Self managing with a full time job

[Bill E.]

Hello everyone, I am hoping to learn from some of you do it yourself landlords out there. I'll give a situation that happened to me and I'd like to hear different ways to handle it. I work full time, my tenant texted me early in the morning that the furnace was out. Keep in mind this is when the outside temp was well below zero so this needed fixed ASAP. So I called the local heating company and they said they'd be out sometime before noon. Luckily my tenant was off work, so they were able to let the heating guy in so he could fix the furnace. My question is what if no one was able to be there to let the heating guy in? The only solution for me is to stay home from work until the problem is solved and that just isn't ideal. So how would you handle situations like this?