Give clear directions and ask for invoices/receipts.

Contractors download the app, upload all photos and their invoice.

Invoice rather than transaction based accounting.

Enter a maintenance request, assign a vendor, attach a fake invoice.

So here’s an invoice for 3000 dollars for my contractor, here’s 700 bucks for my insurance, can you add to it?

If anyone has experience with doing this in real life I'd be curious to hear their thoughts about this circumstance:When doing the invoicing and paying the contractor up front from funds in escrow.. can the contractor be yourself? 

Tenant moves in, bills come to you, you pay the bills, then you invoice the tenant for the charges.

but it turned out to have in small print on the invoice "6 monthly payments of 99$" that i must have been suppose to miss.It had a money back guarantee for a month, but it conveniently took a month to actually get any answer from customer service and they played dumb; they wont even cancel the 99$ payments over the next 5 months...

He replied, "I just pay him whatever he invoices me".....................................................Here are my three observed takeaways on MISTAKES OF NON-PROFESSIONAL LANDLORDS1.

Many PMC's hide their markups by:- Charging $60/hour or more (but only pay their workers $25-$40) - Or by sending you an invoice on their letterhead, so you have no idea how much they paid.