Real Estate

Financials that respect how real estate actually works.

Property-level P&Ls. Multi-entity structures. Cap-ex done right. Reporting your tax CPA and lenders can rely on. We do real estate accounting and fractional CFO for portfolios from 3 doors to 100+, plus commercial and flip operators.

§ 01Why this is different

Real estate accounting is its own discipline.

Most general bookkeepers will treat a real estate business like a service business. They'll mishandle depreciation, expense things that should be capitalized, and hand you a P&L that hides the real economics of your portfolio. We don't.

01

Property-level P&L

Books structured by property and entity from day one. You see net operating income per asset, not just a blended firm-wide P&L that tells you nothing.

02

Cap-ex vs. op-ex, done right

The difference between a $40K roof being expensed (wrong) and capitalized + depreciated (right) is real money. We get this right every time, and your tax CPA thanks us.

03

Multi-entity reporting

HoldCo, OpCo, property LLCs, partnerships — we keep the books clean across multi-entity portfolios with proper intercompany eliminations and clear partner allocations. Entity formation stays with your attorney; we work with whatever structure you and your CPA have set up.

04

Cost-segregation ready

If you're doing cost seg studies, your records need to support them. We structure your fixed asset registers so cost seg engineers and your tax CPA can do their work without a forensic audit.

05

Cash vs. accrual reality

Most owners need both — cash basis for tax, accrual for understanding. We can run both views cleanly so you see what's actually happening vs. what shows up on the tax return.

06

Refi & lender packages

When it's time to refinance or pull out equity, lenders want clean financials, reconciled rent rolls, and DSCR calculations they can verify. We package it — financials, supporting schedules, and DSCR — so your loan officer has what they need on day one.

§ 02Who we serve

Where we have real reps.

Residential rental portfolios

3 to 50+ doors. Long-term holds, mid-term, short-term. We handle the entity sprawl, the property manager statements, and the headache of small-dollar transactions at scale.

Commercial & mixed-use

Retail, office, industrial, multi-tenant. CAM reconciliations, lease accounting (ASC 842 if you need it), tenant improvement amortization.

Flippers & build-to-rent

Short-cycle inventory, construction-in-progress accounting, and the working capital math that tells you whether your next deal is feasible.

§ 03When you need a CFO too

Past 10 doors? The math gets harder.

Bookkeeping tells you what happened last month. A fractional CFO helps you see the patterns underneath — portfolio-level performance, where your cash actually goes, and what your numbers say about the next move.

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  • Portfolio-level KPIs: NOI growth, expense ratio, cash-on-cash
  • Reserve targets — are you actually funded for cap-ex?
  • Cash-flow visibility across entities and properties
  • Owner distributions and partner allocations done cleanly
  • Financial documentation ready when refis or exits come up
§ FAQ Real Estate-specific questions

What real estate owners ask before signing.

Do you handle short-term rental (Airbnb / VRBO) accounting?
Yes. STR comes with its own quirks: high-volume small transactions, occupancy taxes by jurisdiction, cleaning and turnover costs, and material participation rules that affect tax treatment. We've got reps here.
Can you work with my property manager and their statements?
Yes. We integrate with most major property management platforms (Buildium, AppFolio, RentManager, Stessa) and reconcile owner statements monthly. If your PM is on spreadsheets, we still make it work. Just takes a bit more setup.
What about depreciation and cost segregation?
We don't do cost seg studies (that's an engineering specialty), but we structure your books so cost seg engineers and your tax CPA can do their work efficiently. We track basis, accumulated depreciation, and asset components in a way that survives audit.
Do you work with house flippers?
Yes. Flipping has different financial mechanics than buy-and-hold. We track each flip as its own project: acquisition cost, rehab spend, holding costs, sale proceeds, true profit margin. We coordinate with your tax CPA on the active vs passive income classification, which matters for self-employment tax. If you're doing 4+ flips a year, you need this discipline. Most flippers don't have it and leak profit they could have kept.
What is BRRRR accounting?
BRRRR stands for Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat. It's a real estate investing strategy where you recycle capital through value-add projects. The accounting is more complex than buy-and-hold because each stage has different tax treatment: rehab costs are capitalized to basis, rental income gets passive treatment, refinance proceeds are not taxable but reduce equity. We track all five stages cleanly so your CPA has what they need at year-end and you know the actual return on every project.
Do you handle investor reporting for syndication sponsors?
Yes. If you're sponsoring deals with LPs, you need clean K-1 prep coordination, quarterly investor reports, distributions tracking, and waterfall calculations. We work alongside your syndication attorney and tax CPA so investors get accurate, timely reporting. Done right, this is a competitive advantage when raising capital. Done poorly, it kills repeat investor relationships.
Can you do accounting for passive LP real estate investors?
Yes, if you're an LP investor across multiple syndications, funds, or partnerships. We track your capital accounts, K-1s, distributions, and basis across deals. We coordinate with your tax CPA on the depreciation and loss carryforwards that often confuse passive investors. Common scenario: you're getting K-1s from 5 to 15 sponsors, paper losses look great, but you have no visibility into your actual cash position across the portfolio. We fix that.
How do you handle multi-state real estate portfolios?
Common scenario for us. We keep the books clean across entities and jurisdictions, document the activity that drives state-level filings, and coordinate directly with your tax CPA on the actual filings and nexus questions. Tax filings stay with your CPA. That's their lane.
Do you help with 1031 exchanges?
We track the basis carryover, structure the books on both sides of the exchange so the deferred gain is documented, and coordinate with your QI and tax CPA. We don't act as the qualified intermediary.
How does this work alongside my real estate attorney and tax CPA?
We're the financial operations layer that sits between them. Your attorney handles entity formation, your tax CPA handles filings, we handle the day-to-day books and management reporting that keeps everything coherent. We talk to both of them directly so you don't have to.

Ready to talk to people who actually know your industry?

30-minute call. No obligation. We'll tell you straight whether we can help — or who can.