$150 to know the work is actually done.
A paid, on-demand milestone inspection built directly into AmanahList's contractor invoicing system. When a contractor marks a milestone complete, you can commission a different professional from the network to visit the site, photograph it, and file a written report — before you release the money.
This is not Investor Services. Investor Services is a separate, hands-on consulting program with its own pricing, focused on Northeast Ohio. This is a platform feature: flat $150 per checkpoint, available to anyone running a project through AmanahList's contractor invoicing and escrow tools, wherever the property is.
Hiring a contractor is an act of trust with your money already spent.
You can't always verify who you're working with
A truck, a business card, and a confident quote are not proof of anything. Most people hire on a referral and a feeling.
You pay before the work is proven
Deposits and progress payments go out up front. The money moves first; the work is supposed to follow.
By the time you find the problem, the money's gone
Unfinished framing, skipped steps behind drywall, a crew that stops answering — discovered weeks after the payment cleared.
How AmanahList protects you at each step
Milestone payments held in escrow
Live todayYour contractor builds the invoice as milestones. You fund it once, and the money sits in escrow — it is not the contractor's yet. When they mark a milestone complete, you approve it and only that milestone's funds release. If something's wrong, you dispute it instead, and the funds stay held while it's worked out. Deposits and progress payments stop being a leap of faith.
Independent site verification — $150
Live todayBefore you approve a milestone, order a verification. The request is broadcast to opted-in professionals near the property — never the contractor doing the work, and never anyone else on the job. The first to claim it has 48 hours to visit the site and file a report: a trade-specific checklist, photographs, whether the milestone is genuinely complete, plus separate 'concerns' and 'suggestions' sections. You get the full report. The report informs your decision — it never releases your money on its own. You still approve or dispute.
Identity verification
Live todayBefore any professional can be paid through AmanahList, Stripe verifies their identity and bank details — that's a real requirement to receive a payout, not a formality. If a contractor is unwilling to complete it, that's not a paperwork problem. That's information. A legitimate professional who wants to get paid has no reason to avoid it.
Bring your own contractor onto the platform
Live todayAlready have a contractor you trust? Invite them onto AmanahList with your own personal link from your dashboard. They create a free account, and once they're in, their work runs through the same escrow and independent verification tools as everyone else on the platform.
The frugal math
On a $60,000 rehab split into five milestones, verifying every checkpoint costs $750 — just over one percent of the project. Discovering at the end that rough-in was never finished, or that a crew walked after the third draw, costs a rebuild, a new contractor, and months. Verification is the cheapest line item on the job and the only one that pays for itself the first time it's right.
You don't have to verify every milestone. Most people verify the expensive ones and the ones that get covered up — foundation, framing, rough electrical and plumbing, roofing — because those are the ones you can't inspect later without tearing something open.
Start with the invoice.
Verification lives inside a funded milestone invoice. Open your invoice, find the milestone, and choose "Order independent verification." If your project isn't on AmanahList yet, have your contractor create the invoice — or find one here who already works this way.