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Updated about 1 month ago, 10/25/2024
Home Buyer's Inc Spam Calls
Does anyone else get daily calls from different people saying they're from Home Buyer's Inc interested in purchasing your property? I'm on the do not call list and I ask them repeatedly to remove me from their contact list but at this point I'm wondering if they're just saying that company to hide who they're really working for. If it truly is Home Buyer's Inc I think there should be a class action lawsuit brought against them if there are enough people being bugged by them and not respecting our request to be removed. I see others complaining about them on reddit as well. My properties are based in Columbus so most of the area codes calling me are from there but it sounds like others are getting calls from other places.
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There are settings in your phone for that. Anyone new that is not in your network gets ‘silenced’ and they have to leave a message or are ignored. You can block callers etc. there is more. Study up. All the best!
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There are settings in your phone for that. Anyone new that is not in your network gets ‘silenced’ and they have to leave a message or are ignored. You can block callers etc. there is more. Study up. All the best!
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Does anyone else get daily calls from different people saying they're from Home Buyer's Inc interested in purchasing your property? I'm on the do not call list and I ask them repeatedly to remove me from their contact list but at this point I'm wondering if they're just saying that company to hide who they're really working for. If it truly is Home Buyer's Inc I think there should be a class action lawsuit brought against them if there are enough people being bugged by them and not respecting our request to be removed. I see others complaining about them on reddit as well. My properties are based in Columbus so most of the area codes calling me are from there but it sounds like others are getting calls from other places.
I’ll have to try that. It’s a different number every time but at least then I’ll have written proof that I requested them to remove me.
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Quote from @Allen Tracy:
Quote from @Bjorn Ahlblad:
There are settings in your phone for that. Anyone new that is not in your network gets ‘silenced’ and they have to leave a message or are ignored. You can block callers etc. there is more. Study up. All the best!
Very sorry to hear about your wife! I hope she gets well.
I’ve been getting their calls for years. My numbers are also in the federal DNC and those of some other states’. They come in waves from this “company,” often multiple times per day, often from sequential numbers, a wave lasting for weeks at a time. On the rare occasion I answer, I typically waste their time. Politely telling them to stop calling me has only resulted in hang ups and statements like “We’ll see.” Once I’ve confirmed who they (allegedly) are (of the latest wave,) I often call back multiple times, and when I get a live answer, I play music - only then do they get the point. So it stops… for some time.
If I were to speculate here so publicly (where I suspect the perpetrators will also read this,) I'd say that some wholesaler/investor may unwittingly use a "reputable" VA company for his/her own needs, putting my info on that VA company's radar (again.) Then, once they are done "representing" the unwitting investor, they start calling for their own needs - perhaps because the owner of the VA company also happens to be an "investor." If that is actually the case - given certain forensic evidence I gather from each call they make, which I keep records of - the unwitting investor using that VA service is potentially on the hook for a larger lawsuit than just for their only intended call. But it's not my fault that that (smaller) investor does not make sure that no DNC-registered number is ever called by his out-of-the-country VAs in the first place… In any case, like I said, pure speculation on my part.
I own properties in various states, but it seems that my half a dozen in TN get the most attention from them. I do believe that their alleged name is pure bs.
I, too, do not have the luxury of only accepting known callers. I will also PM you, Allen, regarding the legal recourse question.
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I’ve been getting their calls for years. My numbers are also in the federal DNC and those of some other states’. They come in waves from this “company,” often multiple times per day, often from sequential numbers, a wave lasting for weeks at a time. On the rare occasion I answer, I typically waste their time. Politely telling them to stop calling me has only resulted in hang ups and statements like “We’ll see.” Once I’ve confirmed who they (allegedly) are (of the latest wave,) I often call back multiple times, and when I get a live answer, I play music - only then do they get the point. So it stops… for some time.
If I were to speculate here so publicly (where I suspect the perpetrators will also read this,) I'd say that some wholesaler/investor may unwittingly use a "reputable" VA company for his/her own needs, putting my info on that VA company's radar (again.) Then, once they are done "representing" the unwitting investor, they start calling for their own needs - perhaps because the owner of the VA company also happens to be an "investor." If that is actually the case - given certain forensic evidence I gather from each call they make, which I keep records of - the unwitting investor using that VA service is potentially on the hook for a larger lawsuit than just for their only intended call. But it's not my fault that that (smaller) investor does not make sure that no DNC-registered number is ever called by his out-of-the-country VAs in the first place… In any case, like I said, pure speculation on my part.
I own properties in various states, but it seems that my half a dozen in TN get the most attention from them. I do believe that their alleged name is pure bs.
I, too, do not have the luxury of only accepting known callers. I will also PM you, Allen, regarding the legal recourse question.
The coming in waves is the same for me as well and so is the sequential numbers calling. No way to just simply block them as it's always a new number. I hadn't thought about it being out of country virtual assistants that don't adhere to the do not call list or "remove me" request. I'm guessing they get these phone numbers, use them, then dump them. I've tried reverse tracking a few of them but it typically says unkown for the owner. I'm always tempted to tell them I am interested in selling to get all the way to the actual person using them so I'll have their contact information. I understand people are trying to make deals but when you're getting calls every day and they're calling your mother as well I feel like the cold calling laws needs to change. I don't mind letters, just leave my phone alone when I'm waiting for important medical phone calls. Imagine if all industries just called you to see if you'd like to make a deal with them?
@Allen Tracy I would text stop. Offer to sell for an exorbitant price that sometimes slows calls. The other thing to check is where your number is visible. My number was listed on a house on zillow that I never owned and someone has been calling ever since, I claimed the house and removed my number, that helped but it never went away.
I get multiple calls daily from sequential numbers (all Voip calls with a Georgia area code) for a different person and property I don't own, essentially a wrong number. It has been going on for over 6 months. I have reported them to the FCC multiple times (I am on the national do not call registry), blocked and reported each and every call on Verizon call filter. I sometimes get up to 6 calls per hour. I am about to loose my mind!
@Jill Yard do you know the company calling and have you reported them or left them a bad review somewhere? Like not the FCC but online. Sometimes if I am feeling like being annoying I say sure I will sell it to you for some outrageous number. Alternately for the persistant ones I just keep the line open, meaning tie their people up by just putting the phone on the counter and let them talk.
I am surprized they are not labeled as potential spam on your phone expecially with the sequential numbers.
If you remember was it a 229 area code? I've been talking with them all morning. I don't think they'veade a single productive phone call made yet
My log shows only four 229 calls since 8/2022, with the most recent one in 10/2023.
One call shouldn’t count: alleged IRS debt relief.
Two with no useful intell.
One is a confirmed (alleged) “Homebuyer’s Inc.” That one was in October of last year: 229-xxx-1001. (In case it belongs to someone else now.)
Many of my GA calls are from 470, but far more are from 478. And majority of these are confirmed to not be HBI.
It's a rare day that I don't get at least one phone call from that area code. Also get them from 470 and occasionally 478 but mostly 229.
