I strongly believe house hacking is the best way to get started because rents, are not only a waste of money, but are so dang high in the metro.

They have financial or substance abuse problemsI find #1 and #4 the most cases.One contractor that does work for me won't send me an invoice for like a month because he is so disorganized.

They credited me when I showed them an invoice for replacing our main water line. 

I am also documenting any repairs with invoices and pictures.

In the case of an audit, the IRS typically looks for two pieces of evidence supporting an expense:a receipt or invoice of the expensea check copy, cancelled check, credit card statement, etc. proving the paymentIt's also useful to note that different types of expenses are often treated differently by the IRS.

Create separate folders for receipts, invoices, bank and cc statements, PM statments, W-9's, leases, and closing documents. 

I have aspirations to move into larger properties and found a 40+ unit multi-family that I'm considering putting an offer in on with a few partners.The numbers all work out, the neighborhood is what we expect, I have walked the property and it's in pretty good shape, but the once concern I have is, the seller is unable to produce any of the repair invoices for work they've done over the past 5 years of ownership.

Hi everyone, we have found a part time property manager for our rents, but she doesn't have an invoice to bill us.

@Michael Dang Hello, I looked into private lending and while that is great, I’m leaning towards investing into real estate more since I can scale that quicker and be able to leverage.

@Paul Ewing Dang...after reading that, I need a nap!!!