Features
The books for every property you own, kept all year
Roof Yield shows what each property earns and costs, rentals and the home you live in alike. For the rentals, every dollar also lands on the right line of IRS Schedule E, Part I, with the paperwork to back it up.
Properties
One set of books per property
- Two properties free, up to 20 on Pro, unlimited on Partners, each with its address, type, and purchase details.
- Shared costs go to General, like software or a tax preparer's fee, instead of being forced onto one house.
- Your own home counts too. Turn off "Include in Schedule E" for a home you live in, and its expenses are tracked everywhere except your tax report.
- A photo on every card: upload your own, or let Roof Yield show the street view for the address.
- Addresses fill in as you type, so city, state, and ZIP are right the first time.
Overview
See where every property stands
- Income, expenses, net cash flow, and expense ratio for the year, compared with the same months last year.
- Everything, just the rentals, or one property. Pick a view and Roof Yield remembers it, on every device you sign in from.
- Monthly cash flow and where the money goes, by month and by category.
- Each property side by side, best net first, so the one that's costing you stands out.
Owner's capital
Your own money, kept apart
- Money you put in from savings to cover a short month is marked as yours, not counted as rent or income.
- Money you take out for yourself goes in the same place, so one total shows what you've put in, taken out, and the net.
- For the year or all time, right on the overview. It never reaches Schedule E.
Accounts and import
Start from your bank statements
- Checking, savings, credit cards, loans, escrow, and cash, each with its bank, last four digits, and running balance.
- Import CSV, OFX, or QFX from any bank's website. Roof Yield guesses the columns and remembers your layout for next time.
- Nothing is imported twice. Overlapping date ranges are fine, and rows you deleted stay deleted.
- Your bank login stays with you. Roof Yield never connects to your bank; you choose what to upload.
- Reconcile against the statement balance, and reconciled entries are locked until you unlock them.
Review
File a month of transactions in minutes
- Imported rows wait for review, so nothing lands in a report on a guess.
- Suggestions come from your own data: words you teach a property (a tenant's surname, a unit number) and what the same payee was filed as last time.
- Repeating payments are grouped, so twelve rent deposits or car payments are accepted together.
- Rules rename payees, set a category or property, or skip personal spending automatically.
- Transfers between your accounts are paired up instead of counted twice.
Recurring money
Mortgages and scheduled entries
- Split a mortgage payment into interest, principal, and escrow. Interest goes to line 12; principal and escrow move to their own accounts.
- Scheduled entries for rent, HOA dues, or insurance: weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly. Roof Yield lists what's due and adds them when you say so.
Documents
Receipts and paperwork in one place
- Attach receipts to entries: photos and PDFs up to 10 MB each. Phone photos are straightened and stripped of location data.
- Keep property papers such as leases, insurance policies, and HOA notices, with a title, tags, and a note, and search them later.
Reports
Schedule E, ready for your preparer
- Totals by Schedule E line, one column per rental plus General, with property improvements listed separately. A home you live in is left out.
- Depreciation for line 18: record the basis, land value, and in-service date, and compare the straight-line mid-month figure with what you claim.
- Download a CSV or print to PDF.
- Categories map to lines, and you can add, rename, or remap your own.
Security and your data
Private by design
- Two-factor sign-in and passkeys (fingerprint, face, or device PIN).
- Every account is kept strictly separate, so one person's records can never appear in another's.
- Export everything as a zip: a spreadsheet for each kind of record, plus every file you uploaded.
Start with this year's statements
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