Every single one of us has faced the “Proof of Funds” wall. You’re excited, you found a lead, and then BAM — someone demands to see your bank account like it’s the key to the deal. 👉 Guess what? You don’t need to PROVE anything to earn your seat at this table. Because you’re not here to flash cash. You’re here to solve problems, structure smart offers, and bring deals across the finish line. You’re not auditioning. You’re leading. You don’t need to ask for permission to be a dealmaker — you already are one. And if they don’t get it? That’s on them. You’re building an empire while they’re waiting on commission checks. 🎯 You’re the one with the vision. 🎯 You’re the one pulling the pieces together. 🎯 You’re the reason this deal moves forward. So act like it. Every time a broker or seller asks for “proof of funds,” you step into credibility. That’s your chance to show you know what you’re doing. 💬 Want my actual go-to guide on what to say and do when they ask for POF? Drop PROOF in the comments and I’ll send it your way. No obstacles. Just action and confidence.

This matters because folks really like to cold call property owners in an effort to buy their properties. But folks also really like to cold call FSPOs and expired listings in an effort to list their properties– which is very different. Well in Cofey v. Fast Easy Offer, 2025 WL 1591302 (D. Az. June 5, 2025) the Court held calls asking “Have you given up on selling your…property?” were not telephone solicitations because they did not offer to sell or rent anything to the call recipient. The court thoroughly analyzed the facts and law and determined the calls only related to future selling activity by the Plaintiff, not future buying activity. The fact that the caller would profit from a sale of the Plaintiff’s property was of no moment. The caller wanted to buy the property– not sell something to the Plaintiff. As the Court summed up its analysis: The Court is sympathetic to Plaintiff’s skepticism regarding this buying/selling distinction, especially where the end result is the same: Defendants make money off Plaintiff. It is true that, construing Plaintiff’s factual allegations in the most favorable light, were Plaintiff to agree to use FEO’s services to sell her house, Defendants would ultimately benefit from an “effective fee” deducted from the offer price. In that sense, the calls and texts might constitute “solicitations” in the colloquial sense of the word. But even if, in that hypothetical scenario, Plaintiff did not make as much money as she might have made selling her home without FEO’s services, she would still be making money and not spending a cent on purchasing any goods or services from Defendants. The calls and texts therefore cannot constitute “solicitations” within the plain statutory meaning of the term, and it is this statutory meaning that must carry the day. Ultimately, Plaintiff’s “quarrel is with Congress, which did not define” solicitation “as malleably as [she] would have liked.” Cf. Facebook, 592 U.S. at 409. This Court cannot rewrite what Congress wrote simply to make the outcome fairer to Plaintiff.

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