There I was minding my own business in my own home , and the phone rings. It was from “Greg“ at Springer Realty.

Let me interject that we are on. DO NOT CALL lists.

So I said to “Greg“ at Springer Realty WHY was he calling because we’re on state and federal DO NOT CALL LISTS?

To anyone who makes a solicitation phone calls that is your first clue as to the conversation should be ending and you say sorry to bother you, have a nice day. but no, “Greg” continued.

Did I want to sell my house. I said to him quite honestly why would you think I want to sell my house?

Oh snap, “Greg” is still on the phone.

So I continued that he has the brass balls to call up homeowners essentially the week before Christmas plus a few days to ask them if they want to leave where they call home so they can make a buck in a commission?

I freely admit at this point I cursed “Greg“ out soundly. I am unapologetic for that. His job is not to continue to attempt to solicit people who obviously aren’t interested and who most importantly have told him that they are on a DO NOT CALL LIST.

I have discovered there are two people named “Greg“ at Springer Realty. The number he came in on was 484-312-1592.

So I called up Springer Realty, and the lady on the phone could not have been nicer. I asked to be put through to the broker of record. So they put me through to someone named Dave Springer, who did not answer the phone. So I left a message. I didn’t curse at him, but it was pretty pointed.

My next phone call was to the board of realtors out here. Tri County Suburban Realtors. Also, very nice but I don’t really think they were interested in my phone call. If I want, I can file an ethics complaint, but will they actually do anything with an ethics complaint?

She sent me the forms and it came with a form email:

Attached are the forms to file an ethics complaint against a Realtor.

 

A complaint must be filed with the proper form and in the proper format. Included are detailed instructions and additional information. To ensure prompt review of your complaint, please take time to read and follow the instructions. 

 

All forms and documents for the initial filing must be hand-delivered or mailed to Tri-County Suburban REALTORS, 1 Country View Road, Suite 201, Malvern, PA 19355.

 

Feel free to call me if we need to discuss.

So essentially, I have to go through their ethics rules and decide if there’s something that fits for me to file a complaint. I told her why I was calling, and she didn’t say to me go to paragraph 2 subsection C, for example. So I’m guessing as nice and polite as she was they’re not really interested in dealing with realtors and their solicitation practices. Or consumer complaints.

I know some of the finest realtors in Chester County and they have ethics. They have morals and I know from talking to them all the problems of agents stealing listing photos, and things that are just bad form that THEY experience.

But this brings me to another story of a development called the Village of Shannon in West Goshen. They have had some guy roaming around recently who has a solicitation permit and apparently who is knocking on doors to ask people if they want to sell their houses. And again he’s doing the impersonal version of the telephone solicitation call a week and a few days before Christmas.

Residents in the Village of Shannon are fed up. This guy keeps coming back and he keeps coming back to houses who have already said to him NO please go away. He also keeps coming back to houses that have signs posted that say no solicitation.

These people have called West Goshen Township and West Goshen Township should be helping the residents, because if this guy keeps doing soliciting in person, and they keep telling him no, that’s trespass. And it’s definitely trespass if there are no solicitation signs posted.

To help those residents I am including a photo below at the bottom of the guy as it showed up on someone’s ring camera, along with one of the posts that made me pay attention to this unscrupulous realtor issue.

I understand that it’s a tight real estate market and people want to live out here but might I suggest if you can’t behave better as a realtor, choose a different career path? Also, while you’re helping your clients, why don’t you direct them to all those overpriced apartments and townhouses that are rentals in this area?

Last time I posted about solicitation like this it was because I had had experienced a door-to-door soliciting realtor. And I was told how mean I was that they are just trying to make a living etc. etc. And when that occurred I once again felt the need to point out that I do have a no solicitation sign posted.

Whether it’s door-to-door solicitation or cold call solicitation, you need to know who’s on a do not call list before you pick up the phone and if you see a no solicitation sign or someone tells you to go away and not come back you need to abide by it.

These are the people that give a good decent, hard-working realtors a bad name, which is why I’m calling them land sharks.

Rant over and yes, this was a rant in case you couldn’t tell.