From time to time our clients and people ask us for the names of professionals in Arizona who we recommend for business and personal services. If you need a professional of a type listed here, please contact the professional and tell him or her that Richard Keyt recommended you. I encourage you to interview several professionals and select the person who you feel best suits your needs. I have listed people in no particular order. The fact that somebody is listed ahead of somebody else does not mean that I prefer the higher listed person over somebody lower on the list.
Commercial Real Estate Broker
Ryan Leavitt, Cassidy Turley BRE Commercial Group, 2375 East Camelback Road, #300, Phoenix, AZ 85016; phone: 602-224-4489, mobile phone: 602-810-0034, fax: 602-468-8588; email: rleavitt@brephoenix.com; Cassidy Turley website: www.brephoenix.com. Information about Ryan is in his online resume and for more about Ryan and Phoenix and Maricopa County, Arizona, retail properties see his Cassidy Turley web page.
Ryan has extensive knowledge and experience in working with both tenants and landlords in the leasing of retail commercial properties. His background includes working with landlords on property valuation, development of strategic marketing, targeting qualified tenants and lease negotiations. He has worked with tenants on site selection, relocation and lease restructuring services. He is fluent in verbal and written Spanish.
Residential Real Estate Agent
Kathy Keyt, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Biltmore-Paradise Valley Office, 3113 E. Lincoln Drive, Phoenix, AZ 85016. Call Kathy at 602-329-5398, fax to 602-914-7412 or send her an email message at kakeyt@gmail.com. Kathy is married to my brother KEYTLaw attorney Norman Keyt. She is an excellent and very hard working residential realtor with many years of experience. Kathy’s realtor website is www.azmoves.com/kathy.keyt.
Certified Public Accountants
- Tim Walch, CPA, 2101 East Broadway Rd, Suite 9, Tempe, Arizona 85282; telephone 480-557-0561. Tim is in a small CPA firm that is very good with real estate related income taxation. Tim offers a course on how to set up Quickbooks software for your business, which I highly recommend. See his website.
- Lance Meilech, CPA, 1027 E. Washington Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85034-1007; phone: (602) 943-2060; email: info@addingmachine.com; website: www.addingmachine.com
Addingmachine.com will assist with your Accounting, Tax Preparation, Tax Planning, Financial Statements and Bookkeeping. Whether you are:
- A Large or Small business
- LLC
- S-Corporation
- Partnership
- C- Corporation
- Proprietorship
You are welcome to a FREE personal consultation with one of our CPA’s to have ALL of your questions answered. Letter of recommendation for Addingmachine.com CPA sent by client of Richard Keyt:
“I just wanted to let you know that I spoke with a number of your CPA recommendations and chose to work with Lance Meilech. Lance and his organization provided very quick turnaround for my request and excellent support in my initial configuration of QuickBooks. I will also highly recommend their services. I am especially happy with the patience and support that Jared provided. I look forward to a long and beneficial relationship with Addingmachine.com”
All of these accountants provide accounting services for small businesses.
Certified Public Accountant for Nonprofit Organizations
Carolyn S. Sechler, CPA, Sechler CPA, P.C., 921 E. Orange, Phoenix, Arizona 85014; phone 602-230-2700. See her fabulous website.
Carolyn Sechler, CPA is the big honcho of the firm of Sechler CPA PC in Phoenix, Arizona. Her expertise is in tax and strategic planning, financial reporting, and management consulting, primarily to nonprofit organizations and technology entrepreneurs. She has been serving clients in this capacity for approximately 20 years. Her fully wired practice, which she calls a “virtual accounting firm,” demonstrates her belief in the liberating power of technology and its endless opportunities. The team all work from their homes and reside in several states and Canada. Likewise the client base includes Organizations both domestic and international. Carolyn is an animated and passionate public speaker on local and national levels, a writer/editor and avid geek. In addition, she writes for a number of professional publications and is an editorial advisor for the Journal of Accountancy. Her topics include tax and financial issues, futurist and visioning applications, non-profit organizations, and technology integration to meet user and organizational needs. Systems design; training and strategic alliance issues have become some of her latest fun topics! Her accounting practice is proud to have earned the recognition and featured for their “virtuality” and their work in the nonprofit community annually since 1995 in the following publications: Working Woman, Fast Company, Forbes, Business Week, Phoenix Business Journal, Arizona Republic, Journal of Accountancy, Accounting Technology, Practical Accountant, Telework AZ. They have also been featured case studies discussed in several books on best practices for accounting and telework 1996 to present. She and her team can be found online most any time of day. They welcome your comments and questions.
Quickbooks Consultant / Bookkkeeper / Helper
Joy Jaske, CPA, of CPA for Hire, P.C., 33755 North Scottsdale Road #130, Scottsdale, Arizona 85266; Phone 480-437-9022.
Although Joy is a CPA, she and her company do not provide CPA or tax preparation services. CPA for Hire is a Quickbooks consulting firm. They can do some or all of your actual Quickbooks data entry either remotely over the internet or by sending a bookkeeper to your office. Once a month a CPA for Hire bookkeeper comes to our office and reviews our data entry for the prior month and corrects any data entry errors we have made. If we are not sure how to handle a bookkeeping item at any time, we call our CPA for Hire bookkeeper for the answer. Once a year Joy Jaske comes to our office and gets our calendar year books in order to give to your CPA who prepares our tax return. I highly recommend that Quickbooks for small business accounting and CPA for Hire as your part-time professional bookkeeper.
Life & Disability Insurance Agent
Melissa Ahearn, Northwestern Mutual, 2201 East Camelback Road, Suite 400, Phoenix, Arizona 85016; telephone 602-808-3406; email: melissa.ahearn at mfn.com; See the Northwestern Mutual website at www.nmfn.com.
Call Melissa if you need help in evaluating and implementing life insurance or disability insurance to fund a buy-out of an interest in a corporation, limited liability company or limited partnership. Northwestern Mutual is one of the most financially sound insurance companies that maintains the highest insurance industry ratings.
Landlord’s Attorney & Litigation Attorney
Norman C. Keyt, 3001 East Camelback, Suite 130, Phoenix, Arizona 85016; telephone 602-265-0273. Norm is my brother and an excellent business litigation attorney. He has had over 100 jury trials. Norm represents many landlords and does a lot of evictions, commercial and residential. See his excellent website called Arizona Landlord Tenant Law.
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