Class Action Seeks to Halt Homebuying Firm From TCPA Wrongdoing
MarketPro Homebuyers, a real estate marketing company and lead generation business, bombards consumers whose numbers are listed on the national do not call registry with text-message solicitations seeking to buy their homes for cash “as is,” alleged plaintiffs Erin Wilcox…
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and Connie Slingbaum in their Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action Tuesday (docket 1:23-cv-02364) in U.S. District Court for Maryland in Baltimore. Wilcox of Bel Air, Maryland, and Slingbaum of Havertown, Pennsylvania, didn’t request any quotes as referenced in the subject text messages they received, said the complaint. The plaintiffs aren’t, and weren’t, interested in selling their homes, it said. They allege they suffered “actual harm as a result of the text messages at issue in that they suffered an invasion of privacy, an intrusion into their life, and a private nuisance,” it said. The Rockville, Maryland, company disregards consumers’ status on the DNC registry “as a matter of practice,” it said. It also fails “to even attempt to obtain prior express written consent” to contact the plaintiffs or other consumers about its telemarketing offerings, “based on numerous complaints made by other consumers,” it said. The complaint seeks treble damages for the company’s willful and knowing TCPA wrongdoing, plus injunctive relief to enjoin it from continuing its “violative behavior.”