Comments on: Open Letter to Homes.com

By: Larry Jensen

Larry Jensen — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:48:42 +0000

As far as I know, both State and Federal DNC rules (they are not laws) Do Not Apply to Business to Business marketing. Only Business to Personal.

That said, if you do request them to add you to their own DNC list, they should, but again, they don't have to.

At least that is what I was told when reporting a business to the DNC list

By: Larry Jensen

Larry Jensen — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:48:42 +0000

By: Aaron@HR Software

Aaron@HR Software — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:39:23 +0000

That's a nice letter. I wonder if anyone from homes.com even knows what a blog is? Most likely they just pay people on a commission basis to call every agent over and over again. The rules of cold calling are something like "7 calls to a conversion" -- so I would expect a couple more calls before they give up.**Aaron´s last blog post..Small Business Economic Bailout Plan

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By: Maureen Francis

Maureen Francis — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 00:14:22 +0000

I have a homes.com site. I freely admit that I hate them and have for years. I cannot get them to stop calling me even though I have made the same requests you have.

By: Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy

Jay - The Phoenix Real Estate Guy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:36:43 +0000

RealEstateVoices.com is run through HomeThinking.com, not Homes.com. Believe me, I’ve got not relationship with Homes.com.

Besides, even if I did… from the DNC regulations:

“One caveat: if a consumer asks a company not to call, the company may not call, even if there is an established business relationship. Indeed, a company may not call a consumer – regardless of whether the consumer’s number is on the registry – if the consumer has asked to be put on the company’s own do not call list.”

By: Derek

Derek — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 20:28:29 +0000

Isn’t homes.com the owners to some site a bunch of agents were using a few years ago to bookmark blog articles.

I remember when the carnival of real estate came out, several bloggers were submitting their articles to that site as well.

If they are the owners, depending on their TOS and if you ever bookmarked one of your articles there, you may in fact have an established business relationship. I do not know the name of the site, but I think it may have been realestatevoices.com or something like that?

I know Jim the Tomato and Mary McKnight used to post articles on it at times so if that’s not the right site, email one of them and maybe they can remember the site name and see who the owners are.

By: Atlanta Luxury Homes

Atlanta Luxury Homes — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:45:58 +0000

Great post, Jay. I feel your pain…

If these numnuts would take 5 seconds and do a Google search they would realize that they are wasting their time and especially OURS! Maybe if enough people blog about it and report them, they will get the hint.

By: Greg Tracy

Greg Tracy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:41:45 +0000

No Kidding!

I understand the whole philosophy that you get 5 “No”’s before a “Yes”, but these guys think that you get a “Yes” after something like 748,312 “No”’s.

Harrassment has never really gained traction as a means of acquiring business… interesting.

By: Bass Lake Real Estate

Bass Lake Real Estate — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:34:49 +0000

You are right Jay every company that provides phone service provides a directory and now place this directory on the internet. What kind of business can operate with an unlisted number?
Maybe we should start tying up their phone lines by calling them to try and sell them a listing we have. If we all called them at the same rate they called us, maybe just maybe they would get the point!