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Best way to set up multiple rental properties?

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January 15, 2018
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I have a client with a regular service business, but he also has 6-8 individual rental properties. I think we will set up separate LLCs for each property. What is best way to hande in QB Online? I have not dealt with rentals before. Should each property be set up as a separate company with it's own asset (the rental), income, and expenses to get an income statement for each? Or is there a way to set them up in one company in QB. Is Online the right product to use? I can't find anywhere online, but I think QBO charges per company setup, so having 8 different companies could get expensive. Thanks.

Best answer by Rustler

@ejaigner

The prevaling rhetoric on the net is one LLC per property, which per the IRS means one accounting file for each, so yes in QBO that is one subscription per company. You can get by with essentials if it is one property per llc.

desktop is one purchase price and as many companies as you wish (as your hard drive will hold).

He needs to consult with a couple of business lawyers as to whether or not multiple llc's is the way to go.

If all the rentals are kept in one company, then QBO Plus is needed, only one subscription though.

a single subscription to QBO is 3-4 times as expensive as desktop over the 3 year support life of desktop, see this comparison, the cost is toward the bottom of the article. a non partisan comparison of QBO vs QB desktop
http://onsale-apparel.com/Rustler/qbo-or-qbdt

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@ejaigner

The prevaling rhetoric on the net is one LLC per property, which per the IRS means one accounting file for each, so yes in QBO that is one subscription per company. You can get by with essentials if it is one property per llc.

desktop is one purchase price and as many companies as you wish (as your hard drive will hold).

He needs to consult with a couple of business lawyers as to whether or not multiple llc's is the way to go.

If all the rentals are kept in one company, then QBO Plus is needed, only one subscription though.

a single subscription to QBO is 3-4 times as expensive as desktop over the 3 year support life of desktop, see this comparison, the cost is toward the bottom of the article. a non partisan comparison of QBO vs QB desktop
http://onsale-apparel.com/Rustler/qbo-or-qbdt

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TheDoctor165

I am also interested in this topic; however, I am more interested in the finer details. I have one LLC with one property but 4 units in each. I am at the company setup dialog for Desktop Premier 2019 (I know, I don't need Premier - but that goes off the topic.... lets just suffice it to say that is what I have). Do I add the rental units as products, services, or leave the products and services empty? I have a property manager that collects the rents and forwards them to me itemizing the collections in an income spreadsheet, itemizing the rents received from each unit. I am just not sure how to setup the company file most efficiently.

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Millers Lane

Does this not work in the Desktop version? I only have three properties, all duplexes. An I use Rentalutions for accepting my rents, and keeping track of my tenants, leases, payments, etc and they are attached to my bank accounts; so all I want to do is input the information of rents received per unit and fixes per unit and bills per building/property. How do I set this up? I just want a place to put in all my reciepts and have a nice simple ledger to send to my accountant every year.

How can I get a vacancy report? I am going to use Class for Building #, Customer for Unit # and Customer Job for tenant.

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