You can tell a vendor they have the wrong number, or say you don't have a rental property, or, my personal favorite, tell them you sold the property and their information is outdated. It's easier, and in my experience, much more effective than asking them to remove you from a call list or engaging them about the inappropriateness of the call. But these calls come in cycles, so it's impossible to prevent all contact. A few well-placed fibs will lessen the volume.
The vendors that make unsolicited telephone calls do not respect any rules nor do they follow good business practices. If they did, they wouldn't start by harvesting information. Treat them with a little of their own medicine.
I've found my listing on several "rental sites". I'm not sure what the purpose of these sites might be - my property listing is accurate, including my telephone number, and these unauthorized listings have been on the internet for some years without, to my knowledge, any activity. I've never contacted the sites - I've simply ignored them. They don't seem to belong to anyone - they have a few odd house listings, bits and pieces (often incorrect) about the locales "featured", and as far as I can determine they appear to be abandoned.
Has anyone had any success in contacting these sites?
I think the best we can do in this situation is make certain to note on our property listings that the property is listed with _____, ______, and ______, and include language that a listing appearing on any other site is not authorized by the property owner.
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Thanks again.
