An acquaintance of mine who does property management recently told me that there's some hack for paying off your mortgage sooner by paying the monthly fee in 3 chunks within each month.

If you're going to lose a lot of money the realtor fees are the least of your concerns. 3% on a million dollars is only 30 grand.

@Samuel Choi, PropStream is likely your best bet if you don't have access to the MLS, but you'll have to pay for a subscription. 

If so, what is a good way to ask my tenants to cover the fee?

Sure, let's connect, i will send you my info and as soon as we can agree on a required fees for the deals i will be more than happy to throw a few deals your way.

The problem is that there constantly seems to be fees being charged to me an example of this is in the contract  there is an additional 100 dollars allocated to sewer and water that the tenant automatically pays every month with rent and anything outside of it should be billed to the customer (there is no specificed time when this will occur on the contract) but it appears to be billed to me and after speaking to IIP it's like they made up rule on the spot stating that after 6 months all of the additional utility fees would be billed to the customer and in the meantime I am being charged for it.

@Sharma ParthThey are offering you a turnkey solution and charging you a fee for it.

I can see where it initially looks like that, but the fee is negotiated directly with the partnering leasing agent separate from Hemlane's fee.

So, the first question they usually ask a PMC is about fees - instead of asking about services and HOW those services are executed.EXAMPLE: PMC states they will handle tenant screening – what does that specifically mean?

For the obvious reasons-rates, fees, etc.