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Commercial real estate accounting services

Commercial real estate accounting services

Commercial real estate accounting services

Key takeaways

Send us a rent roll and a recent reconciliation

We will tell you what you can recover under your leases and what you are currently billing.

You bill a tenant what you agreed in the lease, and the accounting has to follow those terms clause by clause. We read the leases, code the costs, run the reconciliations and produce the statements, so you can bill on time and answer an audit request from documents that already exist.

What we do for commercial owners

CAM reconciliation and tenant recoveries

Lease abstraction, recoverable expense coding, gross up, caps and base years, and a worksheet for each tenant.

Lease accounting

Straight line rent, free rent periods, tenant improvement allowances and leasing commissions, amortized across the lease term.

Property level reporting

A profit and loss and a balance sheet for each building, with net operating income you can take to a lender.

Lender and covenant reporting

Packages built to the covenant definitions in your loan documents.

Acquisition and disposition

Purchase price allocation, basis, and a depreciation schedule set up at closing.

Tax filing

The return, the depreciation, and the entity and partner reporting behind it.

CAM reconciliation and tenant recoveries

Your tenants may have audit rights over CAM, and you win or lose a dispute on documentation you either have or you do not.

Lease abstracts

We capture the exclusions, caps, base years and pro rata share for each lease, and we update them when you amend a lease.

Coding through the year

We tag operating costs as recoverable or not as they are incurred, so we calculate the reconciliation at year end from coded data.

Gross up

We apply the occupancy assumption you agreed, and we document the method in the packet.

Tenant statements

Each tenant gets its own worksheet, we bill the shortfall or credit the overage, and we attach the supporting detail.

Audit requests

We answer them from the packet we already built.

What we find when we take over commercial books

Recoverable costs coded to the wrong bucket

Capital work, leasing commissions and your own overhead billed into the CAM pool, which is the first thing a tenant's auditor looks for.

Base years calculated differently each year

The tenant pays the increase over a stated base, so you have to compute that base the same way each time you reference it.

Tenant improvement allowances expensed

You amortize them across the lease term, and if you expense them in year one you overstate the cost and understate the asset.

No depreciation schedule at all

This happens where an owner bought through an entity without setting one up.

Disposals left off the schedule

You replaced the roof and the old one is still depreciating on paper.

Personal and property money mixed

You turn each reconciliation into a judgment call and you lose the audit trail.

What we capture when you buy a building

The land and building split
Land is not depreciable, so put too much to land and you understate depreciation for as long as you own the building.
Closing costs
You add some to basis, deduct some, and amortize some over the loan.
Prorated items
You post taxes and rent adjusted at closing to income and expense.
The placed in service date
This is the date the building was ready and available to let, not the date you bought it.
A cost segregation position
We tell you at closing whether you would recover the cost of a study on this building.

Who we work with

Retail strip centers and shopping centers, office buildings, industrial and warehouse, flex space and mixed use.

Owners, operators and partnerships, including joint ventures with investor reporting.

Portfolios in Yardi, MRI, AppFolio, Entrata, RealPage and Rent Manager. We work inside your instance.

What we price against

Priced on the number of buildings, the number of tenants and the state of the leases. What we quote against:

  • Buildings and tenants, and how many lease abstracts exist already
  • Whether we rebuild the reconciliation history or pick it up
  • Whether the entity has partners and investors to report to
  • Whether you want the return and the depreciation schedule with it

These are the factors, not a quote.

How we rebuild commercial books

Our licensed CPAs and Enrolled Agents read the leases before touching the ledger. You can only bill a tenant what you agreed with them, and we have to know the terms before we code a single cost.

That differs from most tax services because most tax services are quite cookie cutter. So we're going to actually take a look at the person's goals, what they're looking for in the short term, what they're looking for in their long-term, family planning, retirement planning, a holistic tax approach.
George Dimov, CPA · Founder, Dimov Tax
I came to Dimov through a colleague's recommendation to aid in some complex real estate tax optimizations… they exceeded in their guidance but absolutely delivered with top notch service, quick responses and impeccable work.
Robert · Google review

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This page is general information rather than advice for your circumstances. Outcomes turn on facts specific to you, so speak to a CPA before acting on anything here.

Send us the leases and the ledger

Send a rent roll, a recent CAM reconciliation and last year's return, and we will tell you what you are under recovering before you engage us.