Why do I keep getting offers on my house? Who sends them?
Because your name, address, and phone number sit on public property records and people-search sites that wholesalers and investors buy in bulk. Your house matched a filter such as long ownership or an out-of-state mailing address. Blocking numbers does not help; removing your data from those sites does.
A text offers to buy your house or land: all cash, fast close. You ignore it, and ten more follow from ten different numbers. Blocking one does nothing, because the next comes from a number you have never seen. Below is where the texts come from and the steps that cut them down, most of which you can do today without any app.
Why you keep getting them
These messages are not random. Your name, phone number, and property show up on public records and on the data-broker and skip-tracing sites that wholesalers and investors pull their lists from. One record can be resold to dozens of senders, which is why the texts arrive from so many numbers at once. If you want the longer version, see why you are getting so many calls and texts about your property.
What to do
1. Do not reply, and do not text back STOP
Replying anything, even STOP, tells the sender a real person reads that number. For a legitimate marketing list, STOP works. For the high-volume wholesaler and scam lists, it often just confirms the number is live and worth selling again. Silence is better. Report the message as junk instead (on iPhone, use the Report Junk link under an unknown sender).
2. Find out who is texting you
Most are wholesalers who want to flip the contract. A few are real buyers, and some are scams fishing for information. Each calls for a different response. You can paste a suspicious message into the free message scanner to see whether it reads as a wholesaler, an investor, or a scam, along with a reply you can send if you want to shut it down cleanly.
3. Get your information off the lists they pull from
The source is your data on people-search and property-data sites. Most of them let you opt out, and each opt-out removes one place new senders can find your number. Start by checking where you are currently listed, then work through the removal guides for the sites that expose property owners. Many of these sites relist you after a data refresh, so plan to repeat it.
4. Filter at the phone level
Turn on your carrier spam filter (most major US carriers offer a free one), and on iPhone turn on Filter Unknown Senders under Settings, Messages, so texts from numbers you do not know land in a separate list. FendLand adds an on-device filter that reads the message content and routes wholesaler and scam texts to the Spam folder in Messages automatically, which catches brand-new numbers a block list has never seen.
5. If it is land specifically
Vacant land owners get hit hardest. The parcel record lists an owner who usually lives somewhere else, which is the absentee-owner filter list tools sort on, and it ties your name to the parcel directly. The same steps apply, but put the most time into step 3.
How to tell a real offer from a scam
A genuine buyer will identify themselves and their company, will not pressure you to act in minutes, and will not ask you to send money or sign anything before you have verified who they are. Be most careful when an offer arrives with urgency, a request to wire funds, or new payment instructions. That pattern is where property and closing fraud lives. Do not act on the text. Verify through a phone number or address you looked up yourself, never one the message gave you.
FendLand covers steps two through four for property and land owners: it identifies who is texting, Shield Pro removes your info from most of the sites wholesalers pull from, re-checks every 90 days, and on iPhone it filters the spam texts. The scanner is free, no account needed.
Filter these texts and block the numbers
Shield Pro blocks the numbers other FendLand users have reported, on iPhone and Android, and on iPhone it routes unknown-sender wholesaler and scam texts to the Spam folder in Messages. It also removes your info from most of the 336 broker sites for you, which thins the lists at the source. 7-day free trial in the app.
Frequently asked questions
Why do I keep getting texts to buy my house?
Your name, address, and phone number are compiled from public records into lists that investors and wholesalers buy in bulk. Marketing companies pull county property records, attach phone numbers through skip tracing, and send text blasts to thousands of owners at once. It is rarely about your house specifically. Your address simply matched a filter like long ownership, an out-of-state mailing address, or a paid-off mortgage.
Who is sending these 'we buy houses' messages?
Most come from wholesalers, who want to put your house under contract and sell that contract to an investor for a fee, and from small cash-buying companies. Some come from iBuyers or licensed agents, and some are scams fishing for personal information. The name on the text is often a marketing vendor or a personal cell number, not the company that would close on your home.
Does getting cash offer texts mean something is wrong with my property records?
No, it usually means your property fits a common marketing filter, not that anything is wrong. Owners who have held a property for many years, own it free and clear, live out of state, or have a tax or probate flag get targeted most. You can look up your parcel on your county assessor's website to see what is publicly listed.
Will the offers stop if I reply STOP?
Sometimes, but only for that one sender, and most wholesalers rotate numbers, so replying STOP is not a full fix. Replying at all can also confirm your number is live and keep you on future lists. A better start is blocking the number, reporting it as junk on your phone, and opting out of the people-search sites where your number was found. FendLand's scanner can tell you what kind of sender it is before you decide how to respond.
Get your details off the sites that sell them
Wholesalers and scammers pull names, numbers and addresses from sites like these. Opting out of each one is free, and each guide below walks you through it.