Have any of the cold callers experienced Do Not call violations? I came across a city data forum posting where one of the supposed attorneys indicated that she knew of a case where agent was fined.

I'm just wondering if any of you know of a Real Estate agent fined for Do Not Call violation?

Never heard of one.

I am planning to start cold calling soon, been reading Lucky's thread, I have been thinking about this myself and to be honest these are some thought's I've had ...

-- Who in the hell has time to try to prosecute someone for calling them? I don't have time to fight an illegitimate parking ticket..

-- DNC website says that each complaint might not be investigated, but a string of complaints could lead to an investigation..

-- "Hello, I'm ______ with ______ real estate, do you know anyone thinking of selling their home" - "yes" +1 to excel spreadsheet 'people who know someone thinking of selling their homes' , congratulations you've just conducted a survey? Haha, I doubt this would work if you actually got nailed, worth a shot.

I'll bet you a million if Lucky called people on DNC
he'd be in jail right now with a new wife called
Vladimir, this is due to his massive volume of outbound
calls he makes. All it will take is a couple of angry
wingnuts and bang your suddenly conveted to the gay
world or as they call it "become a member of the family".

This being said I've been called 3-4 times and I'm on the
DNC list but as you all know I'm scared of the "Karma"
police.

I kind of assumed you all disregarded the DNC list, everyone is on it, how are you finding all these people not registered.. my first week as an agent I started calling expireds but scrubbing DNC first.. I think I made a total of 4 calls in an hour b/c so many were on the list..

Do you think you could get in trouble for calling a FSBO and asking them if they were working with buyer agents?

We were all doing just fine calling 30-40 people a day until
Lucky started this 200 people a day business and then people
got bent out of shape and they had to change the law in order
to clip his wings.

our office subsribes to the phone directory which has an option to display only the non- DNC numbers. When this feature is off, I can see that in my area, about 90% of all homeowners are on the DNC list.

Now, that means I have to increase my calling area. If you live in a large metro area with a total population of 500,000 people or more, you'll most likely find that you could call about 50,000 which will not be on the list.

50000 calls/year = 192 calls per day (presuming 5 day work week with 52 weeks/year)

I've had people tell me they are on the list. I know agents have been told they are on the list. Most people don't even know if they are on the list anymore.

I don't think they have time to investigate a single violation. The intent was to stop robo-calls and call centers, not individual realtors. Keep calling, you will be OK.

Not legal advice. I'm not a Lawyer! (I am well versed on Judge Judy though).

I call DNC only, maybe I'm dumb but Lucky claims to drive only
ten minutes to appointments, this has not been my experience.
Due to the lack of numbers you will land up driving to areas
you have never ever been to, they don't speak your language
and they wont look like you.

This only applies to high volume callers.

I have called people on the dnc By "mistake"... but i have never had one of them say, Hey I'm On the DNC don't call me please. I have had people say please take me off your list. lol thats about it.