Expert MRI Bookkeeping Services For Scaling Property Investors & Managers In Fort Collins
Fort Collins property managers running MRI typically split their book between commercial space near CSU and campus-adjacent retail, and residential or student housing units that turn over each August. MRI's strength is commercial lease administration and CAM reconciliation, exactly what the retail and mixed-use side of that portfolio needs, but the module that abstracts a lease and the module that bills it don't always agree once a residential ledger gets bolted onto the same instance. We reconcile both sides against source documents, not against what the modules assume.
We work with accountant access inside your own MRI instance, exactly as you would grant an internal hire.
Colorado rules that apply here
- Deposit return deadline
- one month, up to 60 days by lease
- Statute
- Colorado Revised Statutes
Why MRI Operators in Fort Collins Come to REA
Enterprise and modular, strong on commercial
CAM Reconciliation Built Right
MRI's CAM module is built for exactly the retail and mixed-use space common near CSU and along Fort Collins' commercial corridors. We reconcile common area maintenance recoveries against actual invoices and lease terms each period, not against whatever estimate carried over from the prior owner's instance, so tenant billbacks match what the lease actually says.
Closing the Module Gap
MRI implementations vary property to property, and a lease abstracted in the administration module doesn't always match what the billing module invoices. Fort Collins operators running mixed commercial and student or workforce housing portfolios feel this most, since one instance is carrying rent rolls that behave nothing like each other. We reconcile lease terms against actual billed output every cycle.
Cycle-Aware for Lease Turnover
Residential and student units in this market turn over on the academic calendar, which stresses the deposit and move-out side of an MRI instance built mainly around commercial lease terms. We track move-outs, deposit deadlines, and unit-level ledgers separately from the CAM and lease administration work, so the August turnover doesn't get lost inside a commercial-weighted setup.
MRI and Colorado Deposit Rules
Colorado Revised Statutes
Colorado Revised Statutes 38-12-103 requires landlords to return a security deposit or send an itemized statement within one month of move-out, extendable to 60 days if the lease says so. MRI's residential deposit tracking is a secondary function bolted onto a platform built for commercial lease administration, and in mixed portfolios it's easy for a deposit deadline to sit unflagged in a module nobody checks daily. We track deposit due dates separately from the platform's default alerts so the one-month clock doesn't get missed.
Colorado statute sets a one month return deadline, extendable to a maximum of 60 days only if the lease says so, and provides for treble damages where a deposit is wrongfully withheld.
All Colorado requirementsHow we keep you inside it
- Deposit liabilities tracked per tenant in MRI, so a one month, up to 60 days by lease deadline is answerable from the ledger
- Trust accounts reconciled three ways every month
- Deduction documentation recorded against the correct ledger
- Aging deposits flagged before the statutory window closes
MRI Accounting & Bookkeeping Services
For Fort Collins Portfolios
- Process Review & Set Up
- Bank Reconciliations
- AP / AR
- Accurate NOI, Balance Sheets
- Recording HUD's & Accruals
- Owner Distributions
- Monthly Statements & Reports
- Management Fees
- Corporate Bookkeeping
- Tenant Chargebacks
Take the Whole Close, or One Function
Fort Collins operators use REA for the full monthly close or for the single function that has become a bottleneck. Each one is performed inside your MRI instance.
Trust Accounting
Compliant, audit-ready trust funds
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Three-way reconciliation, every account
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Bills paid, rent collected, owners paid
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Back books fixed and current
Learn moreCAM Reconciliation
Annual commercial true-ups
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We Work Inside All of Them
Experts In All Property Types
- Single-Family
- Multifamily
- Student Housing
- Affordable Housing
- Community Associations
- Commercial
Experts In All Property Types
Residential, commercial and everything in between. The asset class changes what the books have to prove, and our teams are staffed accordingly.
- Single-Family
- Multifamily
- Student Housing
- Affordable Housing
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Check Out What Our Clients Have To Say About Us
Property Managers, Investors & Owner Operators
Adam the owner took a personal interest in my situation and was willing to work with me to see if his company was a good fit. I may be too small for them but I would highly recommend them to anyone considering a bookkeeper for their property management business.
Following a series of erroneous financials from my previous bookkeeper, who lacked expertise in real estate, it's been truly remarkable to receive not only accurate financials on a consistent basis but also proactive advice without prompting. The REA team is a game-changer in real estate accounting!
As REA exclusively specializes in Real Estate, I rest easy knowing my financials are precise every month while saving money at the same time, an invaluable benefit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does MRI track Colorado's security deposit deadline automatically?
Not reliably. MRI's residential deposit fields exist, but the platform doesn't natively flag the one-month deadline set by Colorado Revised Statutes 38-12-103, or the 60-day extension when a lease specifies it. We build that tracking into the bookkeeping cycle ourselves, checking move-out dates against deposit disposition status so nothing ages past the statutory window.
Why does CAM reconciliation matter more for MRI clients here than for other platforms?
MRI is built around commercial lease administration and CAM, and most Fort Collins MRI engagements we see are commercial-weighted, retail and mixed-use near CSU rather than pure residential. That means CAM recoveries, lease abstracts, and billing module agreement carry more of the accounting risk than deposit handling does, so we weight our reconciliation work there first.
How do you handle a portfolio that mixes student housing with commercial space?
We treat them as two different reconciliation problems inside one MRI instance. Commercial tenants get lease administration and CAM reconciliation against invoices and lease terms. Student and workforce residential units get cycle-aware bookkeeping around August turnover, deposit deadlines, and lease renewals, since those units move on the academic calendar, not a commercial lease term.
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MRI Bookkeeping for Fort Collins
Schedule a call and we will review your MRI setup, your Colorado deposit handling, and what it takes to close clean every month.