If the company is truly legitimate, they will wait to invoice after all is said and done.I am looking into Indianapolis and surrounding but I still don't know what kind of property to look for.

They found it odd, for some reason all my invoices were going to some po box.

You can also create invoices from there and add an overhead percentage if needed.

I just made $60kwhy the **%* does the contractors invoice need to be broken down for the benifit of the IRS? 

I would pay the bill, then bill tenants for it as an invoice from me, not the municipality. 

., they've built in a markup to make it a profit center.2) They hire contractors and get invoices from those contractors, but either bill owners on their letterhead or that of a wholely owned subsidiary and charge a markup that owners don't see.With the amount of time it takes to properly manage the maintenance process, there's no way a PMC can NOT charge a markup and provide acceptable service.

Either way, you need to be able to document your side of the story, with photos and invoices with useful descriptions from professionals.You also should check local LL/Tenant laws, as you often can not require Tenants to pay for repairs under your limit when they are NOT result of tenant misuse/damage.Improve your Rental Prep process to resolve all those small issues before a new Tenant moves in.

I would imagine that at a minimum you need an "all clear" report and/or invoices from a professional remediation to establish it is even safe to enter.

We even schedule and get the invoice processed for you.Now if outsourcing is not something you're interested in it's probably best practice to spend some time bidding out jobs and getting the data on what your most common issues are and how often they occur.

The prior owners used Quickbooks and gave me their license and back up file, but I think that they were not really optimizing QB - mainly just used it to generate invoices.