Is outbound text messaging legal?

Yes, yes it is.

Is it really?

Because I thought it was a violation of the TCPA Act.

No, so there's a lot of confusion between two bodies, the

TCPA and the CTIA. CTIA.

CTIA. I've never heard of that. Yeah, so the basic breakdown goes like this.

TCPA is federal regulations. There are state versions of this as well, but it's

regulation of the

telecom industry.

TCPA is very macro. It's very big and it applies almost exclusively

to robo-diling or just like auto calls, right?

It doesn't really apply to text messaging.

The only thing, caveats for text messaging is that if it's outbound is that it

it can't be through an auto dialer which launch control is not and you cannot

sell a product or a service. So you can't be like 30% discount blah blah

that you have to have opt-in to do. If you have opt-in you can text message

anything that you can sell a product or service you can give discounts you can do whatever

Wholeselling a service or is being a real service? Well that's an important distinction. Okay, so wholesaling, because you are not taking a commission for what you're doing,

you're not actually providing a service, you're just a middleman in a transaction. The homeowner doesn't necessarily know that, but if you're not paying, the homeowner isn't paying a fee to a wholesaler, it's just a transaction between two individuals. So it's not a product or a service that's being sold.

And this has been tested and proven. It's not something, it's the thing that people worry about yeah and it's not what they should be

worried about okay because there we send millions and millions of messages a month that that isn't where people have issues, where people have issues is with the

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