About this episode

The episode discusses the pitfalls of sharing your personal cell phone number with tenants and the impact it can have on landlord-tenant boundaries.

Send us Fan Mail One small choice can wreck your boundaries as a landlord: sharing your personal cell phone number with tenants. I learned that lesson the loud way, from late-night texts during a brief neighborhood power outage to nonstop calls and vulgar voicemails when an AC repair didn’t go perfectly in Texas heat. When residents can reach you directly, you don’t just get “updates” you become the default emergency line for problems you can’t control, and it trains people to bypass your pro...

People in this episode

Host: Travis Wells

Topics covered

• landlord boundaries
• tenant communication
• property management
• personal privacy
• emergency response

Keywords

• landlord
• tenant
• cell phone number
• property management
• communication
• emergency
• privacy

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Places: Texas

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