EXHIBIT (a)(5)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 10, 2002

Contact: Eggert Dagbjartsson
         Equity Resources Group, Inc.
         44 Brattle Street
         Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

Telephone: (617) 876-4800

For Immediate Release

      Equity Resource Lexington Fund Limited Partnership announced today that it
has extended its tender offer to purchase up to 5,000 units of limited
partnership interests, or LP Units, in Capital Realty Investors II Ltd
Partnership, a Maryland limited partnership until June 24, 2002. The terms of
the offer are otherwise identical to the terms of the original offer made to
holders of LP Units on May 10, 2002. Approximately 300 units have been tendered
as of the date of the extension.