Exhibit (a)(5)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 8, 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 1,180 units of limited
partnership interests, or LP Units, in Urban Improvement Fund Limited-1973, a
California limited partnership until July 22, 2002. The terms of the offer are
otherwise identical to the terms of the original offer made to holders of LP
Units on June 6, 2002. Approximately 93 units have been tendered as of the date
of the extension.