About – johnm2025

OUR STORY

Built by an Investor, for Investors

BrikBooks exists because I needed it first.

I started investing in real estate and ran into the same problem every investor eventually hits: my books were a mess. Receipts piling up. Venmo payments to contractors with no paper trail. A spreadsheet that kind of tracked things but definitely wouldn’t survive an audit.

I hired a bookkeeper. They were fine for a dentist’s office or a coffee shop, but they didn’t understand real estate. They didn’t know what Schedule E was. They didn’t track expenses by property. They lumped everything into one P&L and called it done. I was paying someone every month and still had no idea which of my properties actually made money.

So I learned it myself. Not the generic small-business kind — the real estate kind. Property-level P&Ls. Schedule E categories. COGS tracking for flips. Job costing for builds. The stuff that actually matters when you own income-producing assets.

Turns out I wasn’t the only investor with this problem. That’s why I built BrikBooks — performance bookkeeping designed from day one for how real estate money actually moves.

Why BrikBooks?

Real Estate Only

We don’t do dentists, restaurants, or e-commerce. Every client is a landlord, flipper, or builder. Our workflows, categories, and reports are built for real estate from the ground up.

I'm an Investor Too

I don’t just understand the bookkeeping — I understand the business. When I see a cost that’s miscategorized, I catch it because I’ve made the same mistake on my own properties

Property & Project Level

No more lumping everything into one account. Every dollar is tracked by property, by flip, by job. You’ll know exactly what each asset earns and costs.

Tax-Ready, Not Tax-Time Panic

Your books are organized for the IRS every single month — not scrambled together in March. Your CPA will thank you. Your tax bill will thank you.

Who We Work With

Landlords & RE Investors

1 to 50+ rental units. Property-level P&Ls, Schedule E prep, 1099 management.

House Flippers

2 to 20+ flips per year. COGS tracking, project-based profit reports, rehab cost management.

Custom Home Builders

2 to 10+ builds per year. Job costing, draw schedules, WIP reports.

Let's Talk About Your Portfolio

Book a free 15-minute discovery call. I’ll personally walk through what clean books should look like for your situation.