Real Estate Bookkeeping In Georgia
Atlanta is the institutional single-family rental capital of the Southeast, which brings portfolio-scale owner reporting expectations. Savannah and Augusta skew toward smaller operators and short-term inventory.
Locate the city nearest to you and select your software below to learn more. Don’t see your city? Schedule a meeting with us to learn more about how REA can help your property management accounting needs.
Georgia at a glance
- Security deposit return
- statutory window
- Governing statute
- O.C.G.A. Title 44
- Cities we publish
- Atlanta · Augusta · Savannah
What Georgia Law Changes About Your Books
Deposit Handling and Trust Requirements
Trust and deposit rules are set state by state, and they change the accounting itself, not just the paperwork around it. A deadline is a ledger requirement: you cannot return a deposit inside a statutory window if the ledger cannot say what is owed.
Security deposits
Georgia law under O.C.G.A. Title 44 requires deposits to be held in escrow and returned with itemized deductions inside the statutory window.
Trust and segregation
The escrow requirement means a dedicated deposit liability account per property, reconciled rather than pooled.
What we do about it
- Deposit liabilities tracked per tenant, so a statutory window deadline is answerable from the ledger
- Trust accounts reconciled three ways, including every beneficiary balance
- Deduction documentation recorded against the correct ledger, not filed separately
- Aging deposits flagged before the statutory window closes
Summary of statutory requirements provided for orientation. It is not legal advice, and local ordinances can impose stricter rules than the state minimum.
Cities We Cover in Georgia
Market by Market
We work with property managers and investors across all of Georgia, all 635 cities and towns of it. The markets below are the ones we publish Georgia-specific detail for. If yours is not listed, the same team and the same O.C.G.A. Title 44 rules still apply.
Atlanta
Atlanta’s rental market spans a wide range of asset classes, from Class A multifamily in Midtown and Buckhead to scattered-site single-family rentals across the metro and LIHTC-funded affordable housing communities throughout Fulton and DeKalb counties. Managing the accounting for this kind of portfolio diversity inside AppFolio requires precision and familiarity with compliance layers that vary by property type.
Bookkeeping by platform
Augusta
Augusta’s rental market is anchored by Fort Eisenhower (formerly Fort Gordon), one of the Army’s largest cyber and signal installations, producing a steady pipeline of military tenants and PCS-driven turnover that creates year-round bookkeeping complexity. Property managers here handle a predominantly single-family rental inventory with tight lease cycles tied to military deployment schedules.
Bookkeeping by platform
Savannah
Savannah’s property management market blends historic district rowhouses, SCAD student rentals, and a growing short-term rental sector shaped by active city regulation. Keeping the books accurate across these distinct asset classes requires more than a general bookkeeper.
Bookkeeping by platform
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Services Available in This State
Every back-office function below is available on its own or as part of a full monthly close, anywhere in the state.
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
- CommercialSee the page
Check Out What Our Clients Have To Say About Us
Property Managers, Investors & Owner Operators
Came from a bookkeeper who did not know real estate
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!
Real-estate-only specialists
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.
Handed over the whole accounting function
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!
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Property Accounting for Georgia Portfolios
Schedule a call and we will walk your Georgia deposit and trust setup, tell you whether it reconciles today, and scope the monthly work.