Exhibit (a)

Angeles Partners IX
April 13, 1998


Dear Limited Partner:

     Enclosed is the Schedule 14D-9 which was filed by Angeles Partners IX (the
"Partnership") with the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with
an offer (the "Offer") by Broad River Properties, L.L.C., a Delaware limited
liability company (the "Purchaser"), Insignia Properties, L.P., a Delaware
limited partnership ("IPLP"), Insignia Properties Trust, a Maryland real estate
investment trust ("IPT"), and Insignia Financial Group, Inc., a Delaware
corporation ("Insignia," and together with IPLP, IPT and the Purchaser, the
"Bidders"), to purchase units of limited partnership interest ("Units") in the
Partnership.

     The Partnership's general partner (the "General Partner") is Angeles
Realty Corporation, which is an affiliate of the Bidders. Due to the
affiliation between the General Partner of the Partnership and the Bidders, the
General Partner is subject to certain conflicts of interest in connection with
the response to the Offer.

     AS A RESULT OF THE EXISTING AND POTENTIAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, NEITHER
THE PARTNERSHIP NOR THE GENERAL PARTNER EXPRESSES ANY OPINION AS TO THE OFFER
AND EACH IS REMAINING NEUTRAL AND MAKING NO RECOMMENDATION AS TO WHETHER
LIMITED PARTNERS SHOULD TENDER THEIR UNITS IN RESPONSE TO THE OFFER.

  Limited Partners are advised to carefully read the enclosed Schedule 14D-9.


                              Angeles Partners IX