Phone calls and post cards wanting to buy my 2nd house. Not for sale. Bye.
Text messages. They get blocked instantly. No reply.
Nope, lots of emails though.
A lot of them.
My offer still stands. $1,500,000. Soon as the check from the Nigerian prince clears.
They’ll end if and when interest rates start going up.
Yeah. I’ve gotten three in the last two days. I just add the numbers to my “reject call” list.
Good to know about the latest scam. Poor b@st@rds get suckered by these “make millions easily” shysters.
We don’t answer our land line phones now unless it’s a recognized caller. That being said, we do get a huge number of calls that we never answer and which do not leave messages.
Yes, I get them and texts too. They don’t even use my right name. The real estate records in this state are available online, so I wonder if they have darker intentions. I have heard some scammers just want a recording of your voice that they can then use to impersonate you. So, I don’t say anything to them, I just hang up or delete.
If I do not get 5 or more a week, then something is wrong.
They drive by my home all of the time and take pictures.
We have a STEM school under construction and live in a moderately priced home surrounded by home values that are close to and well over several million dollars.
I have two rental properties. I am receiving several such calls a day, some “manned”, some robocalls saying call X number if you want to sell.
Do not call list doesn’t matter - all my phone numbers are on it. More importantly, they’re collating the databases. Thus they’ll call my home line, cell phone, and maybe spouse’s cell phone in sequence.
I don’t know where they’re getting the data, but we’re obviously on a curated list. One caller told me they were with a regional wholesaler “we buy houses” type, another called from a professional call center and said I’m just going down the list.
Don’t know where yours come from, but I get some type of contact from legit real estate agents asking if I want to sell at least once a week. The market where I am is hot right now.
The house next door just had a for sale sign with an ‘under contract’ on it go up yesterday. It had no type of sign prior. Same thing with another house down the street last week.
I’m one of those investors you speak of but I NEVER would cold call or door knock. I only send letters to owners who are in pre-foreclosure, and letters are easy to disregard and toss. I’m only looking for the folks who are in genuine trouble - and there are plenty just here in metro Denver. I’m also one of the graduates of such programs you mention. Many ARE scams, but mine, in four short years, has enabled me to create over $10 million in revenue with six figures in profits. I’m a debt free millionaire, thanks to this program AND I get to help sellers who need fast help.
Before anyone suggests, I’ve tried Robokiller on my cell phone. That’s a scam too.
Not real estate calls, but I was getting 15-20 robocalls a day for other crap. I can heartily recommend a Sentry 3.1 call screener. You enter the numbers you allow to get through. Other’s if human can get through by jumping acouple hoops. No robos ever. If someone gets through that you don’t want calling back they can be blocked.
No...but then there aren’t any land lines in the home so they can’t do a reverse lookup.
On the cellphone, if I don’t recognize the number, I don’t answer. My voice mail generally stays one message from being full but I don’t get voicemails left RE selling our house. We’re in a popular neighborhood too...only one house that shows “coming soon” but not yet active. Homes here tend to go in a day or two.
No, but they want to talk to me about my vehicles warranty very urgently. Block their number every time and they just change it.
Yes, the other night I got one just before supper on my cellphone, and then during the meal on my landline. (I recognized his voice from earlier). Second call I told him he’d already called on the other line and I hung up on him there.
The Californians are flooding in around here and paying ridiculous prices for houses trying to spend as much of their millions from overpriced homes there as they can. Bubble’s going to pop at some point.
All the time.
I didn’t answer your actual question. When’s the last time you saw anyone complying with the ‘Do Not Call’ list. Both my landline and cellphone are on it. I think folks buy the do not call lists to get live numbers for prospecting.