Calling distressed homeowers - does the Do Not Call list have any teeth?

No responsible marketer would advocate calling homeowners on the do not call list, but it seems that most of the realtors and investors that I work with seem unconcerned with the do not call regulations. Here is the sentiment that some of my clients have shared with me, if not word for word....

• If a homeowner threatens that I will get in trouble for violating the do not call list, I just tell them that they visited my website and registered. (thus creating a prior business relationship)

• (from a mortgage broker): I'm not selling anything, I'm keeping them in their homes... if it wasn't for me, they would be out on the curb."

• A distressed homeowner has enough of problems... they aren't going to make it a priority to sue me for calling them if they are on the do not call list.

As a provider of preforeclosure data, it seems I encounter few people that are moved by the do not call regulations. One client even hires a computer wonk to take our list of distressed borrowers and automically plucks their phone number by somehow synchronizing it with yellowpages.com.

I'd be derilect not to provide a link to the source of the do not call regulations. You can find it on the FTC's website.

Where do you check in? Does the do not call list deter you from picking up the phone?