Zain U.
Real Estate Bookkeeper - QBO- Buildium - AppFolio-Buildertrend
Are your books behind, messy, or costing you sleep at night? You're running a property management company, a construction firm, or a real estate portfolio — and the last thing you have time for is chasing down numbers. That's exactly where I come in. I'm Zain, a Full-Charge Bookkeeper with 5+ years of specialized experience in Property Management, Construction, and Real Estate accounting. I don't just record transactions — I build financial systems that give you clarity, control, and confidence in your numbers every single month. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏆 What makes me different ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Most bookkeepers know QuickBooks. Few know Buildium, AppFolio, AND Buildertrend at a full-charge level. I do — and I've been rated 5 stars by every client I've worked with on Upwork. "Excellent freelancer to work with. Professional, reliable, and delivered quality work on time." — Upwork Client ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🏘 Property Management Accounting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Buildium, AppFolio, Propertyware, Stessa, DoorLoop ✔ Owner statements, tenant ledgers & rent rolls ✔ Escrow, trust & operating account reconciliations ✔ Section 8 / MHA rent portions & compliance ✔ Move-in/move-out accounting & security deposit tracking ✔ Property-level P&L reporting 🏗 Construction & Fix-and-Flip Bookkeeping ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ Buildertrend job costing & WIP tracking ✔ Project expense tracking & profitability analysis ✔ Progress billings & contractor payment management ✔ ROI reporting for Fix-and-Flip investors 💼 General Business Accounting ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✔ QuickBooks Online/Desktop, Xero, Zoho Books, NetSuite, Wave ✔ Full-cycle bookkeeping setup & Chart of Accounts design ✔ Bank, credit card & escrow reconciliation ✔ A/P & A/R management ✔ Payroll recording, contractor payments & 1099 preparation ✔ Month-end closing & financial reporting (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow) ✔ Catch-up & cleanup bookkeeping — no matter how far behind you are ✔ Integration setup: QuickBooks + Buildium + Gusto + Hubdoc + Dext ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🛠 Tools & Platforms ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Accounting: QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Xero, Zoho Books, NetSuite, Wave Property Mgmt: Buildium, AppFolio, Propertyware, Stessa, DoorLoop Construction: Buildertrend Payroll: Gusto Document Mgmt: Hubdoc, Dext, Google Workspace, OneDrive, Dropbox Project Mgmt: Asana, ClickUp, Notion, Trello Communication: Slack, Zoom, Google Meet ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Who I work with ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ▸ Property Management Companies (residential, commercial, Section 8) ▸ Real Estate Investors (Buy & Hold / Fix & Flip / Short-Term Rentals) ▸ Construction & Renovation Contractors ▸ Maintenance & Service Providers ▸ Small to Mid-Size Businesses needing accounting cleanup or ongoing support ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📩 Ready to get your books in order? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Message me today with a quick description of your situation. I'll tell you exactly how I can help — no fluff, no guesswork, just a clear plan to clean up and take over your books. Your numbers should work for you. Let's make that happen.
Earnings and projects
Last 6 months ÷ 6
Last 6 months: $5.2k
Billed in all: $6,099$6.1k
$1.3k in the last 6 months
Across 5 contracts
Across 7 contracts
Earnings, last 30 days
Skill rankings: Top 16% in Real Estate
Ranked by MRR among everyone on Upwork with the skill.
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