I have my personal emergency fund squared away so I'm good there.

Looking for remodel/finishing work as well as someone for emergency calls/small jobs.

Do a Welcome letter to everyone the day you take over, include who they now make payment to, your contact emergency number, and let them know you look forward to meeting them.As far as leases, you don't want to renew or give everyone same date for renewal, stagger your renewal dates so you won't risk having 3 empty units.

A bit of an emergency...

I find that investing in Real Estate allows my creative side to emerge, especially when structuring a contract or finding valuable resources for financing real estate properties.Currently, I am purchasing as much real estate as possible in this (historically) saturated real estate market.

If my AC goes or a tornado hits my rental, do I have that emergency $ to cover the replacement or deductibles?

Keep looking... a better deal will emerge. 

He needs to give out emergency numbers for maintenance and also who they now pay their rent to.

I would make sure you have enough money for yourself for emergency expenses, some people like 3-6 months of living expenses on hand just in case.

I just had a tent tell me the October rent would be short $75 because of a hospital emergency.