Realtor refuses to stop calling client to convince them to sell a house they don't even own, client decides to play the game: ‘She never reached out again’

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Bar Mor Hazut • Senior Editor
Nov 1, 2026 8:00 PM EST

How many professions rely on incessantly calling people and exhausting them until they give you what you want?

I can think of a few professions that require very specific sales skills, which usually involve not knowing when to give up. We all encounter people like that in different scenarios, whether it is a clerk at a clothing store who keeps insisting, "That dress looks gorgeous on you; you must get it!" or a representative on the phone who keeps calling to convince you to switch your phone provider. They all have one thing in common, and that is the skill to exhaust you until you relent to whatever it is they are selling. Or, if you are anything like the person below, until you finally come up with a way to get them to stop bothering you altogether.

This realtor keeps calling a so-called client in an attempt to convince them to sell their property, only that this client doesn't own the property in question. They don't even live in the same state as the realtor anymore. And no matter how many times the client explained this to the realtor, she refuses to stop calling and bothering him about a potential sale.

When the texts and phone calls became too much, the client decided they had to do something to get the realtor to stop. That is how they came up with a plan to get the realtor to understand that she has been bothering the wrong person. If she has no problem wasting the client's time, they would do the exact same. Keep scrolling to read the full story.

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    Smiling realtor standing in front of a house.

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  • Do I want to sell a house I don’t even own? Sure!

    Context: 10 years ago I moved from one state to another. I never changed my phone number so my area code still matches the state I left.
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  • Sometimes I will get spam calls from people thinking I still live there.
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  • How it started: A couple years ago I started getting calls from a realtor asking if I was interested in selling my property in my previous state.
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  • The problem was I did not own any properties in that state. I cleared up the confusion, the realtor thanked me for letting them know, and I figured that was that.
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  • Oh how wrong I was. The realtor continued to bombard me with calls, leaving me voicemails asking if I was interested in selling that same
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  • property. I initially ignored them but eventually started getting texts. I responded and had the same conversation we had over the phone. I thought ok cool, problem solved.
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  • Well, not quite. I continued to get texts and calls until one day I decided the only way they would learn is through consequences.
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    Sold sign in front of a house.

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  • The day I took action: So I see the d In realtor is calling me AGAIN. I'm sick of it at this point because she will not give up. So I answered. Told
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  • her that her timing was crazy because I was looking to sell that property immediately. She excitedly asks if we can meet at the property. I ask her if right then works. She tells
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  • me she will be there in 10 minutes. I told her I would arrive in 15 minutes.
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  • The timeline: In 10ish minutes I get a text saying she has arrived. I tell her I'll be there in 6 minutes. 10 minutes later she reaches out to check on
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  • me. I tell her there's traffic, an accident, and start giving her updates where I am, naming certain streets and freeway exits (note: I knew generally where the property was so I
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  • was able to name surrounding schools, streets, stores, etc). She calls me about 30 minutes in to see if I'd like to reschedule. I tell her no, and ask her to wait to which she
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  • agrees. I continue to name more streets and landmarks, appearing as if I'm almost there.
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  • The aftermath: After almost an hour of her waiting around she calls me again to see if I would like to reschedule. That's when I tell her not only do I not live in that state
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  • anymore, I don't even own the property. She becomes. FURIOUS. She yells at me that I wasted her time. I told her that I had already told her this
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  • twice, yet she continued to blow up my phone for months and that she only had herself to blame.
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  • The result: She never reached out to me again.
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  • I wish I could do something similar with the salesperson who keeps calling me, but I have yet to find a solution. You see, 4 years ago I stupidly left my phone number to get information about LASIK treatments at a local business. I decided against it eventually, but this business keeps calling me to see if I am still interested. 

    I am talking about 10 calls a week for the last 4 years from these people, each time from a different phone number. No matter how many times I have told them I am no longer interested and asked them to remove my number from their lists, they keep calling. I have blocked hundreds of numbers, and they keep calling from new ones. I even threatened to sue them, but to no avail.

    If only I could send them to a fake address and get them to wait for me, as this client did to the realtor, maybe they would have stopped calling me. But I don't think this will work. So I will continue to look for ideas to fight the salespeople, while you can share in the comments below what you thought of this clever story, and if you've ever experienced something similar!

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