@Alex Zuroff - No you don't NEED to have separate accounts for REI activities, but its definitely a good bookkeeping practice to have them.  

Hello, I'm looking for a CPA and bookkeeper with real estate investing experience.

As for your office deduction, if you are using an accountant to do your taxes (not a bookkeeper or chain tax prep service) then take the deduction.

Easy for bookkeeping as you can link with some free online accounting software, categorize your expenses in proper expense buckets and see how your properties are performing by running some financial reports.  

However those are unaudited financial statements prepared by the bookkeeper/accountant (unless you have an auditor who has gone through to audit them).

(have them quote on a couple of products Investors normally use).BTW, this approach works everywhere.... including realtors, contractors, title companies, book keeper, etc.

I know, it is easy to set up a Series LLC and I can do it myself but I want to do it once and do it right, so looking for 1) experienced Attorney to help me Set up a new Series LLC, preparing Operating Agreement, EIN# etc and new series for each property.2) experienced CPA for book keeping and/or accounting, tax preparation/filingI would appreciate any inputs/referrals from BP members.....Thanks!

My partner does construction and I am a real estate paralegal and bookkeeper. 

Basically I don't have the capital for the down payment but I have the llc, the book keeping, the lender and the deal.

I recently created an LLC back in February and have questions about taxes and bookkeeping, such as do I absolutely need to have a business account or is it ok to spend from a personal account so long as you're keeping track of expenses?