Expert Rent Manager Bookkeeping Services For Scaling Property Investors & Managers In Savannah
Savannah's property managers run a mix of historic district rowhouse conversions, SCAD-area student rentals, and short-term rental units subject to the city's licensing rules. Each asset class carries its own revenue pattern and expense structure, and Rent Manager's multi-entity architecture lets you separate them cleanly on paper. The risk shows up later: those entity structures and custom GL mappings get built by whoever's on staff that year, and few of them were built with all three portfolio types in mind.
We work with accountant access inside your own Rent Manager instance, exactly as you would grant an internal hire.
Georgia rules that apply here
- Deposit return deadline
- statutory window
- Statute
- O.C.G.A. Title 44
Why Rent Manager Operators in Savannah Come to REA
Deeply customisable, which cuts both ways
Multi-Entity Setup, Done Right
A rowhouse conversion, a SCAD rental block, and a licensed short-term unit don't belong in the same chart of accounts. Rent Manager's multi-entity structure lets us separate them properly, but only if someone sets the entity hierarchy up correctly from day one. We build or rebuild that structure around your actual asset mix, not a generic template.
Custom Field Audits
Rent Manager's custom fields and workflows are built for flexibility, which means a GL mapping created for a historic rowhouse often gets copied onto a SCAD student unit or a short-term rental without anyone checking whether the categories still apply. We start every Rent Manager engagement by auditing what previous staff customized, then fix what's drifted.
Historical Data, Reconciled
Rent Manager keeps years of transaction history by default, which is useful until it isn't. Old unreconciled balances from a prior bookkeeper or staff transition can sit buried in that history for years, especially across merged or renamed entities. We reconcile the full historical record for each entity, not just the current period, before calling a Rent Manager migration complete.
Rent Manager and Georgia Deposit Rules
O.C.G.A. Title 44
Georgia's O.C.G.A. § 44-7-34 requires landlords to return a tenant's security deposit, or send an itemized statement of deductions, within the statutory window after move-out. Rent Manager tracks deposit liability accurately at the entity level, which matters when a portfolio spans rowhouse leases, SCAD student leases, and short-term rental deposits with different terms. What it doesn't do is flag the deadline itself, that countdown and the itemized statement stay manual. We run a move-out checklist against the Rent Manager ledger for every unit so the statutory window doesn't get missed.
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.
All Georgia requirementsHow we keep you inside it
- Deposit liabilities tracked per tenant in Rent Manager, so a statutory window 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
Rent Manager Accounting & Bookkeeping Services
For Savannah 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
Savannah operators use REA for the full monthly close or for the single function that has become a bottleneck. Each one is performed inside your Rent Manager instance.
Trust Accounting
Compliant, audit-ready trust funds
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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
Learn moreExperts 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
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!
REA and team have been nothing but excellent helping our firm with its day to day financial needs. Their expertise, professionalism, and timeliness have made our lives so much easier. We foresee a long relationship with REA and team.
Real Estate Accounting truly is a special company. They helped as if they were a part of our company, with the concern and caution as an employee would have, but even more. They quickly ascertained our needs and developed an effective team to help with our accounting needs. They were extremely responsive and always accurate. I would recommend their services to anyone who needs help with their property management accounting.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does Rent Manager handle Georgia's security deposit law automatically?
No. O.C.G.A. § 44-7-34 sets the return and itemized-statement window, but Rent Manager has no built-in alert for it. The platform will hold the deposit liability correctly if the entity is set up right, but nothing in Rent Manager tells you the clock is running. We track the move-out date against the statutory deadline separately and flag it before it becomes a compliance issue.
What's the biggest Rent Manager risk you see in Savannah portfolios?
Custom GL mappings that outlive the reason they were created. Rent Manager's flexibility means a field or workflow built for one property type, say a historic rowhouse renovation account, gets reused on a SCAD rental or a short-term unit where it doesn't fit. We start every engagement by auditing what past staff customized and why, then rebuild what no longer matches the portfolio it's tracking.
Do you handle short-term rentals alongside long-term leases in the same Rent Manager file?
Yes, and in Savannah that combination is common given the city's active short-term rental licensing. Rent Manager's multi-entity structure can keep historic district rowhouses, SCAD student leases, and licensed short-term units separated with distinct reporting, but only if the entity hierarchy was built for that mix from the start. We set or correct that structure so each asset type reports cleanly on its own.
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Rent Manager Bookkeeping for Savannah
Schedule a call and we will review your Rent Manager setup, your Georgia deposit handling, and what it takes to close clean every month.