REA.co Real Estate Accounting & Tax

Expert RealPage Accounting Designed For Growth.

Discover the REA advantage: impeccably tailored RealPage financials at a significantly reduced cost.

Rely on our experienced RealPage accountants to skillfully manage your bookkeeping requirements and elevate your property management company to unparalleled success.

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Collaborate with REA and experience immaculate RealPage financials each month, achieving over 30% savings compared to in-house alternatives. Our dedicated RealPage accounting experts alleviate the stress of managing your real estate financials, empowering you to concentrate on expanding your business with confidence.

Over 30%Saved vs In-House

230+Property Accountants

30M+Commercial Sq. Ft.

Why Top Real Estate Professionals Choose REA

Portfolio Roll-Ups That Hold Up Underneath

We are RealPage experts

Our adept real estate accountants and bookkeepers boast an in-depth understanding of RealPage. We'll not only ensure the accuracy of your financials but also unlock the full potential of RealPage for your business.

Prompt Responses to Your Concerns

We recognize that urgent matters can arise without warning. That's why your assigned REA team is always at your service via email, phone, video, or Slack, offering prompt support and peace of mind.

Reliable, Monthly Bookkeeping

Bid farewell to laborious RealPage bookkeeping and overlooked errors. With REA, you can anticipate accurate, timely reports each month, enabling you to concentrate on what's truly important, growing your business.

RealPage Bookkeeping from REA

Done Inside Your RealPage Instance, Not Exported Out

Trust Bookkeeping

RealPage's suite offers a robust solution for trust bookkeeping, ensuring meticulous tracking and administration of trust funds. It supports a stringent separation of company and client finances, which is essential for upholding legal compliance and guaranteeing transparency for all stakeholders.

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Corporate Bookkeeping

RealPage's system enhances corporate bookkeeping by providing a seamless interface for managing corporate accounts. With its advanced reporting and analytics tools, corporate financial activities are streamlined, promoting accurate and efficient corporate finance management that is consistent with strategic business goals.

Daily Bank Reconciliations

The automated features within RealPage facilitate daily bank reconciliations, tracking every transaction with precision. This systematic approach to reconciling accounts daily plays a vital role in the accuracy and reliability of financial data, allowing for immediate correction of any inconsistencies.

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Financial Diagnostic Cleanup

In cases where financial records fall into disarray, RealPage comes to the rescue with tools for a thorough financial diagnostic cleanup. The platform's powerful diagnostics scrutinize the financial books, correcting errors, and streamlining data to ensure that accounting systems function optimally.

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Trust Compliance Audit

RealPage empowers organizations to perform in-depth trust compliance audits with ease. It emphasizes rigorous examination of trust accounts, fostering heightened accountability and ensuring that every transaction complies with relevant trust laws, thus instilling property owners with confidence in the integrity of their asset management.

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1099 Filings & Tax Preparation

Vendor and contractor 1099s prepared and filed on time straight from your RealPage data, plus federal and state return preparation, entity returns and K-1s, and year-round tax planning handled by REA's in-house tax team.

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The Full Scope

  • Process Review & Set Up
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Monthly Statements & Reports
  • Bank Reconciliations
  • Accurate NOI, Balance Sheet
  • + 5 more below

RealPage Bookkeeping & Accounting Services

  • Process Review & Set Up
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Monthly Statements & Reports
  • Bank Reconciliations
  • Accurate NOI, Balance Sheet
  • Recording HUDs & Accruals
  • Accounts Payable
  • Owner Draws & Management Fees
  • Corporate Bookkeeping
  • 1099 Filings & Tax Preparation

Also available on its own

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A Clean Roll-Up Can Hide a Dirty Ledger

What Enterprise Multifamily Accounting Is Actually Judged On

RealPage serves enterprise multifamily operators with portfolio-level accounting, heavy reporting requirements, and institutional owners who expect a package on a fixed date. The scale that makes it powerful is also what lets errors hide.

What it does well

Portfolio roll-ups and institutional reporting

RealPage produces owner packages that hold up in front of institutional capital, rolls dozens of properties into a portfolio view without a spreadsheet in the middle, and handles large-scale multifamily operations as a matter of course.

Where it breaks

The roll-up balances while the properties underneath do not

Portfolio-level totals can look entirely correct while individual property ledgers carry offsetting errors. And because institutional reporting deadlines are fixed, there is rarely room for a slow close, so the temptation is to reconcile at the top and move on.

How we work it

We reconcile upward, not downward

We treat the property-level detail as the deliverable and the roll-up as the by-product. The test we apply is not whether the portfolio balances, it is whether every property underneath it would survive being opened.

RealPage Bookkeeping, Vertical by Vertical

Pick the Business You Actually Run

RealPage behaves differently depending on what you run through it. Each page below is the specific version for that business.

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How REA's RealPage Process Works

Onboard, Close, Report to Institutional Standard

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  1. 1

    Understanding Your Business Inside-Out

    We appreciate your time and aim to optimize its use. As soon as you provide us with account access, we'll swiftly assess your books and kick off the onboarding procedure. Following that, we'll tackle any account discrepancies, conduct any required catch-up bookkeeping, and scrutinize tenant/owner statements to guarantee the highest level of precision in your records.

  2. 2

    Streamlined Monthly Bookkeeping, Tailored for You

    Once we've verified the accuracy and up-to-date status of your RealPage account, our monthly RealPage bookkeeping services take over. From bank reconciliations to accounts payable and reporting, we act as your committed accounting team.

  3. 3

    In-Depth Monthly Financial Reports and Summaries

    Our on-time monthly reports offer a clear insight into your business's financial health while adhering to all local and national real estate regulations. Need help with distributions? We'll proficiently handle your owner & GP/LP distributions, along with any required draws.

You Get a Team With Names, Not a Ticket Queue

Who Actually Works On Your RealPage Books

Outsourced accounting fails when nobody owns the account. At REA you are assigned a property accounting team and a client success lead who knows your portfolio, your owners, and your quirks. They stay on your account, so you are never re-explaining your chart of accounts to someone new.

Sharifa Giraldo, CPA, VP, Client Success at REA

Sharifa Giraldo, CPA

VP, Client Success

Residential Property Management

20+ years of property accounting, a CPA since 2015, and a specialist in third-party management and platform migrations.

Will Daege, VP, Client Success at REA

Will Daege

VP, Client Success

Commercial Property Management

25+ years across retail, office, industrial, and multifamily, including Portfolio Controller for The Related Companies' New York development portfolio.

How we work together

  • A named team, not a poolThe same property accountants close your books every month.
  • Reachable the way you already workEmail, phone, video, or Slack. Urgent items get answered the same day.
  • Inside your RealPageWe take accountant access to your instance, exactly as you would grant an internal hire.
  • 230+ property accountants behind themCoverage when someone is out, and a specialist to escalate to when a lease or a trust question gets strange.

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.

Check Out What Our Clients Have To Say About Us

Property Managers, Investors & Owner Operators

Client story

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!

SCSara CrosbyReal Estate Investor

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.

SWSteve WilkoOwner Operator

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!

TCTracy CollinsProperty Manager

Day-to-day financial operations

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.

BCBrian CookOwner Operator

Onboarding and responsiveness

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.

KSKelly StanawayProperty Manager

Smaller portfolio, still looked after

Adam the owner took a personal interest in my situation and was willing to work with me to see if his company was a good fit. I may be too small for them but I would highly recommend them to anyone considering a bookkeeper for their property management business.

TSTrevor SmithProperty Manager

230+

Property Accountants

30M+

Commercial Sq. Ft.

Up to 50%

Saved vs In-House

Every month

On-Time Close

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RealPage Bookkeeping, City by City

Trust accounting rules are written state by state, and we work in all 50 of them. The 36 markets below are where we publish RealPage-specific detail on the local rule set and how we handle it. If yours is not listed, the same team still covers it.

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152 cities across all 50 states

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We work with RealPage portfolios in all 50 states, not only the markets listed here.

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Running Something Other Than RealPage?

We Work Inside Whatever You Already Have

Who We Do RealPage Accounting For

Every Vertical Has Its Own Way of Breaking

Frequently Asked Questions

What does REA handle on a RealPage engagement?

We take on the monthly close inside your RealPage instance: bank reconciliations across operating and trust accounts, accounts payable and receivable, management fees, owner and GP/LP distributions, and the monthly reporting package. Catch-up bookkeeping and a diagnostic review of the existing books come first if the account needs them.

Do you work inside our RealPage instance or export the data out?

Inside your instance. Clients grant accountant access to their own RealPage environment and we work there, so what RealPage reports and what your books say never diverge. We do not maintain a parallel ledger and reconcile it back.

Can you meet institutional owner reporting deadlines?

Yes. Fixed reporting dates are the norm on enterprise multifamily portfolios, so the close calendar is agreed at onboarding and the reporting package is built to the deadline rather than to whenever the books happen to be finished.

How long does onboarding take?

Once access is granted and the contract is executed, onboarding begins immediately. The timeline depends on the state of the existing books, but a portfolio with current records typically sees REA making an impact within about two weeks.

How do you access our RealPage instance?

Clients create and administer individual user access for authorized REA personnel within the client's own software environment. REA does not provide, resell, or sublicense software access. Clients retain control over access permissions and remain responsible for administering access in accordance with their software agreements and internal security policies.

Is REA affiliated with RealPage?

REA Services LLC is an independent bookkeeping and accounting services provider. REA is not affiliated with, sponsored by, endorsed by, or authorized by RealPage, Inc. REA does not provide a software interface, technical integration, or RealPage software instance.

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Schedule a call with our team to learn how REA's RealPage bookkeeping services can make the property-level detail support the portfolio roll-up, month after month.