All Forum Posts by: Chad Wilson

Thanks Stephen! Since this original post STIR/SHAKEN has been implemented and I now have my home VOIP phone set to only allow numbers I program into it, about 10 people that might need to call me, the rest get straight up canned and my verizon cell has a STIR/SHAKEN neighborhood blocker and I simply block out all 901 numbers and any others that start to become a hassle. So problem solved for now. I even went so far as to mail in my printed, hand signed letter to Shelby county to get my number changed to a google voice number that I won't be monitoring. 

On that more worrying front, my mother in law, who has nothing to do with my property whatsoever got a cold spam text on her phone the other day asking to buy MY house... It makes me wonder what kind of people are putting together these lists and what kind of people are buying them. Pretty shady... 

Thanks guys, I kind of figured this was the case... It's too bad phone calls didn't work on an opt-in basis. With IP telephony it would be easy to implement but I imagine the phone companies would lose revenue doing this. 

Hello,

I have owned a SFR in Memphis since May of 2012. I have always received the occasional cold call, but in the past few months it has gotten out of hand to the tune of about 4 or 5 a day with Tuesday and Thursday being the busiest. What can an owner do to get these people to stop calling? I have texted some of the more aggressive (3 to 4 calls on the same day, no voicemail...) ones asking for them to stop but week after week it is the same. Would I be better off just changing the number with the city and county to some unmonitored Google voice box? What do you all do?
 
P.S. yes all of my numbers are registered on the National Do Not Call registry. 

Looks like the MOST you could make a year would be somewhere near $5000 on this one assuming your numbers are good (See Ramon's comment) 
 
I had a property with margins like this and even the shortest of vacancies and smallest of repairs would ruin a whole year. It wasn't worth the trouble and I dumped it. 

I was never big on leverage, which is why my real estate portfolio is small compared to so many of my peers. With that said, we have about 24 to 36 months in cash, and an additional 24 to 36 months if we elect to remove up to $100,000 from our vanguard funds. Feels kind of nice right about now.