I have always wanted to work on houses, my husband is a maintenance repair man and can fix just about anything.  

I tell tenants to get a cooler and some ice or something else as it will be at least one day to get repairman there and may need parts.  

A kickback or "referral fee", in my opinion, is equivalent to taking directly from the owner because if a repairman is willing to give a $50 kickback to the PM for doing $500 of work, he could have just charged the owner $450.

My repair man did not charge me for his trip out of appreciation for some recent referrals I had given him (lucky me!).

The difference is the convenience and the cost, with IRA LLC you have the ability to write the check and pay to the repair man or utilities bill, with custodial SD IRA you have to request your custodian to do that, and each time that happens there is a fee that custodian charges. 

Well if you can't tell by the introduction I am a man of many hats.  I do Quality and Reliability Engineering for a Railroad (the day job) but my passion is Real Estate.  My wife and I purchased our first rental last ...

I was told I need to have a team that consists of an attorney a broker and a repairman is this true or is there more I should be looking for?

Hang the icemaker back up, tighten the screws, plug the fridge back into the wall, and see what happens.If none of that helps, call an appliance repairman that does warranty service for your brand. 

Did the repairman connect the plumbing, but not do the clean up?

But if you don't know what that smell indicates, you might easily believe any shady repairman's story that the smell came from a total failure of the furnace and THE FURNACE IS NOW A SAFETY HAZARD.