PLEASE  CROSS-REFERENCE TO:
                                                     Security  Deed  recorded in
                                                     Deed Book  4611,  Page 581,
                                                     Dekalb   County,    Georgia
                                                     records   and    Regulatory
                                                     Agreement  recorded in Deed
                                                     Book    4611,    Page   587
                                                     aforesaid records.


                              ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT

     THIS  AGREEMENT,  entered into this 19th day of December,  1997, by VININGS
COMMUNITIES,  L.P., a Delaware  limited  partnership,  (the "Owner") in favor of
REILLY  MORTGAGE  GROUP,  INC.,  the holder of that certain  Security  Deed from
Windrush Partners,  Ltd. in favor of Trust Company Mortgage,  dated May 6, 1982,
recorded  in Deed Book  4611,  Page 581,  Dekalb  County,  Georgia  records,  as
modified and assigned (the "Mortgage",  and the property conveyed  thereby,  the
"Property").

                                WITNESSETH, THAT:

         In  consideration  of the consent of the Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development to the transfer of the Property to the Owner, and in order to comply
with the  requirements  of the Secretary of Housing and Urban  Development,  the
National Housing Act, and the Regulations  adopted pursuant  thereto,  the Owner
agrees to assume,  except as limited  below,  and be bound by said  Mortgage and
note secured by the Mortgage (the "Note"), and that certain Regulatory Agreement
dated May 6, 1982, recorded in Deed Book 4611, Page 587, Dekalb County,  Georgia
records, as modified (the "Regulatory Agreement").

         The Owner does not assume  personal  liability  for  payments due under
said Note and Mortgage,  or for payments to the reserve for  replacements  under
the Regulatory  Agreement,  or for matters not under its control,  provided that
the Owner shall remain liable under said Regulatory  Agreement only with respect
to the matters hereinafter stated, namely:

(a)  for funds or property of the project  coming into its hands  which,  by the
     provisions thereof, it is not entitled to retain; and

(b)  for its own  acts  and  deeds or acts  and  deeds  of  others  which it has
     authorized in violation of the provisions thereof.

         The  Owner  is to be  bound  by  said  Mortgage,  Note  and  Regulatory
Agreement,  subject to the foregoing limitation of personal liability,  from the
date of this agreement to the same extent as if it had been an original party to
said instrument.

         The  Owner  agrees  that  there  shall  be  full  compliance  with  the
provisions of (1) any laws prohibiting discrimination in housing of the basis of
race,  color,  creed or national  origin;  and (2) with the  Regulations  of the
Federal  Housing  Administration  providing  for  no  discrimination  and  equal
opportunity  in housing.  It is understood and agreed that failure or refusal to
comply with any such  provisions  shall be a proper  basis for the  Secretary to
take any corrective action he may deem necessary, including, but not limited to,
the rejection of future  applications for FHA mortgage insurance and the refusal
to enter into future contracts of any kind with which the Owner is identified.

         IN WITNESS WHEREOF,  the duly authorized  officers of Owner have signed
and sealed this Deed on the day and year first above written.


Signed, sealed and delivered            VININGS COMMUNITIES, L.P.,
in the presence of:                     a Delaware limited partnership

                                   By:  Vinings Investment Properties Trust,
/s/ Cynthia Samuels                     a Massachusettes Business Trust,
- -----------------------                 as General Partner
Unofficial Witness


                                   By:     /s/ Stephanie A. Reed
/s/ Cynthia S. Ford                        ------------------------
- ----------------------             Title:  Vice President
Notary Public

My Commission Expires:
5/2/98
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