All Forum Posts by: Michael Botha

We recently located to Big Sky, MT and would like to connect with other investors in SW Montana. We are primarily interested in investing in multi family housing and mobile home communities throughout MT.

Hello fellow investors

I was wondering if I could get some thoughts on tax preparation "only" fees for a good CPA (not inclusive of any bookkeeping services). We own a holding company that owns all of the entities that hold our real estate properties. We have 3 separate entities that are held by this primary holding company and the tax prep fee proposed is $12,800. Two entities own a combined 20 properties, one of the entities is a Hawaii LLC and our CPA has proposed $5,500 for this entity that only holds two luxury residential properties (3 rental units), the CPA has also proposed $2700 for our personal returns.

Consulting, as needed, will be billed hourly at $250-$400/hour depending on level of expertise required.

This seems very high to me, if anyone has a referral for a good CPA that can handle mostly real estate investments tax returns in multiple states please let me know.

Thanks Mike