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EX-10.2 ADVISORY AGREEMENT

 

EXHIBIT 10.2

ADVISORY AGREEMENT

     THIS ADVISORY AGREEMENT
(this “Agreement”), dated as of October 30, 2007 and effective as
of the date the Registration Statement (as defined below) is declared effective by the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the “Effective Date”), is by and among REITPlus, Inc., a Maryland
corporation (the “Company”), REITPlus Operating Partnership, LP, a Delaware limited partnership
(the “Partnership”), REITPlus Advisor, Inc.,
a Delaware corporation, and, solely in connection with the
obligations set forth in Section 12, AmREIT, a Texas corporation.

BACKGROUND

     A. The Company has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a Registration Statement
on Form S-11 (the “Registration Statement”) covering the initial public offering of its common
stock, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”).

     B. The Company intends to qualify as a REIT (as defined below), and intends to invest its
funds in investments permitted by the terms of the Company’s Articles of Incorporation and Sections
856 through 860 of the Code (as defined below).

     C. The Company is the general partner of the Partnership and intends to conduct substantially
all of its business and make all of its investments in Properties through the Partnership.

     D. The Company and the Partnership desire to avail themselves of the experience, sources of
information, advice, assistance and certain facilities of and available to the Advisor (as defined
below) and to have the Advisor undertake the duties and responsibilities hereinafter set forth, on
behalf of, and subject to the supervision of, the Board of Directors of the Company all as provided
herein.

     E. The Advisor is willing to undertake to render such services, subject to the supervision of
the Board of Directors, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.

     NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and of the mutual covenants and agreements
contained herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:

AGREEMENT

     1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the definitions
hereinafter indicated:

     Acquisition
Expenses. Any and all expenses, exclusive of Acquisition Fees, incurred by the Company, the Partnership, the
Advisor, or any of their Affiliates in connection with the selection, evaluation, acquisition,
development and redevelopment of, and investment in Properties, whether or not acquired or made,
including, but not limited to, legal fees and expenses, travel and communications expenses, cost of
appraisals and surveys, nonrefundable option payments on property not acquired, accounting fees and
expenses, computer use related expenses, architectural, engineering and other property reports,
environmental and asbestos audits, title insurance and escrow fees, loan fees or points or any fee
of a similar nature paid to a third party, however designated,
transfer taxes, and the costs of performing due diligence related to the selection, evaluation and acquisition of properties.

     Acquisition Fee. The Acquisition Fee payable to the Advisor as defined in Section 8(a).

 

 

     Advisor. REITPlus Advisor, Inc., a Delaware corporation, or any successor advisor to the
Company and the Partnership to which REITPlus Advisor, Inc. or any successor advisor assigns
substantially all of its functions pursuant to Section 17.

     Affiliate or Affiliated. An Affiliate of another Person includes only the following: (i) any
Person directly or indirectly owning, controlling, or holding with the power to vote ten percent
(10%) or more of the outstanding voting securities of such other Person; (ii) any Person ten
percent (10%) or more of whose outstanding voting securities are directly or indirectly owned,
controlled, or held, with power to vote, by such other Person; (iii) any Person directly or
indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with such other Person; (iv) any
executive officer, director, trustee, or general partner of such other Person; and (v) any legal
entity for which such Person acts as an executive officer, director, trustee, or general partner.
An entity shall not be deemed to control or be under common control with an Advisor-sponsored
program unless (i) the entity owns ten percent (10%) or more of the voting equity interests of such
program or (ii) a majority of the board of directors (or equivalent governing body) of such program
is comprised of Affiliates of the entity.

     Appraised Value. Value according to an appraisal made by an Independent Appraiser.

     Articles of Incorporation. The Articles of Incorporation of the Company under Title 2 of the
Corporations and Associations Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland dated as of April 12, 2007,
as amended from time to time.

     Asset Management Fee. The Asset Management Fee payable to the Advisor as defined in Section
8(b).

     Average Invested Assets. For a specified period, the average of the aggregate Book Value of
the assets of the Company invested, directly or indirectly, in Properties, before reserves for
depreciation, bad debts or other similar non-cash reserves, computed by taking the average of such
values at the end of each month during such period.

     Board of Directors or Board. The persons holding such office, as of any particular time,
under the Articles of Incorporation of the Company, whether they be the Directors named therein or
additional or successor Directors.

     Book Value. The value of an asset on the books of the Company, before allowance for
depreciation or amortization.

     Bylaws. The bylaws of the Company, as amended from time to time.

     Capped O&O Expenses. All Organization and Offering Expenses other than selling commissions,
the dealer manager fee and the due diligence reimbursement as described under “Plan of
Distribution” to the Registration Statement.

     Cause. With respect to the termination of this Agreement, fraud, criminal conduct, willful
misconduct or willful or grossly negligent breach of fiduciary duty by the Advisor, or a material
breach of this Agreement by the Advisor, provided that (i) the Advisor does not cure any such
material breach within thirty (30) days after receiving notice of such material breach from the
Company or the Partnership, or (ii) such material breach is not of a nature that can be remedied
within such period.

     Code. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time, or any successor statute
thereto. Reference to any provision of the Code shall mean such provision as in effect from time
to time,

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as the same may be amended, and any successor provision thereto, as interpreted by any
applicable regulations as in effect from time to time.

     Company. REITPlus, Inc., a Maryland corporation.

     Competitive Real Estate Commission. A real estate or brokerage commission for the purchase or
sale of a property which is reasonable, customary and competitive in light of the size, type and
location of the property.

     Contract Purchase Price. The amount actually paid or allocated in respect of the purchase,
development, construction or improvement of a Property, in each case exclusive of Acquisition Fees
and Acquisition Expenses.

     Contract Sales Price. The total consideration received by the Company for the sale of a
Property exclusive of the applicable Real Estate Sales Commission.

     Director. A member of the Board of Directors of the Company.

     Distributions. Any distributions of money or other property by the Company to owners of
Shares, including distributions that may constitute a return of capital for federal income tax
purposes.

     Financing Coordination Fee. The Financing Coordination Fee payable to the Advisor as defined
in Section 8(e).

     Fiscal Year. Any period for which any income tax return is submitted by the Company to the
Internal Revenue Service and which is treated by the Internal Revenue Service as a reporting
period.

     Good Reason. With respect to the termination of this Agreement, (i) any failure to obtain a
satisfactory agreement from any successor to the Company and the Partnership to assume and agree to
perform the Company’s and the Partnership’s obligations under this Agreement or (ii) any material
breach of this Agreement by the Company, provided that (x) the Company does not cure such material
breach within thirty (30) days after receiving notice of such material breach from the Advisor or
(y) such material breach is not of a nature that can be remedied within such period.

     Gross Income. All cash receipts derived from the operation of any Property, excluding (i)
tenant security deposits unless and until such deposits are forfeited upon a tenant default and
(ii) proceeds from insurance claims, condemnation proceedings, sales or refinancings.

     Gross Offering Proceeds. The aggregate purchase price of all Shares sold for the account of
the Company through an Offering, without deduction for volume discounts or Organization and
Offering Expenses. For the purpose of computing Gross Offering Proceeds, the purchase price of any
Share for which reduced selling commissions are paid to the dealer manager or a soliciting dealer
(where net proceeds to the Company are not reduced) shall be deemed to be the full amount of the
offering price per Share pursuant to the prospectus for such Offering without reduction.

     Independent Appraiser. A person or entity with no material current or prior business or
personal relationship with the Advisor or the Directors, who is engaged to a substantial extent in
the business of rendering opinions regarding the value of assets of the type held by the Company,
and who is a qualified appraiser of real estate as determined by the Board. Membership in a
nationally recognized appraisal society such as the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers or
the Society of Real Estate Appraisers shall be conclusive evidence of such qualification.

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     Independent Director. A Director who is not and within the last two years has not been
directly or indirectly associated with the Advisor by virtue of (i) ownership of an interest in the
Advisor or its Affiliates, (ii) employment by the Advisor or its Affiliates, (iii) service as an
officer or director of the Advisor or its Affiliates, (iv) performance of services, other than as a
Director, for the Company, (v) service as a director or trustee of more than three REITs advised by
the Advisor, or (vi) maintenance of a material business or professional relationship with the
Advisor or any of its Affiliates. A business or professional relationship is considered material
if the gross income derived by the Director from the Advisor and Affiliates (excluding fees for
serving as a director of the Company or other REIT or real estate programs organized or advised by
the Advisor or its Affiliates) exceeds five percent (5%) of either the Director’s annual gross
income during either of the last two years or the Director’s net worth on a fair market value
basis. An indirect relationship shall include circumstances in which a Director’s spouse, parents,
children, siblings, mothers or fathers-in-law, sons or daughters-in-law, or brothers or
sisters-in-law is or has been associated with the Advisor, any of its Affiliates, or the Company.

     Joint Venture. Any joint venture, partnership, limited liability company or other Affiliate
of the Company (other than the Partnership) that owns, in whole or in part on behalf of the
Company, any Properties.

     Lease Fee. The Lease Fee payable to the Advisor or an Affiliate of the Advisor as the
Property Manager as defined in Section 8(d).

     Listing. The term “Listing” shall mean that the Shares have been approved for trading on a
national securities exchange. Upon such Listing, the Shares shall be deemed Listed.

     NASAA Guidelines. The NASAA Statement of Policy Regarding Real Estate Investment Trusts as in
effect on the date hereof.

     Net Income. For any period, the total revenues applicable to such period, less the total
expenses applicable to such period excluding additions to reserves for depreciation, bad debts or
other similar non-cash reserves; provided, however, Net Income for purposes of calculating total
allowable Operating Expenses (as defined herein) shall exclude the gain from the sale of the
Company’s assets.

     Offering. Any offering of Shares that is registered with the SEC, excluding Shares offered
under any employee benefit plan.

     Offering Stage. The period from the commencement of the Company’s initial public equity
offering through the termination of the Company’s last public equity offering prior to Listing.
For purposes of this definition, “public equity offering” does not include offerings on behalf of
selling stockholders or offerings related to a distribution reinvestment plan, employee benefit
plan or the redemption of interests in the Partnership.

     Operating Expenses. All costs and expenses incurred by the Company, as determined under
generally accepted accounting principles, which in any way are related to the operation of the
Company or to Company business, including fees paid to the Advisor, but excluding (i) the expenses
of raising capital such as Organization and Offering Expenses, legal, audit, accounting,
underwriting, brokerage, listing, registration, and other fees, printing and other such expenses
and tax incurred in connection with the issuance, distribution, transfer, registration and Listing
of the Shares, (ii) interest payments, (iii) taxes, (iv) non-cash expenditures such as
depreciation, amortization and bad loan reserves, (v) incentive fees paid in compliance with
Section IV.F of the NASAA Guidelines and (vi) Acquisition Fees and Acquisition Expenses, real
estate commissions on resale of property, and other expenses connected with the acquisition,
disposition, and ownership of real estate interests, mortgage loans or other property (such

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as the costs of foreclosure, insurance premiums, legal services, maintenance, repair and
improvement of property).

     Organization and Offering Expenses. Any and all costs and expenses, including selling
commissions, the dealer manager fee and the due diligence expense reimbursement, incurred by the
Advisor or any Affiliate in connection with the formation, qualification and registration of the
Company and the marketing and distribution of the Shares, including, without limitation, the
following: total underwriting and brokerage discounts and commissions (including fees of the
underwriter’s attorneys); printing, engraving, mailing and distributing costs; salaries of
employees while engaged in sales activity; telephone and other telecommunications costs; all
advertising and marketing expenses (including the costs related to investor and broker-dealer sales
meetings); charges of transfer agents, registrars, trustees, escrow holders, depositories and
experts; and fees, expenses and taxes related to the filing, registration and qualification of the
sale of the Shares under federal and state laws, including accountants’ and attorneys’ fees.

     Partnership. REITPlus Operating Partnership, LP, a Delaware limited partnership formed to own
and operate properties on behalf of the Company.

     Partnership Agreement. The Agreement of Limited Partnership of the Partnership, as amended
from time to time, between the Company, as General Partner, the Advisor, as a Limited Partner, and
REITPlus Holdings, LLC, as the holder of the special units of the Partnership.

     Person. An individual, corporation, partnership, estate, trust (including a trust qualified
under Section 401(a) or 501(c)(17) of the Code), a portion of a trust permanently set aside for or
to be used exclusively for the purposes described in Section 642(c) of the Code, association,
private foundation within the meaning of Section 509(a) of the Code, joint stock company or other
entity, or any government or any agency or political subdivision thereof, and also includes a group
as that term is used for purposes of Section 13(d)(3) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.

     Property or Properties. Any land, rights in land (including leasehold interests), and any
buildings, structures, improvements, furnishings, fixtures and equipment located on or used in
connection with land and rights or interests in land, or any portion thereof, transferred or
conveyed to the Company or the Partnership, either directly or indirectly.

     Property Management Fee. The Property Management Fee payable to the Advisor or an Affiliate
of the Advisor as the Property Manager as defined in Section 8(d).

     Property Manager. Any entity that has been retained to perform and carry out property rental,
leasing, operation and management services at one or more of the Properties, excluding Persons or
independent contractors retained or hired to perform facility management or other services or tasks
at a particular Property.

     Real Estate Sales Commission. The fee payable to the Advisor under certain circumstances in
connection with the Sale of one or more Properties pursuant to Section 8(c).

     REIT. A real estate investment trust under Sections 856 through 860 of the Code.

     Sale or Sales. (i) Any transaction or series of transactions whereby: (A) the Company or the
Partnership (except as described in other subsections of this definition) sells, grants, transfers,
conveys, or relinquishes its ownership of any Property or portion thereof, including the lease of
any Property consisting of the building only, and including any event with respect to any Property
which gives rise to a

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significant amount of insurance proceeds or condemnation awards; (B) the Company or the
Partnership (except as described in other subsections of this definition) sells, puts, transfers,
conveys, or relinquishes its ownership of all or substantially all of the interest of the Company
or the Partnership in any joint venture in which it is a co-venturer or partner; (C) any joint
venture (except as described in other subsections of this definition) in which the Company or the
Partnership as a co-venturer or partner sells, grants, transfers, conveys, or relinquishes its
ownership of any Property or portion thereof, including any event with respect to any Property
which gives rise to insurance claims or condemnation awards; (D) the Company or the Partnership
directly or indirectly (except as described in other subsections of this definition) sells, grants,
conveys or relinquishes its interest in any loan or mortgage or any portion thereof (including with
respect to any mortgage or loan, all payments thereunder or in satisfaction thereof other than
regularly scheduled interest payments) of amounts owed pursuant to such loan or mortgage and any
event which gives rise to the payment of a significant amount of insurance proceeds or condemnation
or similar award; or (E) the Company or the Partnership directly or indirectly (except as described
in other subsections of this definition) sells, grants, transfers, conveys or relinquishes its
ownership of any other Property not previously described in this definition or any portion thereof,
but (ii) not including any transaction or series of transactions specified in clause (i)(A),
(i)(B), (i)(C), (i)(D) or (i)(E) above in which the proceeds of such transaction or series of
transactions are reinvested in one or more Properties within one hundred eighty (180) days
thereafter.

     Stockholders. The registered holders of the Shares.

     Tomorrow’s
Irreplaceable Corner. Properties generally possessing the
following attributes: (i) located in markets with increasing
urban densities; (ii) located at the intersections of major
roads that the Company anticipates will become high-traffic areas;
(iii) located in markets with increasing household incomes which
the Company expects will become affluent areas; (iv) either
currently used as, or suitable for development, redevelopment or
repositioning as, retail, hospitality, office, residential or
mixed-use properties; (v) in need of development, redevelopment
or re-positioning in order to achieve optimal rental income; and
(vi) projected optimal investment horizon of five to seven
years, providing for the potential for near-term value creation.

     Total Development Cost. With regard to any Property acquired by the Company prior to or
during the development or acquisition stages, all costs and expenses paid or incurred by the
Company that are in any way related to the development or redevelopment of such Property,
including, but not limited to, land and construction costs.

     2%/25% Guidelines. The requirement pursuant to the NASAA Guidelines that, in any twelve
(12)-month period, total Operating Expenses not exceed the greater of two percent (2%) of the
Company’s Average Invested Assets during such twelve (12)-month period or twenty-five percent (25%)
of the Company’s Net Income over the same twelve (12)-month period.

     2. Appointment. Each of the Company and the Partnership appoints the Advisor to serve
as its advisor and asset manager as of the Effective Date, on the terms and conditions set forth in
this Agreement, and the Advisor accepts such appointment as of the Effective Date.

     3. Duties and Authority of the Advisor. The Advisor undertakes to use its reasonable
efforts (1) to present to the Company and the Partnership potential investment opportunities in
order to provide a continuing and suitable investment program consistent with the investment
objectives and policies of the Company as determined and adopted from time to time by the Board and
(2) to manage, administer, promote, maintain and improve the Properties on an overall portfolio
basis in a diligent manner. The services of the Advisor are to be of scope and quality not less
than those generally performed by professional asset managers of other similar property portfolios.
The Advisor shall make available the full benefit of the judgment, experience and advice of the
members of the Advisor’s organization and staff with respect to the duties it will perform under
this Agreement. The Advisor or the Company may engage a Property Manager, which may include
Affiliates of the Advisor, to manage, promote and lease the Properties. To facilitate the
Advisor’s performance of these undertakings, but subject to the restrictions included in Sections 4
and 7 and to the continuing and exclusive authority of the Board and the General Partner of the
Partnership, the Company and the Partnership hereby delegate to the Advisor the authority to, and
the Advisor hereby agrees to, either directly or by engaging an Affiliate:

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     (a) serve as the Company’s and the Partnership’s investment and financial advisor and, as
requested by the Board, provide research and economic and statistical data in connection with the
Company’s assets and investment policies;

     (b) provide the daily management of the Company and the Partnership and perform and supervise
the various administrative functions reasonably necessary for the management of the Company and the
Partnership;

     (c) maintain and preserve the books and records of the Company, including (i) a stock ledger
reflecting a record of the Stockholders and their ownership of the Company’s Shares, (ii) acting as
transfer agent for the Company’s Shares or selecting, engaging and overseeing the performance by a
third party transfer agent, and (iii) maintaining the accounting and other record-keeping functions
at the Property and Company levels;

     (d) investigate, select, and, on behalf of the Company and the Partnership, engage and conduct
business with such Persons as the Advisor deems necessary to the proper performance of its
obligations hereunder, including but not limited to consultants, accountants, correspondents,
lenders, technical advisors, attorneys, brokers, underwriters, corporate fiduciaries, escrow
agents, depositaries, custodians, agents for collection, insurers, insurance agents, banks,
builders, developers, property owners, real estate management companies, real estate operating
companies, securities investment advisors, mortgagors, and any and all agents for any of the
foregoing, including Affiliates of the Advisor, and Persons acting in any other capacity deemed by
the Advisor necessary or desirable for the performance of any of the foregoing services, including
but not limited to entering into contracts in the name of the Company and the Partnership with any
of the foregoing;

     (e) consult with the officers of the Company and the Board and assist the Board in the
formulation and implementation of the Company’s financial policies, and, as necessary, furnish the
Board with advice and recommendations with respect to the making of investments consistent with the
investment objectives and policies of the Company and in connection with any borrowings proposed to
be undertaken by the Company and the Partnership;

     (f) select joint venture partners, structure corresponding agreements and oversee and monitor
these relationships;

     (g) recommend to the Board of Directors appropriate transactions which would provide liquidity
to the Stockholders;

     (h) oversee the performance by a third party or affiliated Property Manager of its duties,
including collection of payments due from third parties under contracts related to use of any
Property and other assets of the Company and payment of Property expenses and maintenance;

     (i) conduct periodic on-site visits to some or all (as the Advisor deems reasonably necessary)
of the Properties to inspect the physical condition of the Properties and to evaluate the
performance of a third party or affiliated Property Manager of its duties;

     (j) review, analyze and comment upon the operating budgets, capital budgets and leasing plans
prepared and submitted by a third party or affiliated Property Manager and aggregate these property
budgets into the Company’s overall budget;

     (k) review and analyze on-going financial information pertaining to each Property and the
overall portfolio of Properties;

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     (l) if a transaction requires approval by the Board of Directors, deliver to the Board of
Directors all documents requested by them in their evaluation of the proposed investment in the
Property;

     (m) formulate and oversee the implementation of strategies for the administration, promotion,
management, operation, maintenance, improvement, financing and refinancing, marketing, leasing, and
disposition of Properties on an overall portfolio basis;

     (n) subject to the provisions of Sections 3(l) and 4 hereof, (i) locate, analyze and select
potential investments in Properties, (ii) structure and negotiate the terms and conditions of
transactions pursuant to which investment in Properties will be made, (iii) make investments in
Properties on behalf of the Company or the Partnership in compliance with the investment objectives
and policies of the Company, (iv) arrange for financing and refinancing and make other changes in
the asset or capital structure of, and dispose of, reinvest the proceeds from the sale of, or
otherwise deal with the investments in, Property, (v) enter into leases, supply agreements and
other income-producing contracts relating to third party use of any Property and other assets of
the Company, (vi) enter into service contracts for any Property, including oversight of Affiliated
companies that perform property management services for the Company and the Partnership, (vii) if
applicable, oversee a non-affiliated Property Manager and any other non-affiliated Persons who
perform services for the Company and (viii) to the extent necessary, perform all other operational
functions for the maintenance and administration of such Property;

     (o) obtain the prior approval of the Board, any particular Directors specified by the Board or
any committee of the Board, as the case may be, for any and all investments in Properties;

     (p) negotiate on behalf of the Company and the Partnership with banks or lenders for loans to
be made to the Company, and negotiate on behalf of the Company and the Partnership with investment
banking firms and broker-dealers or negotiate private sales of Shares and other securities or
obtain loans for the Company and the Partnership, but in no event in such a way so that the Advisor
shall be acting as broker-dealer or underwriter; provided, further, that any fees and costs payable
to third parties incurred by the Advisor in connection with the foregoing shall be the
responsibility of the Company or the Partnership;

     (q) on behalf of the Company and the Partnership, maintain, with respect to any Property and
to the extent available, title insurance or other assurance of title and customary fire, casualty
and public liability insurance;

     (r) obtain reports (which may be prepared by the Advisor or its Affiliates), where
appropriate, concerning the value of investments or contemplated investments of the Company and the
Partnership in Properties;

     (s) from time to time, or at any time reasonably requested by the Board, provide information
or make reports to the Board related to its performance of services to the Company and the
Partnership under this Agreement;

     (t) from time to time, or at any time reasonably requested by the Board, make reports to the
Board of the investment opportunities it has presented to other Advisor-sponsored programs or that
it has pursued directly or through an Affiliate;

     (u) provide the Company and the Partnership with all necessary cash management services;

     (v) deliver to or maintain on behalf of the Company copies of all appraisals obtained in
connection with the investments in Properties as may be required to be obtained by the Board;

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     (w) notify the Board of all proposed material transactions before they are completed;

     (x) at the direction of Company management, prepare the Company’s periodic reports and other
filings made under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the Company’s
Post-Effective Amendments to the Registration Statement as well as all related prospectuses,
prospectus supplements and supplemental sales literature and assist in connection with the filing
of such documents with the appropriate regulatory authorities;

     (y) supervise the preparation and filing and distribution of returns and reports to
governmental agencies and to investors and act on behalf of the Company in connection with investor
relations;

     (z) effect any private placements of Shares or other interests in Properties as may be
approved by the Board;

     (aa) establish and maintain bank accounts on behalf of the Company and the Partnership
pursuant to Section 5 of this Agreement;

     (bb) provide office space, equipment and personnel as required for the performance of the
foregoing services as the Advisor; and

     (cc) do all things it reasonably deems necessary to assure its ability to render the services
described in this Agreement.

     4. Modification or Revocation of Authority of Advisor. The Board may, at any time
upon the giving of notice to the Advisor, modify or revoke the authority or approvals set forth in
Section 3; provided, however, that such modification or revocation shall be effective upon receipt
by the Advisor and shall not be applicable to investment transactions to which the Advisor has
committed the Company and the Partnership prior to the date of receipt by the Advisor of such
notification.

     5. Bank Accounts. At the direction of the Board of Directors, the Advisor may
establish and maintain one or more bank accounts in its own name for the account of the Company and
the Partnership or in the name of the Company and the Partnership and may collect and deposit into
any such account or accounts, and disburse from any such account or accounts, any money on behalf
of the Company and the Partnership, under such terms and conditions as the Board may approve,
provided that no funds shall be commingled with the funds of the Advisor; and the Advisor shall
from time to time render appropriate accountings of such collections and payments to the Board and
to the auditors of the Company.

     6. Records; Access. The Advisor shall maintain appropriate records of all its
activities hereunder and make such records available for inspection by the Board and by counsel,
auditors and authorized agents of the Company, at any time or from time to time during normal
business hours. The Advisor shall at all reasonable times have access to the books and records of
the Company and the Partnership.

     7. Limitations on Activities. Anything else in this Agreement to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Advisor shall refrain from taking any action which, in its sole judgment made
in good faith, would (a) adversely affect the status of the Company as a REIT, (b) subject the
Company to regulation under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or (c) violate any law,
rule, regulation or statement of policy of any governmental body or agency having jurisdiction over
the Company or the Partnership, its Shares or its other securities, or otherwise not be permitted
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Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws of the Company, except if such action shall be ordered by
the Board, in which case the Advisor shall notify promptly the Board of the Advisor’s judgment of
the potential impact of such action and shall refrain from taking such action until it receives
further clarification or instructions from the Board. In such event the Advisor shall have no
liability for acting in accordance with the specific instructions of the Board so given.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Advisor, its directors, officers, employees and stockholders,
and stockholders, directors and officers of the Advisor’s Affiliates shall not be liable to the
Company, the Partnership, the Board or to the Stockholders for any act or omission by the Advisor,
its directors, officers, employees or stockholders, or stockholders, directors or officers of the
Advisor’s Affiliates taken or omitted to be taken in the performance of their duties under this
Agreement except as provided in Sections 19 and 20 of this Agreement.

     8. Fees.

     (a) Acquisition Fee. The Advisor or its Affiliates shall receive as compensation for services
rendered in connection with the investigation, selection and acquisition of Properties (by
purchase, investment or exchange) an acquisition fee by the Company (the “Acquisition Fee”). The
total Acquisition Fee paid to the Advisor or its Affiliates for services provided by the Advisor,
its Affiliates or sub-contractors thereof shall not exceed 2.25% of the Contract Purchase Price of
a Property acquired directly or indirectly by the Company and in the operational stage that will
not be developed or redeveloped. The total Acquisition Fee paid to the Advisor or its Affiliates
for services provided by the Advisor, its Affiliates or sub-contractors thereof, for a Property
acquired directly or indirectly by the Company for the purpose of being developed or redeveloped,
shall be an amount that is usual and customary for comparable
services rendered to similar projects in the geographic area of the
project and that is approved by the Company’s Independent
Directors. At the Advisor’s discretion, a portion of the Acquisition Fee may be paid to third-party developers
for services rendered. Acquisition Fees shall be payable on the acquisition of a specific
Property, on the acquisition of a portfolio of Properties through a purchase of assets, controlling
securities or by joint venture, by a merger or similar business combination or other comparable
transaction, or on the completion of development of a Property or Properties for the Company.
However, the total of all Acquisition Fees and Acquisition Expenses payable with respect to any
Properties shall not exceed six percent (6%) of the Contract Purchase Price or the Total
Development Cost (as applicable) of such Properties unless fees in excess of such amount are
approved by a majority of the Board of Directors, including a majority of the Independent
Directors.

     (b) Asset Management Fee. The Advisor shall be paid a monthly fee for the services rendered
in connection with the management of the Company’s assets (the “Asset Management Fee”) in an amount
equal to one-twelfth of one percent (1.0%) of the Average Invested Assets calculated as of the
close of business on the last day of each preceding month.

     (c) Real Estate Sales Commission. If the Advisor or an Affiliate of the Advisor provides a
substantial amount of the services (as determined by a majority of the Independent Directors) in
connection with the Sale of one or more Properties, the Advisor or such Affiliate shall receive at
closing a real estate sales commission equal to fifty percent (50%) of a Competitive Real Estate
Commission given the circumstances surrounding the sale; provided, that such amount shall not
exceed three percent (3.0%) of the Contract Sales Price of such Property or Properties (the “Real
Estate Sales Commission”). In each case in which a Real Estate Sales Commission may be payable,
the precise amount of the fee within the limits set forth in the preceding sentence shall be
determined by the Board, including a majority of the Independent Directors, based upon the extent
of the services provided by the Advisor or its Affiliate and market norms for the services
provided. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Real Estate Sales Commission shall
be payable to the Advisor or its Affiliate for Property Sales if such Sales involve the Company
selling all or substantially all of its Properties in one or more transactions designed to
effectuate a business combination transaction (as opposed to a Company liquidation, in which case
the

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Real Estate Sales Commission would be payable if the Advisor or an Affiliate provides a
substantial amount of services as provided above). Any Real Estate Sales Commission payable under
this section may be paid in addition to real estate commissions paid to non-Affiliates, provided
that the total real estate commissions (including such Real Estate Sales Commission) paid to all
Persons by the Company for each Property shall not exceed an amount equal to the lesser of (i) six
percent (6%) of the Contract Sales Price of the Property or (ii) the Competitive Real Estate
Commission for the Property.

     (d) Property Management Fee; Lease Fee. Either the Advisor or an Affiliate of the Advisor as
the Property Manager shall receive a monthly property management fee equal to four percent (4%) of
the monthly Gross Income from each Property (the “Property Management Fee”). The Property Manager
may engage third parties to provide some or all of the property management services for the
Properties, and will be responsible for the supervision of any third party property managers and
for the payment of any compensation to such third parties. In addition, the Advisor or an
Affiliate of the Advisor as the Property Manager shall receive a
separate fee for performing substantial leasing
activities in an amount not to exceed the fee customarily charged in arm’s length transactions by
others rendering similar services in the same geographic area for similar properties, as determined
by a survey of brokers and agents in such area (the “Lease
Fee”). However, no Lease Fee will be paid with respect to an income-producing Property unless
the Property Manager has been actively involved in soliciting tenants for such Property and the Property
Manager has had a material role in the negotiation of such lease; and no Lease Fee will be paid with respect
to the initial lease-up of a newly developed or redeveloped Property unless the lease was not fully executed prior
to the acquisition of the Property by the Company or the Partnership and the Property Manager has
had a material role in the negotiation of such lease. One-half of any Lease Fee will be payable
upon lease execution, and one-half will be payable upon lease commencement.  In the event a lease
was fully executed but never commenced, any portion of a Lease Fee received pursuant to this
Section 8(d) shall be returned to the Company without interest upon termination of such lease.
No Lease Fee will be payable with respect to a Property leased to a tenant in which the Property
Manager or any officer of the Property Manager owns an ownership interest, unless such ownership is
less than 1.0% of the outstanding stock of a tenant which is a publicly-traded company with its shares
listed on a national securities exchange.

     (e) Financing Coordination Fee. The Advisor shall receive a fee for providing services in
connection with the origination or refinancing of any debt financing obtained that the Company or
the Partnership uses to acquire Properties equal to one percent (1.0%) of the amount available
under such financing (the “Financing Coordination Fee”); provided, however, that no Financing
Coordination Fee will be paid in connection with the refinancing of any loan secured by any
Property that was previously subject to a refinancing in which the Advisor received such a fee.
Financing Coordination Fees payable from loan proceeds from permanent financing will be paid to the
Advisor as the Company or the Partnership acquires such permanent financing. However, no Financing
Coordination Fees will be paid on the investments of loan proceeds from any line of credit until
such time as the Company or the Partnership has invested all net offering proceeds. The Advisor
may pay some or all of the Financing Coordination Fees to third parties with whom it subcontracts
to coordinate financing for the Company or the Partnership.

     (f) Development
Fee. The Advisor shall receive a fee for providing
services in connection with the development of Properties acquired by
the Company.

     (g) Changes to Fee Structure. In the event of a Listing, the Company and the Advisor shall
negotiate in good faith to establish a fee structure appropriate for a perpetual-life entity.

     9. Expenses.

     (a) Reimbursable Expenses. In addition to the compensation paid to the Advisor pursuant to
Section 8 hereof, the Company or the Partnership shall pay directly or reimburse the Advisor for
all of the expenses paid or incurred by the Advisor (to the extent not reimbursable by another
party, such as the dealer manager) in connection with the services it provides to the Company and
the Partnership pursuant to this Agreement, including, but not limited to:

          (i) the Organization and Offering Expenses; provided, however, that within sixty (60) days
after the end of the month in which an Offering terminates, the Advisor shall reimburse the Company
to the extent (i) Capped O&O Expenses borne by the Company exceed the maximum amount permitted
pursuant to the prospectus for the Offering and (ii) Organization and Offering Expenses borne by
the Company exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the Gross Offering Proceeds raised in a completed
Offering;

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          (ii) Acquisition Fees and Acquisition Expenses incurred in connection with the selection and
acquisition of Properties, subject to the aggregate six percent (6%) cap on Acquisition Fees and
Acquisition Expenses set forth in Section 8(a) above;

          (iii) the actual cost of goods and services used by the Company and obtained from entities not
affiliated with the Advisor, other than Acquisition Expenses;

          (iv) interest and other costs for borrowed money, including discounts, points and other
similar fees;

          (v) taxes and assessments on income of the Company or any of the Properties;

          (vi) costs associated with insurance required in connection with the business of the Company
or by the Board;

          (vii) expenses of managing and operating Properties owned by the Company, whether payable to
an Affiliate of the Company or a non-affiliated Person;

          (viii) all compensation and expenses payable to the Independent Directors and all expenses
payable to the non-Independent Directors in connection with their services to the Company and the
Stockholders and their attendance at meetings of the Directors and the Stockholders;

          (ix) expenses associated with Listing or with the issuance and distribution of securities
other than the Shares, such as selling commissions and fees, advertising expenses, taxes, legal and
accounting fees, listing and registration fees;

          (x) expenses connected with payments of Distributions in cash or otherwise made or caused to
be made by the Company to the Stockholders;

          (xi) expenses of organizing, redomesticating, merging, liquidating or dissolving the Company
or of amending the Articles of Incorporation or the Bylaws;

          (xii) expenses of maintaining communications with Stockholders or their financial advisors,
including the cost of preparation, printing, and mailing annual reports and other Stockholder
reports, proxy statements and other reports required by governmental entities;

          (xiii) administrative service expenses (including (a) personnel costs; provided, however, that
no reimbursement shall be made for costs of personnel to the extent that such personnel perform
services in transactions for which the Advisor receives acquisition
fees, asset management fees, property management fees or real estate sales commissions,
and (b) the Company’s
allocable share of other overhead of the Advisor such as rent and utilities);

          (xiv) transfer agent and registrar’s fees and charges paid to third parties;

          (xv) expenses associated with the disposition of Properties, including, subject to Section
8(c), real estate commissions;

          (xvi) audit, accounting, legal and other professional fees; and

          (xvii) all other costs and expenses in any way relating to the operations of the Company or
the Partnership or the business of the Company or the Partnership (other than any fees payable to
the Advisor or its Affiliates).

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     (b) Other Services. Should the Board request that the Advisor, any Affiliate of the Advisor
or any director, officer or employee thereof render services for the Company and the Partnership
other than set forth in Section 3, such additional services, if the Advisor elects to perform them,
shall be separately compensated at such rates and in such amounts as are agreed by the Advisor and
the Board, including a majority of the Independent Directors, subject to the limitations contained
in the Articles of Incorporation that such amounts shall not exceed an amount that would be paid to
nonaffiliated third parties for similar services. Any such additional services shall not be deemed
to be services pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

     (c) Timing of and Limitations on Reimbursements.

          (i) Expenses incurred by the Advisor on behalf of the Company and the Partnership and payable
pursuant to this Section 9 shall be reimbursed no less than monthly to the Advisor. The Advisor
shall prepare a statement documenting the expenses of the Company and the Partnership during each
quarter, and shall deliver such statement to the Company and the Partnership within forty-five (45)
days after the end of each quarter.

          (ii) Notwithstanding anything else in this Section 9 to the contrary, the expenses enumerated
in this Section 9 shall not become reimbursable out of the proceeds of an Offering to the Advisor
unless and until the Company has raised the minimum offering amount, if any, as provided in the
prospectus for the Offering.

          (iii) The Company shall not reimburse the Advisor at the end of any fiscal quarter Operating
Expenses that, in the four consecutive fiscal quarters then ended (the “Expense Year”) exceed (the
“Excess Amount”) the 2%/25% Guidelines for such year unless a majority of the Independent Directors
determines that such excess was justified, based on unusual and nonrecurring factors which a
majority of the Independent Directors deems sufficient. If a majority of the Independent Directors
does not approve such excess as being so justified, any Excess Amount paid to the Advisor during a
fiscal quarter shall be repaid to the Company. If a majority of the Independent Directors
determines such excess was justified, then within sixty (60) days after the end of any fiscal
quarter of the Company for which total reimbursed Operating Expenses for the Expense Year exceed
the 2%/25% Guidelines, the Advisor, at the direction of a majority of the Independent Directors,
shall send to the Stockholders a written disclosure of such fact, together with an explanation of
the factors the Independent Directors considered in determining that such excess expenses were
justified. The Company will ensure that such determination will be reflected in the minutes of the
meetings of the Board of Directors. All figures used in the foregoing computation shall be
determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles applied on a consistent
basis.

          (iv) The foregoing reimbursements of expenses, as limited by this Agreement, will be made
regardless of whether any cash distributions are made to the Stockholders.

     10. Statements. The Advisor shall furnish to the Company not later than the thirtieth
(30th) day following the end of each Fiscal Year, a statement showing a computation of
the fees or other compensation payable to the Advisor or an Affiliate of the Advisor with respect
to such Fiscal Year under Sections 8 and 9 hereof. The final settlement of compensation payable
under Sections 8 and 9 hereof for each Fiscal Year shall be subject to adjustments in accordance
with, and upon completion of, the annual audit of the Company’s financial statements.

     11. Internalization of the Advisor. In the event that the Company’s assets and income
are, in the view of the Board of Directors, including a majority of the Independent Directors, of
sufficient size such that internalizing the management functions by the Advisor and the Property
Manager is in the best

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interests of the
Stockholders, the compensation payable to the Advisor upon such
internalization shall be agreed upon by the Independent Directors and the Advisor.

     12. 
Investment Opportunities.

     (a) 
In the event that an investment opportunity becomes available which
is suitable, under all of the factors considered by AmREIT, for
the Company and one or more other public or private entities
affiliated with AmREIT, for which both
entities have sufficient uninvested funds, then with respect to any
U.S. real estate investment that AmREIT deems, in good
faith and consistent with industry norms, to be a Tomorrow’s
Irreplaceable Corner, the investment opportunity will first be
offered to the Company.

     (b) 
In determining whether or not an investment opportunity is suitable
for more than one program, AmREIT shall examine, among others,
the following factors: (i) the cash requirements of each
program; (ii) the effect of the acquisition both on
diversification of each program’s investments by type of
property and geographic area, and on diversification of the tenants
of its properties; (iii) the policy of each program relating to
leverage of properties; (iv) the anticipated cash flow of each
program; (v) the income tax effects of the purchase for each
program; (vi) the size of the investment; (vii) the
estimated economic risks and returns; and (viii) the amount of
funds available to each program and the length of time such funds
have been available for investment.

     13. Other
Activities of the Advisor. Nothing herein contained shall prevent the
Advisor from engaging in other activities, including, without limitation, the rendering of advice
to other Persons (including other REITs) and the management of other programs advised, sponsored or
organized by the Advisor or its Affiliates; nor shall this Agreement limit or restrict the right of
any director, officer, employee, or stockholder of the Advisor or its Affiliates to engage in any
other business or to render services of any kind to any other partnership, corporation, firm,
individual, trust or association. The Advisor may, with respect to any investment in which the
Company or the Partnership is a participant, also render advice and service to each and every other
participant therein. The Advisor shall report to the Board the existence of any condition or
circumstance, existing or anticipated, of which it has knowledge, which creates or could create a
conflict of interest between the Advisor’s obligations to the Company and the Partnership and its
obligations to or its interest in any other partnership, corporation, firm, individual, trust or
association.

     14. Information Furnished to the Advisor. The Board of Directors will keep the
Advisor informed concerning the investment and financing policies of the Company. The Board of
Directors shall notify the Advisor promptly of its intention to make any investments or to sell or
dispose of any existing investments. Upon request of the Advisor, the Company shall furnish the
Advisor with a certified copy of any Company financial statements, a signed copy of each report
prepared by independent certified public accountants, and such other information with regard to its
affairs as the Advisor may reasonably request.

     15. Relationship of Advisor and Company. The Company, the Partnership and the Advisor
are not partners or joint venturers with each other, and nothing in this Agreement shall be
construed to make them such partners or joint venturers or impose any liability as such on either
of them.

     16. Term; Renewal of Agreement. This Agreement shall continue in force until the
first anniversary of the Effective Date, subject to an unlimited number of successive one-year
renewals upon mutual consent of the parties. The Company, acting through the Board, will evaluate
the performance of the Advisor annually before renewing the Agreement, and each such renewal shall
be for a term of no more than one year.

     17. Termination.

     (a) By Either Party. This Agreement may be terminated upon sixty (60) days written notice
without cause or penalty, by either party (if by the Company, only upon approval of a majority of
the Independent Directors).

     (b) By the Company. At the sole option of the Company, this Agreement shall be terminated
immediately, subject to the thirty (30)-day cure period for a “for Cause” termination due to a
material breach of this Agreement, upon written notice of termination from the Board of Directors
to the Advisor if any of the following events occur:

          (i) For Cause;

          (ii) A court of competent jurisdiction enters a decree or order for relief in respect of the
Advisor in any involuntary case under the applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law
now or hereafter in effect, or appoints a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee,
sequestrator (or similar official) of the Advisor or for any substantial part of its property or
orders the winding up or liquidation of the Advisor’s affairs; or

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          (iii) The Advisor commences a voluntary case under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or
other similar law now or hereafter in effect, or consents to the entry of an order for relief in an
involuntary case under any such law, or consents to the appointment of or taking possession by a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of the
Advisor or for any substantial part of its property, or makes any general assignment for the
benefit of creditors, or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due.

     The Advisor agrees that if any of the events specified in subsections (ii) or (iii) of this
Section 17(b) occur, it will give written notice thereof to the Company within seven (7) days after
the occurrence of such event.

     (c) By the Advisor. At the sole option of the Advisor, this Agreement shall be terminated
immediately, subject to the thirty (30)-day cure period for a “Good Reason” termination due to a
material breach of this Agreement, upon written notice of termination from the Advisor to the
Company that the Advisor has Good Reason to terminate this Agreement.

     (d) Survival. The provisions of Sections 18 through 31 shall survive termination of this
Agreement.

     18. Assignment. This Agreement shall not be assigned by the Advisor to a
non-Affiliate. This Agreement may be assigned by the Advisor to an Affiliate with the approval of
the Board, including a majority of the Independent Directors. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Advisor may assign any rights to receive fees or other payments under this Agreement without
obtaining the approval of the Board. This Agreement shall not be assigned by the Company or the
Partnership without the consent of the Advisor, except in the case of an assignment by the Company
or the Partnership to a corporation or other organization which is a successor to all of the
assets, rights and obligations of the Company or the Partnership, as the case may be, in which case
such successor organization shall be bound hereunder and by the terms of said assignment in the
same manner as the Company and the Partnership is bound by this Agreement.

     19. Payments to and Duties of Advisor Upon Termination. Payments to the Advisor
pursuant to this Section 18 shall be subject to the 2%/25% Guidelines to the extent applicable.

     (a) After the expiration or termination of this Agreement, the Advisor shall not be entitled
to compensation for further services hereunder except it shall be entitled to receive from the
Company within thirty (30) days after the effective date of such termination all unpaid
reimbursements of expenses and all earned but unpaid fees payable to the Advisor prior to
termination of this Agreement.

     (b) The Advisor shall promptly upon termination:

          (i) pay over to the Company all money collected and held for the account of the Company
pursuant to this Agreement, after deducting any accrued compensation and reimbursement for its
expenses to which it is then entitled;

          (ii) deliver to the Board a full accounting, including a statement showing all payments
collected by it and a statement of all money held by it, covering the period following the date of
the last accounting furnished to the Board;

          (iii) deliver to the Board all assets and documents of the Company then in the custody of the
Advisor; and

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          (iv) cooperate with the Company to provide an orderly management transition.

     20. Indemnification by the Company.

     (a) The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless the Advisor and its Affiliates, including
their respective officers, directors, partners and employees, from all liability, claims, damages
or losses arising in the performance of their duties hereunder, and related expenses, including
reasonable attorneys’ fees, to the extent such liability, claims, damages or losses and related
expenses are not fully reimbursed by insurance, provided that the Company shall not indemnify and
hold harmless the Advisor or its Affiliates unless:

          (i) the Advisor or its Affiliates have determined, in good faith, that the course of conduct
which caused the loss or liability was in the best interests of the Company;

          (ii) the Advisor or its Affiliates were acting on behalf of or performing services for the
Company;

          (iii) such liability or loss was not the result of negligence or misconduct by the Advisor or
its Affiliates; and

          (iv) such indemnification or agreement to hold harmless is recoverable only out of Company’s
net assets and not from its stockholders.

The obligation of the Company to indemnify or hold harmless the Advisor and its Affiliates shall
also be subject to any limitations imposed by Maryland law.

     21. Indemnification by Advisor. The Advisor shall indemnify and hold harmless the
Company from contract or other liability, claims, damages, taxes or losses and related expenses,
including attorneys’ fees, to the extent that such liability, claims, damages, taxes or losses and
related expenses are not fully reimbursed by insurance and are incurred by reason of the Advisor’s
bad faith, fraud, willful misfeasance, misconduct, or reckless disregard of its duties, but the
Advisor shall not be held responsible for any action of the Board in following or declining to
follow advice or recommendation given by the Advisor.

     22. Fidelity Bond. The Advisor shall not be required to obtain or maintain a fidelity
bond in connection with the performance of its services hereunder.

     23. Notices. Any notice, report or other communication required or permitted to be
given hereunder shall be in writing unless some other method of giving such notice, report or other
communication is required by the Articles of Incorporation, the Bylaws, or accepted by the party to
whom it is given, and shall be given by being delivered by hand or by overnight mail or other
overnight delivery service to the addresses set forth herein:

	 	 	 
	To the Board and to the Company:

	 	REITPlus, Inc.
	 

	 	8 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000
	 

	 	Houston, Texas 77046
	 

	 	Attention: Chief Executive Officer

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	To the Partnership:
	 	REITPlus Operating Partnership, LP
	 
	 	8 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000
	 
	 	Houston, Texas 77046
	 
	 	Attention: Chief Executive Officer
of REITPlus, Inc., its General Partner
	 
	 	 
	To the Advisor:
	 	REITPlus Advisor, Inc.
	 
	 	8 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000
	 
	 	Houston, Texas 77046
	 
	 	Attention: Chief Executive Officer

     Either
party may at any time give notice in writing to the other party of a change in its
address for the purposes of this Section 23.

     24. Amendments.
This Agreement shall not be changed, modified, terminated, or
discharged, in whole or in part, except by an instrument in writing signed by each of the parties
hereto, or their respective successors or assignees.

     25. Severability.
The provisions of this Agreement are independent of and severable
from each other, and no provision shall be affected or rendered invalid or unenforceable by virtue
of the fact that for any reason any other or others of them may be invalid or unenforceable in
whole or in part.

     26. Construction.
The provisions of this Agreement shall be construed and interpreted
in accordance with the laws of the State of Maryland.

     27. Entire
Agreement. This Agreement contains the entire agreement and understanding
among the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior and
contemporaneous agreements, understandings, inducements and conditions, express or implied, oral or
written, of any nature whatsoever with respect to the subject matter hereof. The express terms
hereof control and supersede any course of performance and/or usage of the trade inconsistent with
any of the terms hereof. This Agreement may not be modified or amended other than by an agreement
in writing.

     28. Indulgences,
Not Waiver. Neither the failure nor any delay on the part of a party
to exercise any right, remedy, power or privilege under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver
thereof, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege preclude
any other or further exercise of the same or of any other right, remedy, power or privilege, nor
shall any waiver of any right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any occurrence be
construed as a waiver of such right, remedy, power or privilege with respect to any other
occurrence. No waiver shall be effective unless it is in writing and is signed by the party
asserted to have granted such waiver.

     29. Gender. Words
used herein regardless of the number and gender specifically used,
shall be deemed and construed to include any other number, singular or plural, and any other
gender, masculine, feminine or neuter, as the context requires.

     30. Titles
Not to Affect Interpretation. The titles of sections and subsections
contained in this Agreement are for convenience only, and they neither form a part of this
Agreement nor are they to be used in the construction or interpretation hereof.

     31. Execution
in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original as against any party whose signature
appears thereon, and all of which shall together constitute one and the same instrument. This
Agreement

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shall become binding when the counterparts hereof, taken together, bear the signatures of all
of the parties reflected hereon as the signatories.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Advisory Agreement as of the day and
year first above written.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	REITPlus, Inc.
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	By:	 	/c/ Chad C. Braun 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Name:	 	Chad C. Braun 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	Title:	 	Executive Vice President 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	REITPlus Operating Partnership, LP
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	By: REITPlus, Inc., its General Partner
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:	 	/c/ Chad C. Braun 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Name:	 	Chad C. Braun 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Title:	 	Executive Vice President 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	REITPlus Advisor, Inc.
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:	 	/c/ Chad C. Braun 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Name:	 	Chad C. Braun 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Title:	 	Executive Vice President 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	AmREIT, solely in
connection with the obligations set forth in Section 12
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By:	 	/s/ H. Kerr Taylor
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Name:	 	H. Kerr Taylor
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	Title:	 	President and Chief Executive
Officer
	 

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

[Signature Page to Advisory Agreement]EX-10.3 FIRST AMENDED OPERATING PARTNERSHIP AGRMT

 

EXHIBIT 10.3

FIRST
AMENDED AND RESTATED

LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

OF

REITPLUS OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, LP

A DELAWARE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP

October 31, 2007

 

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE 1
	 	 	DEFINED TERMS

	 	 	1	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE 2
	 	 	PARTNERSHIP FORMATION AND IDENTIFICATION

	 	 	8	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	2.1	 	 	Formation

	 	 	8	 
	 	2.2	 	 	Name, Office and Registered Agent

	 	 	8	 
	 	2.3	 	 	Partners

	 	 	8	 
	 	2.4	 	 	Term and Dissolution

	 	 	8	 
	 	2.5	 	 	Filing of Certificate and Perfection of Limited Partnership

	 	 	9	 
	 	2.6	 	 	Certificates Describing Partnership Units and Special Partnership Units

	 	 	9	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE 3
	 	 	BUSINESS OF THE PARTNERSHIP

	 	 	9	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE 4
	 	 	CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACCOUNTS

	 	 	9	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	4.1	 	 	Capital Contributions

	 	 	9	 
	 	4.2	 	 	Additional Capital Contributions and Issuances of Additional Partnership Interests

	 	 	10	 
	 	4.3	 	 	Additional Funding

	 	 	11	 
	 	4.4	 	 	Capital Accounts

	 	 	11	 
	 	4.5	 	 	Percentage Interests

	 	 	12	 
	 	4.6	 	 	No Interest On Contributions

	 	 	12	 
	 	4.7	 	 	Return Of Capital Contributions

	 	 	12	 
	 	4.8	 	 	No Third Party Beneficiary

	 	 	12	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE 5
	 	 	PROFITS AND LOSSES; DISTRIBUTIONS

	 	 	12	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	 	5.1	 	 	Allocation of Profit and Loss

	 	 	12	 
	 	5.2	 	 	Distribution of Cash

	 	 	14	 
	 	5.3	 	 	REIT Distribution Requirements

	 	 	15	 
	 	5.4	 	 	No Right to Distributions in Kind

	 	 	15	 
	 	5.5	 	 	Limitations on Return of Capital Contributions

	 	 	15	 
	 	5.6	 	 	Distributions Upon Liquidation

	 	 	15	 
	 	5.7	 	 	Substantial Economic Effect

	 	 	15	 
	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 
	ARTICLE 6
	 	 	RIGHTS, OBLIGATIONS AND POWERS OF THE GENERAL PARTNER

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	 	6.1	 	 	Management of the Partnership

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	 	6.2	 	 	Delegation of Authority

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	 	6.3	 	 	Indemnification and Exculpation of Indemnitees

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	 	6.4	 	 	Liability of the General Partner

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	 	6.5	 	 	Reimbursement of General Partner

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	 	6.6	 	 	Outside Activities

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	 	6.7	 	 	Employment or Retention of Affiliates

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	 	6.8	 	 	General Partner Participation

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	 	6.9	 	 	Title to Partnership Assets

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	 	6.10	 	 	Miscellaneous

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	 	6.11	 	 	No Duplication of Fees or Expenses

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	ARTICLE 7
	 	 	CHANGES IN GENERAL PARTNER

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	 	7.1	 	 	Transfer of the General Partner’s Partnership Interest

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	 	7.2	 	 	Admission of a Substitute or Additional General Partner

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	 	7.3	 	 	Effect of Bankruptcy, Withdrawal, Death or Dissolution of a General Partner

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	 	7.4	 	 	Removal of a General Partner

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	ARTICLE 8
	 	 	RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE LIMITED PARTNERS

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	 	8.1	 	 	Management of the Partnership

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	 	8.2	 	 	Power of Attorney

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	 	8.3	 	 	Limitation on Liability of Limited Partners

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	 	8.4	 	 	Ownership by Limited Partner of Corporate General Partner or Affiliate

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	 	8.5	 	 	Redemption Right

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	 	8.6	 	 	Registration

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	 	8.7	 	 	Redemption of Special Partnership Units

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	ARTICLE 9
	 	 	TRANSFERS OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS

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	 	9.1	 	 	Purchase for Investment

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	 	9.2	 	 	Restrictions on Transfer of Limited Partnership

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	 	9.3	 	 	Admission of Substitute Limited Partner

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	 	9.4	 	 	Rights of Assignees of Partnership Interests

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	 	9.5	 	 	Effect of Bankruptcy, Death, Incompetence or Termination of a Limited Partner

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	 	9.6	 	 	Joint Ownership of Interests

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	ARTICLE 10
	 	 	BOOKS AND RECORDS; ACCOUNT; TAX MATTERS

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	 	10.1	 	 	Books and Records

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	 	10.2	 	 	Custody of Partnership Funds; Bank Accounts

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	 	10.3	 	 	Fiscal and Taxable Year

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	 	10.4	 	 	Annual Tax Information and Report

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	 	10.5	 	 	Tax Matters Partner; Tax Elections; Special Basis Adjustments

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	 	10.6	 	 	Reports to Limited Partners

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	ARTICLE 11
	 	 	AMENDMENT OF AGREEMENT; MERGER

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	ARTICLE 12
	 	 	GENERAL PROVISIONS

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	 	12.1	 	 	Notices

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	 	12.2	 	 	Survival of Rights

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	 	12.3	 	 	Additional Documents

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	 	12.4	 	 	Severability

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	 	12.5	 	 	Entire Agreement

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	 	12.6	 	 	Pronouns and Plurals

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	 	12.7	 	 	Headings

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	 	12.8	 	 	Counterparts

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	 	12.9	 	 	Governing Law

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EXHIBITS

EXHIBIT A — Partners, Capital Contributions and Percentage Interests or Special Percentage
Interests

EXHIBIT B — Notice of Exercise of Redemption Right

 

FIRST
AMENDED AND RESTATED
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT OF

REITPLUS OPERATING PARTNERSHIP, LP

RECITALS

          This
First Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement (this “Agreement”) is
entered into this 31st day of
October, 2007, between REITPlus, Inc., a Maryland corporation (the “General Partner”) and the
Original Limited Partners set forth on Exhibit A attached hereto. Capitalized terms used
herein but not otherwise defined shall have the meanings given them in Article 1.

AGREEMENT

          WHEREAS, the General Partner intends to qualify as a real estate investment trust under the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended;

          WHEREAS, REITPlus Operating Partnership, LP (the “Partnership”), was formed on April 12, 2007
as a limited partnership under the laws of the State of Delaware, pursuant to a Certificate of
Limited Partnership filed with the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware on
April 12, 2007;

          WHEREAS, the General Partner desires to conduct its current and future business through the
Partnership;

          WHEREAS, in furtherance of the foregoing, the General Partner desires to contribute certain
assets to the Partnership from time to time;

          WHEREAS, in exchange for the General Partner’s contributions, the parties desire that the
Partnership issue Partnership Units to the General Partner in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement;

          WHEREAS, the Limited Partners will make certain contributions to the Partnership in exchange
for Partnership Units or Special Partnership Units in accordance with the terms of this Agreement;

          WHEREAS, in furtherance of the Partnership’s business, the Partnership will acquire Properties
and other assets from time to time by means of the contribution of such Properties or other assets
to the Partnership by the owners thereof in exchange for Partnership Units; and

          WHEREAS, the parties hereto
entered into that certain Limited Partnership Agreement of REITPlus
Operating Partnership, LP on April 23, 2007 and now wish to
amend and restate their respective rights and obligations
in connection with all of the foregoing and certain other matters
pursuant to this Agreement;

          NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing, of mutual covenants between the parties
hereto, and of other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are
hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:

ARTICLE 1

DEFINED TERMS

     The following defined terms used in this Agreement shall have the meanings specified below:

     “Act” means the Delaware Revised Uniform Limited Partnership Act, as it may be amended from
time to time.

     “Additional Funds” has the meaning set forth in Section 4.3 hereof.

     “Additional Securities” means any additional REIT Shares (other than REIT Shares issued in
connection with a redemption pursuant to Section 8.5 hereof or REIT Shares issued pursuant to a
dividend reinvestment plan of the General Partner) or rights, options, warrants or convertible or
exchangeable securities containing the right to subscribe for or purchase REIT Shares, as set forth
in Section 4.2(a)(ii).

     “Administrative Expenses” means (i) all administrative and operating costs and expenses
incurred by the Partnership, (ii) those administrative costs and expenses of the General Partner,
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payments to directors, officers or employees of the General Partner, and any accounting and
legal expenses of the General Partner, which expenses, the Partners have agreed, are expenses of
the Partnership and not the General Partner, and (iii) to the extent not included in clause (ii)
above, REIT Expenses; provided, however, that Administrative Expenses shall not
include any administrative costs and expenses incurred by the General Partner that are attributable
to Properties or partnership interests in a Subsidiary Partnership that are owned by the General
Partner directly.

     “Advisor” or “Advisors” means the Person or Persons, if any, appointed, employed or contracted
with by the General Partner and responsible for directing or performing the day-to-day business
affairs of the General Partner, including any Person to whom the Advisor subcontracts substantially
all of such functions.

     “Advisory Agreement” means the agreement between the General Partner, the Partnership and the
Advisor pursuant to which the Advisor will direct or perform the day-to-day business affairs of the
General Partner.

     “Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, (i) any Person directly or indirectly, owning,
controlling or holding with the power to vote 10% of more of the outstanding voting securities of
such other Person; (ii) any Person 10% or more of whose outstanding voting securities are directly
or indirectly owned, controlled or held, with the power to vote, by such other Person; (iii) any
Person directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by or under common control with such other
Person; (iv) any executive officer, director, trustee or general partner of such other Person; and
(v) any legal entity for which such Person acts an executive officer, director, trustee or general
partner.

     “Aggregate Share Ownership Limit” shall have the meaning set forth in the Articles of
Incorporation.

     “Agreed Value” means the fair market value of a Partner’s non-cash Capital Contribution as of
the date of contribution as agreed to by such Partner and the General Partner. The names and
addresses of the Partners, number of Partnership Units or Special Partnership Units issued to each
Partner, and the Agreed Value of non-cash Capital Contributions as of the date of contribution are
set forth on Exhibit A.

     “Agreement” means this Limited Partnership Agreement, as amended, modified supplemented or
restated from time to time, as the context requires.

     “Applicable Percentage” has the meaning provided in Section 8.5(b) hereof.

     “Appraised Value” means the fair market value of the assets (excluding any assets which may be
readily market to market) of the Partnership as determined by an appraisal made by an independent
appraiser.

     “Articles of Incorporation” means the Articles of Incorporation of the General Partner filed
with the Maryland State Department of Assessments and Taxation, as amended or restated from time to
time.

     “Capital Account” has the meaning provided in Section 4.4 hereof.

     “Capital Contribution” means the total amount of cash, cash equivalents and the Agreed Value
of any Property or other asset (other than cash) contributed or agreed to be contributed, as the
context requires, to the Partnership by each Partner pursuant to the terms of this Agreement. Any
reference to the Capital Contribution of a Partner shall include the Capital Contribution made by a
predecessor holder of the Partnership Interest of such Partner.

     “Carrying Value” means, with respect to any asset of the Partnership, the asset’s adjusted net
basis for federal income tax purposes or, in the case of any asset contributed to the Partnership,
the fair market value of such asset at the time of contribution, reduced by any amounts
attributable to the inclusion of liabilities in basis pursuant to Section 752 of the Code, except
that the Carrying Values of all assets may, at the discretion of the General Partner, be adjusted
to equal their respective fair market values (as determined by the General Partner), in accordance
with the rules set forth in Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f), as provided for in Section
4.4. In the case of any asset of the Partnership that has a Carrying Value that differs from its
adjusted tax basis, the Carrying Value shall be adjusted by the amount of depreciation, depletion
and amortization calculated for purposes of the definition of Profit and Loss rather than the
amount of depreciation, depletion and amortization determined for federal income tax purposes.

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     “Cash Amount” means an amount of cash per Partnership Unit equal to the lesser of (i) the
Value of the REIT Shares Amount on the date of receipt by the General Partner of a Notice of
Redemption or (ii) the applicable Redemption Price determined by the General Partner.

     “Certificate” means any instrument or document that is required under the laws of the State of
Delaware, or any other jurisdiction in which the Partnership conducts business, to be signed and
sworn to by the Partners of the Partnership (either by themselves or pursuant to the
power-of-attorney granted to the General Partner in Section 8.2 hereof) and filed for recording in
the appropriate public offices within the State of Delaware or such other jurisdiction to perfect
or maintain the Partnership as a limited partnership, to effect the admission, withdrawal, or
substitution of any Partner of the Partnership, or to protect the limited liability of the Limited
Partners as limited partners under the laws of the State of Delaware or such other jurisdiction.

     “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and as hereafter amended from time
to time. Reference to any particular provision of the Code shall mean that provision in the Code at
the date hereof and any successor provision of the Code.

     “Commission” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

     “Common Share Ownership Limit” shall have the meaning set forth in the Articles of
Incorporation.

     “Conversion Factor” means 1.0, provided that in the event that the General Partner (i)
declares or pays a dividend on its outstanding REIT Shares in REIT Shares or makes a distribution
to all holders of its outstanding REIT Shares in REIT Shares, (ii) subdivides its outstanding REIT
Shares, or (iii) combines its outstanding REIT Shares into a smaller number of REIT Shares, the
Conversion Factor shall be adjusted by multiplying the Conversion Factor by a fraction, the
numerator of which shall be the number of REIT Shares issued and outstanding on the record date for
such dividend, distribution, subdivision or combination (assuming for such purposes that such
dividend, distribution, subdivision or combination has occurred as of such time), and the
denominator of which shall be the actual number of REIT Shares (determined without the above
assumption) issued and outstanding on such date and, provided further, that in the event that an
entity other than an Affiliate of the General Partner shall become General Partner pursuant to any
merger, consolidation or combination of the General Partner with or into another entity (the
“Successor Entity”), the Conversion Factor shall be adjusted by multiplying the Conversion Factor
by the number of shares of the Successor Entity into which one REIT Share is converted pursuant to
such merger, consolidation or combination, determined as of the date of such merger, consolidation
or combination. Any adjustment to the Conversion Factor shall become effective immediately after
the effective date of such event retroactive to the record date, if any, for such event; provided,
however, that if the General Partner receives a Notice of Redemption after the record date, but
prior to the effective date of such dividend, distribution, subdivision or combination, the
Conversion Factor shall be determined as if the General Partner had received the Notice of
Redemption immediately prior to the record date for such dividend, distribution, subdivision or
combination.

     “Director” shall have the meaning set forth in the Articles of Incorporation.

     “Event of Bankruptcy” as to any Person means the filing of a petition for relief as to such
Person as debtor or bankrupt under the Bankruptcy Code of 1978 or similar provision of law of any
jurisdiction (except if such petition is contested by such Person and has been dismissed within 90
days); insolvency or bankruptcy of such Person as finally determined by a court proceeding; filing
by such Person of a petition or application to accomplish the same or for the appointment of a
receiver or a trustee for such Person or a substantial part of his assets; commencement of any
proceedings relating to such Person as a debtor under any other reorganization, arrangement,
insolvency, adjustment of debt or liquidation law of any jurisdiction, whether now in existence or
hereinafter in effect, either by such Person or by another, provided that if such proceeding is
commenced by another, such Person indicates his approval of such proceeding, consents thereto or
acquiesces therein, or such proceeding is contested by such Person and has not been finally
dismissed within 90 days.

     “Excepted Holder Limit” shall have the meaning set forth in the Articles of Incorporation.

     “General Partner” means REITPlus, Inc. a Maryland corporation, and any Person who becomes a
substitute or additional General Partner as provided herein, and any of their successors as General
Partner.

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     “General Partnership Interest” means a Partnership Interest held by the General Partner that
is a general partnership interest.

     “Indemnitee” means (i) any Person made a party to a proceeding by reason of its status as the
General Partner or a director, officer or employee of the General Partner or the Partnership, and
(ii) such other Persons (including Affiliates of the General Partner or the Partnership) as the
General Partner may designate from time to time, in its sole and absolute discretion.

     “Independent Directors” shall have the meaning set forth in the Articles of Incorporation.

     “Joint Venture” means any joint venture or general partnership arrangement in which the
Partnership is a co-venturer or general partner which is established to acquire Real Property.

     “Limited Partner” means any Person named as a Limited Partner on Exhibit A, as such
Exhibit may be amended from time to time, and any Person who becomes a Substitute Limited Partner,
in such Person’s capacity as a Limited Partner in the Partnership.

     “Limited Partnership Interest” means the ownership interest of a Limited Partner in the
Partnership at any particular time, including the right of such Limited Partner to any and all
benefits to which such Limited Partner may be entitled as provided in this Agreement and in the
Act, together with the obligations of such Limited Partner to comply with all the provisions of
this Agreement and of such Act.

     “Listing” means the listing of the shares of the General Partner’s stock on (i) the New York
Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, or the Global Market and the Global Select Market of
the Nasdaq Stock Market (or any successor to such entities) or (ii) a national securities exchange
(or tier or segment thereof) that has listing standards that the Commission has determined by rule
are substantially similar to the listing standards applicable to securities described in Section
18(b)(1)(A) of the Securities Act.

     “Loss” has the meaning provided in Section 5.1(g) hereof.

     “Minimum Limited Partnership Interest” means the lesser of (i) 1% or (ii) if the total Capital
Contributions to the Partnership exceeds $50 million, 1% divided by the ratio of the total Capital
Contributions to the Partnership to $50 million; provided, however, that the Minimum Limited
Partnership Interest shall not be less than 0.2% at any time.

     “Mortgages” means, in connection with any mortgage financing provided, invested in,
participated in or purchased by the Partnership, all of the notes, deeds of trust, mortgages,
security interests or other evidences of indebtedness or obligations, which are secured by or,
collateralized by, or applicable to any Real Property owned by the borrowers under such notes,
deeds of trust, mortgages, security interests or other evidences of indebtedness or obligations.

     “Net Sales Proceeds” means (i) in the case of a transaction described in clause (A)(i) of the
definition of Sale, the proceeds of any such transaction less the amount of selling expenses
incurred by or on behalf of the Partnership, including all real estate commissions, closings costs
and legal fees and expenses; (ii) in the case of a transaction described in clause (A)(ii) of the
definition of Sale, the proceeds of any such transaction less the amount of selling expenses
incurred by or on behalf of the Partnership, including any legal fees and expenses and other
selling expenses incurred in connection with such transaction; (iii) in the case of a transaction
described in clause (A)(iii) of the definition of Sale, the proceeds of any such transaction
actually distributed to the Partnership from the Joint Venture or Subsidiary less the amount of any
selling expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Partnership (other than those paid by the Joint
Venture or Subsidiary); (iv) in the case of a transaction described in clause (A)(iv) of the
definition of Sale, the proceeds of any such transaction (including the aggregate of all payment
under a Mortgage on or in satisfaction thereof other than regularly schedule interest payments)
less the amount of selling expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Partnership, including all
commissions, closing costs and legal fees and expenses; (v) in the case of a transaction described
in clause (A)(v) of the definition of Sale, the proceeds of any such transaction less the amount of
selling expenses incurred by or on behalf of the Partnership, including any legal fees and expenses
and other selling expenses incurred in connection with such transaction; and (vi) in the case of a
transaction described in clause (B) of the definition of Sale, the proceeds of such transaction or
series of transactions less all amounts generated thereby which are reinvested in one or more
assets as described in clause (B) of the

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definition of Sale within 180 days thereafter and less the amount of any real estate
commissions, closing costs, and legal fees and expenses and other selling expenses incurred by or
allocated to the Partnership in connection with such transaction or series of transactions. Net
Sale Proceeds shall also include any amounts that the General Partner determines, in its
discretion, to be economically equivalent to the proceeds of a Sale. Net Sales Proceeds shall not
include any reserves established by the Partnership in its sole discretion.

     “Notice Of Redemption” means the Notice of Exercise of Redemption Right substantially in the
form attached as Exhibit B hereto.

     “Offer” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.1(c) hereof.

     “Offering” means the initial offer and sale of REIT Shares to the public.

     “OP Unitholders” means all holders of Partnership Interests other than the Special OP
Unitholders.

     “Original Limited Partners” means the Limited Partners designated as “Original Limited
Partners” on Exhibit A hereto.

     “Partner” means any General Partner or Limited Partner.

     “Partner Nonrecourse Debt Minimum Gain” has the meaning set forth in Regulations Section
1.704-2(i). A Partner’s share of Partner Nonrecourse Debt Minimum Gain shall be determined in
accordance with Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(5).

     “Partnership” means REITPlus Operating Partnership, LP, a Delaware limited partnership.

     “Partnership Interest” means an ownership interest in the Partnership held by either a Limited
Partner or the General Partner and includes any and all benefits to which the holder of such a
Partnership Interest may be entitled as provided in this Agreement, together with all obligations
of such Person to comply with the terms and provisions of this Agreement.

     “Partnership Minimum Gain” has the meaning set forth in Regulations Section 1.704-2(d). In
accordance with Regulations Section 1.704-2(d), the amount of Partnership Minimum Gain is
determined by first computing, for each Partnership nonrecourse liability, any gain the Partnership
would realize if it disposed of the property subject to that liability for no consideration other
than full satisfaction of the liability, and then aggregating the separately computed gains. A
Partner’s share of Partnership Minimum Gain shall be determined in accordance with Regulations
Section 1.704-2(g)(1).

     “Partnership Record Date” means the record date established by the General Partner for the
distribution of cash pursuant to Section 5.2 hereof, which record date shall be the same as the
record date established by the General Partner for a distribution to its shareholders of some or
all of its portion of such distribution.

     “Partnership Unit” means a fractional, undivided share of the Partnership Interests of all
Partners issued hereunder, excluding the Partnership Interests represented by Special Partnership
Units. The allocation of Partnership Units among the Partners shall be as set forth on Exhibit
A, as such Exhibit may be amended from time to time.

     “Percentage Interest” means the percentage ownership interest in the Partnership of each
Partner, as determined by dividing the Partnership Units owned by a Partner by the total number of
Partnership Units then outstanding. The Percentage Interest of each Partner shall be as set forth
on Exhibit A, as such Exhibit may be amended from time to time.

     “Person” means any individual, partnership, limited liability company, corporation, joint
venture, trust or other entity.

     “Profit” has the meaning provided in Section 5.1(g) hereof.

     “Property” means any Real Property, or other investment in which the Partnership holds an
ownership interest.

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     “Real Property” means (i) the real properties, including the buildings located thereon, or
(ii) the real properties only, or (iii) the buildings only, which are acquired by the Partnership,
either directly or through joint venture arrangements or other partnerships.

     “Redemption Price” means the Value of the REIT Shares Amount on the date of receipt by the
General Partner of a Notice of Redemption.

     “Redemption Right” has the meaning provided in Section 8.5(a) hereof.

     “Regulations” means the Federal income tax regulations promulgated under the Code, as amended
and as hereafter amended from time to time. Reference to any particular provision of the
Regulations shall mean that provision of the Regulations on the date hereof and any successor
provision of the Regulations.

     “Regulatory Allocations” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.1(h) hereof.

     “REIT” means a real estate investment trust under Sections 856 through 860 of the Code.

     “REIT Expenses” means (i) costs and expenses relating to the formation and continuity of
existence and operation of the General Partner and any Subsidiaries thereof (which Subsidiaries
shall, for purposes hereof, be included within the definition of General Partner), including taxes,
fees and assessments associated therewith, any and all costs, expenses or fees payable to any
director, officer, or employee of the General Partner, (ii) costs and expenses relating to any
public offering and registration of securities by the General Partner and all statements, reports,
fees and expenses incidental thereto, including, without limitation, underwriting discounts and
selling commissions applicable to any such offering of securities, and any costs and expenses
associated with any claims made by any holders of such securities or any underwriters or placement
agents thereof, (iii) costs and expenses associated with any repurchase of any securities by the
General Partner, (iv) costs and expenses associated with the preparation and filing of any periodic
or other reports and communications by the General Partner under federal, state or local laws or
regulations, including filings with the Commission, (v) costs and expenses associated with
compliance by the General Partner with laws, rules and regulations promulgated by any regulatory
body, including the Commission and any securities exchange, (vi) costs and expenses associated with
any 401(k) plan, incentive plan, bonus plan or other plan providing for compensation for the
employees of the General Partner, (vii) costs and expenses incurred by the General Partner relating
to any issuing or redemption of Partnership Interests, and (viii) all other operating or
administrative costs of the General Partner incurred in the ordinary course of its business on
behalf of or in connection with the Partnership.

     “REIT Share” means a share of common stock in the General Partner (or successor entity, as the
case may be).

     “REIT Shares Amount” means a number of REIT Shares equal to the product of the number of
Partnership Units offered for exchange by a Tendering Party, multiplied by the Conversion Factor as
adjusted to and including the Specified Redemption Date; provided that in the event the General
Partner issues to all holders of REIT Shares rights, options, warrants or convertible or
exchangeable securities entitling the shareholders to subscribe for or purchase REIT Shares, or any
other securities or property (collectively, the “rights”), and the rights have not expired at the
Specified Redemption Date, then the REIT Shares Amount shall also include the rights issuable to a
holder of the REIT Shares Amount of REIT Shares on the record date fixed for purposes of
determining the holders of REIT Shares entitled to rights.

     “Related Party” means, with respect to any Person, any other Person whose ownership of shares
of the General Partner’s capital stock would be attributed to the first such Person under Code
Section 544 (as modified by Code Section 856(h)(1)(B)).

     “Sale” means (A) any transaction or series of transactions whereby: (i) the Partnership
directly or indirectly (except as described in other subsections of this definition) sells, grants,
transfers, conveys, or relinquishes its ownership of any Real Property or portion thereof,
including the lease of any Real Property consisting of the building only, and including any event
with respect to any Real Property which gives rise to a significant amount of insurance proceeds or
condemnation awards; (ii) the Partnership directly or indirectly (except as described in other
subsections of this definition) sells, grants, transfers, conveys, or relinquishes its ownership of
all or substantially all of the interest of the Partnership in any Joint Venture or Subsidiary;
(iii) any Joint Venture or Subsidiary, directly or

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indirectly (except as described in other subsections of this definition) in which the
Partnership is a co-venturer, partner, owner, member or shareholder, sells, grants, transfers,
conveys, or relinquishes its ownership of any Real Property or portion thereof, including any event
with respect to any Real Property which gives rise to insurance claims or condemnation awards; (iv)
the Partnership directly or indirectly (except as described in other subsections of this
definition) sells, grants, conveys or relinquishes its interest in any Mortgage or portion thereof
(including with respect to any Mortgage, all payments thereunder or in satisfaction thereof other
than regularly scheduled interest payments) of amounts owed pursuant to such Mortgage and any event
which gives rise to a significant among of insurance proceeds or similar awards; or (v) the
Partnership directly or indirectly (except as described in any other subsections of this
definition) sells, grants, transfers, conveys, or relinquishes its ownership of any other Real
Property, Mortgage or other investment owned by the Partnership, directly or indirectly through one
or more of its Affiliates, and any other investment made, directly or indirectly through one of
more of its Affiliates, not previously described in this definition of any portion thereof, but (B)
not including any transaction or series of transactions specified in clause (A) (i) through (v)
above in which the proceeds of such transaction or series of transactions are reinvested by the
Partnership in one or more such assets within 180 days thereafter.

     “Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and the rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.

     “Service” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.

     “Special OP Unitholders” means the holders of Special Partnership Units.

     “Special Partnership Unit” means a unit of a series of Partnership Interests, designated as
Special Partnership Units, issued pursuant to Section 4.1. The number of Special Partnership Units
outstanding and the Special Percentage Interests in the Partnership represented by such Special
Partnership Units are set forth on Exhibit A, as such Exhibit may be amended from time to
time. A holder of a Special Partnership Unit shall have the same rights and preferences as a holder
of a Partnership Unit under this Agreement that is a Limited Partner except as set forth in
Sections 5.2(b), 7.1(c), 8.5 and 8.6.

     “Special Percentage Interest” shall mean the percentage ownership interest in the Partnership
of each Special OP Unitholder, as determined by dividing the Special Partnership Units owned by
each Special OP Unitholder by the total number of Special Partnership Units then outstanding. The
Special Percentage Interest of each Partner shall be as set forth on Exhibit A, as such
Exhibit may be amended from time to time.

     “Specified Redemption Date” means the first business day of the month that is at least sixty
(60) business days after the receipt by the General Partner of the Notice of Redemption.

     “Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any corporation or other entity of which a
majority of (i) the voting power of the voting equity securities or (ii) the outstanding equity
interests is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person.

     “Subsidiary Partnership” means any partnership of which the partnership interests therein are
owned by the General Partner or a direct or indirect subsidiary of the General Partner.

     “Substitute Limited Partner” means any Person admitted to the Partnership as a Limited Partner
pursuant to Section 9.3 hereof.

     “Successor Entity” has the meaning provided in the definition of “Conversion Factor” contained
herein.

     “Survivor” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.1(d) hereof.

     “Tax Matters Partner” has the meaning described in Section 10.5(a) hereof.

     “Termination Event” means the termination or nonrenewal of the Advisory Agreement (i) in
connection with a merger, sale of assets or transaction involving the General Partner pursuant to
which a majority of the directors of the General Partner then in office are replaced or removed,
(ii) by the Advisor for “good reason” (as defined in the Advisory Agreement) or (iii) by the
General Partner other than for “cause” (as defined in the Advisory Agreement).

     “Tendered Units” has the meaning provided in Section 8.5(a) hereof.

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     “Tendering Party” has the meaning provided in Section 8.5(a) hereof.

     “Transaction” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.1(c) hereof.

     “Transfer” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.2(a) hereof.

     “Value” means the fair market value per share of REIT Shares which will equal: (i) if REIT
Shares are Listed, the average closing price per share for the previous thirty business days, (ii)
if REIT Shares are not Listed, the most recent offering price per share or share equivalent of REIT
Shares, until December 31st of the year following the year in which the most recently completed
offering of REIT Shares has expired, and (iii) thereafter, such price per REIT Share as the
management of the General Partner determines in good faith.

ARTICLE 2

PARTNERSHIP FORMATION AND IDENTIFICATION

     2.1 Formation. The Partnership was formed as a limited partnership pursuant to the
Act and all other pertinent laws of the State of Delaware, for the purposes and upon the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement.

     2.2 Name, Office and Registered Agent. The name of the Partnership is REITPlus
Operating Partnership, L.P. The specified office and place of business of the Partnership shall be
8 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000, Houston, TX 77046. The General Partner may at any time change the
location of such office, provided the General Partner gives notice to the Partners of any such
change. The name and address of the Partnership’s registered agent is Capitol Services, Inc., 615
South DuPont Highway, Dover, Kent County, Delaware 19901. The sole duty of the registered agent as
such is to forward to the Partnership any notice that is served on him as registered agent.

     2.3 Partners.

          (a) The General Partner of the Partnership is REITPlus, Inc., a Maryland corporation. Its
principal place of business is the same as that of the Partnership.

          (b) The Limited Partners are those Persons identified as Limited Partners on Exhibit A
hereto, as amended from time to time.

     2.4 Term and Dissolution.

          (a) The term of the Partnership shall continue in full force and effect until December 31,
2037, except that the Partnership shall be dissolved upon the first to occur of any of the
following events:

               (i) The occurrence of an Event of Bankruptcy as to a General Partner or the dissolution,
death, removal or withdrawal of a General Partner unless the business of the Partnership is
continued pursuant to Section 7.3(b) hereof; provided that if a General Partner is on the date of
such occurrence a partnership, the dissolution of such General Partner as a result of the
dissolution, death, withdrawal, removal or Event of Bankruptcy of a partner in such partnership
shall not be an event of dissolution of the Partnership if the business of such General Partner is
continued by the remaining partner or partners, either alone or with additional partners, and such
General Partner and such partners comply with any other applicable requirements of this Agreement;

               (ii) The passage of ninety (90) days after the sale or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Partnership (provided that if the Partnership receives an
installment obligation as consideration for such sale or other disposition, the Partnership shall
continue, unless sooner dissolved under the provisions of this Agreement, until such time as such
note or notes are paid in full);

               (iii) The exchange of all Limited Partnership Interests (other than any of such interests held
by the General Partner or Affiliates of the General Partner) for REIT Shares or the securities of
any other entity; or

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               (iv) The election by the General Partner that the Partnership should be dissolved.

          (b) Upon dissolution of the Partnership (unless the business of the Partnership is continued
pursuant to Section 7.3(b) hereof), the General Partner (or its trustee, receiver, successor or
legal representative) shall amend or cancel any Certificate(s) and liquidate the Partnership’s
assets and apply and distribute the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 5.6 hereof.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the liquidating General Partner may either (i) defer liquidation of,
or withhold from distribution for a reasonable time, any assets of the Partnership (including those
necessary to satisfy the Partnership’s debts and obligations), or (ii) distribute the assets to the
Partners in kind.

     2.5 Filing of Certificate and Perfection of Limited Partnership. The General Partner
shall execute, acknowledge, record and file at the expense of the Partnership, any and all
amendments to the Certificate(s) and all requisite fictitious name statements and notices in such
places and jurisdictions as may be necessary to cause the Partnership to be treated as a limited
partnership under, and otherwise to comply with, the laws of each state or other jurisdiction in
which the Partnership conducts business.

     2.6 Certificates Describing Partnership Units and Special Partnership Units. At the
request of a Limited Partner, the General Partner, at its option, may issue (but in no way is
obligated to issue) a certificate summarizing the terms of such Limited Partner’s interest in the
Partnership, including the number of Partnership Units and Special Partnership Units owned and the
Percentage Interest and Special Percentage Interest represented by such Partnership Units and
Special Partnership Units as of the date of such certificate. Any such certificate (i) shall be in
form and substance as approved by the General Partner, (ii) shall not be negotiable and (iii) shall
bear a legend to the following effect:

This certificate is not negotiable. The Partnership Units and Special
Partnership Units represented by this certificate are governed by and
transferable only in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, as
amended from time to time.

ARTICLE 3

BUSINESS OF THE PARTNERSHIP

     The purpose and nature of the business to be conducted by the Partnership is (i) to conduct
any business that may be lawfully conducted by a limited partnership organized pursuant to the Act;
provided, however, that such business shall be limited to and conducted in such a manner as to
permit the General Partner at all times to qualify as a REIT, unless the General Partner otherwise
ceases to qualify as a REIT, and in a manner such that the General Partner will not be subject to
any taxes under Section 857 or 4981 of the Code, (ii) to enter into any partnership, joint venture
or other similar arrangement to engage in any of the foregoing or the ownership of interests in any
entity engaged in any of the foregoing and (iii) to do anything necessary or incidental to the
foregoing. In connection with the foregoing, and without limiting the General Partner’s right in
its sole and absolute discretion to qualify or cease qualifying as a REIT, the Partners acknowledge
that the General Partner intends to qualify as a REIT for federal income tax purposes and upon such
qualification the avoidance of income and excise taxes on the General Partner inures to the benefit
of all the Partners and not solely to the General Partner. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
Limited Partners agree that the General Partner may terminate its status as a REIT under the Code
at any time to the full extent permitted under the Articles of Incorporation. The General Partner
on behalf of the Partnership shall also be empowered to do any and all acts and things necessary or
prudent to ensure that the Partnership will not be classified as a “publicly traded partnership”
for purposes of Section 7704 of the Code.

ARTICLE 4

CAPITAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND ACCOUNTS

     4.1 Capital Contributions. The General Partner and the Original Limited Partners have
made capital contributions to the Partnership in exchange for the Partnership Interests set forth
opposite their names on Exhibit A, as such Exhibit may be amended from time to time.

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     4.2 Additional Capital Contributions and Issuances of Additional Partnership
Interests. Except as provided in this Section 4.2 or in Section 4.3, the Partners shall have
no right or obligation to make any additional Capital Contributions or loans to the Partnership.
The General Partner may contribute additional capital to the Partnership, from time to time, and
receive additional Partnership Interests in respect thereof, in the manner contemplated in this
Section 4.2.

          (a) Issuances of Additional Partnership Interests.

               (i) General. The General Partner is hereby authorized to cause the Partnership to
issue such additional Partnership Interests in the form of Partnership Units for any Partnership
purpose at any time or from time to time, including but not limited to Partnership Units issued in
connection with acquisitions of properties, to the Partners (including the General Partner) or to
other Persons for such consideration and on such terms and conditions as shall be established by
the General Partner in its sole and absolute discretion, all without the approval of any Limited
Partners. Any additional Partnership Interests issued thereby may be issued in one or more classes,
or one or more series of any of such classes, with such designations, preferences and relative,
participating, optional or other special rights, powers and duties, including rights, powers and
duties senior to Limited Partnership Interests, all as shall be determined by the General Partner
in its sole and absolute discretion and without the approval of any Limited Partner, subject to
Delaware law, including, without limitation, (i) the allocations of items of Partnership income,
gain, loss, deduction and credit to each such class or series of Partnership Interests; (ii) the
right of each such class or series of Partnership Interests to share in Partnership distributions;
and (iii) the rights of each such class or series of Partnership Interests upon dissolution and
liquidation of the Partnership; provided, however, that no additional Partnership Interests shall
be issued to the General Partner unless:

                    (1) (A) the additional Partnership Interests are issued in connection with an issuance of REIT
Shares of or other interests in the General Partner, which shares or interests have designations,
preferences and other rights, all such that the economic interests are substantially similar to the
designations, preferences and other rights of the additional Partnership Interests issued to the
General Partner by the Partnership in accordance with this Section 4.2 and (B) the General Partner
shall make a Capital Contribution to the Partnership in an amount equal to the proceeds raised in
connection with the issuance of such shares of stock of or other interests in the General Partner;

                    (2) the additional Partnership Interests are issued in exchange for property owned by the
General Partner with a fair market value, as determined by the General Partner, in good faith,
equal to the value of the Partnership Interests; or

                    (3) the additional Partnership Interests are issued to all Partners holding Partnership Units
in proportion to their respective Percentage Interests.

               (ii) Upon Issuance of Additional Securities. The General Partner shall not issue any
Additional Securities other than to all holders of REIT Shares, unless (A) the General Partner
shall cause the Partnership to issue to the General Partner, as the General Partner may designate,
Partnership Interests or rights, options, warrants or convertible or exchangeable securities of the
Partnership having designations, preferences and other rights, all such that the economic interests
are substantially similar to those of the Additional Securities, and (B) the General Partner
contributes the proceeds from the issuance of such Additional Securities and from any
exercise of rights contained in such Additional Securities, directly and through the General
Partner, to the Partnership; provided, however, that the General Partner is allowed to issue
Additional Securities in connection with an acquisition of a property to be held directly by the
General Partner, but if and only if, such direct acquisition and issuance of Additional Securities
have been approved and determined to be in the best interests of the General Partner and the
Partnership by a majority of the Independent Directors. Without limiting the foregoing, the General
Partner is expressly authorized to issue Additional Securities for less than fair market value, and
to cause the Partnership to issue to the General Partner corresponding Partnership Interests, so
long as (x) the General Partner concludes in good faith that such issuance is in the best interests
of the General Partner and the Partnership, including without limitation, the issuance of REIT
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employee share purchase plan providing
for employee purchases of REIT Shares at a discount from fair market value or employee stock
options that have an exercise price that is less than the fair market value of the REIT Shares,
either at the time of issuance or at the time of exercise, and (y) the General Partner contributes
all proceeds from such issuance to the Partnership. For example, in the event the General Partner
issues REIT Shares for a cash purchase price and contributes all of the proceeds of such issuance
to the Partnership as required hereunder, the General Partner shall be issued a number of
additional Partnership Units equal to the product of (A) the number of such REIT Shares issued by
the General Partner, the proceeds of which were so contributed, multiplied by (B) a fraction, the
numerator of which is 100%, and the denominator of which is the Conversion Factor in effect on the
date of such contribution.

               (b) Certain Deemed Contributions of Proceeds of Issuance of REIT Shares. In connection with
any and all issuances of REIT Shares, the General Partner shall make Capital Contributions to the
Partnership of the proceeds therefrom, provided that if the proceeds actually received and
contributed by the General Partner are less than the gross proceeds of such issuance as a result of
any underwriter’s discount or other expenses paid or incurred in connection with such issuance,
then the General Partner shall be deemed to have made Capital Contributions to the Partnership in
the aggregate amount of the gross proceeds of such issuance and the Partnership shall be deemed
simultaneously to have paid such offering expenses in accordance with Section 6.5 hereof and in
connection with the required issuance of additional Partnership Units to the General Partner for
such Capital Contributions pursuant to Section 4.2(a) hereof.

               (c) Certain Deemed Contributions by Original Limited Partners. The Original Limited Partners
acquired their initial Partnership Units and Special Partnership Units without deduction for any
expenses, fees, or commissions that would have been payable in connection with the issuance of REIT
Shares (i.e., at a price of $9.03 per unit), however, such Original Limited Partners shall be
deemed to have made their initial Capital Contributions in an aggregate amount equal to the sum of
what the Original Limited Partners actually contributed plus the amount of expenses that would have
applied in connection with the related issuance of REIT Shares (i.e., at a price of $10.00 per
unit) and the Partnership shall be deemed simultaneously to have paid such offering expenses.

               (d) Minimum Limited Partnership Interest. In the event that either a redemption pursuant to
Section 8.5 hereof or additional Capital Contributions by the General Partner would result in the
Limited Partners, in the aggregate, owning less than the Minimum Limited Partnership Interest, the
General Partner and the Limited Partners (other than the Limited Partners that own only Special
Partnership Units) shall form another partnership and contribute sufficient Limited Partnership
Interests (other than Special Partnership Units) together with such other Limited Partners so that
the limited partners of such partnership own at least the Minimum Limited Partnership Interest.

     4.3 Additional Funding. If the General Partner determines that it is in the best
interests of the Partnership to provide for additional Partnership funds (“Additional Funds”) for
any Partnership purpose, the General Partner may (i) cause the Partnership to obtain such funds
from outside borrowings, or (ii) elect to have the General Partner or any of its Affiliates provide
such Additional Funds to the Partnership through loans or otherwise, provided, however, that the
Partnership may not borrow money from its Affiliates, unless a majority of the Directors of the
General Partner (including a majority of Independent Directors) not otherwise interested in such
transaction approve the transaction as being fair, competitive, and commercially reasonable and no
less favorable to the Partnership than loans between unaffiliated parties under the same
circumstances.

     4.4 Capital Accounts. A separate capital account (a “Capital Account”) shall be
established and maintained for each Partner in accordance with Regulations
Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv). If (i) a new or existing Partner acquires an additional Partnership
Interest in exchange for more than a de minimis Capital Contribution, (ii) the Partnership
distributes to a Partner more than a de minimis amount of Partnership property or money as
consideration for a Partnership Interest, or (iii) the Partnership is liquidated within the meaning
of Regulation Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(g), the General Partner shall revalue the property of the
Partnership to its fair market value (as determined by the General Partner, in its sole and
absolute discretion, and taking into account Section 7701(g) of the Code) in accordance with
Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f). When the Partnership’s property is revalued by the
General Partner, the Capital Accounts of the Partners shall be adjusted in accordance with
Regulations Sections 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv)(f) and (g), which generally require such Capital Accounts to
be adjusted to reflect the manner in which the unrealized gain or loss inherent in such property
(that has not been reflected in the Capital Accounts previously) would be allocated among the
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disposition of such property for its fair
market value (as determined by the General Partner, in its sole and absolute discretion, and taking
into account Section 7701(g) of the Code) on the date of the revaluation.

     4.5 Percentage Interests. If the number of outstanding Partnership Units increases or
decreases during a taxable year, each Partner’s Percentage Interest shall be adjusted by the
General Partner effective as of the effective date of each such increase or decrease to a
percentage equal to the number of Partnership Units held by such Partner divided by the aggregate
number of Partnership Units outstanding after giving effect to such increase or decrease. If the
Partners’ Percentage Interests are adjusted pursuant to this Section 4.5, the Profits and Losses
for the taxable year in which the adjustment occurs shall be allocated between the part of the year
ending on the day when the Partnership’s property is revalued by the General Partner and the part
of the year beginning on the following day either (i) as if the taxable year had ended on the date
of the adjustment or (ii) based on the number of days in each part. The General Partner, in its
sole and absolute discretion, shall determine which method shall be used to allocate Profits and
Losses for the taxable year in which the adjustment occurs. The allocation of Profits and Losses
for the earlier part of the year shall be based on the Percentage Interests before adjustment, and
the allocation of Profits and Losses for the later part shall be based on the adjusted Percentage
Interests.

     4.6 No Interest On Contributions. No Partner shall be entitled to interest on its
Capital Contribution.

     4.7 Return Of Capital Contributions. No Partner shall be entitled to withdraw any
part of its Capital Contribution or its Capital Account or to receive any distribution from the
Partnership, except as specifically provided in this Agreement. Except as otherwise provided
herein, there shall be no obligation to return to any Partner or withdrawn Partner any part of such
Partner’s Capital Contribution for so long as the Partnership continues in existence.

     4.8 No Third Party Beneficiary. No creditor or other third party having dealings
with the Partnership shall have the right to enforce the right or obligation of any Partner to make
Capital Contributions or loans or to pursue any other right or remedy hereunder or at law or in
equity, it being understood and agreed that the provisions of this Agreement shall be solely for
the benefit of, and may be enforced solely by, the parties hereto and their respective successors
and assigns. None of the rights or obligations of the Partners herein set forth to make Capital
Contributions or loans to the Partnership shall be deemed an asset of the Partnership for any
purpose by any creditor or other third party, nor may such rights or obligations be sold,
transferred or assigned by the Partnership or pledged or encumbered by the Partnership to secure
any debt or other obligation of the Partnership or of any of the Partners. In addition, it is the
intent of the parties hereto that no distribution to any Limited Partner shall be deemed a return
of money or other property in violation of the Act. However, if any court of competent jurisdiction
holds that, notwithstanding the provisions of this Agreement, any Limited Partner is obligated to
return such money or property, such obligation shall be the obligation of such Limited Partner and
not of the General Partner. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, a deficit Capital
Account of a Partner shall not be deemed to be a liability of such Partner nor an asset or property
of the Partnership.

ARTICLE 5

PROFITS AND LOSSES; DISTRIBUTIONS

     5.1 Allocation of Profit and Loss.

          (a) General. Profit and Loss (or items thereof) of the Partnership for each fiscal year or
other applicable period of the Partnership shall be allocated among the OP Unitholders in
accordance with their respective Percentage Interests.

          (b) Special Allocation with Respect to Sales. The items of Profit and Loss of the Partnership
for each fiscal year or other applicable period from Sales shall be allocated among the Partners in
a manner that will, as nearly as possible (after giving effect to the allocations under Section
5.1(a), and 5.1(c), cause the Capital Account balance of each Partner at the end of such fiscal
year or other applicable period to equal (i) the amount of the hypothetical distribution that such
Partner would receive if the Partnership were liquidated on the last day of such period and all
assets of the Partnership, including cash, were sold for cash equal to their Carrying Value, taking
into account any adjustments thereto for such period, all liabilities of the Partnership were
satisfied in full in cash according to their terms (limited with respect to each nonrecourse
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securing such liability) and Net Sales Proceeds
(after satisfaction of such liabilities) were distributed in full pursuant to Section 5.2(b)(i),
minus (ii) the sum of such Partner’s share of Partnership Minimum Gain and Partner Nonrecourse Debt
Minimum Gain and the amount, if any and without duplication, that the Partner would be obligated to
contribute to the capital of the Partnership, all computed as of the date of the hypothetical sale
of assets.

          (c) Nonrecourse Deductions; Minimum Gain Chargeback. Notwithstanding any provision to the
contrary, (i) any expense of the Partnership that is a “nonrecourse deduction” within the meaning
of Regulations Section 1.704-2(b)(1) shall be allocated in accordance with the Partners’ respective
Percentage Interests, (ii) any expense of the Partnership that is a “partner nonrecourse deduction”
within the meaning of Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(2) shall be allocated to the Partner that
bears the “economic risk of loss” with respect to the liability to which such deductions are
attributable in accordance with Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(1), (iii) if there is a net decrease
in Partnership Minimum Gain within the meaning of Regulations Section 1.704-2(f)(1) for any
Partnership taxable year, then, subject to the exceptions set forth in Regulations Section
1.704-2(f)(2),(3), (4) and (5), items of gain and income shall be allocated among the Partners in
accordance with Regulations Section 1.704-2(f) and the ordering rules contained in Regulations
Section 1.704-2(j), and (iv) if there is a net decrease in Partner Nonrecourse Debt Minimum Gain
within the meaning of Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(4) for any Partnership taxable year, then,
subject to the exceptions set forth in Regulations Section 1.704-(2)(g), items of gain and income
shall be allocated among the Partners in accordance with Regulations Section 1.704-2(i)(4) and the
ordering rules contained in Regulations Section 1.704-2(j). A Partner’s “interest in partnership
profits” for purposes of determining its share of the excess nonrecourse liabilities of the
Partnership within the meaning of Regulations Section 1.752-3(a)(3) shall be such Partner’s
Percentage Interest.

          (d) Qualified Income Offset. If a Partner unexpectedly receives in any taxable year an
adjustment, allocation, or distribution described in subparagraphs (4), (5), or (6) of Regulations
Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d) that causes or increases a deficit balance in such Partner’s Capital
Account that exceeds the sum of such Partner’s shares of Partnership Minimum Gain and Partner
Nonrecourse Debt Minimum Gain, as determined in accordance with Regulations Sections 1.704-2(g)(1)
and 1.704-2(i)(5), such Partner shall be allocated specially for such taxable year (and, if
necessary, later taxable years) items of income and gain in an amount and manner sufficient to
eliminate such deficit Capital Account balance as quickly as possible as provided in Regulations
Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d). This Section 5.1(d) is intended to constitute a “qualified income
offset” under Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d) of the Regulations and shall be interpreted consistently
therewith. After the occurrence of an allocation of income or gain to a Partner in accordance with
this Section 5.1(d), to the extent permitted by Regulations Section 1.704-1(b), items of expense or
loss shall be allocated to such Partner in an amount necessary to offset the income or gain
previously allocated to such Partner under this Section 5.1(d).

          (e) Capital Account Deficits. Loss (or items of Loss) shall not be allocated to a Limited
Partner to the extent that such allocation would cause or increase a deficit in such Partner’s
Capital Account at the end of any fiscal year (after reduction to reflect the items described in
Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(ii)(d)(4), (5) and (6)) to exceed the sum of such Partner’s
shares of Partnership Minimum Gain and Partner Nonrecourse Debt
Minimum Gain, as determined in accordance with Regulations Sections 1.704-2(g)(1) and
1.704-2(i)(5). Any Loss in excess of that limitation shall be allocated to the General Partner.
After the occurrence of an allocation of Loss to the General Partner in accordance with this
Section 5.1(e), to the extent permitted by Regulations Section 1.704-1(b), Profit shall be
allocated to such Partner in an amount necessary to offset the Loss previously allocated to such
Partner under this Section 5.1(e).

          (f) Allocations Between Transferor and Transferee. If a Partner transfers any part or all of
its Partnership Interest, the distributive shares of the various items of Profit and Loss allocable
among the Partners during such fiscal year of the Partnership shall be allocated between the
transferor and the transferee Partner either (i) as if the Partnership’s fiscal year had ended on
the date of the transfer, or (ii) based on the number of days of such fiscal year that each was a
Partner without regard to the results of Partnership activities in the respective portions of such
fiscal year in which the transferor and the transferee were Partners. The General Partner, in its
sole and absolute discretion, shall determine which method shall be used to allocate the
distributive shares of the various items of Profit and Loss between the transferor and the
transferee Partner.

          (g) Definition of Profit and Loss. “Profit” and “Loss” and any items of income, gain, expense,
or loss referred to in this Agreement shall be determined in accordance with federal income tax
accounting principles, as modified by Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(2)(iv), except that Profit and
Loss shall not include items of income,

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gain and expense that are specially allocated pursuant to
Sections 5.1(b), 5.1(c), 5.1(d), or 5.1(e). All allocations of Profit and Loss (and all items
contained therein) for federal income tax purposes shall be identical to all allocations of such
items set forth in this Section 5.1, except as otherwise required by Section 704(c) of the Code and
Regulations Section 1.704-1(b)(4). The General Partner shall have the authority to elect the method
to be used by the Partnership for allocating items of income, gain, and expense as required by
Section 704(c) of the Code including a method that may result in a Partner receiving a
disproportionately larger share of the Partnership tax depreciation deductions, and such election
shall be binding on all Partners.

          (h) Curative Allocations. The allocations set forth in Section 5.1(c), (d) and (e) of this
Agreement (the “Regulatory Allocations”) are intended to comply with certain requirements of the
Regulations. The General Partner is authorized to offset all Regulatory Allocations either with
other Regulatory Allocations or with special allocations of other items of Partnership income,
gain, loss or deduction pursuant to this Section 5.1(h). Therefore, notwithstanding any other
provision of this Section 5.1 (other than the Regulatory Allocations), the General Partner shall
make such offsetting special allocations of Partnership income, gain, loss or deduction in whatever
manner it deems appropriate so that, after such offsetting allocations are made, each Partner’s
Capital Account is, to the extent possible, equal to the Capital Account balance such Partner would
have had if the Regulatory Allocations were not part of this Agreement and all Partnership items
were allocated pursuant to Section 5.1(a), (b) and (f).

     5.2 Distribution of Cash.

          (a) The Partnership shall distribute cash on a quarterly (or, at the election of the General
Partner, more frequent) basis, in an amount determined by the General Partner in its sole and
absolute discretion, to the Partners who are Partners on the Partnership Record Date with respect
to such quarter (or other distribution period) in accordance with Section 5.2(b); provided,
however, that if a new or existing Partner acquires an additional Partnership Interest in exchange
for a Capital Contribution on any date other than a Partnership Record Date, the cash distribution
attributable to such additional Partnership Interest relating to the Partnership Record Date next
following the issuance of such additional Partnership Interest shall be reduced in the proportion
equal to one minus (i) the number of days that such additional Partnership Interest is held by such
Partner bears to (ii) the number of days between such Partnership Record Date and the immediately
preceding Partnership Record Date.

          (b) Except for distributions pursuant to Section 5.6 of this Agreement in connection with the
dissolution and liquidation of the Partnership and subject to the provisions of Section 5.2(c),
5.2(d), 5.3 and 5.5 of this Agreement, distributions shall be made in accordance with the following
provisions:

               (i) all distributions of Net Sales Proceeds shall be made: (A) first, 100% to the OP
Unitholders in accordance with their respective Percentage Interests on the Partnership Record Date
until the OP Unitholders have received cumulative distributions under this Section 5.2(b) equal to
the aggregate Capital Contributions made by the OP Unitholders to the Partnership, less any amounts
received in redemption of their Partnership Units, plus a cumulative, noncompounded pre-tax rate of
return thereon of 7.0% per annum, determined
by taking into account the dates on which all such Capital Contributions, redemptions, and
distributions were made and (B) second, (1) 85% to the OP Unitholders, in accordance with their
respective Percentage Interests on the Partnership Record Date and (2) 15% to the Special OP
Unitholders in accordance with their respective Special Percentage Interests on the Partnership
Record Date; and

               (ii) all distributions of cash other than Net Sales Proceeds shall be made to the OP
Unitholders in accordance with their respective Percentage Interests on the Partnership Record
Date.

          (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the General Partner is authorized
to take any action that it determines to be necessary or appropriate to cause the Partnership to
comply with any withholding requirements established under the Code or any other federal, state or
local law including, without limitation, pursuant to Sections 1441, 1442, 1445 and 1446 of the
Code. To the extent that the Partnership is required to withhold and pay over to any taxing
authority any amount resulting from the allocation or distribution of income to any Partner or
assignee (including by reason of Section 1446 of the Code), either (i) if the actual amount to be
distributed to the Partner equals or exceeds the amount required to be withheld by the Partnership,
the amount withheld shall be treated as a distribution of cash in the amount of such withholding to
such Partner, or (ii) if the actual amount to be distributed to the Partner is less than the amount
required to be withheld by the Partnership, the actual amount shall be treated as a distribution of
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required to be withheld shall be
treated as a loan (a “Partnership Loan”) from the Partnership to the Partner on the day the
Partnership pays over such amount to a taxing authority. A Partnership Loan shall be repaid through
withholding by the Partnership with respect to subsequent distributions to the applicable Partner
or assignee. In the event that a Limited Partner (a “Defaulting Limited Partner”) fails to pay any
amount owed to the Partnership with respect to the Partnership Loan within fifteen (15) days after
demand for payment thereof is made by the Partnership on the Limited Partner, the General Partner,
in its sole and absolute discretion, may elect to make the payment to the Partnership on behalf of
such Defaulting Limited Partner. In such event, on the date of payment, the General Partner shall
be deemed to have extended a loan (a “General Partner Loan”) to the Defaulting Limited Partner in
the amount of the payment made by the General Partner and shall succeed to all rights and remedies
of the Partnership against the Defaulting Limited Partner as to that amount. Without limitation,
the General Partner shall have the right to receive any distributions that otherwise would be made
by the Partnership to the Defaulting Limited Partner until such time as the General Partner Loan
has been paid in full, and any such distributions so received by the General Partner shall be
treated as having been received by the Defaulting Limited Partner and immediately paid to the
General Partner. Any amounts treated as a Partnership Loan or a General Partner Loan pursuant to
this Section 5.2(c) shall bear interest at the lesser of (i) the base rate on corporate loans at
large United States money center commercial banks, as published from time to time in The Wall
Street Journal, or (ii) the maximum lawful rate of interest on such obligation, such interest to
accrue from the date the Partnership or the General Partner, as applicable, is deemed to extend the
loan until such loan is repaid in full.

          (d) In no event may a Partner receive a distribution of cash with respect to a Partnership
Unit if such Partner is entitled to receive a cash distribution as the holder of record of a REIT
Share for which all or part of such Partnership Unit has been or will be exchanged.

     5.3 REIT Distribution Requirements. The General Partner shall use its commercially
reasonable efforts to cause the Partnership to distribute amounts sufficient to enable the General
Partner to make shareholder distributions that will allow the General Partner to (i) meet its
distribution requirement for qualification as a REIT as set forth in Section 857 of the Code and
(ii) avoid any federal income or excise tax liability imposed by the Code.

     5.4 No Right to Distributions in Kind. No Partner shall be entitled to demand
property other than cash in connection with any distributions by the Partnership.

     5.5 Limitations on Return of Capital Contributions. Notwithstanding any of the
provisions of this Article 5, no Partner shall have the right to receive and the General Partner
shall not have the right to make, a distribution that includes a return of all or part of a
Partner’s Capital Contributions, unless after giving effect to the return of a Capital
Contribution, the sum of
all Partnership liabilities, other than the liabilities to a Partner for the return of his
Capital Contribution, does not exceed the fair market value of the Partnership’s assets.

     5.6 Distributions Upon Liquidation. Upon liquidation of the Partnership, after
payment of, or adequate provision for, debts and obligations of the Partnership, including any
Partner loans, any remaining assets of the Partnership shall be distributed to all Partners in
accordance with Section 5.2(b), but only to the extent of the positive balance of the Capital
Account of each Partner. For purposes of the preceding sentence, the Capital Account of each
Partner shall be determined after all adjustments have been made in accordance with Sections 4.4,
5.1 and 5.2 resulting from Partnership operations and from all sales and dispositions of all or any
part of the Partnership’s assets. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the amount
by which the value, as determined in good faith by the General Partner, of any property other than
cash to be distributed in kind to the Partners exceeds or is less than the Carrying Value of such
property shall, to the extent not otherwise recognized by the Partnership, be taken into account in
computing Profit and Loss of the Partnership for purposes of crediting or charging the Capital
Accounts of, and distributing proceeds to, the Partners, pursuant to this Agreement. To the extent
deemed advisable by the General Partner, appropriate arrangements (including the use of a
liquidating trust) may be made to assure that adequate funds are available to pay any contingent
debts or obligations.

     5.7 Substantial Economic Effect. It is the intent of the Partners that the
allocations of Profit and Loss under this Agreement have substantial economic effect (or be
consistent with the Partners’ interests in the Partnership in the case of the allocation of losses
attributable to nonrecourse debt) within the meaning of Section 704(b) of the Code as interpreted
by the Regulations promulgated pursuant thereto. Article 5 and other relevant provisions of this
Agreement shall be interpreted in a manner consistent with such intent.

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ARTICLE 6

RIGHTS, OBLIGATIONS AND

POWERS OF THE GENERAL PARTNER

     6.1 Management of the Partnership.

          (a) Except as otherwise expressly provided in this Agreement, the General Partner shall have
full, complete and exclusive discretion to manage and control the business of the Partnership for
the purposes herein stated, and shall make all decisions affecting the business and assets of the
Partnership. Subject to the restrictions specifically contained in this Agreement, the powers of
the General Partner shall include, without limitation, the authority to take the following actions
on behalf of the Partnership:

               (i) to acquire, purchase, own, operate, lease and dispose of any real property and any other
property or assets including, but not limited to notes and mortgages that the General Partner
determines are necessary or appropriate or in the best interests of the business of the
Partnership;

               (ii) to construct buildings and make other improvements on the properties owned or leased by
the Partnership;

               (iii) to authorize, issue, sell, redeem or otherwise purchase any Partnership Interests or any
securities (including secured and unsecured debt obligations of the Partnership, debt obligations
of the Partnership convertible into any class or series of Partnership Interests, or options,
rights, warrants or appreciation rights relating to any Partnership Interests) of the Partnership;

               (iv) to borrow or lend money for the Partnership, issue or receive evidences of indebtedness
in connection therewith, refinance, increase the amount of, modify, amend or change the terms of,
or extend the time for the payment of, any such indebtedness, and secure such indebtedness by
mortgage, deed of trust, pledge or other lien on the Partnership’s assets;

               (v) to pay, either directly or by reimbursement, for all operating costs and general
administrative expenses of the Partnership to third parties or to the General Partner or its
Affiliates as set forth in this Agreement;

               (vi) to guarantee or become a co-maker of indebtedness of the General Partner or any
Subsidiary thereof, refinance, increase the amount of, modify, amend or change the terms of, or
extend the time for the payment of, any such guarantee or indebtedness, and secure such guarantee
or indebtedness by mortgage, deed of trust, pledge or other lien on the Partnership’s assets;

               (vii) to use assets of the Partnership (including, without limitation, cash on hand) for any
purpose consistent with this Agreement, including, without limitation, payment, either directly or
by reimbursement, of all operating costs and general administrative expenses of the General
Partner, the Partnership or any Subsidiary of either, to third parties or to the General Partner as
set forth in this Agreement;

               (viii) to lease all or any portion of any of the Partnership’s assets, whether or not the
terms of such leases extend beyond the termination date of the Partnership and whether or not any
portion of the Partnership’s assets so leased are to be occupied by the lessee, or, in turn,
subleased in whole or in part to others, for such consideration and on such terms as the General
Partner may determine;

               (ix) to prosecute, defend, arbitrate, or compromise any and all claims or liabilities in favor
of or against the Partnership, on such terms and in such manner as the General Partner may
reasonably determine, and similarly to prosecute, settle or defend litigation with respect to the
Partners, the Partnership, or the Partnership’s assets;

               (x) to file applications, communicate, and otherwise deal with any and all governmental
agencies having jurisdiction over, or in any way affecting, the Partnership’s assets or any other
aspect of the Partnership business;

               (xi) to make or revoke any election permitted or required of the Partnership by any taxing
authority;

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               (xii) to maintain such insurance coverage for public liability, fire and casualty, and any and
all other insurance for the protection of the Partnership, for the conservation of Partnership
assets, or for any other purpose convenient or beneficial to the Partnership, in such amounts and
such types, as it shall determine from time to time;

               (xiii) to determine whether or not to apply any insurance proceeds for any property to the
restoration of such property or to distribute the same;

               (xiv) to establish one or more divisions of the Partnership, to hire and dismiss employees of
the Partnership or any division of the Partnership, and to retain legal counsel, accountants,
consultants, real estate brokers, and such other persons, as the General Partner may deem necessary
or appropriate in connection with the Partnership business and to pay therefor such remuneration as
the General Partner may deem reasonable and proper;

               (xv) to retain other services of any kind or nature in connection with the Partnership
business, and to pay therefor such remuneration as the General Partner may deem reasonable and
proper;

               (xvi) to negotiate and conclude agreements on behalf of the Partnership with respect to any of
the rights, powers and authority conferred upon the General Partner;

               (xvii) to maintain accurate accounting records and to file promptly all federal, state and
local income tax returns on behalf of the Partnership;

               (xviii) to distribute Partnership cash or other Partnership assets in accordance with this
Agreement;

               (xix) to form or acquire an interest in, and contribute property to, any further limited or
general partnerships, joint ventures or other relationships that it deems desirable (including,
without limitation, the
acquisition of interests in, and the contributions of property to, its Subsidiaries and any
other Person in which it has an equity interest from time to time);

               (xx) to establish Partnership reserves for working capital, capital expenditures, contingent
liabilities, or any other valid Partnership purpose;

               (xxi) to merge, consolidate or combine the Partnership with or into another Person;

               (xxii) to do any and all acts and things necessary or prudent to ensure that the Partnership
will not be classified as a “publicly traded partnership” for purposes of Section 7704 of the Code;
and

               (xxiii) to take such other action, execute, acknowledge, swear to or deliver such other
documents and instruments, and perform any and all other acts that the General Partner deems
necessary or appropriate for the formation, continuation and conduct of the business and affairs of
the Partnership (including, without limitation, all actions consistent with allowing the General
Partner at all times to qualify as a REIT unless the General Partner voluntarily terminates its
REIT status) and to possess and enjoy all of the rights and powers of a general partner as provided
by the Act.

          (b) Except as otherwise provided herein, to the extent the duties of the General Partner
require expenditures of funds to be paid to third parties, the General Partner shall not have any
obligations hereunder except to the extent that partnership funds are reasonably available to it
for the performance of such duties, and nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize or
require the General Partner, in its capacity as such, to expend its individual funds for payment to
third parties or to undertake any individual liability or obligation on behalf of the Partnership.

     6.2 Delegation of Authority. The General Partner may delegate any or all of its
powers, rights and obligations hereunder, and may appoint, employ, contract or otherwise deal with
any Person for the transaction of the business of the Partnership, which Person may, under
supervision of the General Partner, perform any acts or services for the Partnership as the General
Partner may approve.

     6.3 Indemnification and Exculpation of Indemnitees.

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          (a) The Partnership shall indemnify an Indemnitee from and against any and all losses, claims,
damages, liabilities, joint or several, expenses (including reasonable legal fees and expenses),
judgments, fines, settlements, and other amounts arising from any and all claims, demands, actions,
suits or proceedings, civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, that relate to the
operations of the Partnership as set forth in this Agreement in which any Indemnitee may be
involved, or is threatened to be involved, as a party or otherwise, unless it is established that:
(i) the act or omission of the Indemnitee was material to the matter giving rise to the proceeding
and either was committed in bad faith or was the result of active and deliberate dishonesty; (ii)
the Indemnitee actually received an improper personal benefit in money, property or services; or
(iii) in the case of any criminal proceeding, the Indemnitee had reasonable cause to believe that
the act or omission was unlawful. Any indemnification pursuant to this Section 6.3 shall be made
only out of the assets of the Partnership.

          (b) The Partnership shall reimburse an Indemnitee for reasonable expenses incurred by an
Indemnitee who is a party to a proceeding in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding
upon receipt by the Partnership of (i) a written affirmation by the Indemnitee of the Indemnitee’s
good faith belief that the standard of conduct necessary for indemnification by the Partnership as
authorized in this Section 6.3 has been met, and (ii) a written undertaking by or on behalf of the
Indemnitee to repay the amount if it shall ultimately be determined that the standard of conduct
has not been met.

          (c) The indemnification provided by this Section 6.3 shall be in addition to any other rights
to which an Indemnitee or any other Person may be entitled under any agreement, pursuant to any
vote of the Partners, as a matter of law or otherwise, and shall continue as to an Indemnitee who
has ceased to serve in such capacity.

          (d) The Partnership may purchase and maintain insurance, on behalf of the Indemnitees and such
other Persons as the General Partner shall determine, against any liability that may be asserted
against or expenses that may be incurred by such Person in connection with the Partnership’s
activities, regardless of whether the Partnership would have the power to indemnify such Person
against such liability under the provisions of this Agreement.

          (e) For purposes of this Section 6.3, the Partnership shall be deemed to have requested an
Indemnitee to serve as fiduciary of an employee benefit plan whenever the performance by it of its
duties to the Partnership also imposes duties on, or otherwise involves services by, it to the plan
or participants or beneficiaries of the plan; excise taxes assessed on an Indemnitee with respect
to an employee benefit plan pursuant to applicable law shall constitute fines within the meaning of
this Section 6.3; and actions taken or omitted by the Indemnitee with respect to an employee
benefit plan in the performance of its duties for a purpose reasonably believed by it to be in the
interest of the participants and beneficiaries of the plan shall be deemed to be for a purpose
which is not opposed to the best interests of the Partnership.

          (f) In no event may an Indemnitee subject the Limited Partners to personal liability by
reason of the indemnification provisions set forth in this Agreement.

          (g) An Indemnitee shall not be denied indemnification in whole or in part under this Section
6.3 because the Indemnitee had an interest in the transaction with respect to which the
indemnification applies if the transaction was otherwise permitted by the terms of this Agreement.

          (h) The provisions of this Section 6.3 are for the benefit of the Indemnitees, their heirs,
successors, assigns and administrators and shall not be deemed to create any rights for the benefit
of any other Persons.

          (i) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Partnership may not indemnify or hold harmless an
Indemnitee for any liability or loss unless all of the following conditions are met: (i) the
Indemnitee has determined, in good faith, that the course of conduct that caused the loss or
liability was in the best interests of the Partnership; (ii) the Indemnitee was acting on behalf of
or performing services for the Partnership; (iii) the liability or loss was not the result of (A)
negligence or misconduct, in the case that the Indemnitee is a director of the General Partner
(other than an Independent Director), the Advisor or an Affiliate of the Advisor or (B) gross
negligence or willful misconduct, in the case that the Indemnitee is an Independent Director; and
(iv) the indemnification or agreement to hold harmless is recoverable only out of net assets of the
Partnership. In addition, the Partnership shall not provide indemnification for any loss, liability
or expense arising from or out of an alleged violation of federal or state securities laws by such
party unless one or more of the following conditions are met: (i) there has been a successful
adjudication on the merits of each count involving alleged material securities law violations as to
the Indemnitee;

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(ii) such claims have been dismissed with prejudice on the merits by a court of
competent jurisdiction as to the Indemnitee; or (iii) a court of competent jurisdiction approves a
settlement of the claims against the Indemnitee and finds that indemnification of the settlement
and the related costs should be made, and the court considering the request for indemnification has
been advised of the position of the Commission and of the published position of any state
securities regulatory authority in which securities were offered or sold as to indemnification for
violations of securities laws.

     6.4 Liability of the General Partner.

          (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement, the General Partner
shall not be liable for monetary damages to the Partnership or any Partners for losses sustained or
liabilities incurred as a result of errors in judgment or of any act or omission if the General
Partner acted in good faith. The General Partner shall not be in breach of any duty that the
General Partner may owe to the Limited Partners or the Partnership or any other Persons under this
Agreement or of any duty stated or implied by law or equity provided the General Partner, acting in
good faith, abides by the terms of this Agreement.

          (b) The Limited Partners expressly acknowledge that the General Partner is acting on behalf of
the Partnership, itself and its shareholders collectively, that the General Partner is under no
obligation to consider the separate interests of the Limited Partners (including, without
limitation, the tax consequences to Limited Partners or the tax consequences of some, but not all,
of the Limited Partners) in deciding whether to cause the Partnership to take (or decline to take)
any actions. In the event of a conflict between the interests of its shareholders on one hand
and the Limited Partners on the other, the General Partner shall endeavor in good faith to
resolve the conflict in a manner not adverse to either its shareholders or the Limited Partners;
provided, however, that for so long as the General Partner directly owns a controlling interest in
the Partnership, any such conflict that the General Partner, in its sole and absolute discretion,
determines cannot be resolved in a manner not adverse to either its shareholders or the Limited
Partner shall be resolved in favor of the shareholders. The General Partner shall not be liable for
monetary damages for losses sustained, liabilities incurred, or benefits not derived by Limited
Partners in connection with such decisions, provided that the General Partner has acted in good
faith.

          (c) Subject to its obligations and duties as General Partner set forth in Section 6.1 hereof,
the General Partner may exercise any of the powers granted to it under this Agreement and perform
any of the duties imposed upon it hereunder either directly or by or through its agents. The
General Partner shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such
agent appointed by it in good faith.

          (d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement or the Act, any action of the
General Partner on behalf of the Partnership or any decision of the General Partner to refrain from
acting on behalf of the Partnership, undertaken in the good faith belief that such action or
omission is necessary or advisable in order (i) to protect the ability of the General Partner to
continue to qualify as a REIT or (ii) to prevent the General Partner from incurring any taxes under
Section 857, Section 4981, or any other provision of the Code, is expressly authorized under this
Agreement and is deemed approved by all of the Limited Partners.

          (e) Any amendment, modification or repeal of this Section 6.4 or any provision hereof shall be
prospective only and shall not in any way affect the limitations on the General Partner’s liability
to the Partnership and the Limited Partners under this Section 6.4 as in effect immediately prior
to such amendment, modification or repeal with respect to matters occurring, in whole or in part,
prior to such amendment, modification or repeal, regardless of when claims relating to such matters
may arise or be asserted.

     6.5 Reimbursement of General Partner.

          (a) Except as provided in this Section 6.5 and elsewhere in this Agreement (including the
provisions of Articles 5 and 6 regarding distributions, payments, and allocations to which it may
be entitled), the General Partner shall not be compensated for its services as general partner of
the Partnership.

          (b) The General Partner shall be reimbursed on a monthly basis, or such other basis as the
General Partner may determine in its sole and absolute discretion, for all Administrative Expenses
incurred by the General Partner.

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     6.6 Outside Activities. Subject to Section 6.8 hereof, the Articles of Incorporation
and any agreements entered into by the General Partner or its Affiliates with the Partnership or a
Subsidiary, any officer, director, employee, agent, trustee, Affiliate or shareholder of the
General Partner, the General Partner shall be entitled to and may have business interests and
engage in business activities in addition to those relating to the Partnership, including business
interests and activities substantially similar or identical to those of the Partnership. Neither
the Partnership nor any of the Limited Partners shall have any rights by virtue of this Agreement
in any such business ventures, interests or activities. None of the Limited Partners nor any other
Person shall have any rights by virtue of this Agreement or the partnership relationship
established hereby in any such business ventures, interests or activities, and the General Partner
shall have no obligation pursuant to this Agreement to offer any interest in any such business
ventures, interests and activities to the Partnership or any Limited Partner, even if such
opportunity is of a character which, if presented to the Partnership or any Limited Partner, could
be taken by such Person.

     6.7 Employment or Retention of Affiliates.

          (a) Any Affiliate of the General Partner may be employed or retained by the Partnership and
may otherwise deal with the Partnership (whether as a buyer, lessor, lessee, manager, furnisher of
goods or services,
broker, agent, lender or otherwise) and may receive from the Partnership any compensation,
price, or other payment therefor which the General Partner determines to be fair and reasonable.

          (b) The Partnership may lend or contribute to its Subsidiaries or other Persons in which it
has an equity investment, and such Persons may borrow funds from the Partnership, on terms and
conditions established in the sole and absolute discretion of the General Partner. The foregoing
authority shall not create any right or benefit in favor of any Subsidiary or any other Person.

          (c) The Partnership may transfer assets to joint ventures, other partnerships, corporations or
other business entities in which it is or thereby becomes a participant upon such terms and subject
to such conditions as the General Partner deems are consistent with this Agreement, applicable law
and the REIT status of the General Partner.

          (d) Except as expressly permitted by this Agreement, neither the General Partner nor any of
its Affiliates shall sell, transfer or convey any property to, or purchase any property from, the
Partnership, directly or indirectly, except pursuant to transactions that are, in the General
Partner’s sole discretion, on terms that are fair and reasonable to the Partnership.

     6.8 General Partner Participation. The General Partner agrees that all business
activities of the General Partner, including activities pertaining to the acquisition, development
or ownership of any Real Property or other property shall be conducted through the Partnership, a
Subsidiary, a Subsidiary Partnership or a taxable REIT Subsidiary (within the meaning of Section
856 (l) of the Code); provided, however, that the General Partner is allowed to make a direct
acquisition, but if and only if, such acquisition is made in connection with the issuance of
Additional Securities, which direct acquisition and issuance have been approved and determined to
be in the best interests of the General Partner and the Partnership by a majority of the
Independent Directors.

     6.9 Title to Partnership Assets. Title to Partnership assets, whether real, personal
or mixed and whether tangible or intangible, shall be deemed to be owned by the Partnership as an
entity, and no Partner, individually or collectively, shall have any ownership interest in such
Partnership assets or any portion thereof. Title to any or all of the Partnership assets may be
held in the name of the Partnership, the General Partner or one or more nominees, as the General
Partner may determine, including Affiliates of the General Partner. The General Partner hereby
declares and warrants that any Partnership assets for which legal title is held in the name of the
General Partner or any nominee or Affiliate of the General Partner shall be held by the General
Partner for the use and benefit of the Partnership in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement; provided, however, that the General Partner shall use its best efforts to cause
beneficial and record title to such assets to be vested in the Partnership as soon as reasonably
practicable. All Partnership assets shall be recorded as the property of the Partnership in its
books and records, irrespective of the name in which legal title to such Partnership assets is
held.

     6.10 Miscellaneous. In the event the General Partner redeems any REIT Shares (other
than REIT Shares redeemed in accordance with the share redemption program of the General Partner,
then the General Partner

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shall cause the Partnership to purchase from the General Partner a number
of Partnership Units as determined based on the application of the Conversion Factor on the same
terms that the General Partner redeemed such REIT Shares. Moreover, if the General Partner makes a
cash tender offer or other offer to acquire REIT Shares, then the General Partner shall cause the
Partnership to make a corresponding offer to the General Partner to acquire an equal number of
Partnership Units held by the General Partner. In the event any REIT Shares are redeemed by the
General Partner pursuant to such offer, the Partnership shall redeem an equivalent number of the
General Partner’s Partnership Units for an equivalent purchase price based on the application of
the Conversion Factor.

     6.11 No Duplication of Fees or Expenses. The Partnership may not incur or be
responsible for any fee or expense (in connection with the Offering or otherwise) that would be
duplicative of fees and expenses paid by the General Partner.

ARTICLE 7

CHANGES IN GENERAL PARTNER

     7.1 Transfer of the General Partner’s Partnership Interest.

          (a) The General Partner shall not transfer all or any portion of its General Partnership
Interest or withdraw as General Partner except as provided in, or in connection with a transaction
contemplated by, Section 7.1(c), (d) or (e).

          (b) The General Partner agrees that its Percentage Interest will at all times commencing with
the one year anniversary of this Agreement be in the aggregate, at least 0.1%.

          (c) Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.4(b) or Section 7.1(d) or (e) hereof, the
General Partner shall not engage in any merger, consolidation or other combination with or into
another Person or sale of all or substantially all of its assets, (other than in connection with a
change in the General Partner’s state of incorporation or organizational form) in each case which
results in a change of control of the General Partner (a “Transaction”), unless: (i) the consent
of Limited Partners holding more than 50% of the Percentage Interests and more than 50% of the
Special Percentage Interests of the Limited Partners is obtained;

               (ii) as a result of such Transaction all Limited Partners will receive (A) for each
Partnership Unit an amount of cash, securities, or other property equal to the product of the
Conversion Factor and the greatest amount of cash, securities or other property paid in the
Transaction to a holder of one REIT Share in consideration of one REIT Share, provided that if, in
connection with the Transaction, a purchase, tender or exchange offer (“Offer”) shall have been
made to and accepted by the holders of more than 50% of the outstanding REIT Shares, each holder of
Partnership Units shall be given the option to exchange its Partnership Units for the greatest
amount of cash, securities, or other property which a Limited Partner holding Partnership Units
would have received had it (1) exercised its Redemption Right and (2) sold, tendered or exchanged
pursuant to the Offer the REIT Shares received upon exercise of the Redemption Right immediately
prior to the expiration of the Offer and (B) for each Special Partnership Unit an amount of cash,
securities or other property (as applicable based upon the type of consideration and the
proportions thereof paid to holders of REIT Shares in the Transaction) equal to the fair market
value of such Special Partnership Unit at such time as determined in good faith by the General
Partner by reference to the value paid for the REIT Shares; or

               (iii) the General Partner is the surviving entity in the Transaction and either (A) the
holders of REIT Shares do not receive cash, securities, or other property in the Transaction or (B)
all Limited Partners (other than the General Partner or any Subsidiary) receive (1) in exchange for
their Partnership Units, an amount of cash, securities, or other property (expressed as an amount
per REIT Share) that is no less than the product of the Conversion Factor and the greatest amount
of cash, securities, or other property (expressed as an amount per REIT Share) received in the
Transaction by any holder of REIT Shares and (2) in exchange for their Special Partnership Units,
an amount of cash, securities or other property (as applicable based upon the type of consideration
and the proportions thereof paid to holders of REIT Shares in the Transaction) equal to the fair
market value of such Special Partnership Units at such time as determined in good faith by the
General Partner by reference to the value paid for the REIT Shares.

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          (d) Notwithstanding Section 7.1(c), the General Partner may merge with or into or consolidate
with another entity if immediately after such merger or consolidation (i) substantially all of the
assets of the successor or surviving entity (the “Survivor”), other than Partnership Units held by
the General Partner, are contributed, directly or indirectly, to the Partnership as a Capital
Contribution in exchange for Partnership Units with a fair market value equal to the value of the
assets so contributed as determined by the Survivor in good faith and (ii) the Survivor expressly
agrees to assume all obligations of the General Partner, as appropriate, hereunder. Upon such
contribution and assumption, the Survivor shall have the right and duty to amend this Agreement as
set forth in this Section 7.1(d). The Survivor shall in good faith arrive at a new method for the
calculation of the Cash Amount, the REIT Shares Amount and Conversion Factor for a Partnership Unit
after any such merger or consolidation so as to approximate the existing method for such
calculation as closely as reasonably possible. Such
calculation shall take into account, among other things, the kind and amount of securities,
cash and other property that was receivable upon such merger or consolidation by a holder of REIT
Shares or options, warrants or other rights relating thereto, and which a holder of Partnership
Units could have acquired had such Partnership Units been exchanged immediately prior to such
merger or consolidation. Such amendment to this Agreement shall provide for adjustment to such
method of calculation, which shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments
provided for with respect to the Conversion Factor. The Survivor also shall in good faith modify
the definition of REIT Shares and make such amendments to Sections 8.5 and 8.7 hereof so as to
approximate the existing rights and obligations set forth in Sections 8.5 and 8.7 as closely as
reasonably possible. The above provisions of this Section 7.1(d) shall similarly apply to
successive mergers or consolidations permitted hereunder.

     In respect of any transaction described in the preceding paragraph, the General Partner is
required to use its commercially reasonable efforts to structure such transaction to avoid causing
the Limited Partners to recognize a gain for federal income tax purposes by virtue of the
occurrence of or their participation in such transaction, provided such efforts are consistent with
the exercise of the Board of Directors’ fiduciary duties to the shareholders of the General Partner
under applicable law.

          (e) Notwithstanding Section 7.1(c),

               (i) a General Partner may transfer all or any portion of its General Partnership Interest to
(A) a wholly-owned Subsidiary of such General Partner or (B) the owner of all of the ownership
interests of such General Partner, and following a transfer of all of its General Partnership
Interest, may withdraw as General Partner; and

               (ii) the General Partner may engage in a transaction not required by law or by the rules of
any national securities exchange on which the REIT Shares are listed to be submitted to the vote of
the holders of the REIT Shares.

     7.2 Admission of a Substitute or Additional General Partner. A Person shall be
admitted as a substitute or additional General Partner of the Partnership only if the following
terms and conditions are satisfied:

          (a) the Person to be admitted as a substitute or additional General Partner shall have
accepted and agreed to be bound by all the terms and provisions of this Agreement by executing a
counterpart thereof and such other documents or instruments as may be required or appropriate in
order to effect the admission of such Person as a General Partner, and a certificate evidencing the
admission of such Person as a General Partner shall have been filed for recordation and all other
actions required by Section 2.5 hereof in connection with such admission shall have been performed;

          (b) if the Person to be admitted as a substitute or additional General Partner is a
corporation or a partnership, it shall have provided the Partnership with evidence satisfactory to
counsel for the Partnership of such Person’s authority to become a General Partner and to be bound
by the terms and provisions of this Agreement; and

          (c) counsel for the Partnership shall have rendered an opinion (relying on such opinions from
other counsel and the state or any other jurisdiction as may be necessary) that (x) the admission
of the person to be admitted as a substitute or additional General Partner is in conformity with
the Act and (y) none of the actions taken in connection with the admission of such Person as a
substitute or additional General Partner will cause (i) the Partnership to be classified other than
as a partnership for federal tax purposes, or (ii) the loss of any Limited Partner’s limited
liability.

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     7.3 Effect of Bankruptcy, Withdrawal, Death or Dissolution of a General Partner.

          (a) Upon the occurrence of an Event of Bankruptcy as to a General Partner (and its removal
pursuant to Section 7.4(a) hereof) or the death, withdrawal, removal or dissolution of a General
Partner (except that, if a General Partner is on the date of such occurrence a partnership, the
withdrawal, death, dissolution, Event of Bankruptcy as to, or removal of a partner in, such
partnership shall be deemed not to be a dissolution of such General Partner if the business of such
General Partner is continued by the remaining partner or partners), the
Partnership shall be dissolved and terminated unless the Partnership is continued pursuant to
Section 7.3(b) hereof. The merger of the General Partner with or into any entity that is admitted
as a substitute or successor General Partner pursuant to Section 7.2 hereof shall not be deemed to
be the withdrawal, dissolution or removal of the General Partner.

          (b) Following the occurrence of an Event of Bankruptcy as to a General Partner (and its
removal pursuant to Section 7.4(a) hereof) or the death, withdrawal, removal or dissolution of a
General Partner (except that, if a General Partner is, on the date of such occurrence, a
partnership, the withdrawal of, death, dissolution, Event of Bankruptcy as to, or removal of a
partner in, such partnership shall be deemed not to be a dissolution of such General Partner if the
business of such General Partner is continued by the remaining partner or partners), the Limited
Partners, within ninety (90) days after such occurrence, may elect to continue the business of the
Partnership for the balance of the term specified in Section 2.4 hereof by selecting, subject to
Section 7.2 hereof and any other provisions of this Agreement, a substitute General Partner by
consent of a majority in interest of the Limited Partners. If the Limited Partners elect to
continue the business of the Partnership and admit a substitute General Partner, the relationship
with the Partners and of any Person who has acquired an interest of a Partner in the Partnership
shall be governed by this Agreement.

     7.4 Removal of a General Partner.

          (a) Upon the occurrence of an Event of Bankruptcy as to, or the dissolution of, a General
Partner, such General Partner shall be deemed to be removed automatically; provided, however, that
if a General Partner is on the date of such occurrence a partnership, the withdrawal, death or
dissolution of, Event of Bankruptcy as to, or removal of, a partner in, such partnership shall be
deemed not to be a dissolution of the General Partner if the business of such General Partner is
continued by the remaining partner or partners. The Limited Partners may not remove the General
Partner, with or without cause.

          (b) If a General Partner has been removed pursuant to this Section 7.4 and the Partnership is
continued pursuant to Section 7.3 hereof, such General Partner shall promptly transfer and assign
its General Partnership Interest in the Partnership to the substitute General Partner approved by a
majority in interest of the Limited Partners in accordance with Section 7.3(b) hereof and otherwise
admitted to the Partnership in accordance with Section 7.2 hereof. At the time of assignment, the
removed General Partner shall be entitled to receive from the substitute General Partner the fair
market value of the General Partnership Interest of such removed General Partner as reduced by any
damages caused to the Partnership by such General Partner. Such fair market value shall be
determined by an appraiser mutually agreed upon by the General Partner and a majority in interest
of the Limited Partners within ten (10) days following the removal of the General Partner. In the
event that the parties are unable to agree upon an appraiser, the removed General Partner and a
majority in interest of the Limited Partners each shall select an appraiser. Each such appraiser
shall complete an appraisal of the fair market value of the removed General Partner’s General
Partnership Interest within thirty (30) days of the General Partner’s removal, and the fair market
value of the removed General Partner’s General Partnership Interest shall be the average of the two
appraisals; provided, however, that if the higher appraisal exceeds the lower appraisal by more
than 20% of the amount of the lower appraisal, the two appraisers, no later than forty (40) days
after the removal of the General Partner, shall select a third appraiser who shall complete an
appraisal of the fair market value of the removed General Partner’s General Partnership Interest no
later than sixty (60) days after the removal of the General Partner. In such case, the fair market
value of the removed General Partner’s General Partnership Interest shall be the average of the two
appraisals closest in value.

          (c) The General Partnership Interest of a removed General Partner, during the time after
default until transfer under Section 7.4(b), shall be converted to that of a special Limited
Partner; provided, however, such removed General Partner shall not have any rights to participate
in the management and affairs of the Partnership, and shall not be entitled to any portion of the
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allocable or payable, as
the case may be, to the Limited Partners. Instead, such removed General Partner shall receive and
be entitled only to retain distributions or allocations of such items that it would have been
entitled to receive in its capacity as General Partner, until the transfer is effective pursuant to
Section 7.4(b).

          (d) All Partners shall have given and hereby do give such consents, shall take such actions
and shall execute such documents as shall be legally necessary, desirable and sufficient to effect
all the foregoing provisions of this Section.

ARTICLE 8

RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE LIMITED PARTNERS

     8.1 Management of the Partnership. The Limited Partners shall not participate in the
management or control of Partnership business nor shall they transact any business for the
Partnership, nor shall they have the power to sign for or bind the Partnership, such powers being
vested solely and exclusively in the General Partner.

     8.2 Power of Attorney. Each Limited Partner hereby irrevocably appoints the General
Partner its true and lawful attorney-in-fact, who may act for each Limited Partner and in its name,
place and stead, and for its use and benefit, to sign, acknowledge, swear to, deliver, file or
record, at the appropriate public offices, any and all documents, certificates, and instruments as
may be deemed necessary or desirable by the General Partner to carry out fully the provisions of
this Agreement and the Act in accordance with their terms, which power of attorney is coupled with
an interest and shall survive the death, dissolution or legal incapacity of the Limited Partner, or
the transfer by the Limited Partner of any part or all of its Partnership Interest.

     8.3 Limitation on Liability of Limited Partners. No Limited Partner shall be liable
for any debts, liabilities, contracts or obligations of the Partnership. A Limited Partner shall be
liable to the Partnership only to make payments of its Capital Contribution, if any, as and when
due hereunder. After its Capital Contribution is fully paid, no Limited Partner shall, except as
otherwise required by the Act, be required to make any further Capital Contributions or other
payments or lend any funds to the Partnership.

     8.4 Ownership by Limited Partner of Corporate General Partner or Affiliate. No
Limited Partner shall at any time, either directly or indirectly, own any stock or other interest
in the General Partner or in any Affiliate thereof, if such ownership by itself or in conjunction
with other stock or other interests owned by other Limited Partners would, in the opinion of
counsel for the Partnership, jeopardize the classification of the Partnership as a partnership for
federal income tax purposes. The General Partner shall be entitled to make such reasonable inquiry
of the Limited Partners as is required to establish compliance by the Limited Partners with the
provisions of this Section.

     8.5 Redemption Right.

          (a) Subject to Sections 8.5(b), 8.5(c), 8.5(d), 8.5(e) and 8.5(f) and the provisions of any
agreements between the Partnership and one or more Limited Partners with respect to Partnership
Units held by them, each Limited Partner, other than the General Partner, shall, after holding
their Partnership Units for at least one year, have the right (subject to the terms and conditions
set forth herein) to require the Partnership to redeem (a “Redemption”) all or a portion of the
Partnership Units held by such Limited Partner in exchange (a “Redemption Right”) for REIT shares
issuable on, or the Cash Amount payable on, the Specified Redemption Date, as determined by the
General Partner in its sole discretion, provided that such Partnership Units (the “Tendered Units”)
shall have been outstanding for at least one year. Any Redemption Right shall be exercised pursuant
to a Notice of Redemption delivered to the Partnership (with a copy to the General Partner) by the
Limited Partner exercising the Redemption Right (the “Tendering Party”). No Limited Partner may
deliver more than two Notices of Redemption during each calendar year. A Limited Partner may not
exercise the Redemption Right for less than 1,000 Partnership Units or, if such Limited Partner
holds less than 1,000 Partnership Units, all of the Partnership Units held by such Partner. The
Tendering Party shall have no right, with respect to any Partnership Units so redeemed, to receive
any distribution paid with respect to Partnership Units if the record date for such distribution is
on or after the Specified Redemption Date.

          (b) If the General Partner elects to redeem Tendered Units for REIT Shares rather than cash,
then the Partnership shall direct the General Partner to issue and deliver such REIT Shares to the
Tendering Party pursuant to the terms set forth in this Section 8.5(b), in which case, (i) the
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entity, shall assume directly the obligation with respect thereto and shall satisfy the
Tendering Party’s exercise of its Redemption Right, and (ii) such transaction shall be treated, for
federal income tax purposes, as a transfer by the Tendering Party of such Tendered Units to the
General Partner in exchange for REIT shares. The percentage of the Tendered Units tendered for
Redemption by the Tendering Party for which the General Partner elects to issue REIT Shares (rather
than cash) is referred to as the “Applicable Percentage.” In making such election to acquire
Tendered Units, the Partnership shall act in a fair, equitable and reasonable manner that neither
prefers one group or class of Limited Partners over another nor discriminates against a group or
class of Limited Partners. If the Partnership elects to redeem any number of Tendered Units for
REIT Shares, rather than cash, on the Specified Redemption Date, the Tendering Party shall sell
such number of the Tendered Units to the General Partner in exchange for a number of REIT Shares
equal to the product of the REIT Shares Amount and the Applicable Percentage. The product of the
Applicable Percentage and the REIT Shares Amount, if applicable, shall be delivered by the General
Partner as duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and accessible REIT Shares free of any
pledge, lien, encumbrance or restriction, other than the Aggregate Share Ownership Limit (as
calculated in accordance with the Articles of Incorporation) and other restrictions provided in the
Article of Incorporation, the bylaws of the General Partner, the Securities Act and relevant state
securities or “blue sky” laws. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8.5(a) and this Section
8.5(b), the Tendering Parties shall have no rights under this Agreement that would otherwise be
prohibited under the Articles of Incorporation.

          (c) In connection with an exercise of Redemption Rights pursuant to this Section 8.5, the
Tendering Party shall submit the following to the General Partner, in addition to the Notice of
Redemption:

               (1) A written affidavit, dated the same date as the Notice of Redemption, (a) disclosing the
actual and constructive ownership, as determined for purposes of Code Sections 856(a)(6) and
856(h), of REIT Shares by (i) such Tendering Party and (ii) any Related Party and (b) representing
that, after giving effect to the Redemption, neither the Tendering Party nor any Related Party will
own REIT Shares in excess of the Aggregate Share Ownership Limit (or, if applicable the Excepted
Holder Limit);

               (2) A written representation that neither the Tendering Party nor any Related Party has any
intention to acquire any additional REIT Shares prior to the closing of the Redemption on the
Specified Redemption Date; and

               (3) An undertaking to certify, at and as a condition to the closing of the Redemption on
the Specified Redemption Date, that either (a) the actual and constructive ownership of REIT Shares
by the Tendering Party and any Related Party remain unchanged from that disclosed in the affidavit
required by Section 8.5(c)(1) or (b) after giving effect to the Redemption, neither the Tendering
Party nor any Related Party shall own REIT Shares in violation of the Aggregate Share Ownership
Limit (or, if applicable, the Excepted Holder Limit).

               (4) Any other documents as the General Partner may reasonably require in connection with the
issuance of REIT Shares upon the exercise of the Redemption Right.

          (d) Any Cash Amount to be paid to a Tendering Party pursuant to this Section 8.5 shall be paid
on the Specified Redemption Date; provided, however, that the General Partner may elect to cause
the Specified Redemption Date to be delayed for up to an additional 180 days to the extent required
for the General Partner to cause additional REIT Shares to be issued to provide financing to be
used to make such payment of the Cash Amount. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the General Partner
agrees to use its best efforts to cause the closing of the acquisition of Tendered Units hereunder
to occur as quickly as reasonably possible.

          (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the General Partner shall place
appropriate restrictions on the ability of the Limited Partners to exercise their Redemption Rights
to prevent, among other things, (a) any person from owning shares in excess of the Common Share
Ownership Limit, the Aggregate Share Ownership Limit and the Excepted Holder Limit, (b) the General
Partner’s common stock from being owned by less than 100 persons, the General Partner from being
“closely held” within the meaning of Section 856(h) of the Code, and as and if deemed necessary to
ensure that the Partnership does not constitute a “publicly traded partnership” under Section 7704
of the Code. If and when the General Partner determines that imposing such restrictions is
necessary, the General Partner shall give prompt written notice thereof (a “Restriction Notice”) to
each of the Limited Partners holding Partnership Units, which notice shall be accompanied by a copy
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of counsel to the Partnership which states that, in the opinion of such counsel, restrictions
are necessary in order to avoid having the Partnership be treated as a “publicly traded
partnership” under Section 7704 of the Code.

          (f) A redemption fee may be charged in connection with an exercise of Redemption Rights
pursuant to this Section 8.5.

     8.6 Registration. Subject to the terms of any agreement between the General Partner
and one or more Limited Partners with respect to Partnership Units held by them:

          (a) Registration of the Common Stock. The General Partner agrees to file with the Commission
a registration statement covering the resale of the REIT Shares that may be issued upon redemption
of such Partnership Units pursuant to Section 8.5 hereof (“Redemption Shares”) if a Limited Partner
or Limited Partners who together hold Redemption Shares having an aggregate value of at least $10
million (based on the then current price) request that the General Partner register for resale such
Redemption Shares. Such requests shall be made in writing and shall state the number of Redemption
Shares to be disposed of. Within 30 days after receipt of a request for registration, whatever the
amount of the Redemption Shares requested to be registered, the General Partner shall give written
notice of such request to all other Limited Partners holding Partnership Units; provided however,
that the General Partner shall be obligated to give such notice no more than one time in any
six-month period. Further, the General Partner shall include in a registration statement all such
Redemption Shares with respect to which the General Partner has received written requests for
inclusion therein (whether or not such Redemption Shares have been issued) within 15 days after the
receipt of the General Partner’s notice. The General Partner further agrees to use its commercially
reasonable efforts to file the registration statement within 90 days of its receipt of the written
request described above, and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement for a
period of no more than two years.

          (b) Listing on Securities Exchange. If the General Partner shall list or maintain the listing
of any REIT Shares on any securities exchange or national market system, it will at its expense and
as necessary to permit the registration and sale of the Redemption Shares hereunder, list thereon,
maintain and, when necessary, increase such listing to include such Redemption Shares.

          (c) Registration Not Required. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the General Partner shall not
be required to file or maintain the effectiveness of a registration statement covering the resale
of Redemption Shares if, in the opinion of counsel to the General Partner, such Redemption Shares
could be sold by the holders thereof pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act, or any
successor rule thereto.

     8.7 Redemption of Special Partnership Units. Upon the earliest to occur of (a) the
termination or nonrenewal of the Advisory Agreement for “cause” (as defined in the Advisory
Agreement), (b) a Termination Event, or (c) the Listing, the Special Partnership Units will be
redeemed.

          (a) Redemption of Special Partnership Units Upon Termination or Nonrenewal of the Advisory
Agreement for Cause. If the Advisory Agreement is terminated or not renewed by the General Partner
for “cause” (as defined in the Advisory Agreement), all of the Special Partnership Units shall be
redeemed by the Partnership for $1 within thirty (30) days after the termination or nonrenewal of
the Advisory Agreement.

          (b) Redemption of Special Partnership Units upon a Termination Event. Upon the occurrence of
a Termination Event, the Special Partnership Units shall be redeemed for an aggregate amount equal
to the Net Sales Proceeds that would have been distributed to the Special OP Unitholders under
Section 5.2(b)(i)(B)(2) if all assets of the Partnership had been sold for their Appraised Value
and all liabilities of the Partnership had been satisfied in full according to their terms. Payment
to Special OP Unitholders upon a Termination Event shall consist of a non-interest bearing
promissory note that will be repaid using the entire net proceeds of each sale of an asset or
assets of the Partnership in connection with or following the occurrence of the Termination Event.
However, payments may not be made under a promissory note issued in connection with a Termination
Event until either (a) the closing of asset sales that result in aggregate, cumulative
distributions to the OP Unitholders of the Partnership from operating income, sales proceeds and
other sources in an amount equal to their Capital Contributions to the Partnership (less any
amounts received in redemption of their Partnership Interests) plus a 7.0% cumulative
non-compounded annual pre-tax return thereon, or (b) a Listing (each a “Subsequent Liquidity
Event.”) In addition, the amount of the
promissory note issued in connection with a Termination Event will be subject to reduction as
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Subsequent Liquidity Event by an amount that will ensure that, in connection
with the Subsequent Liquidity Event, the holder of the promissory note does not receive in excess
of 15.0% of the distributions of Net Sales Proceeds that are made or are deemed to be made by the
Partnership after the OP Unitholders have received or are deemed to have received aggregate,
cumulative distributions equal to their Capital Contributions to the Partnership (less any amounts
received in redemption of their Partnership Interests) plus a 7.0% cumulative noncompounded annual
pre-tax return thereon.

          (c) Redemption of Special Partnership Units Upon Listing. Upon the occurrence of a Listing,
the Special Partnership Units shall be redeemed for an aggregate amount equal to the Net Sales
Proceeds that would have been distributed to the Special OP Unitholders under Section
5.02(b)(i)(B)(2) if the Partnership had distributed to the Special OP Unitholders and OP
Unitholders upon liquidation an amount equal to the market value of all of the REIT Shares
outstanding on the date of Listing, calculated based upon the per share value of a REIT Share (the
“Market Value”) being deemed equal to the average closing price, or average of bid and asked
prices, as the case may be, during a period of thirty (30) days during which such shares are traded
beginning 150 days after the Listing. Payment to the Special OP Unitholders upon a Listing
(including a Subsequent Liquidity Event which is a Listing) shall be
in the form of a non-interest bearing promissory note that will be
repaid using the entire net proceeds of each sale of an asset or
assets of the Partnership in connection with or following the
occurrence of the Listing.

          (d) Effect and Timing of Redemption of Special Partnership Units. From and after the date of a
Termination Event or a Listing, no distributions, other than the redemption payments provided for
in this Section 8.7, shall be payable with respect to the Special OP Units. Redemptions under this
Section 8.7 shall occur no later than 30 days after the Termination Event and no later than 240
days after the Listing.

ARTICLE 9

TRANSFERS OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP INTERESTS

     9.1 Purchase for Investment.

          (a) Each Limited Partner hereby represents and warrants to the General Partner and to the
Partnership that the acquisition of his Partnership Interest is made as a principal for his account
for investment purposes only and not with a view to the resale or distribution o such Partnership
Interest.

          (b) Each Limited Partner agrees that it will not sell, assign or otherwise transfer its
Partnership Interest or any fraction thereof, whether voluntarily or by operation of law or at
judicial sale or otherwise, to any Person who does not make the representations and warranties to
the General Partner set forth in Section 9.1(a) above and similarly agree not to sell, assign or
transfer such Partnership Interest or fraction thereof to any Person who does not similarly
represent, warrant and agree.

     9.2 Restrictions on Transfer of Limited Partnership 

          (a) Subject to the provisions of 9.2(b) and (c), no Limited Partner may offer, sell, assign,
hypothecate, pledge or otherwise transfer all or any portion of his Limited Partnership Interest,
or any of such Limited Partner’s economic rights as a Limited Partner, whether voluntarily or by
operation of law or at judicial sale or otherwise (collectively, a “Transfer”) without the consent
of the General Partner, which consent may be granted or withheld in its sole and absolute
discretion. Any such purported transfer undertaken without such consent shall be considered to be
null and void ab initio and shall not be given effect. The General Partner may require, as a
condition of any Transfer to which it consents, that the transferor assume all costs incurred by
the Partnership in connection therewith.

          (b) No Limited Partner may withdraw from the Partnership other than as a result of a permitted
Transfer (i.e., a Transfer consented to as contemplated by clause (a) above or clause (c) below or
a Transfer pursuant to Section 9.5 below) of all of its Partnership Interest pursuant to this
Article 9 or pursuant to a redemption of all of its Partnership Units pursuant to Section 8.5 or
pursuant to the redemption of the Limited Partner’s Special
Partnership Units pursuant to Section 8.7. Upon the permitted Transfer or redemption of all of
a Limited Partner’s Partnership Interest, such Limited Partner shall cease to be a Limited Partner.

          (c) Notwithstanding Section 9.2(a) and subject to Sections 9.2(d), (e) and (f) below, a
Limited Partner may Transfer, without the consent of the General Partner, all or a portion of its
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parent or parent’s spouse, natural or adopted descendant or
descendants, spouse of such descendant, or brother or sister, or a trust created by such Limited
Partner for the benefit of such Limited Partner and/or any such person(s), of which trust such
Limited Partner or any such person(s) is a trustee, (ii) a corporation controlled by a Person or
Persons named in (i) above, or (iii) if the Limited Partner is an entity, its beneficial owners.

          (d) No Limited Partner may effect a Transfer of its Limited Partnership Interest, in whole or
in part, if, in the opinion of legal counsel for the Partnership, such proposed Transfer would
require the registration of the Limited Partnership Interest under the Securities Act or would
otherwise violate any applicable federal or state securities or blue sky law (including investment
suitability standards).

          (e) No Transfer by a Limited Partner of its Partnership Interest, in whole or in part, may be
made to any Person if (i) in the opinion of the General Partner based on the advice of legal
counsel for the Partnership, if appropriate, the transfer would result in the Partnership’s being
treated as an association taxable as a corporation (other than a qualified REIT subsidiary within
the meaning of Section 856(i) of the Code), (ii) in the opinion of the General Partner based on the
advice of legal counsel for the Partnership, if appropriate, it would adversely affect the ability
of the General Partner to continue to qualify as a REIT or subject the General Partner to any
additional taxes under Section 857 or Section 4981 of the Code, (iii) such transfer is effectuated
through an “established securities market” or a “secondary market (or the substantial equivalent
thereof)” within the meaning of Section 7704 of the Code, (iv) such Transfer would cause the
General Partner to own 10% or more of the ownership interests of any tenant of a property held by
the Partnership within the meaning of Section 856(d)(2)(B) of the Code, or (v) such Transfer would
result in the General Partner being “closely held” within the meaning of Section 856(h) of the
Code.

          (f) No transfer by a Limited Partner of any Partnership Interest may be made to a lender to
the Partnership or any Person who is related (within the meaning of Regulations Section 1.752-4(b))
to any lender to the Partnership whose loan constitutes a nonrecourse liability (within the meaning
of Regulations Section 1.752-1(a)(2)), without the consent of the General Partner, which may be
withheld in its sole and absolute discretion, provided that as a condition to such consent the
lender will be required to enter into an arrangement with the Partnership and the General Partner
to exchange or redeem for the Cash Amount any Partnership Units in which a security interest is
held simultaneously with the time at which such lender would be deemed to be a Partner in the
Partnership for purposes of allocating liabilities to such lender under Section 752 of the Code.

          (g) Any Transfer in contravention of any of the provisions of this Article 9 shall be void and
ineffectual and shall not be binding upon, or recognized by, the Partnership.

          (h) Prior to the consummation of any Transfer under this Article 9, the transferor and/or the
transferee shall deliver to the General Partner such opinions, certificates and other documents as
the General Partner shall request in connection with such Transfer.

     9.3 Admission of Substitute Limited Partner.

          (a) Subject to the other provisions of this Article 9, an assignee of the Limited Partnership
Interest of a Limited Partner (which shall be understood to include any purchaser, transferee,
donee, or other recipient of any disposition of such Limited Partnership Interest) shall be deemed
admitted as a Limited Partner of the Partnership only with the consent of the General Partner and
upon the satisfactory completion of the following:

               (i) The assignee shall have accepted and agreed to be bound by the terms and provisions of
this Agreement by executing a counterpart or an amendment thereof, including a revised Exhibit A,
and such other documents or instruments as the General Partner may require in order to effect the
admission of such Person as a Limited Partner.

               (ii) To the extent required, an amended Certificate evidencing the admission of such Person as
a Limited Partner shall have been signed, acknowledged and filed for record in accordance with the
Act.

               (iii) The assignee shall have delivered a letter containing the representation set forth in
Section 9.1(a) hereof and the agreement set forth in Section 9.1(b) hereof.

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               (iv) If the assignee is a corporation, partnership or trust, the assignee shall have provided
the General Partner with evidence satisfactory to counsel for the Partnership of the assignee’s
authority to become a Limited Partner under the terms and provisions of this Agreement.

               (v) The assignee shall have executed a power of attorney containing the terms and provisions
set forth in Section 8.2 hereof.

               (vi) The assignee shall have paid all legal fees and other expenses of the Partnership and the
General Partner and filing and publication costs in connection with its substitution as a Limited
Partner.

               (vii) The assignee has obtained the prior written consent of the General Partner to its
admission as a Substitute Limited Partner, which consent may be given or denied in the exercise of
the General Partner’s sole and absolute discretion.

          (b) For the purpose of allocating Profits and Losses and distributing cash received by
the Partnership, a Substitute Limited Partner shall be treated as having become, and appearing in
the records of the Partnership as, a Partner upon the filing of the Certificate described in
Section 9.3(a)(ii) hereof or, if no such filing is required, the later of the date specified in the
transfer documents or the date on which the General Partner has received all necessary instruments
of transfer and substitution.

          (c) The General Partner shall cooperate with the Person seeking to become a Substitute Limited
Partner by preparing the documentation required by this Section and making all official filings and
publications. The Partnership shall take all such action as promptly as practicable after the
satisfaction of the conditions in this Article 9 to the admission of such Person as a Limited
Partner of the Partnership.

     9.4 Rights of Assignees of Partnership Interests.

          (a) Subject to the provisions of Sections 9.1 and 9.2 hereof, except as required by operation
of law, the Partnership shall not be obligated for any purposes whatsoever to recognize the
assignment by any Limited Partner of its Partnership Interest until the Partnership has received
notice thereof.

          (b) Any Person who is the assignee of all or any portion of a Limited Partner’s Limited
Partnership Interest, but does not become a Substitute Limited Partner and desires to make a
further assignment of such Limited Partnership Interest, shall be subject to all the provisions of
this Article 9 to the same extent and in the same manner as any Limited Partner desiring to make an
assignment of its Limited Partnership Interest.

     9.5 Effect of Bankruptcy, Death, Incompetence or Termination of a Limited Partner.
The occurrence of an Event of Bankruptcy as to a Limited Partner, the death of a Limited Partner or
a final adjudication that a Limited Partner is incompetent (which term shall include, but not be
limited to, insanity) shall not cause the termination or dissolution of the Partnership, and the
business of the Partnership shall continue if an order for relief in a bankruptcy proceeding is
entered against a Limited Partner, the trustee or receiver of his estate or, if he dies, his
executor, administrator or trustee, or, if he is finally adjudicated incompetent, his committee,
guardian or conservator, shall have the rights of such Limited Partner for the purpose of settling
or managing his estate property and such power as the bankrupt, deceased or incompetent Limited
Partner possessed to assign all or any part of his Partnership Interest and to join with the
assignee in satisfying conditions precedent to the admission of the assignee as a Substitute
Limited Partner.

     9.6 Joint Ownership of Interests. A Partnership Interest may be acquired by two
individuals as joint tenants with right of survivorship, provided that
such individuals either are married or are related and share the same home as tenants in
common. The written consent or vote of both owners of any such jointly held Partnership Interest
shall be required to constitute the action of the owners of such Partnership Interest; provided,
however, that the written consent of only one joint owner will be required if the Partnership has
been provided with evidence satisfactory to the counsel for the Partnership that the actions of a
single joint owner can bind both owners under the applicable laws of the state of residence of such
joint owners. Upon the death of one owner of a Partnership Interest held in a joint tenancy with a
right of survivorship, the Partnership Interest shall become owned solely by the survivor as a
Limited Partner and not as an assignee. The Partnership need not recognize the death of one of the
owners of a jointly-held Partnership Interest until it shall have received notice of such death.
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General Partner from either owner, the General Partner shall cause the
Partnership Interest to be divided into two equal Partnership Interests, which shall thereafter be
owned separately by each of the former owners.

ARTICLE 10

BOOKS AND RECORDS; ACCOUNTING; TAX MATTERS

     10.1 Books and Records. At all times during the continuance of the Partnership, the
Partners shall keep or cause to be kept at the Partnership’s specified office true and complete
books of account in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, including: (a) a
current list of the full name and last known business address of each Partner, (b) a copy of the
Certificate of Limited Partnership and all Certificates of amendment thereto, (c) copies of the
Partnership’s federal, state and local income tax returns and reports, (d) copies of this Agreement
and amendments thereto and any financial statements of the Partnership for the three most recent
years and (e) all documents and information required under the Act. Any Partner or its duly
authorized representative, upon paying the costs of collection, duplication and mailing, shall be
entitled to inspect or copy such records during ordinary business hours.

     10.2 Custody of Partnership Funds; Bank Accounts.

          (a) All funds of the Partnership not otherwise invested shall be deposited in one or more
accounts maintained in such banking or brokerage institutions as the General Partner shall
determine, and withdrawals shall be made only on such signature or signatures as the General
Partner may, from time to time, determine.

          (b) All deposits and other funds not needed in the operation of the business of the
Partnership may be invested by the General Partner in investment grade instruments (or investment
companies whose portfolio consists primarily thereof), government obligations, certificates of
deposit, bankers’ acceptances and municipal notes and bonds. The funds of the Partnership shall not
be commingled with the funds of any other Person except for such commingling as may necessarily
result from an investment in those investment companies permitted by this Section 10.2(b).

     10.3 Fiscal and Taxable Year. The fiscal and taxable year of the Partnership shall be
the calendar year.

     10.4 Annual Tax Information and Report. Within seventy-five (75) days after the end
of each fiscal year of the Partnership, the General Partner shall furnish to each person who was a
Limited Partner at any time during such year the tax information necessary to file such Limited
Partner’s individual tax returns as shall be reasonably required by law.

     10.5 Tax Matters Partner; Tax Elections; Special Basis Adjustments.

          (a) The General Partner shall be the Tax Matters Partner of the Partnership within the meaning
of Section 6231(a)(7) of the Code. As Tax Matters Partner, the General Partner shall have the right
and obligation to take all actions authorized and required, respectively, by the Code for the Tax
Matters Partner. The General Partner
shall have the right to retain professional assistance in respect of any audit of the
Partnership by the Service and all out-of-pocket expenses and fees incurred by the General Partner
on behalf of the Partnership as Tax Matters Partner shall constitute Partnership expenses. In the
event the General Partner receives notice of a final Partnership adjustment under Section
6223(a)(2) of the Code, the General Partner shall either (i) file a court petition for judicial
review of such final adjustment within the period provided under Section 6226(a) of the Code, a
copy of which petition shall be mailed to all Limited Partners on the date such petition is filed,
or (ii) mail a written notice to all Limited Partners, within such period, that describes the
General Partner’s reasons for determining not to file such a petition.

          (b) All elections required or permitted to be made by the Partnership under the Code or any
applicable state or local tax law shall be made by the General Partner in its sole and absolute
discretion.

          (c) In the event of a transfer of all or any part of the Partnership Interest of any Partner,
the Partnership, at the option of the General Partner, may elect pursuant to Section 754 of the
Code to adjust the basis of the Partnership’s assets. Notwithstanding anything contained in Article
5 of this Agreement, any adjustments made

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pursuant to Section 754 of the Code shall affect only the
successor in interest to the transferring Partner and in no event shall be taken into account in
establishing, maintaining or computing Capital Accounts for the other Partners for any purpose
under this Agreement. Each Partner will furnish the Partnership with all information necessary to
give effect to such election.

     10.6 Reports to Limited Partners.

          (a) As soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal quarter (other than the last quarter
of the fiscal year), the General Partner shall cause to be mailed to each Limited Partner a
quarterly report containing financial statements of the Partnership, or of the General Partner if
such statements are prepared solely on a consolidated basis with the General Partner, for such
fiscal quarter, presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. As soon as
practicable after the close of each fiscal year, the General Partner shall cause to be mailed to
each Limited Partner an annual report containing financial statements of the Partnership, or of the
General Partner if such statements are prepared solely on a consolidated basis with the General
Partner, for such fiscal year, presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles. The annual financial statements shall be audited by accountants selected by the General
Partner.

          (b) Any Partner shall further have the right to a private audit of the books and records of
the Partnership at the expense of such Partner, provided such audit is made for Partnership
purposes and is made during normal business hours.

ARTICLE 11

AMENDMENT OF AGREEMENT; MERGER

     The General Partner’s consent shall be required for any amendment to this Agreement. The
General Partner, without the consent of the Limited Partners, may amend this Agreement in any
respect or merge or consolidate the Partnership with or into any other partnership or business
entity (as defined in Section 17-211 of the Act) in a transaction pursuant to Section 7.1(c), (d)
or (e) hereof; provided, however, that the following amendments and any other merger or
consolidation of the Partnership shall require (i) the consent of Limited Partners holding more
than 50% of the Percentage Interests of the Limited Partners and (ii) in the case of any of the
following (b), (c) or (d), the consent of Limited Partners holding more than 50% of the Special
Percentage Interests of the Limited Partners:

          (a) any amendment affecting the operation of the Conversion Factor or the Redemption Right
(except as provided in Section 8.5(d) or 7.1(d) hereof) in a manner adverse to the Limited
Partners;

          (b) any amendment that would adversely affect the rights of the Limited Partners to receive
the distributions payable to them hereunder, other than with respect to the issuance of additional
Partnership Units pursuant to Section 4.2 hereof;

          (c) any amendment that would alter the Partnership’s allocations of Profit and Loss to the
Limited Partners, other than with respect to the issuance of additional Partnership Units pursuant
to Section 4.2 hereof; or

          (d) any amendment that would impose on the Limited Partners any obligation to make additional
Capital Contributions to the Partnership.

ARTICLE 12

GENERAL PROVISIONS

     12.1 Notices. All communications required or permitted under this Agreement shall be
in writing and shall be deemed to have been given when delivered personally or upon deposit in the
United States mail, registered, postage prepaid return receipt requested, to the Partners at the
addresses set forth in Exhibit A attached hereto; provided, however, that any Partner may
specify a different address by notifying the General Partner in writing of such different address.
Notices to the Partnership shall be delivered at or mailed to its specified office.

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     12.2 Survival of Rights. Subject to the provisions hereof limiting transfers, this
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Partners and the Partnership and
their respective legal representatives, successors, transferees and assigns.

     12.3 Additional Documents. Each Partner agrees to perform all further acts and
execute, swear to, acknowledge and deliver all further documents which may be reasonable,
necessary, appropriate or desirable to carry out the provisions of this Agreement or the Act.

     12.4 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement shall be declared illegal,
invalid, or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, then such provision shall be deemed to be severable
from this Agreement (to the extent permitted by law) and in any event such illegality, invalidity
or unenforceability shall not affect the remainder hereof.

     12.5 Entire Agreement. This Agreement and exhibits attached hereto constitute the
entire Agreement of the Partners and supersede all prior written agreements and prior and
contemporaneous oral agreements, understandings and negotiations with respect to the subject matter
hereof.

     12.6 Pronouns and Plurals. When the context in which words are used in the Agreement
indicates that such is the intent, words in the singular number shall include the plural and the
masculine gender shall include the neuter or female gender as the context may require.

     12.7 Headings. The Article headings or sections in this Agreement are for convenience
only and shall not be used in construing the scope of this Agreement or any particular Article.

     12.8 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in several counterparts, each of
which shall be deemed to be an original copy and all of which together shall constitute one and the
same instrument binding on all parties hereto, notwithstanding that all parties shall not have
signed the same counterpart.

     12.9 Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of Delaware; provided, however, that any cause of action for violation
of federal or state securities laws shall not be governed by this Section 12.9.

[SIGNATURES ON FOLLOWING PAGE]

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have hereunder affixed their signatures to this
First Amended and Restated Limited Partnership Agreement, all as of the October 31, 2007.

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	GENERAL PARTNER:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	REITPlus, Inc., a Maryland corporation	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	BY:

Name:
	 	 /s/ H.
Kerr Taylor
 

H.
Kerr Taylor
	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	LIMITED PARTNERS:	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	REITPlus Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited

liability company	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	 	 	By: AmREIT, Its Manager	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	BY:

Name:
	 	/s/ H.
Kerr Taylor
 

H.
Kerr Taylor
	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	President	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	AmREIT, a Texas corporation	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	BY:

Name:
	 	/s/ H.
Kerr Taylor
 

H.
Kerr Taylor
	 	 
	 

	 	Title:
	 	President	 	 

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EXHIBIT A

	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	Agreed Value of	 	 	 	 	 	Special	 	 	 	 	 	Special
	 	 	Cash	 	Capital	 	Partnership	 	Partnership	 	Percentage	 	Percentage
	Partner	 	Contribution	 	Contribution	 	Units	 	Units	 	Interest	 	Interest
	GENERAL PARTNER:
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	REITPlus, Inc.

8 Greenway Plaza,

Suite 1000

Houston, TX 77046
	 	$	1000	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	110	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	.1	%	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	ORIGINAL LIMITED PARTNERS:
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	REITPlus Holdings, LLC

8 Greenway Plaza,

Suite 1000

Houston, TX 77046
	 	$	1000	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	110	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	100.0	%
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	AmREIT

8 Greenway Plaza,

Suite 1000

Houston, TX 77046
	 	$	1,000,000	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	110,742	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	99.9	%	 	 	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 
	Totals
	 	$	1,002,000	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	110,852	 	 	 	110	 	 	 	100	%	 	 	100	%

 

 

EXHIBIT B

NOTICE OF EXERCISE OF REDEMPTION RIGHT

     In accordance with Section 8.5 of the Limited Partnership Agreement (the “Agreement”) of
REITPlus Operating Partnership, L.P., the undersigned hereby irrevocably (i) presents for
redemption                      Partnership Units in REITPlus Operating Partnership, L.P., in
accordance with the terms of the Agreement and the Redemption Right referred to in Section 8.5
thereof, (ii) surrenders such Partnership Units and all right, title and interest therein, and
(iii) directs that the Cash Amount or REIT Shares Amount (as defined in the Agreement) as
determined by the General Partner deliverable upon exercise of the Redemption Right be delivered to
the address specified below, and if REIT Shares (as defined in the Agreement) are to be delivered,
such REIT Shares be registered or placed in the name(s) and at the address(es) specified below.

	 	 	 	 	 
	Dated:                     ,                    

	 	  

(Name
of Limited Partner)
	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	  

(Signature
of Limited Partner)
	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	  

(Mailing
Address)
	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	  

(City)     (State)     (Zip
Code)
	 	 
	 
	 	 	 	 
	 

	 	  

Signature
Guaranteed by:
	 	 

If REIT Shares are to be issued, issue to:

	 	 	 	 	 
	Name:

	 	 
 

	 	 

	 	 	 	 	 
	Social Security or Tax I.D. Number:

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