$500M+ in equity deployed

Outsourced Accounting, Tax, and Advisory for Real Estate Operators.

Outsourced accounting, fractional controller services, GAAP reporting, fund accounting, tax planning, and cost segregation for sponsors and operators in real estate, self storage, express car wash, multifamily, hotel, REITs, HVAC, and plumbing.

Verticals we serve
Real Estate
Self Storage
Express Car Wash
Multifamily
Hotel & Hospitality
REITs
HVAC & Plumbing
What we do

High-touch outsourced accounting and tax services with real estate expertise.

Nine service lines, every one delivered with partner-level engagement and the technical depth your lender, LP, auditor, or PE buyer expects.

01

Outsourced Accounting

Cut your G&A 40-60% without cutting quality. A trained accounting team runs your bookkeeping, AP/AR, reconciliations, and monthly close — under direct US-based partner oversight. Reinvest the savings closer to the deal.

02

Fractional Controller

Monthly close, financial reporting, and accounting team management without the cost of a full-time hire. We step in alongside your bookkeeper or build the function from scratch.

03

GAAP Financial Reporting

Monthly close, consolidations, and defensible financials. Property- through fund-level. Built to hold up with auditors, lenders, and LPs.

04

Fund & SPE Accounting

JV accounting, waterfall validation, and LP reporting. We track equity, distributions, and promote through the full deal lifecycle.

05

Audit & Review Support

Audit-ready close, PBC management, and technical accounting memos. We handle the auditor relationship so your team can run the business.

06

Tax Advisory & Planning

Proactive tax strategy for real estate operators. Real estate professional status, bonus depreciation, 1031 exchanges, partnership allocations, entity structuring, and multi-state planning — built around your deal pipeline.

07

Tax Preparation & Compliance

Federal and state return preparation for sponsors, partnerships, S-Corps, and individuals. K-1 generation, quarterly estimates, and REIT testing — accurate and on time.

08

Cost Segregation

Engineering-based cost segregation studies that accelerate depreciation, unlock bonus depreciation, and put cash back in your pocket the year you place a property in service.

09

Financing Support

Lender packages, covenant tracking, and refi prep. Reporting built for the way agency, bank, and private lenders actually underwrite.

Who we serve

Our team specializes in tailored tax and accounting strategies for the verticals we know cold.

Whatever your prior CPA missed, we'll find it. Pick a vertical to see the work we do and the problems we solve.

Self Storage

Single-facility owners through 25+ facility portfolios. Sloppy books cost you basis points at sale — we close monthly, tie property management software to the GL, and produce NOI that holds up in a refi.

  • PMS-to-GL reconciliation on a monthly cadence
  • Defensible NOI for refinancing or sale
  • Expense classification discipline
  • Debt service and covenant tracking

Operators we work with

Single-facility owners Multi-facility platforms

Express Car Wash

Sponsors and platforms in the express tunnel category — 5 to 75 sites, often PE-backed or chasing roll-up scale. Multi-site operations need real consolidations, not a stack of spreadsheets.

  • Site-level P&Ls with consolidations
  • Membership revenue recognition
  • Acquisition accounting for tuck-ins
  • PE-grade reporting packages

Operators we work with

PE-backed platforms Independent operators

Multifamily

Syndicators and family offices with 500 to 10,000 units across stabilized and value-add deals. Your property managers each report differently. Your investors expect the same package every quarter.

  • Standardized property reporting
  • Waterfall validation and promote modeling
  • Quarterly LP reporting cadence
  • Audit and Reg D filing support

Operators we work with

Syndicators Family offices

Hotel & Hospitality

Owners of select-service and full-service hotels, often with flag agreements and management companies layered on top. Brand reporting doesn't tie to your GL — we reconcile, normalize, and produce financials you can hand to a lender or buyer without flinching.

  • USALI-aligned reporting
  • Brand-system reconciliation to the GL
  • F&B and labor close support
  • Owner advocacy with the operator

Operators we work with

Select service Full service

REITs & REIT-bound

Private REITs, REIT-electing partnerships, and sponsors preparing for an eventual REIT structure. REIT compliance is unforgiving.

  • Asset, income, and distribution testing
  • FFO and AFFO calculation
  • SEC-style reporting cadence
  • Basis tracking across acquisitions

Operators we work with

Private REITs REIT-bound sponsors

HVAC Service Companies

Single-shop contractors through multi-branch platforms, often PE-backed or PE-bound. Service plus install, recurring maintenance, fleet operations — built for HVAC platforms preparing for the next round of capital or a sale to PE.

  • Job costing that ties to the GL
  • ASC 606 service contract revenue
  • Branch-level P&Ls and fleet asset tracking
  • Acquisition accounting for tuck-ins

Operators we work with

PE-backed roll-ups Multi-branch operators

Plumbing Service Companies

Residential and commercial contractors. Single-truck operations through multi-state platforms. Contract jobs, T&M, service-and-repair — each accounted for the way it actually works.

  • Contract vs. T&M revenue discipline
  • WIP and retainage schedules
  • Inventory and truck stock controls
  • Sell-side quality-of-earnings prep

Operators we work with

Residential Commercial
How we work

Senior partners in the work. Automation behind the scenes.

You get the people who built the firm — not a first-year staff. Behind us, we use AI to take the routine work off the partner's desk so judgment work gets the time it deserves.

1. Diligence call

30 minutes. We learn the structure, the lender, the LPs, the pain. No pitch deck.

2. Scoped engagement

Fixed scope, fixed deliverables, fixed timeline. Quoted per engagement — not by the hour.

3. Partner-led delivery

Branden or Preston is in every engagement. Recurring monthly close or one-time technical work.

On AI: We use AI internally to auto-categorize transactions, surface anomalies, reconcile bank and credit card activity at speed, and extract ASC 842 / 606 inputs from leases and contracts. It is leverage for our team — not something we sell. The brand never leads with it because it shouldn't.
$500M+
Equity deployed
7
Verticals served
100%
Partner-led engagements
Direct
Access to Branden & Preston
The team

Two founders. Operator backgrounds. CPA and MBA credentials.

This is a small firm by design. When you hire us, you get us.

Branden Haag

Branden Haag, CPA

Managing Director

Branden began his career at CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen) — one of the top US accounting firms — specializing in tax preparation and planning for real estate development and construction clients. He holds a master's in accounting from the University of Illinois and is a Florida-licensed CPA.

He moved to the operating side as Controller, then Finance Director, and most recently CFO for a private real estate development fund operator. Across more than a decade in the industry, he has built and run the finance function through ground-up development, construction draws, fund reporting, and lender relationships — the senior finance voice on deals from sourcing through stabilization.

The combination of tax-trained technical rigor, real estate development depth, and operating-CFO execution is what he brings to every Haag & Gillion engagement.

Preston Gillion

Preston Gillion, MBA

Managing Director

Preston began his career at PwC, building technical accounting and audit foundations through Big 4 training.

He is a Director at a private equity firm with $2 billion in AUM across self storage and express car wash, where he runs investor relations and the accounting function. On the IR side: quarterly reporting, capital calls, distributions, and investor communications. On the accounting side: the close, financial reporting, and audit relationships. In his time at the firm he has raised and deployed more than $500 million in equity into self storage and express car wash deals — and sourced the debt financing to back them.

The combination of Big 4 technical rigor, head-of-accounting execution, and capital markets fluency is what he brings to every Haag & Gillion engagement.

Start the conversation

Tell us about your project.

Send a few lines and we'll set up a 30-minute call. No pitch deck, no obligation — we'll tell you straight whether we're the right fit.

Email: inquiries@haaggillion.com

Phone: (407) 594-3104