Exhibit (a)


                      Angeles Income Properties, Ltd. II

April 24, 1998


Dear Limited Partner:

           Enclosed is the Schedule 14D-9 which was filed by Angeles Income
Properties, Ltd. II (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 managing general partner (the "Managing General
Partner") is Angeles Realty Corporation II, which is an affiliate of the
Bidders. Due to the affiliation between the Managing General Partner of the
Partnership and the Bidders, the Managing 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 MANAGING
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 Income Properties, Ltd. II