Ben Zuckerman, CPA

Real Clear Solutions

Real Clear Solutions provides full service, back-office accounting for real estate owners and operators.🏢

Do you and your staff spend considerable time overseeing your property's operations? 🔨⚒️

Do you feel like you are managing your property instead of your management company? 🧐

Do you you need a trusted accounting team to oversee your property's finances💵📖

Are you looking for an alternative to traditional property management,  but need help with the accounting and reporting? 📧

Real Clear Solutions is the answer. 👈👈👈

Just outsource the entire accounting process to us and for a flat monthly, per-unit fee.

Please message me for more information or a customized proposal for  your property

Co-Founder

Joy Construction Corp

Responsible for financial reporting of general contractor entity, several dozen real estate related entities and three principals

• Coordinate preparation of annual audit and annual review of financial statements by outside CPA firm. Includes preparation and review of audit documentation and draft financial statements. 
• Coordinate preparation of annual tax return
• Coordinate and review audit and accounting reports for investors and lenders, during construction/development of projects
• Coordinate and review tax returns during construction/development of projects
• Coordinate and review tax returns for various related development entities
• Coordinate preparation of ownership tax returns, including coordination with outside accountants and partners for all related returns that generate K-1s to principals. 
• Coordinate preparation of principals’ personal financial statements including schedules of real estate investments, ensuring proper recording on ownership records
• Assist property asset management with significant audit issues as required

CFO - consultant

Responsible for financial reporting and accounting oversight of general contractor entity, several dozen real estate related entities and three principals

•	Coordinate preparation of annual audit and annual review of financial statements by outside CPA firm. Includes preparation and review of audit documentation and draft financial statements. 
•	Coordinate preparation of annual tax return
•	Monthly project financial reporting to ownership
•	Coordinate and review audit and accounting reports for investors and lenders, during construction/development of projects
•	Coordinate and review tax returns during construction/development of projects
•	Coordinate and review tax returns for various related development entities
•	Coordinate preparation of ownership tax returns, including coordination with outside accountants and partners for all related returns that generate K-1s to principals. 
•	Coordinate preparation of principals’ personal financial statements including schedules of real estate investments, ensuring proper recording on ownership records
•	Assist property asset management with significant audit issues as required
•	Develop and direct the implementation of internal controls, processes and procedures to ensure that all transactions (both construction and development) are recorded timely and properly based on appropriate documentation and company policy
•	Oversee the management of cash accounts/treasury system of all bank accounts (both construction and development) and company investments

CFO 

Community Preservation and Development Corporation

•	Review real estate entity trial balances prepared by 3rd party management agent, and prepare adjusting journal entries to be posted to the general ledger
•	Reconcile property books to ownership general ledger
•	Coordinate with property development team to ensure that all development costs are properly recorded
•	Prepare/review entries to record complex accounting transactions such as refinances and property purchases

Assistant Controller

CohnReznick LLP

•	Responsible for the planning, execution, review and completion of financial statement audits and ensuring proper staffing, budgeting and tracking occurs throughout the process to management
•	Consulted directly with clients on audit and accounting issues, as well as other critical business matters
•	Reviewed work papers, documents and cleared the adjusting journal entries to complete the final financial statements, draft the management letter, opinion, cash flow and complex footnotes to disclose per regulations and authorities for Federal (HUD) , state agency and investor (LIHTC and HTC) requirements
•	Train staff and supervise them on source documents they reviewing, requirements for the general ledger and obtain copies of new lending agreements for perm records file
•	Supervised various engagements and team consisting of over 30 staff members
•	Prepared and reviewed performance evaluations and recommended team members for promotion when ready
•	Assumed responsibility for billing and collections of over $800,000 in client fees

Audit Manager

•	Responsible for financial statement audit engagements, involved with more of the planning, scope calculations, request for information for fieldwork and mentored staff in the field
•	Reviewed financial statements and files for compliance, regulation and partnership agreements
•	Propose adjusting journal entries, review fixed assets and look for items to be capitalized in the financial statements
•	Tie revenues, payroll, prepaids, deposits to documents 
•	Prepare analysis by comparing general ledger to budget as well as other options to source material errors
•	Import general ledger into our software and draft the financial statements that includes footnotes and cashflow
•	Monitored engagement progress against client deadlines and time budgets

Senior Audit Associate

•	Responsible for the preparation of a mix of financial statement audits, reviews and compilations 
•	Drafted financial statements, review unadjusted balance sheets, income statements, import general ledger into our software, provide adjusting journal entries and tie to supporting reconciliations
•	Prepare reconciliations, verify documents and determine if an activity is missing or reported incorrectly 
•	Prepared work papers to document and supported audit steps performed
•	Prepared tax returns for Partnerships and Corporations that included knowing the book to tax differences

Audit Associate

HKMP

▪    Assist in planning and performing of audits, reviews and compilations 
▪    Examine and analyze trial balance and additional supporting financial information 
▪    Prepare financial statements 
▪    Prepare work papers to document and support audit, review and compilation steps  
     performed
▪    Prepare tax returns; Corporations, Individuals, and Trusts
▪    Write-ups; enter transactions into accounting software and prepare bank reconciliations

Staff Accountant

We provide outsourced real estate bookkeeping, accounting and reporting services

Certified CPA with 20 years of accounting  experience.  Specialties include residential and commercial real estate entities during development and operations, including LIHTC/affordable/subsidized properties. Highly experienced in construction accounting and family office/trust oversight.

Book N' Gather

Co-founder & CEO

Operations Manager

Michigan Short Term Rentals

We discuss all things buying and managing short term rentals in the state of Michigan. We share where we are buying, what we look for, and interview other hosts throughout the state.

Co-Host of the Michigan Short Term Rentals Podcast

Keystone Home Group Realty LLC

Real Estate Agent

Stryker

Associate Production Team Lead 

BoomTown Ventures, LLC 

Operations Manager / Project manager | Partner 

FOAM-iT

Production Manager/ Purchaser

I manage vacation rentals in southwest Michigan. More bookings. More revenue per night. It’s that simple. 

✅ Airbnb Superhost.
✅ Average 4.9 stars across all properties. 
✅ Average response time of less than 1 hour. 
✅ Off-season booking strategy that delivers. 

Our process: 

- Amazing photography that captures the elegance and hospitality of the property.
- An enticing listing description that draws guests in. 
- Dynamic pricing that adjusts daily to accommodate for current inventory and current market pricing. 
- We monitor search rankings to make sure your property is at the top of the results. If it’s not, we continue to tweak the listing until we have the desired result. Nobody goes to the 3rd page of google and the same can be said for Airbnb. We’ll put you at the top. 

By owners, for owners. 

Our vacation rental management company started out of the need to service our own properties.

We’ve built out the systems and network to handle the heavy lifting. 

WHOM HAVE I WORKED WITH?

We’ve worked with five hundred thousand dollar properties up to 2.5 million dollar Lake Michigan waterfront properties. In some instances we’ve booked weekly stays for upwards of $30,000. These properties and guests require a high level of attention and care, and we pride ourselves in doing just that.  

HOW CAN I HELP YOU?

Looking for a property manager in the southwest Michigan area? Let’s connect. I can walk you through some of our current homes and provide a rental projection for your property. A quick introductory phone call and you’ll know what a realistic timeline looks like. 

Don’t own a vacation rental yet but would like to get one? Great! I’m a licensed real estate agent in the state of Michigan. Let’s discuss your goals and search criteria so we can get you the vacation rental of your dreams. 

MICHIGAN SHORT TERM RENTALS PODCAST 

I am a co-host for the Michigan Short Term Rentals podcast. Here we talk all about buying, managing, and optimizing short term rentals in the state of Michigan. 

MICHIGANSHORTTERMRENTALS.COM

Here we provide township regulations, hosting tips, and other vacation rental information. It’s also home of the 4 part email series:

-> 650 zip codes with rental projections 
-> How to analyze an entire market 
-> Our custom built property grading tool 
-> Our custom built furnishing calculator

Join the newsletter to get these valuable tools and stay up to date with the Michigan short term rental industry. 

Email: tony@bookngather.com 
Website: bookngather.com 
Website: michiganshorttermrentals.com


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