Calling Motivated Sellers

[Barbara Gardner]

Sooooooo I just had the most interesting thing happen today. I received a list of homes off the MLS from a realtor that I am working with. Although I am a beginner investor with little to no experience, my knowledge of the MLS was that the homes are already listed but I kind of rolled with the punches and called homeowners off the list to see if they were still interested in selling their homes. Long story short I had a homeowner go COMPLETELY OFF on me (without cursing but I could tell she wanted too). She was upset that I was calling her and stated she had a listing agent, wanted to know how I got her info, wanted to know how much was I going to offer her (however, she continued to yell when asking these questions) etc. etc. So my question is, is it wrong or illegal to contact motivated sellers outside of door knocking? Her listing agent did call me less than five minutes after I got off the phone with her and informed me that the house is under contract and had several questions herself, but I am just really in shock right now and I suppose I understand her frustration but in the same sense I don't. I mean this lady really chewed me up and spit me out just for calling her about her property.

HELP PLEASE!