Work on rental

[Jenni J.]

I have a question for you all....

I have a rental that had a bunch of work that needed to be done, and I specifically told my management company to have the repair company do all the work except one line item so I could get a quote for that elsewhere since their price seemed very high for this.  That line item of work was not initially done, while everything else was, and I paid them.  About two weeks later, they just went out and did the work anyhow, without my approval and are now sending me a bill for their services.  I didn't want them to do this work, and I voiced this, so now I feel sort of backed into a corner...  I'm guessing someone made a mistake somewhere, and they weren't purposefully trying to pull one over, but I'm still pretty angry about this.  Any thoughts on ways to deal with this?

Thanks

J