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Bookkeeping for Macomb County Realtors

You should know whether last month made money before the next one is half over.

Books for Macomb County realtors reconciled and closed every month, with reports you can read over a cup of coffee.

21,120

Licensed realtors in macomb county

State of Michigan licenses on file here

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Bookkeeping for a realtor in Macomb County

It is Sunday night in Macomb County and the kitchen table is covered in receipts from the glove box, the email inbox and the bottom of a work bag. The bank says one number, QuickBooks says another, and you cannot tell which deals paid for the month and which ones quietly lost money.

With a bookkeeper on your account, those receipts get snapped on your phone the day they happen and matched to the bank feed by someone who does this every day. Each transaction lands in the right category, each deposit ties back to a client, and the month gets reconciled and closed without you touching it.

Sunday goes back to being Sunday. Around the middle of each month a clean profit and loss shows up in your inbox, you know which deals carry the business, and when your tax preparer or banker asks for numbers you just forward them.

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The Macomb County realtor market

0 realtors operate in Macomb County. Clean numbers and steady systems are what let one of them pull ahead.

Macomb County at a glance

Residents
879,853
U.S. Census population
Homes
373,413
U.S. Census housing units
Typical home built
1975
U.S. Census median year
Median home value
$243,900
U.S. Census owner-occupied homes

What bookkeeping fixes for realtors in Macomb County

  • I find out how the year went when the tax return shows up, and by then it is too late to change anything.
  • Every hour I spend categorizing transactions is an hour I am not selling or doing the work.
  • My tax preparer charges me to fix the books before they can even start the return.
  • I priced work off a gut feeling because I never had clean numbers to check it against.

What the bookkeeping work includes

  • Monthly bank and credit card reconciliation
  • Transaction coding on a chart of accounts built for your industry
  • Receipt capture from your phone matched to each charge
  • Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash report every month
  • Revenue and cost tracking by service line so you see what earns
  • Sales tax and 1099 vendor tracking ready for your tax preparer

How bookkeeping runs, step by step

  1. 1

    Look at the books

    A short call and a read-only look at your QuickBooks and bank accounts so we know where things stand.

  2. 2

    Fix the setup

    We clean up the chart of accounts, connect bank feeds and set rules so transactions land in the right place.

  3. 3

    Close every month

    We reconcile every account and send your reports by the middle of the following month.

  4. 4

    Review together

    A short monthly call to walk through what the numbers say and answer your questions.

What we report every month: Days to close each month, Uncategorized transactions left open, Gross margin by service line, and Questions from your tax preparer at year end.

Bookkeeping explained for realtors in Macomb County

What a bookkeeper does for a realtor

A bookkeeper records every dollar in and out, matches it to the bank and closes the month so the reports are true. That is different from tax work. The bookkeeper keeps the books right all year, and your tax preparer uses those books to file. When the bookkeeping is solid, the return goes faster and costs less.

What drives the cost of bookkeeping

Price comes down to volume and complexity: how many bank and card accounts you have, how many transactions run through them, whether you track jobs or locations and whether payroll and sales tax are involved. Books that are behind need a catch-up first, which is quoted on its own. After a short call we quote a fixed monthly fee so there are no hourly surprises.

Bookkeeper vs accountant

A bookkeeper handles the day-to-day recording and the monthly close. An accountant or CPA reads those numbers, plans taxes and files returns. Most small businesses need both, and the bookkeeper is the one who makes the accountant's time worth paying for.

Monthly bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online

QuickBooks Online is where we do most of the work because bank feeds, receipt capture and your tax preparer all connect to it. If you are on QuickBooks Desktop, Xero or spreadsheets, we can move you over or work where you are. The software you run the business on, like ServiceTitan, Jobber, Dentrix or Square, can sync invoices in so nothing gets typed twice.

How to choose a bookkeeper in Macomb County

Ask who actually touches your books each month and how fast they answer a question. Ask to see a sample month-end package, and make sure they reconcile every account, not just checking. A good bookkeeper also tells you when something looks off, like a vendor charging twice or a client payment that never landed.

Bookkeeping options compared

Doing it yourself

Cheap on paper, but it eats nights and weekends, and small errors pile up until tax season exposes them.

Hiring an in-house bookkeeper

Great once there is enough work to keep someone busy all week, but costly to hire, train and cover when they leave.

Rebuild Detroit

A bookkeeping team that closes your month on a set schedule, in your software, for a fixed monthly fee.

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Tevin Jackson, founder of Rebuild Detroit

Who you are dealing with

Tevin Jackson, founder of Rebuild Detroit

Before Rebuild Detroit, Tevin Jackson helped scale more than 100 home service brands with marketing, sales and operations. Business Services is that playbook, run for Macomb County realtors with the local numbers on this page, by the team behind the Rebuild Detroit directory.

  • Detroit real estate investor
  • Author of Against All Odds and The Spark
  • Helped scale 100+ home service brands

Bookkeeping questions from Macomb County realtors

6 questions

How many realtors are in Macomb County?
21,120 hold a State of Michigan license here, in the Rebuild Detroit business index.
How much does bookkeeping cost for a small business?
It depends on how many accounts and transactions you have, whether you track deals or locations, and whether payroll and sales tax are part of the work. After a short call and a look at your books, we quote a fixed monthly fee. Catch-up work, if you need it, is quoted separately up front.
Do you work in QuickBooks?
Yes. QuickBooks Online is our main tool, and we can move you from QuickBooks Desktop, Sage, Xero or spreadsheets. We also connect the software you use to run deals so invoices and payments flow in on their own.
Can you catch up past months or years?
Yes. We clean up the back months first so the starting point is right, then move you into monthly bookkeeping. The catch-up is a separate project with its own quote.
Do you file my taxes?
Bookkeeping keeps the books ready for filing. Returns are prepared by licensed CPA partners we work with, or by the preparer you already trust, and we hand them clean books and answer their questions.
How do I get receipts to you?
Snap a photo on your phone or forward the email receipt, and it gets matched to the charge in your books. No more saving paper in a folder until spring.