New BiggerPockets Article: You Can Avoid After-Hours Phone Calls From Tenants

My new article for BiggerPockets is up, although I don't particularly like the name they chose for it. You cannot "avoid after-hour phone calls from tenants." But you there are "there are certainly ways to deal with these problems. You just have to have a plan going into it."

The article was originally titled a "Guide to Emergency Maintenance." And that's what it goes over, which is extremely important as many people considering real estate investment and property management are scarred to death of a tenant calling at 2:00 am with some emergency. 

The most important thing to do right off the bat is to accept that emergency maintenance will happen. It is a fact of life. Don’t cross your fingers and hope for the best. Accept it will come from time to time and plan how to handle it.

The article then goes into detail about the how of creating (and executing) a plan "to handle it." So check it out.

The piece also features Phillip's and my video from our YouTube channel on the same topic, which is worth checking out as well: