Real Estate: How to Visit Apartments Without Being Harassed by Agencies for 3 Years
Hunting for a home is stressful enough. Avoid becoming the target of real estate databases through email isolation.
Anyone who has ever searched for an apartment to rent or buy knows that dizzying feeling. You set up an alert on Zillow or Rightmove, you call three agencies, and you email your application to a landlord who seems a bit sketchy but the place is great.
Congratulations: you’ve just triggered an avalanche you won’t be able to stop.
The Problem: Real Estate Data Never Dies
To a real estate agency, your email address is worth gold. Why? Because if you’re looking for an apartment today, you might be a buyer tomorrow, or a seller in two years.
The result? Even once you’ve signed your lease and are well settled in your new living room, the emails keep coming:
- "New apartment in the suburbs..." (When you moved to the city center).
- "Free valuation of your property..." (When you’re a tenant).
- "Moving referral offer...".
Your address is resold to partners: mortgage brokers, insurers, kitchen fitters. It’s legal, automated harassment.
The JunkMail Solution: Create a Sterile "Real Estate Folder"
To keep your mind clear and your mailbox clean, you must isolate this search.
The Method:
- The Mission Alias: Create
home.search.2026@your-prefix.junkmail.site. - Single Use: Use only this address on listing sites and for communicating with real estate agents.
- Reactive Forwarding: Enable forwarding to your main email. You won't miss any calls for a viewing (crucial in tight markets).
- The Grand Finale: Got the keys? The lease is signed?
- Take 5 minutes to archive important documents (the contract, the inventory) elsewhere.
- Delete the alias.
Why It’s Radically Effective
By deleting the alias, you destroy the link between you and the dozens of marketing databases you "landed" in during your search.
Agencies can try to follow up with you for the next three years, but their servers will receive a 550 User Unknown error. You no longer exist to them. You’re a ghost again.
Conclusion
Finding a roof over your head is a major step. Don't let it pollute your digital life in the long term. Use JunkMail to build a watertight bulkhead between your life project and the industry's aggressive marketing.
Move in. Close the door. And throw away the (digital) key.
Actively searching? Create your real estate identity on JunkMail.