Correspondence 0001641172-25-006478 from Roots Real Estate Investment Community I, LLC (CIK 0001866803)
Roots Real Estate Investment Community I, LLC (CIK 0001866803)
Date: April 28, 2025 · CIK: 0001866803 · Accession: 0001641172-25-006478
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File numbers found in text: 024-11897
Referenced dates: April 25, 2025
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April
28, 2025
VIA
EDGAR
Division
of Corporation Finance
Office
of Real Estate & Construction
Securities
and Exchange Commission
100
F Street, NE
Washington,
DC 20549
Re:
Roots
Real Estate Investment Community I, LLC
Post-Qualification
Amendment No. 7 to Offering Statement on Form 1-A
Filed
April 23, 2025
File
No. 024-11897
To
Whom it May Concern:
This
letter is being submitted on behalf of Roots Real Estate Investment Community I, LLC (File No. 024-11897) (the “Company”)
in response to comments of the staff (the “Staff”) of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”)
set forth in the Commission’s letter dated April 25, 2025 (the “Comment Letter”) regarding the Company’s
Post-Qualification Amendment No. 7 to its Offering Statement on Form 1-A (the “Initial Filing”) filed with the Commission
on April 23, 2025 in connection with its offering of units pursuant to Regulation A (the “Offering”). The Company
is concurrently filing Post-Qualification Amendment No. 8 to its Offering Statement on Form 1-A (the “Amended Filing”),
which includes changes in response to the Staff’s comments.
For
your convenience, the Staff’s numbered comments set forth in the Comment Letter have been reproduced herein with responses immediately
following each comment. Unless otherwise indicated, page references in the descriptions of the Staff’s comments refer to the Initial
Filing, and page references in the responses, if any, refer to the Amended Filing. Defined terms used herein but not otherwise defined
have the meanings given to them in the Amended Filing.
Real
Estate Portfolio, page 49
Comment
No. 1: We partially reissue prior comment 5. Please provide disclosure required by Item 15 of Form S-11, including occupancy rate and
average effective annual rent.
Response:
We acknowledge the Staff’s comment requesting additional disclosure under Item 15 of Form S-11, including occupancy rate and
average effective annual rent. The Company respectfully submits that disclosure pursuant to Item 15 of Form S-11 is not applicable to
the Company’s real estate portfolio, and therefore is not disclosed in the Amended Filing.
As
updated in previous filings in response to the Staff’s comments and Item 14 of Form S-11, specifically Instruction 2 thereto, the
Company provided its real estate portfolio information in classes or groups, rather than furnishing such information separately for each
property, because no property in the Company’s real estate portfolio meets the materiality threshold set forth in Instruction 2
to Item 14 of Form S-11. Item 15. Operating Data. of Form S-11 explicitly states:
“Furnish
the following information with respect to each improved property which is separately described in answer to Item 14.”
[Emphasis
added]
As
stated above, no property is separately described in response to Item 14, but rather described in classes or groups, and, therefore,
the Company respectfully submits that the disclosure requirements of Item 15 of Form S-11 do not apply to the Company’s real estate
portfolio, and the Company respectfully requests that the Staff clear this comment.
Plan
of Operation, page 51
Comment
No. 2: We note the updated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2024. Please update this section to include the disclosure
regarding Management’s Discussion and Analysis and Result of Operations as required by Item 303 of Regulation S-K, as referenced
in Item 10 of Form S-11.
Response:
The Company has updated the Plan of Operation section in the Amended Filing to add additional disclosure in response to the Staff’s
comment and Item 303 of Regulation S-K, and respectfully requests that the Staff clear this comment.
Description
of Our Units, page 55
Comment
No. 3. We acknowledge your response and revisions to prior comment 6. We note your narrative disclosure as to how your NAV is calculated
and that you calculated the offering price to be $140.00 per share. Please revise the offering circular to provide quantitative information
in the tabular disclosure.
Response:
In response to the Staff’s comment, the Amended Filing includes the quantitative information for the calculation of its NAV and
related NAV per Unit price for the Company’s current NAV price per Unit of $140. The Company respectfully requests that the Staff
clear this comment.
Thank
you for your consideration of the Company’s response to the Staff’s comments. We appreciate your review and assistance. The
Company respectfully requests that the Staff clear these remaining comments based on the Company’s responses herein and the related
updates in the Amended Filing and consider qualifying the Amended Offering as soon as possible. If you have any questions regarding this
response, please do not hesitate to contact the undersigned at mike@williamsbusinesslaw.com or 470-567-3411.
Sincerely
yours,
Williams
Business Law, LLC
Michael
P. Williams
cc:
Larry
Dorfman
Daniel
Dorfman