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Three Kinds of Real Estate. One Plan for Wealth that Lasts Generations.

RREI is a real estate investment firm, led by people who have owned, operated and financed these kinds of properties, investing in the buildings people rely on — hotels, homes for active adults over 55, and medical and surgical facilities. Every property we take on is planned from the start with a clear path forward. Whether you invest for returns today or for the long term, our structure is designed to help you defer taxes where the rules allow, diversify over time and, ultimately, pass your wealth on

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Our Mission

We help investors and property owners build wealth that lasts for generations — by investing responsibly in the real estate people need, planning every exit before we invest, and being candid about risk.

Responsible Real Estate Investment (RREI) is a real estate private equity platform that functions as a General Partner (GP) and Co-GP across multiple verticals: Healthcare, Hospitality, and Housing. Through our funds, SPVs, JVs, and stand-alone investments, we deploy capital into projects that shape the quality of life in America—where people live, recover, connect, and thrive.

We partner exclusively with seasoned operators and vertically integrated teams. In addition to our investment vehicles, RREI maintains affiliated management companies that provide essential services including property management, financing, and investment sales—ensuring vertical control and long-term performance.

Our commitment to transparency, durable returns, and positive impact, enables us to collaborate with Limited Partners (LPs), family offices, and values-aligned capital into investments that go beyond profit—building a future that is both financially sound and socially responsible.

Three Businesses, Each Built Around Real, Lasting Demand.

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Hospitality

Many hotel owners have spent decades building properties, and find that a conventional sale means one closing date, one large tax bill and the end of their role with the hotel. We offer a better-planned alternative: owners can sell through a debt-free trust, receiving their proceeds and recognizing their gain in stages as shares sell, with the possibility of continuing to manage the hotel. We focus on newer select-service hotels flying Marriott, Hilton, IHG and Hyatt flags. For investors, the program offers a share in a debt-free hotel property.

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Active Adult Build-to-Rent

Millions of Americans in their late fifties, sixties and seventies want to leave the upkeep of a family home behind without giving up the feeling of having a home of their own. We build communities for them: single-level houses and duplexes with their own garages, set around a clubhouse, pool and walking trails, and professionally maintained. This is not assisted living — there is no medical care on site — just good homes for independent people. Our first community, Americana, will have 215 homes on 54 acres in Plainfield, Illinois

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Medical & Surgical

Medical care is steadily moving out of hospitals and into outpatient clinics and surgery centers, and those buildings are in demand. Many are owned by the physicians who practice in them. For those physicians, we offer a way to sell the building at its independently appraised value while the practice stays exactly where it is, under a long-term lease agreed up front. For investors, the program offers a share in a medical building leased long-term to an established practice or health system.

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Three Different Starting Points. One Path to the Finish.

Each of our three businesses acquires property in its own way. After that, they all follow the same four steps.

We Acquire, Build or Partner

With hotels, we acquire the property from an established owner through our trust sale process — and, for selected hotels, a direct contribution option may be available. We build active adult communities from the ground up with an experienced homebuilder. And we buy medical buildings from their owners, often the physicians who practice there.

One Architecture, Run Three Times in Parallel.

One important detail: each business has its own trusts and its own fund, and they never combine. Someone who invests in a hotel trust can move into a hotel fund — but never into a fund of medical buildings or homes. That keeps each investment exactly what it says it is.

How the asset arrivesDebt-free DSTElective §721 → private REIT
Direct §721 contribution may be available for selected hotels
  1. HospitalityFrom owner via DST sale · ~6 months
    Lodging DSTInterests sold to 1031 investors
    Hospitality REITSector-focused · unlisted
  2. Active Adult BTRDeveloped by JV · ~36 months
    Active Adult DSTInterests sold to 1031 investors
    Active Adult REITSector-focused · unlisted
  3. Medical & SurgicalAcquired · ~6 months
    Medical DSTInterests sold to 1031 investors
    Medical REITSector-focused · unlisted

Same trust mechanics, same exchange market, same elective 721 — separate vehicles in every vertical. The lanes never merge.

For overview only; not tax advice. Section 721 treatment is elective, one-way and subject to applicable guidance.

DISCLOSURE
This is a general description of how our structure works, not tax or legal advice. DST interests are securities. Whether any tax benefit applies depends on your own situation, and the IRS sets strict rules for 1031 exchanges and DSTs (including Revenue Ruling 2004-86). Exchanging into a fund under Section 721 is optional, cannot be reversed, and is only available where the tax rules allow it. Please speak with your own tax and legal advisors.

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Real Estate Designed to be Held — and Passed On.

Most real estate investments are built around a sale. Ours are designed around a longer horizon: a path that lets an investor keep their capital working, defer taxes along the way, and leave a more flexible, diversified holding to the next generation. There are two ways onto that path.

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There are two ways in. An investor who sells an appreciated property can reinvest the proceeds in one of our trusts through a 1031 exchange, deferring the tax on their gain rather than paying it now. Or an accredited investor or family office that has earned returns in one of our programs can choose — where the program offers it — to reinvest them in a trust instead of taking them as cash. Those returns are taxed when they are earned, as usual — but once reinvested, the capital is on a path where future gains may be deferred.

Built for Generations – Two Ways Onto One Path

One important detail: each business has its own trusts and its own fund, and they never combine. Someone who invests in a hotel trust can move into a hotel fund — but never into a fund of medical buildings or homes. That keeps each investment exactly what it says it is.

Appreciated property1031 exchange
defers the gain
Returns from RREI programsTaxed when earned,
then reinvested
HoldShares in a
debt-free RREI DST
Diversify§721 exchange
into sector REIT
Draw downRedeem units
gradually
Pass onHeirs; step-up in
basis (current law)
The investor’s lifetime
Next generation

Returns are taxed when earned; reinvesting, where a program offers it, starts the path from that point. Hotel sales through a trust are not deferred.

Illustrative design only; not a promised outcome or tax advice. Deferral requires meeting IRS rules; step-up depends on current law, which can change. Loss of principal is possible

ADJACENT DISCLOSURE
This describes how our structure is designed, not a promised outcome, and is not tax, legal or estate-planning advice. Tax deferral depends on meeting strict IRS requirements; the Section 721 exchange is optional and cannot be reversed; and REIT redemptions are limited and can be paused. Step-up in basis depends on current federal tax law, which can change, and on each investor’s estate circumstances. You could lose money. Please consult your own tax, legal and estate-planning advisors.

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Led and Governed by People Who Have Owned What We Invest In.

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Hotels developed & owned

10,141 rooms over three decades. 75 of which have since been sold.

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Hotels owned today

8,514 rooms flying Marriott, Hilton, IHG and Hyatt flags.

$4B+

Real estate deals advised

Across every type of property, over our CEO’s career.

$5B+

Hotel & commercial loans

Originated at debt platforms under our CEO’s leadership.

The hotel figures describe hotels developed and owned by members of RREI’s Board and their partners, through partnerships outside RREI. The lending and advisory figures describe the careers of RREI’s leadership, including at previous firms. The hotels are not owned by RREI or by any RREI fund or program, and investors in RREI offerings do not acquire any interest in them. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

Experience Where Strategy Meets Execution.

Our leadership team brings together a tax lawyer who ran a multi-billion-dollar hotel lender, a real estate advisor with more than two decades in build-to-rent and multifamily housing, and a banker with three decades of senior experience at Santander and HSBC.

Led by Dilip Petigara, CEO & Board Member, the team applies institutional discipline and firsthand operating judgment to every investment decision—aligning structure, stewardship and long-term performance.

Every Conversation Starts with a Structure Review — and Your Advisors are Welcome.

Whether you’re an investor, a hotel owner or a physician group, our first step is simply a conversation about what you own and what you’d like it to do for you. We encourage you to bring your accountant and attorney. If it turns out we’re not the right fit, that’s a perfectly good outcome too.

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