I once heard of a guy that pranked his friend by posting on Craigslist.

The facts are that the audience has essentially told you they don't like the message.It sounds as though you want to tweak the volume and geographical locale versus address what one caller explicitly told you was bad messaging.

Part of a landlord training I attended suggested the following, which may be why nobody is answering.In order to not discriminate against any possible applicant for a rental, use a 24/7 recording describing the place as you would in any other advertisement, and allow for the caller to leave a message at the end.

I'd start talking to these callers and find out who they really are, what they want, and why they aren't just accepting the payments sent by the "credit place".

I'm assuming your putting up typical "I BUY HOUSES" signs, if so get the info from the caller and run the numbers on it.

The best thing I can say is be prepared before each call with what you want to say but keep the call personal, let the caller know you are listening to them more than they are to you.

Most of the callers had already previewed our home many months ago, loved it, but couldn't qualify for a new loan.

Americans, you'd think he'd have smarter callers.

After a period of time, you can petititon HUD to be removed from thier S_ _ _ list, but that's up to them, no appeal has ever been successful that I know of that will force HUD to deal with you in the future.My advice to my caller was to announce his intentions.

As at the end of the ad I asked if callers could mention they saw the ad on CL and those three callers did mention they saw it there.