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<LEGEND>
     This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
     financial statements of Realmark Property Investors Limited Partnership IV
     for the nine months ended September 30, 1998, and is qualified in its
     entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
<MULTIPLIER>                       1
       
                                
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<PERIOD-END>                                                     SEP-30-1998
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