Shea Business Solutions keeps the books for businesses run out of Storey Park, the Lennar community off Dowden Road that opened in 2015. Monthly bookkeeping, QuickBooks setup and cleanup, payroll, and business tax prep, handled by Ryan Shea. The first call is free.
- Home-based and online businesses running on the community's fiber connections
- Owners working out how CDD assessments land on a return
- Households claiming the residential clean energy credit on rooftop solar
- QuickBooks files that stopped being reconciled somewhere around year two
- Shea Business Solutions provides monthly bookkeeping to businesses in Storey Park, Orlando, Florida.
- Ryan Shea is a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and prepares business and personal tax returns.
- Shea Business Solutions serves the Dowden Road corridor in southeast Orlando, including Storey Park, Randal Park and Lake Nona.
- Shea Business Solutions files Florida RT-6 reemployment tax and DR-15 sales tax returns for Orlando businesses.
Who actually does business in Storey Park
Storey Park opened in 2015 on land that had been farm and wetland, and Lennar kept a lot of the green rather than filling every lot. It's a neighborhood of ponds and trails, and a good share of the people who live here work from home.
Fiber internet came standard here, along with the smart-home wiring the builder put in every house, so it tends to draw people whose businesses run on bandwidth: online sellers, remote consultants and agencies, video and course producers, IT contractors. Their revenue comes in through Stripe and PayPal, and the expense side is a long list of small software subscriptions.
The second group is younger. Storey Park sold to first-time and second-time buyers, and a decent number of them started something in the years since. A side business that pays for itself turns into an LLC, then into a business with a payroll, usually without anyone stopping to fix the books along the way.
Then there is the retail at the edge. The Shoppes at Storey Park where Dowden Road meets 417 is the Publix-anchored centre serving this community, Randal Park and Meridian Parks. Small tenants in a centre like that run on thin margins and file sales tax, and the ones that survive are the ones who know their numbers monthly rather than annually.
Why Storey Park owners hand off the books
The first thing that brings Storey Park owners in is the CDD. This community sits inside its own Community Development District, and that assessment shows up on the tax bill next to the county taxes, which makes it look like the same kind of item.
Part of a CDD assessment retires the bonds that paid for the infrastructure and part covers ongoing operations and maintenance, and the two are treated differently. For an owner-occupier the deductible portion is narrower than the line on the bill suggests, and for a Storey Park house you rent out, the treatment changes again.
The second is solar. Storey Park was built as Orlando's first solar-powered community, with rooftop panels on the houses. A residential system has its own credit rules and basis questions, and once a room in that house becomes a home office you need a real split between personal and business use.
The third is the shape of an online business. Stripe deposits arrive net of fees, which means the deposit in the bank is not the revenue, and a business that books the deposit as income understates both its sales and its expenses. Refunds, chargebacks and platform fees each need their own account, or the profit and loss statement comes out wrong.
The fourth is a business that outgrew its spreadsheet.
Quarterly taxes, 1099s, and the January scramble in Storey Park
Florida has no personal income tax. There's still a state filing calendar, and the due dates are firm.
A Storey Park business with employees files the RT-6 reemployment tax return each quarter with the Florida Department of Revenue. A business selling anything taxable files the DR-15 sales and use tax return monthly or quarterly depending on what it collects. Online sellers often get caught by that second one, because a storefront on a marketplace can create a filing obligation the owner never consciously took on.
The January problem here is contractor payments. An agency or a course business typically pays editors, designers, virtual assistants and a bookkeeper before it hires anybody, and every unincorporated one of them who took six hundred dollars or more during the year is owed a 1099. Those payments are usually spread across a card, PayPal and a couple of direct transfers, with a W-9 on file for none of them.
Collect the W-9 before the first payment and tag the vendor when you set it up. Otherwise January turns into chasing down people who worked for you once in March.
Messy QuickBooks in Storey Park? Fix it before it compounds
In a community this young, cleanup usually means a fairly new file that nobody has reconciled.
A business started in 2021 or 2022 connected its bank feed, ran clean for a few months, then hit its first busy season. Three years later the feed has been importing unattended the whole time. Uncategorized Expense is holding hundreds of transactions, a Stripe payout is booked as a single lump of income with the fees buried inside it, and the owner's personal card is in there too because it was easier at the time.
We rebuild from statements rather than from the feed, because the feed is the thing that drifted. Payouts get split into gross sales and fees. Personal spending comes out to owner's draw where it belongs. When it's done, the profit and loss statement matches what the business actually did.
Which service fits your Storey Park business
Storey Park addresses are Orange County addresses. Whether a business here files its Business Tax Receipt with the City of Orlando or with the unincorporated county comes down to the parcel. The Orange County Tax Collector tells you how to confirm which one applies.
Service pages for Storey Park businesses
- monthly bookkeeping for Storey Park businesses
- QuickBooks cleanup for Storey Park owners
- payroll services near Storey Park
- small business tax preparation in Storey Park
- catch-up bookkeeping for Storey Park
Neighboring areas we cover: bookkeeping in Randal Park, bookkeeping in Lake Nona, bookkeeping in Lee Vista.
Frequently asked questions about bookkeeping in Storey Park
Are my Storey Park CDD assessments tax deductible?
Partly, and the split matters. A CDD assessment usually has a debt service portion retiring the district's bonds and an operations and maintenance portion.
They are not treated alike, and neither is simply a property tax. On a rental property the treatment differs again. We work it out from your actual assessment rather than from the total on the bill.
Can I claim the solar on my Storey Park house against my business?
The residential clean energy credit is a personal credit and belongs on the personal return. If part of the house is a genuine home office, an allocation question opens up, and it's usually a smaller number than people expect. The square footage used for business is what drives it, not the share of the electricity the panels cover.
I sell online from Storey Park. Do I owe Florida sales tax?
It depends on what you sell, where the buyer is, and whether a marketplace is collecting on your behalf. Some online sellers have a DR-15 obligation they never registered for, and others are registered and filing zero returns they don't need. Either one is cheaper to fix before a notice arrives.
My Stripe deposits do not match my sales. Is that a bookkeeping problem?
Yes, and a common one. Stripe pays you net of its fees, so the deposit is smaller than the sale.
If the deposit gets booked as income, your revenue is understated and your fee expense has disappeared entirely. The fix is to split every payout into gross sales and fees, which also makes your real margin visible.
Who actually does the work on my account?
Ryan Shea handles the work directly.
Talk to a bookkeeper who knows Storey Park
If you run a business from a house in Storey Park, sell online, or hold a property here and cannot work out what the CDD line does to your return, the first call is free and there is nothing to sign. We will look at the file and tell you honestly whether it needs a cleanup or just a monthly close.
Finding us from Storey Park
Our base sits in the Wyndham Lakes area of south Orlando, a short run west of Storey Park. Most of the work happens over email and a screen share. If you'd rather sit down in person, it's about twenty minutes.
Last updated: September 10, 2026
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