I am dealing with some growing pains with our company and am looking for a temporary bookkeeping solution that can audit some of our Rent Manager accounting and our accounting processes. Has anyone tried this? Outsourced Bookkeeping - Rent Manager Property Management Software. I am also considering Upwork. Would greatly appreciate any insights from anyone who has been there, done that
Hi! I may be able to help.
I’m Vy Hua, founder of E.K.I Consulting Services. I specialize exclusively in Mobile Home Park accounting and have spent the past 10+ years working with MHP portfolios using Rent Manager.
From my experience, when a company is going through rapid growth, the issue is often bigger than bookkeeping alone. It can involve Rent Manager configuration, chart of accounts structure, accounting workflows, reconciliation procedures, and month-end close processes. If those foundations aren’t right, even a good bookkeeper will struggle to keep the books clean.
I offer both short-term consulting engagements and ongoing accounting support. If your goal is to have someone independently review your books, evaluate your Rent Manager setup, and identify process improvements before you scale further, that’s exactly the type of work I do.
I’d be happy to have a conversation and learn more about your situation. Feel free to send me a direct message, or visit ekiconsultingservices.com to learn more.
Either way, I hope you’re able to find the right solution. Growing pains are a good problem to have—they just need the right accounting foundation.
I’ve been using Upwork
We offer partial management services. Email me at jon@mfinnovations.com
As a park owner and an owner of an accounting/payroll firm I understand your frustration. We obviously do our own parks but also other MHPs and rental asset classes for clients (shopping centers, hotels, rv parks, etc). Every park owner or landlord has their own preferred property management software but these are just AI driven tools that require continual review and correction. If I am understanding you correctly you are looking for a one off or occasional review of your books. This is tough as every park in every different State is different for a thousand different reasons. My recommendation would be to build a long term relationship with an actual human being either through Upwork or Vy at EKI to have your books ‘touched’ monthly. Better to solve the issues when they are small every month than face a train wreck once a year.
Upwork can be a bit hit or miss for something as specialized as Rent Manager. Since you are dealing with scaling issues, finding someone who specifically understands the property management side of the software is usually more efficient than a generalist bookkeeper. Hope you find a good fit for the audit!
We work with Outsourced Bookkeeping. They are awesome, diligent and affordable. team@outsourcedbookeeping.com
I can’t speak to Rent Manager itself, but I’ve hired for this kind of cleanup a few times in other small businesses.
I’d treat the audit and the ongoing bookkeeping as two separate hires, even if it ends up being the same person. That way, the audit has a clear goal and end date and the bookkeeping is recurring. When the jobs are combined, you can end up with books that stay just messy enough that you pay them longer than expected.
Also worth asking whoever does the cleanup to leave documentation behind, not just clean books. The chart of accounts, a monthly close checklist, how the RM setup maps to it all. That makes the next bookkeeper much cheaper to bring on, whether that’s from Upwork or anywhere else.
Did RM give you a real scope for their outsourced service, or is it just a flat monthly fee? Interested how they price it at your size.