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Effective Methods to Cut Out Spam From Your Life

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Real Estate Agent with Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker DRE #00697006

You know how it goes . . . you're walking across the freshly mowed yard of a client, getting ready to shoot a listing photo while the sun is positioned just right in the sky to cast the perfect light, and your phone rings. Since you're wearing a bluetooth device that lets you ignore or answer calls by voice, you say answer.

And then the pitch begins. An overly excited individual is your first clue, way too much energy for that early in the morning, starts jabbering about crap you don't give a flying fig about, and you wish you had not answered your phone. Well, I'm right there with ya. You can read more about it in my personal blog today at this link: How to Effectively Reduce Spam Yet Run a Real Estate Business.

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Elizabeth Weintraub is co-partner of Weintraub & Wallace Team of Top Producing Realtors, an author, home buying expert at The Balance, a Land Park resident, and a veteran real estate agent who specializes in older, classic homes in Land Park, Curtis Park, Midtown, Carmichael and East Sacramento, as well as tract homes in Elk Grove, Natomas, Roseville and Lincoln. Call Elizabeth Weintraub at 916.233.6759. Put our combined 80 years of real estate experience to work for you. Broker-Associate at RE/MAX Gold. DRE License # 00697006.

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Comments (14)

Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
Probate Real Estate Services

Elizabeth, it is to the point where I don't want to answer my phones any more. The sales calls are OVER.THE.TOP.  I'd like to blow up their phone lines ... is there an app for that?

Feb 04, 2016 01:25 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker

Yes there is, quite a few. Check the app store or look at TrueCaller.

Feb 06, 2016 02:37 AM
Pat Champion
John Roberts Realty - Eustis, FL
Call the "CHAMPION" for all your real estate needs

I think we have all been there it started early this morning for me and it was happening on my house phone what a way to start the day.

Feb 04, 2016 01:38 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Yes, there is an app to stop the sales calls, Kathleen Daniels . I have given you a list of ways to reduce spam at that link above. Those calls were driving me nuts and blocking the caller after warning them to never call me again wasn't working.

Feb 04, 2016 01:50 AM
Sandy Padula & Norm Padula, JD, GRI
HomeSmart Realty West & Florida Realty Investments - , CA
Presence, Persistence & Perseverance

Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Real Estate Agent, Top 1% of Lyon Agents All great points and advice in your blog post. Thanks for sharing!

Feb 04, 2016 02:02 AM
Conrad Allen
Re/Max Professional Associates - Webster, MA
Webster, Ma, Realtor

Hi Elizabeth.  Great ideas for reducing spam.  Caller ID is awesome.

Feb 04, 2016 04:46 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker

So is the Spam app. I can also add spam numbers to it, which is more effective than blocking.

Feb 04, 2016 06:06 AM
Val Evans
Scottsdale, AZ

Hubby and I usually piss off the spammers so much they end up calling us names and hanging up on us. He'll usually do a FogHorn Leghorn with dementia impression, and I'll usually do my Katharine Hepburn uptalk vocal fry impression. Drives the spammers nuts! They soon learn not to call us.

Feb 04, 2016 06:02 AM
Anna "Banana" Kruchten

Val you're cracking me up!  Love the fog horn with dementia impression and yours too....way funny! Thanks for the big chuckle today!

Feb 04, 2016 07:04 AM
Val Evans

We're retired and we love having fun with these guys. We have contests between each other on who can string out a spammer the longest before they get so frustrated they hang up on us. I hold the record at almost 1 1/2 hours. We're starting to get a little worried. Nobody has called us for a few weeks, I'm beginning to think nobody wants to talk to us anymore. 

Feb 04, 2016 07:13 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker

You have more time than I, it appears.

Feb 04, 2016 06:07 AM
Anna "Banana" Kruchten
HomeSmart Real Estate - Phoenix, AZ
602-380-4886

Elizabeth we have muliple lines and how the heck they get the back numbers too is interesting to us.  We have a system in place to squash them - done. They don't ever get to my or my business parter. I don't have time for that crap. Another good post for Kathleen Daniels craptacular group!

 

PS es la hora to reduce spam - every hour on the hour!

Feb 04, 2016 07:06 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker

Necessito mas horas.

Feb 04, 2016 08:56 AM
Myrl Jeffcoat
Sacramento, CA
Greater Sacramento Realtor - Retired

What if we wore a whistle around our necks and blew it into our phones each time we got one of those calls???  Would things begin to change?  Perhaps we could begin a campaign to begin doing that!

Feb 04, 2016 10:35 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker

Not being paranoid or anything but they know where you live, Myrl. Who is gonna whack 'em on the head while they're spray painting graffiti on your house, your cat? I don't think sooo.....

Feb 04, 2016 10:47 AM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

Spam calls and spam emails are completely annoying on a normal day, no less when you are slammed.  You give good suggestions to cut down on it.

Feb 04, 2016 11:30 AM
Joe Petrowsky
Mortgage Consultant, Right Trac Financial Group, Inc. NMLS # 2709 - Manchester, CT
Your Mortgage Consultant for Life

Good morning Elizabeth. for entertainment, I take some calls and attempt to have a meaningful conversation about politics.

Feb 04, 2016 06:37 PM
James Dray
Fathom Realty - Bentonville, AR

Good morning Elizabeth.  Well I still get those annoying phone calls.  I block one number but they keep calling by using different numbers with different area codes, some of them local area codes.  

Feb 04, 2016 07:05 PM
Gabe Sanders
Real Estate of Florida specializing in Martin County Residential Homes, Condos and Land Sales - Stuart, FL
Stuart Florida Real Estate

But Elizabeth, you're missing out on the $30 million dollar Nigerian gold that beloved honey dear is trying to send you.  

Feb 04, 2016 08:29 PM
Joan Cox
House to Home, Inc. - Denver Real Estate - 720-231-6373 - Denver, CO
Denver Real Estate - Selling One Home at a Time

Elizabeth, this is a great idea, but now after my email AND phone number is all over, what to do?

Feb 05, 2016 01:59 AM
Elizabeth Weintraub Sacramento Broker
Elizabeth Anne Weintraub, Broker - Sacramento, CA
Put 40 years of experience to work for you

Joan Cox You can establish a blacklist for your email through your provider and get an App for your phone.

Feb 06, 2016 02:38 AM
Joan Cox

Will have to figure that out today. 

Feb 06, 2016 05:54 AM