New BiggerPockets Article: How to Handle Emergency Maintenance Over the Holidays

Picking up off from my previous article on emergency maintenance in general, my latest piece for BiggerPockets discussed the specific problem of emergency maintenance over the Holidays. In other words, the fear of every real estate investor and landlord [emergency maintenance] compounded to its highest and purest form.)

But just like with "regular" emergency maintenance, most of what trips up investors is just in our heads. The key is to have a plan and execute it on the very rare occasions emergency maintenance on the Holidays is necessary,

Emergency maintenance does not happen often. For each unit, it will happen, on average, less than once a year. Just make a plan and follow through on that plan.

But even still, the fear of middle-of-the-night emergency maintenance "is so paralyzing, in fact, I've heard stories where people eschewed becoming a landlord just to avoid it." This is completely unnecessary. And luckily, holiday emergency maintenance is even rarer.
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That being said, it does occasionally happen. Have a plan for extreme issues, and stick to it. Don’t let the paranoia consume you. You will be fine.

Check out the full article here.

Also, it features our video on emergency maintenance which you should watch as well: