Annoying phone calls!

sc00ter

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Region
USA
City
Norfolk, VA
I must get at least 2 phone calls a day from people asking if I'm interested in selling my home. I'm a few years from it being paid off, have no children to inherit such a mansion and no one I like enough to will it to. So on to the phone calls. I have this guy call and he says he's trying to build a business for his daughter. I say "I don't know your daughter but tell her to get a job and buy her own crap!" and the guy get OFFENDED! I'm like "You called me, you get what you get." and he regains his composure and asked what my long term plans are for it. I tell him I'm going to donate it to Habitat For Humanity. He gasped and says "Why would you do that?" and I reply "So turds like you can't make it a forever rental!" and hang up on him. I have so many numbers blocked from these lazy clowns who just want to ruin a neighborhood for their own good.

At the rate this country is going all housing will be forever rentals. No one will have the opportunity to own their own home and retire without rent eating a chunk of their income. I find it disgusting that some company (BlackRock) is allowed to do this. It's my goal to not let them end up with my home. Someone needs to be invested in the neighborhood long term.

Oh, and back to the calls. We (work crew) were in a meeting and I got a call. I was expecting a important call that day but it was supposed to be later in the day, but I answered it figuring maybe the important call was earlier. So I answer it. It's a guy asking me if I'm interested in selling my home. I ask him if he's interested in getting punched in the face. He says no. I reply "Then you got your answer." and hang up. Now everyone in my department wants to be near when I take a call on my cell phone!

Who else gets annoying endless calls?
 
I get them too. If I don't recognize the number I usually don't answer, but like you said, sometimes you are expecting a call from an unknown number. I have tried telling them to take me off their list, but it doesn't work. Now I just immediately hang up on them. I don't think they are looking for rentals. They watch TV shows and Youtube videos about flipping real estate and think they are going to get rich buying houses cheap.
 
So I answer it. It's a guy asking me if I'm interested in selling my home. I ask him if he's interested in getting punched in the face. He says no. I reply "Then you got your answer." and hang up. Now everyone in my department wants to be near when I take a call on my cell phone!
Ha ha ha.

I get a text from a different number (I block them as they come in) with the same message. asking about selling my house, every few weeks.
 
At the rate this country is going all housing will be forever rentals. No one will have the opportunity to own their own home and retire without rent eating a chunk of their income. I find it disgusting that some company (BlackRock) is allowed to do this. It's my goal to not let them end up with my home. Someone needs to be invested in the neighborhood long term.
Totally agree. Nothing good can come of private equity firms buying up the US housing stock. Rents are already obscene percentages of younger adults' incomes all over the country, and my kids are already victims.

And my favorite sleepy little East Coast beach town (Holden Beach, NC) was bought up and bulldozed to cover every square inch of beach-front property with obscene 3-4 story mansions 6 feet apart.
 
Totally agree. Nothing good can come of private equity firms buying up the US housing stock. Rents are already obscene percentages of younger adults' incomes all over the country, and my kids are already victims.

And my favorite sleepy little East Coast beach town (Holden Beach, NC) was bought up and bulldozed to cover every square inch of beach-front property with obscene 3-4 story mansions 6 feet apart.
Those beach front mansions will get swept away by the ocean during the next big hurricane. Then the property owners will cry to the state for assistance to rebuild.
 
We are at the tail end of 45+ years of policy treating homes as investment vehicles instead of places to live. As much as people complain about foreign ownership or professional investors purchasing homes, its completely predictable that professional investors will get involved when government policy makes them appreciating investments. The solution is really simple (do away with restricting zoning and let people build houses largely unrestricted) but its really unpopular because allowing the market to meet demand would mean that existing homeowners would see a precipitous valuation drop, and the built environment would change a lot (especially in high value low density areas, aka places where wealthy people live).

My wife and I own a home in a pretty desirable area and get semi regular "sell your home!" mailers and occasional calls. If I get the call I usually ask for 3 times market price. Have never had a taker. If I wanted to sell at market rate I'd just put it on the market.
 
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