Does this work from my personal cell or do I need a business line?
It works from your personal cell. Text Your List sends through the Messages app on your phone, your real number, not a shortcode. Clients who already have your number saved will see your name appear automatically.
Can I use it for open house follow-ups and new listing announcements?
Yes. Many agents keep separate lists, sphere, past clients, active buyers, and send targeted messages to each. An open house list, a just-listed list, and a price reduction list are all easy to manage independently.
How do I import my contacts from my CRM?
Export a CSV from your CRM with at least a name column and a phone column. Text Your List imports it in seconds. You can add any custom column, neighborhood, price range, last contact date, and reference it in your message.
Is there a limit to how many people I can text at once?
The free plan covers basic sends. Paid plans allow larger lists and more sends per month. Every message goes one at a time from your phone to protect your number's reputation with carriers, the app paces sends automatically.
Will my carrier flag me as spam if I send 200 texts in a morning?
Carriers flag spam by pattern, not volume alone. Two markers matter most: pacing (the app sends one message at a time, with a brief gap between each, so it looks like a busy person texting, not a script) and conversation rate (a healthy ratio of replies to sends signals legitimate use). Agents who send to opted-in contacts they know personally and pace through their list have not reported carrier issues in normal use. Cold lists or buy-and-blast behavior is what triggers carrier scrutiny.
Can I send a listing photo, or only text?
Image attachments are available on the Pro plan on Mac. The free and Starter plans send text-only messages. For most real estate use cases, like open house follow-ups, sphere alerts, and transaction check-ins, text-only outperforms image messages anyway because it reads as conversation, not promotion. When you do want to send a listing photo, the link to a Zillow or MLS gallery often does the job and keeps deliverability higher.
What if I'm licensed in multiple states, can I text clients across state lines?
Yes, with the same TCPA rules that apply to a single state: you need a prior business relationship or explicit opt-in, you must honor STOP requests, and you should respect quiet hours in the recipient's local time (the FCC defines these as 8 PM to 8 AM). The app does not enforce these for you; the responsibility stays with the licensee. The good news is that one-to-one personal texts to clients you actually know rarely run into trouble. Cold list blasts across state lines are where agents get into compliance issues.
Does it integrate with Follow Up Boss, Lofty, kvCORE, or my CRM?
Yes. The Pro plan exposes a webhook that Follow Up Boss, Lofty, kvCORE, Make, or Zapier can call to trigger a personal text send. When a lead's status changes to "active showing" or "just-listed alert," your automation hits the webhook and the contact gets a personal text from your phone with their details merged in. Any platform that can call a URL (which is every modern CRM and automation tool) can drive Text Your List as the messaging step in your workflow.
