Is Real Estate Text Follow-Up TCPA Compliant? (2026)

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One text sent at the wrong hour can turn into a real TCPA problem for a real estate agent. Here is how to keep your Follow Up Boss text follow-up TCPA compliant without overthinking it, using SendMate.

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TCPA compliance starts with consent. When a real estate lead submits their number through Zillow, your website, or an open house sign-in, and you text them about what they asked about, your Follow Up Boss follow-up generally sits inside those consent rules.

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The rule that trips up the most agents is quiet hours: no texts before eight in the morning or after nine at night, in your lead's timezone, not yours. SendMate has quiet hours built in, so real estate texting never fires outside that window automatically, and you set the send times yourself.

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Every recipient has to be able to opt out. Because SendMate texts from your own Follow Up Boss number, a reply of STOP is caught automatically and handled right inside Follow Up Boss. No second inbox, no separate opt-out list to babysit.

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Good tools make compliance the default. SendMate gives you quiet hours, holiday holds, and STOP handling baked in, so your real estate text follow-up is automated follow-up texting, but never an unattended blast. You choose the messages and the send windows, and the guardrails ride along on every text.

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SendMate is local-first, so your contacts and message text stay on your own machine. You connect once with your Follow Up Boss API key, and it reads only the tasks and notes you choose, on a flat rate with no per-text fees.

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Keep your real estate text follow-up TCPA compliant with quiet hours, STOP opt-outs, and holiday holds built in, all from your own Follow Up Boss number. See it work at MySendMate.com.