This also gives you the ability to claim that cashflow as income for securing new loans going forward or pocket it if your income is compromised elsewhere for a short time.Best of Luck and keep killing it 

It's probably not as nice as them doing it every month but it is a compromise on our end and yet still reasonable to the tenant. 

If there was no contract this makes it even fuzzier.If you were not aware, This is where I would say, You really put me in a compromising position, as you did great work but to invoice me a year after completion unfortunately is not acceptable and we cannot agree to these charges.

The sky high prices may mean you need to drive (East) to find affordable rentals that pencil out.Even then, I am not sure 5-10K gets you the traditional down, so you may want to look at creative financing.Maybe to get the real estate exposure and a little dividend, studying some REITs may be interesting (sort of a compromise/cross between the stocks you don't want and the real estate you do want).Maybe saving up for the traditional down on a buy and hold rental eastwards could be feasible.Best of luck!

This is not a landlord tenant problem, this is a roommate compromise, since you are house hacking.

They have a system they like, and you have one you like so you have to come to a compromise on how this gets done. 

Thanks for the response ... maybe dip your toe in with B properties if you must, and that may be a good compromise ... much better than C/D IMO.

That way when there’s a dispute you can blame someone else and your sanity isn’t compromised.

Possible compromise may be to split the bill overage with the tenant.

Then you can maybe come to a compromise.