Glysten Books · Per property
How to track expenses for each rental property
The question every owner of more than one rental asks at tax time is simple: what did each building actually earn? The answer is to put the building on every line as it happens, not to sort a year of receipts in April.
Updated September 25, 2026
Early access. Glysten Books is taking on property owners a few at a time: ask to try it, and your first month is free.
Put the building on the line, not in a folder
Every income and expense line gets the property it belongs to. In Glysten Books that is a class: one for each building. Profit & Loss by Class then shows every property in its own column, with net operating income on every P&L, so you can see which building earns without building a spreadsheet.
Let the bank feed do the sorting
Bring in the accounts the rents come into and the bills go out of: connected, once our bank-data partner approves Glysten Books, or from your bank's download until then. Each transaction arrives with a category suggested from your own history, and you give it its building as you approve it. Nothing reaches the books until you do, at your desk or on your phone.
Keep the receipt with the entry
Attach the receipt, invoice or statement to the entry it belongs to, up to 20 MB each. When your accountant asks what a charge was, the answer is one click from the figure.
One LLC, one set of books
If each building sits in its own LLC, keep separate books for each and switch between them in a click, under one login, with one vendor list shared between them and 1099s prepared from the W-9s you keep.
Split the mortgage, so the interest lands on the right building
A mortgage payment is principal, interest and often escrow, and only the interest is an expense. From four numbers on the loan statement, each payment is split for you. How a mortgage payment is recorded.
Read any property, any day
Every figure on every report opens to the entries beneath it, so a number that looks wrong is a click from its cause, not an afternoon in a spreadsheet.
Questions people ask
How do I see profit for each rental property?
Tag each line to the building it belongs to, and Profit & Loss by Class shows every property on its own, with net operating income on every profit and loss.
How do I get Glysten Books?
Glysten Books is in early access. Ask to try it with the form on this page, and we will open an account for you and write to you when it is ready. The hosted service runs in your web browser, so there is nothing to install.
What does Glysten Books cost?
Your first month is free, for one set of books (one business or LLC) with up to four bank accounts. The AI assistant is not part of the free month, and no card is needed to start. After that it is one price per portfolio, not per person. Prices are published before anyone is charged, and nobody is charged without seeing the price first.
Does it connect to my bank?
Live bank connections open once our bank-data partner approves Glysten Books, which is under way. Until then, import the transaction download your bank offers (a CSV file), or upload bank, card and mortgage statements, which it reads and reconciles against. Either way, nothing reaches your books until you approve it.
Can I bring my books from QuickBooks?
Yes. Bring your QuickBooks export and set-up reads it, then checks the result against QuickBooks' own trial balance, so you can see the move came out right before anything is written.
Is my financial data safe?
Sign-in takes a second step: a code sent by email or from an authenticator app. Each customer's books are kept apart from every other customer's in the database itself, and each person sees only the books they are given. Hosted books are kept in the United States, every change is logged, and you can export everything at any time.
Who makes Glysten Books?
Glysten Technologies, LLC, in Portland, Oregon. Glysten Books was built by a landlord for landlords, and it keeps the books for its founder's own rental properties.