RAD Diversified was founded by Dutch Mendenhall and Amy Vaughn. They started off as 50% owners of another company that specialized in tax liens, parted ways, became tax auction investors.
What they realized, over the years, is that all these aspiring real estate investors were buying courses and coaching and attending seminars, but hardly any of ’em ever took action and bought a property.
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“And so I just started asking people why,” Dutch recalls, “and it was just fear.”
- What if the property’s not what it seems?
- What if the rehab costs more?
- What if there’s other liens that I don’t understand?
- What if the contractors vacate the country and walk away with my money?
All the what ifs, right? So they asked Dutch if they could just team up with him instead.
At first he was like, oh hell no.
“I was an investor, I had good money, I had built a pretty good life with my family and I just didn’t really want that burden of other people’s money,” Dutch recalls.
“And, took some time, some prayer, spoke with Amy and my wife and just felt like that’s what we were kinda being led to,” he continues.
“The calling, the direction that God was leading us to.”
“We listened, and 30 days later I came back and said, ‘Okay, I’ll let people invest with us.’ Probably didn’t do it legally the first few times,” he laughs.
“People gave us money, ya know, and we went and bought properties, and we had success and we made them money and we made money.”
“But we didn’t know the proper way to do it.”
“But, outta that first round of investors, I think there were 21, and 18 of ’em are still investing with us today, seven years later,” Dutch is happy to report.
“But it’s been a fascinating journey.”
“So that’s when we launched our first Regulation D investment fund. And over the next year we started two more.”
“So we have three investment funds where people invest with us.”
Dutch says they average about 15-20% per year.
Sure, once in a while, they’ll have a quarter where they’re down a percent or two, but overall, pretty solid.
Over the years, they’ve learned, improved – figured out how to keep the returns steady.
“So if you wanna invest in the REIT with us, we’re gonna continue to get better, we’re gonna continue to move forward,” he pitches.
“It’s a $1,000 minimum investment. It can be anyone. You can become a partner with us.”
Rad Diversified’s mission is this: if you give them money, they gotta make you money back. Period, no excuses.
And if the REIT isn’t exciting enough for ya, they’ve got an Inner Circle you can join, where they’ll team up, joint venture with ya, help ya do deals 1-on-1.
Each of ya puts in 50% of the money, they handle all the operations, and y’all chop the profits.
Dutch claims they’ve literally never had an Inner Circle member lose money. Ever. In six years now.
Pretty impressive stuff.
“And I hold true to that,” Dutch says, “and I’m gonna fight to the end to make sure I can keep it that way.”
“And we have a lot of other things we’re starting to dabble in. You’ll hear us talk about the Metaverse or crypto or different things.”
“But at the same time, just know, that’ll never take away from our core, which is residential real estate. Houses that we do every single day,” he says.
“Those other things are research and development and preparing for what’s to come.”
“The changing economy. We wanna be ahead of it,” he ends with.