Posted on 03/24/2021 2:33:54 PM PDT by fwdude
I just wanted to find out if others get frequent (daily) calls from self-described buyers of residential properties.
I know where it comes from. These numerous “real estate courses” which which advertise on junk t.v. and radio spots make unrealistic promises of 6-figure income with little or no personal money invested. It’s a scam, but it’s amazing how many people fall for it and then begin hectoring home owners non-stop about selling their home, hoping to score on a distress sale. I know how to get out of it by just pricing my modest home in the millions, but would like to get off these lists.
Is there a do-not-call list which will get these off my back, or does these fraudsters not have to comply?
The US Govt has a website where you can record your number and put into the do not call list........
ROFLMAO!
You haven't mentioned if you get these calls on a land line or a cell phone........If a land line, you're screwed.
If a cell phone, you should be able to activate a function that only allows calls from people on your contact list and block out all others......
Good luck
I get calls and postcards wanting to buy my second home. We even get calls and letters wanting to buy property we don’t even own. We have had the second home for more than 50 years. IF I want to mess with them, I ask them what makes “Them special” that we would sell it to them or I say, sure you can buy it for $500K.
I also get numerous calls about solar panels on my roof. I’m suspicious but want to know what that’s all about. Are they really just renting your roof as a cheap spot for their OWN panels, making most of the money themselves?
Both.
Lots of calls. Best one was a couple weeks ago.
Hello is this the _____ residence?
I’m not a residence, but this is Miss ___
Hi, Miss ___, I’d like to discuss the proprty at _______.
It’s not my property, but we can discuss.
Had the nerve to hang up on me :)
Lots of forced sales created by the politicians’ forced unemployment. Tons of $ from, mostly, communist China.
nope, just postcards and letters
To fwdude: I will give you 1 crisp dollar bill for your property.
You have to move out prior to closing or the deal is off.
Somehow, my cell number got listed as belonging to someone with some hot property, but I cannot figure out how to get the correction in. I get 4 or 5 calls and/or texts just for that owner. I looked up the property they call about and it’s a dump. I may go through the motions of buying it as far as they’re willing to follow. After all, real estate transactions require a contract in writing, so I can make all the fake promises and statements I want.
Be sure to put your own number on it when it shows up on the caller ID. It's happened to me. At that point I quit bothering with reporting them to the feds. If the big Telcos are going to be parties to the crime by reporting false numbers on the caller ID, there isn't really much I can do to fight AT&T, and Frontier, and Verizon, and the others.
2) Second, when they call, go ahead and answer it, with this script: "This phone number is regsistered to the Federal Government Do Not Call Registry. Remove this number from your database and if you call it again, you and your company will be jointly and severally liable". It does not matter that they don't understand it -- 90% will be skeered enough to remove your number. Under DNCR they can call you once every 12 months (which was the sop to mistakes at the bill's origination), but once you have informed them, no. more calls. period.
3) Don't block the call - yet. If you can identify that the same hucksters are calling you, record it in your state if legal, and screenshot the call identification.
4) If it continues, lawsuit, lawsuit, lawsuit.
Have had a few finally I just said for 1 million cash tax free they can have my home in a rural setting once they start telling me its not really worth that much I hang up.
I do that, but only on POS (exterior) properties that are owned by out of state owners. These are usually (and obviously) rental properties. The replies I get are either such owners who are tired of dealing with renters OR such out of state owners who are shocked at the pic I send, seeing how run down their properties have become. I bought one for $220k, renovated, then resold for $340k. The seller could hardly wait to liquidate that headache.
I get 30 or more Spam calls a day.
In the Phoenix metro area there are 10 buyers for every seller.
Homes are listed and sold within a week for 10% more than the asking price.
It’s friggin nuts!
Daily.
“Home equity theft is actually a thing, as is selling a house out from under a home owner by pretending to the them.”
How do they get around the title requirements - such as notarized signatures?
Not often, but daily I receive the car warranty call.
I’m kinda like Fauci. I got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell.
I use to then it went to flourecents then leds
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