Expert Yardi Bookkeeping Services For Scaling Property Investors & Managers In Savannah
Savannah's rental stock splits sharply: historic district rowhouses converted to long-term leases, SCAD-driven student housing with high summer turnover, and short-term rentals operating under the city's active STR licensing rules. Yardi doesn't treat these the same way twice. Before we touch your books, we determine whether you're running Voyager, built for commercial-grade chart of accounts and multi-entity consolidation, or Breeze, sized for smaller residential rent rolls. That split decides what reporting is even possible for a Savannah portfolio this mixed.
We work with accountant access inside your own Yardi 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 Yardi Operators in Savannah Come to REA
Voyager for enterprise, Breeze for smaller portfolios
Voyager or Breeze, First
Before we open your chart of accounts we confirm which Yardi product you're on. Voyager's commercial lease and CAM tools fit a portfolio with historic district retail or mixed-use rowhouses; Breeze fits a straight residential rent roll. Misreading this at onboarding means building reports the platform can't actually produce.
Mixed Asset Classes, One Chart
A Savannah operator running historic rowhouse leases alongside SCAD student units and short-term rentals needs a chart of accounts that separates them cleanly. In Voyager, we structure GL segments by property type so turnover-heavy student leases don't distort your long-term rowhouse reporting. Breeze can't segment this deeply.
STR Trust Accounting, In System
Short-term rental income under Savannah's licensing rules still needs trust accounting discipline, security deposits and owner draws tracked separately from operating cash. Breeze users managing STR units often drift into spreadsheets to compensate for its reporting limits. We keep that accounting inside Yardi, not bolted on beside it.
Yardi and Georgia Deposit Rules
O.C.G.A. Title 44
Georgia's O.C.G.A. Title 44 requires landlords to return a tenant's security deposit or send an itemized statement of deductions within the statutory window after move-out. In Voyager, we hold deposits as a tracked trust liability with aging reports that flag approaching deadlines automatically. Breeze has no equivalent deposit-aging alert, so on Breeze portfolios we build a manual tracking process outside the software to make sure Savannah's historic district and student-turnover leases never miss the deadline.
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 Yardi, 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
Yardi 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 Yardi 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
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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Property Managers, Investors & Owner Operators
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Frequently Asked Questions
How does Yardi handle Georgia's security deposit deadline?
O.C.G.A. Title 44 sets the window for returning a deposit or sending an itemized deduction statement after a tenant moves out. Voyager tracks deposits as a trust liability with aging reports we monitor so nothing slips past the deadline. Breeze doesn't generate that alert natively, so on Breeze accounts we run a separate tracking process to hit the same statutory window.
Should our Savannah portfolio run Yardi Voyager or Breeze?
It depends on what you're managing. If you're handling historic district mixed-use or commercial leases with CAM reconciliation, Voyager's chart of accounts and multi-entity consolidation earn their complexity. If you're running a straight residential rent roll without commercial leases, Breeze is lighter and cheaper, though its reporting ceiling is lower. We assess your actual lease mix before recommending either.
Can Yardi handle our short-term rental units alongside long-term leases?
Yes, but it takes setup. Savannah's STR sector operates under active city licensing, and mixing that income with long-term rowhouse or SCAD student leases in one chart of accounts requires clean GL segmentation. We structure that separation in Yardi directly, whether you're on Voyager or Breeze, so STR revenue doesn't get blended into your standard rent roll reporting.
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Yardi Bookkeeping for Savannah
Schedule a call and we will review your Yardi setup, your Georgia deposit handling, and what it takes to close clean every month.