Expert Yardi Bookkeeping Services For Scaling Property Investors & Managers In Denver
Denver's build-to-rent pipeline and garden-style multifamily growth push portfolios past the point where simple ledgers hold up. Yardi complicates that further because it isn't one system: Voyager carries the commercial lease and CAM depth that BTR and mixed-use portfolios need, while Breeze serves smaller residential books but caps out on reporting. We start every Denver Yardi engagement by identifying which one your books actually run on, because that answer changes what we can fix.
We work with accountant access inside your own Yardi 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 Yardi Operators in Denver Come to REA
Voyager for enterprise, Breeze for smaller portfolios
Voyager or Breeze, diagnosed first
Before we touch a ledger, we confirm which Yardi product your Denver portfolio runs on. Voyager and Breeze handle commercial leases, CAM reconciliation, and owner reporting differently, and a fix built for one breaks in the other. That diagnosis shapes every recommendation we make, not a formality we skip to get started faster.
Chart of accounts built for CAM
Denver's build-to-rent and mixed commercial-residential portfolios lean on Voyager's CAM reconciliation and multi-entity consolidation, and both depend on a chart of accounts set up correctly from day one. A misconfigured account structure in Voyager doesn't stay contained, it propagates through every property and every owner statement downstream. We rebuild it once, correctly.
Pulling Breeze operators off spreadsheets
Smaller Denver residential operators on Breeze often hit its reporting ceiling as they add build-to-rent units or scale past a handful of doors, then patch the gap with spreadsheets that live outside Yardi entirely. We rebuild that reporting inside the system instead of around it, so owner statements and deposit records stay in one auditable place.
Yardi and Colorado Deposit Rules
Colorado Revised Statutes
Colorado Revised Statutes 38-12-103 gives landlords one month to return a security deposit or send an itemized statement of deductions, extendable to 60 days if the lease says so. Voyager can track that deadline through its trust accounting and deduction ledger if the return date is configured per lease. Breeze has no comparable trigger. Denver operators running Breeze track the 30 or 60 day clock manually, and we've caught deposits sitting past the statutory window because nothing in the system flagged it.
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 Yardi, 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
Yardi Accounting & Bookkeeping Services
For Denver 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
Denver operators use REA for the full monthly close or for the single function that has become a bottleneck. Each one is performed inside your Yardi instance.
Trust Accounting
Compliant, audit-ready trust funds
Learn moreBank Reconciliation Services
Three-way reconciliation, every account
Learn moreAccounts Payable & Receivable
Bills paid, rent collected, owners paid
Learn moreBookkeeping Cleanup & Catch-Up
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
- Community AssociationsSee the page
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Check Out What Our Clients Have To Say About Us
Property Managers, Investors & Owner Operators
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.
I highly recommend Real Estate Accounting (REA) services from this group. They truly are great and have helped us tremendously at a time we needed it the most. I felt very comfortable giving up all my accounting responsibilities to this team and I'm still glad I made the decision to work with this group. Nothing less than an amazing experience!
Frequently Asked Questions
How does Yardi handle Colorado's security deposit deadline?
Colorado Revised Statutes 38-12-103 requires landlords to return a deposit or send an itemized statement within one month, up to 60 days if the lease extends it. Voyager can enforce that deadline if deduction tracking is configured against each lease's move-out date. Breeze doesn't flag it at all. We set up the tracking correctly on Voyager accounts and build a manual check into the process for Breeze accounts that lack it.
What's the difference between Voyager and Breeze for bookkeeping?
Voyager is built for enterprise and commercial-scale portfolios, with a deep chart of accounts, CAM reconciliation, and multi-entity consolidation. Breeze is a lighter residential product with simpler reporting that many smaller operators outgrow. The two aren't interchangeable versions of the same software, they produce different books with different failure points. We ask which one you're on before recommending anything, because the fix for a Voyager account rarely applies to a Breeze one.
Do you work with build-to-rent operators in Denver?
Yes, and it's a growing share of what we see here. Build-to-rent communities usually need Voyager's commercial-grade lease handling even though they read as residential on the surface, which is a mismatch operators don't always catch until reporting breaks. We set the chart of accounts up to handle that lease structure correctly from the start, rather than forcing BTR income through a residential template built for single-family rentals.
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Other Colorado markets, the platforms we work in, and the functions available on their own.
Yardi Bookkeeping for Denver
Schedule a call and we will review your Yardi setup, your Colorado deposit handling, and what it takes to close clean every month.