Ohio Investors of Wisconsin, LLC, Buys Industrial Properties Located in Santa Clara, California.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin --August 15, 2002--  Frank Crivello, Executive Vice President, Phoenix Investors, LLC ("PI"), www.phoenixinv.com, announced that Ohio Investors of Wisconsin, LLC, PI's affiliate, ("Ohio") purchased the industrial properties location on Thomas Road, Santa Clara, California.

PI Executive Vice President Frank Crivello stated: "SVPC Partners, LLC, PI's affiliate, acquired these properties in connection with its acquisition of the assets of SVPC Circuit Systems, Inc. by way of 363 of Bankruptcy Code on July 16, 2001. When SVPC Partners, LLC recently merged with Titan EMS, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Ventures-National, Inc., www.titanemscom ("Titan"), Ohio agreed to purchase the properties and lease them to Titan."

PI was represented by Leonard G. Leverson of the firm of Kravit, Gass, & Weber, S.C., www.kravitlaw.com, in connection with the asset purchase.

About Phoenix Investors, LLC, www.phoenixinv.com:

PI provides PI with real estate management and advisory services. Since 1994 PI has been offering professional management and advisory solutions to public and private companies, trusts, and individual investors. Our management endeavors to understand our clients' individual needs, work with our client to assess specific goals, and structure investments according to our clients' specific risk/reward profile to meet both the clients' short term and long term needs. Our real estate management team professionally manages our portfolio properties through a combination of local and national representation in order to effectively create a "working-bridge" between owner and tenant, building a cooperative mutually beneficial working relationship. Our experts assess and refine our client's portfolio's to maximize our clients cash flow, equity accumulation, and internal rate of return based upon our clients' specific dynamic goals.