A homeowner in California has filed a class-action lawsuit against NRT and Coldwell Banker Real Estate, Realogy子公司, alleging they violated the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making unsolicited, automatically dialed calls to consumers on the National Do Not Call Registry.

The homeowner listed a property on the MLS but had it removed after it did not sell. 在诉状中, 房主说他收到了不需要的东西, autodialed calls from Coldwell Banker and NRT agents to his cellphone, which was not associated with the publicly listed property information. His cellphone is on the National Do Not Call Registry.

The complaint alleges the real estate companies instruct agents to cold call consumers and provide the agents with numbers, 分析, 脚本, and preferred pricing on technology services, 包括autodialers. The class-action lawsuit stretches to anyone who has received unsolicited calls from the companies in the past four years. It seeks a jury trial and from $500 to $1,500 in damages for each violation.

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You should check the National Do Not Call Registry before soliciting expired listings or homes for sale by owner.

National Do Not Call Registry rules allow for calls to individuals you have had a prior business relationship with that ended in the past 18 months. 例如, you can call the owner of one of your own listings that expired 10 months ago even if the owner is listed on the National Do Not Call Registry. 然而, if the owner asks to be put on your own company’s do-not-call list, you may not call him.

In addition to the National Do Not Call Registry, Texas real estate agents should also be aware that Texas has two types of “Do Not Call” lists which are sponsored by the Texas Public Utility Commission: the Statewide “Do Not Call” List and the “Electric No Call” List. The Statewide List is for residential numbers and the Electric List is for business numbers. Texas telemarketers are prohibited from contacting listed numbers via calls and/or text messages. 然而, 有几个例外, one of which applies to state license holders, 包括2021十大正规彩票app经纪人. Real estate license holders may contact consumers on the lists if: calls are not made by an automated device; the transaction cannot be completed without face-to-face contact; and the consumer has not informed the license holder that he or she does not wish to be called.