Real Estate
Every property is its own profit center. We track each one so you know exactly what's performing and what's draining your portfolio.
Your Portfolio Is a Business
Whether you own three rental units or thirty, you’re running a business. Rental income, maintenance costs, mortgage payments, insurance, property taxes, contractor invoices. Each property generates its own financial activity, and all of it needs to be tracked accurately.
But most investors don’t start out with clean systems. The first property gets tracked in a spreadsheet. The second one gets added to the same spreadsheet. By the time you have five or six doors, everything is tangled together and you can’t actually tell which properties are making money and which ones are quietly eating your returns.
Who This Is For
Who This Is For
Residential and commercial real estate investors, landlords with rental portfolios, property management companies, and owners operating through holding entities or multiple LLCs. If you own income-producing property in the DMV, this applies to you.
The Core Problem
The Core Problem
When income and expenses from different properties get lumped together, you lose visibility into what each asset actually produces. That makes it impossible to evaluate performance, plan acquisitions, or file accurate tax returns.
What We Track and Why It Matters
We assign every transaction to a specific property. Rent collected, repairs paid, insurance premiums, HOA fees, mortgage interest. All of it tagged to the right address. This gives you a true profit and loss statement for each unit in your portfolio, not just a blended number that hides the underperformers.
Beyond the income statement, we manage the balance sheet items that trip up most investors. Security deposits are tracked as liabilities, not income. Mortgage payments are split between principal and interest. Escrow accounts are reconciled. These details matter at tax time, and they matter when you’re trying to understand your actual cash position across the portfolio.
CapEx vs. Repairs
CapEx vs. Repairs
A new roof is a capital improvement that gets depreciated over time. Fixing a leaky faucet is a repair that gets expensed immediately. Getting this classification wrong creates problems on your tax return and misrepresents your property’s true financial performance.
Contractor Compliance
Contractor Compliance
Every handyman, plumber, and cleaning crew you pay needs a W-9 on file. We track payments to all your vendors throughout the year so 1099 filing at year-end is handled cleanly, without the usual January scramble.
Entities, Mortgages, and the IRS
Investors in the DMV commonly hold properties through separate LLCs for liability protection. That’s smart, but each entity needs its own set of books. When you transfer money between your personal account and a property LLC, or between two LLCs, those intercompany transactions need to be recorded correctly. Otherwise the legal separation you created falls apart on the financial side.
Then there’s the tax side. Your Schedule E needs to reflect accurate income and expenses for each property. If you have ten rental units across three entities, that’s a lot of moving parts. We organize everything so your tax preparer gets a clean, complete package. Or if you prefer, we prepare the returns ourselves, including Schedule E filings at every level of complexity.
Multiple Entities
Multiple Entities
We maintain separate books for each LLC or holding company you operate. Intercompany loans, management fee payments, and capital contributions are all tracked properly so your entity structure holds up under scrutiny from lenders, the IRS, or potential partners.
Schedule E Accuracy
Schedule E Accuracy
Every property gets its own line on your Schedule E. We deliver organized, property-level financials that make tax preparation straightforward. No back-and-forth with your CPA trying to untangle which expenses belong to which address.
Better Numbers, Better Decisions
With clean books, you know which properties are worth holding and which ones should be sold. You’re not guessing based on gut feel or rough mental math. The numbers are in front of you, broken out by property, showing actual cash flow after all expenses. That clarity changes how you think about your next move.
And when you’re ready to acquire the next property, you walk into the bank with financials that speak for themselves. Andrew spent years in banking and credit before founding ATS. He understands what lenders look for and how a portfolio’s financial story needs to be presented. We prepare your books with that standard in mind so the numbers are ready when the opportunity shows up.
Portfolio Clarity
Portfolio Clarity
Compare the performance of every property side by side. Identify which units generate strong returns and which ones are dragging down the portfolio average. Make buy, hold, or sell decisions grounded in real data instead of assumptions.
Financing Readiness
Financing Readiness
Lenders want organized, accurate financial statements before they’ll fund your next deal. We keep your books at that standard year-round, so you’re not scrambling to clean things up when a good property hits the market and the timeline is tight.
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