Pricing
Real Estate Bookkeeping Cost and Monthly Pricing
Monthly rates built for property managers and real estate investors. We also do catch-up bookkeeping. Final pricing is determined after a consultation, because scope depends on your portfolio and the state of the books.
Starts at
$499 /mo
Monthly bookkeeping for smaller portfolios
- We work with Appfolio, Yardi, Buildium, Propertyware, & many others
- Bank account & credit card reconciliation
- Accurately categorize transactions
- Accounts payable & bill pay
- Monthly financial reporting
- Balance sheet / Accrual Accounting
- Track profitability by property
- Owner distributions & Management fees
- Tax-ready financial statements for CPA
- Owner, tenant, & vendor ledger support
- And much, much more! Just ask!
Starts at
$2500 /mo
Full back office, including depreciation and ledger audits
- We work with Quickbooks, Appfolio, Yardi, Buildium, Propertyware, etc.
- Bank account & credit card reconciliation
- Accurately categorize transactions
- Accounts payable & bill pay
- Monthly financial reporting
- Balance sheet / Income statement
- Profitability by property
- Owner distributions
- Management pay distributions
- Accurate depreciation schedules
- Tax-ready financial statements for CPA
- Owner, tenant, & vendor ledger audits
What Actually Drives Real Estate Bookkeeping Cost
Why Two Portfolios the Same Size Quote Differently
Door count is the number everyone leads with, and it is the weakest predictor in the quote. Real estate bookkeeping cost is driven far more by how many bank accounts have to reconcile, how many legal entities file separately, and whether the money moving through the portfolio is yours or somebody else’s. Fifty doors held in one entity on one operating account is a smaller monthly job than twelve doors split across six LLCs with a trust account underneath them.
Property management bookkeeping cost carries a second driver that owner-operator work does not: trust accounting. When you hold tenant deposits and owner funds, every month has to prove three things agree, not two, and the owner statements and distributions have to be right before they leave the building. That is real recurring work and it is priced as such.
The third driver is the condition of the books on day one. A clean file continued forward is a different engagement from a file that is nine months behind with a chart of accounts nobody has maintained. Cleanup is quoted separately from the monthly rate, because it is finite work with an end date, and pretending otherwise inflates the recurring number forever.
Real Estate Bookkeeping Pricing, Answered Directly
The Questions We Get Before Every Quote
What do bookkeeping packages for real estate actually include? Both tiers above are monthly engagements, not hourly. They cover reconciliation, transaction coding, payables, owner distributions and a monthly reporting package your CPA can file from. The difference between them is depth: depreciation schedules and full ledger audits sit in the upper tier.
Is there a monthly bookkeeping package for real estate agents and smaller portfolios? Yes. The $499 per month tier exists for exactly that: a single entity, a manageable number of accounts, and books that are current. Bookkeeper cost for realtors is usually decided by whether commission income and expense categorisation is the whole job, or whether rentals sit underneath it too.
Why is final pricing set after a call? Because quoting a portfolio without seeing the entity structure, the software and the current state of the file produces a number that changes in month two. We would rather ask four questions and give you one number that holds.
Final pricing determined after consultation. We also do catch-up bookkeeping. Questions? Schedule a call
Get a Price for Your Portfolio
Every quote follows a short call: door count, software, entities, and how far behind the books are. That is what determines the number.