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Getting Google Voice to ring multiple phones from one incoming number

Here's what my issue was: the call box on the apartment building that my fiance (let's call her "Katie") and I live in could only handle one number, but we needed it to ring both of our cell phones so that either of us could buzz people in. The initial solution was to put both of our cell phones in Google Voice and then a call from the call box rang both of our phones. SHAZAM.

Only there was a little problem: I started using my Google Voice number more often, and so every time anyone called it, her cell phone would ring, and she'd be wondering who the hell was calling her. I figured there must be some way to have it only ring both of our phones when it came from the call box number, but I couldn't figure it out. The GV help didn't have an answer and I couldn't find anything in the forums either.

But--SPOILER--I figured it out. Or rather, I'm pretty sure that I figured it out. Everything in this list of instructions is sponsored by the phrase "seems to be".
  1. Put both numbers that you want rung into Google Voice.
  2. Uncheck the non-primary phone under Settings > Phones. The checks here define what is considered your "default phones".
  3. In Settings > Groups, edit each group so that it only rings "Default Phones".
  4. In Google Voice, select "Contacts" and select the single contact that you want to edit. In my case, this was the "Front Door" entry.
  5. Select "Edit Google Voice settings" and then select the phones you want it to ring. In my case, it was mine and Katie's.
Now maybe I was dense for not being able to figure this out sooner (ha! "maybe"!), but Google Voice doesn't make it easy. It would be nice to have the ability to create if/then rules, like the "smart playlists" in iTunes, rather than the each-option-in-a-different-
place like Outlook.

Another big minus to Google Voice that I found is that you can only use a phone number with one Google Voice account. Which means that if Katie ever wanted her own Google Voice number, we'd have to find a different solution.

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