Stop calling me about buying my multi family properties!

[Liza Leif]

I don't know if this is the right forum or the right entity to post this. I don't know if buyers are doing their own research or are buying call lists. What I do know is that my family owns a number of multi family properties and we are not interested in selling them at this time. Meanwhile all of us receive a number of cold calls every week from people wanting to buy our properties. Add that to the hundreds of junk calls for everything else and it is really annoying. Is there any way to get off of the lists? Some of these properties have been in our family since the 1950's and our family business is operating them. Recently some of the properties changed hands (one generation to the next) and we each sold a PITA property (good earners but major pains to manage). None of the callers were interested in buying the properties we had on the market. As an owner, I wish there was a way to stop the cold calls. 

[Greg Scott]

Amen.

For fun, I often flip the script on them and it usually catches them flat footed.  When they call me I tell them I am not interested in selling, but would like to know if they have any properties they would like to sell me?