Biz phone number?

[Jedd Braunwarth]

What does everyone use for their investing phone number? Do you use personal cell phone, dedicated cell or other? I ask as I have a few cash flowing properties, manage them myself and have been slowly growing a real estate consulting biz helping others find buy and hold deals in Iowa and Minnesota. I am not getting rich with this so want to keep costs low at the moment. I really do not want to use my personal cell number with tenants and clients calling me. Also, what if I change that number for some reason in the future. So, back to my question now that I explained my situation, what would you use? Ideally I would have a dedicated phone number that I could then have it ring my cell or my wife's or whatever number I want, basically call forwarding.

[Curtis N.]

Awesome! I was going to say I know it works! I have my cell on like 5 google voice accounts, a grasshopper account, and a RingCentral!

The [having to call from the app] part is the worst part. I only ever do it when I'm on the go. Otherwise I always use the website and you can dial the call straight from the website and choose which phone it connects to. Then it calls you, you answer, and it immediately connects you to the outgoing call.

[Will F.]

How's grasshopper and ringcentral compared to GV?

[Curtis N.]

@Will F. They're both more advanced than GV, especially RingCentral, but it's more expensive than Grasshopper.  Both are paid.

I use GV for all REI stuff where I don't want people actually calling me cell. That way I can block calls or set a ring schedule and not have my phone ring on weekends, etc. And it's free.

The other 2 are for my company (day job) and we have a dial-by-name directory, different directory options (think "press 2 for support"), and personal extensions.  Each employee's personal extension then basically does what GV does and rings all of their phones.

For my business we need it because our guys constantly move between clients offices, cell phones, etc. And in our environment we usually can't have access to our cell phones.

[Account Closed]

I know everyone loves to hide behind a VM but a real business person will answer the phone, and I think ever cell phones have a VM you can set up.

Joe Gore

[Nettles Mason]

Thank you for the insight. I was able to change my mobil to work. That allowed me to add a second line