE ACT RULE 13A-14(A)/15D-14(A), AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO SECTION 302 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002.

 

AMERICAN HOUSING INCOME TRUST, INC.

OFFICER'S CERTIFICATE PURSUANT TO SECTION 302

 

I, James Stevens, certify that:

 

1. I have reviewed this Form 10-Q of AmericanHousing Income Trust, Inc. for the Third Quarter of 2016;

 

2. Based on my knowledge, this report doesnot contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, inlight of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this report;

 

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements,and other financial information included in this report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, resultsof operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this report;

 

4. I am the registrant’s Chief ExecutiveOfficer and I, along with the Chief Financial Officer, Sean Zarinegar, are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosurecontrols and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting(as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

 

a.     Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed undermy supervision, to ensure, with a reasonable degree of certainty, that material information relating to the registrant, includingits consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which thisreport is being prepared;

 

b.     Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to bedesigned under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparationof financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

 

c.     Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this report our conclusionsabout the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this report based onsuch evaluation; and

 

d.     Disclosed in this report any change in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting that occurred during theregistrant's most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant's fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materiallyaffected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.

 

 

5. I have disclosed, based on my most recentevaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the registrant's board of directors (orpersons performing the equivalent functions):

 

a.     All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reportingwhich are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information,including but not limited to those identified in Item 4 (Controls and Procedures) in the registrant’s quarterly report onForm 10-Q; and

 

b.     Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant'sinternal control over financial reporting.

 

Dated: November 14, 2016

 

By: */s/ James Stevens*

James Stevens

Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)