Am I the Asshole?

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The original was posted on /r/AmItheAsshole by /u/sunshowered on 2023-06-22 17:33:16+00:00.

My (31F) stepdad died last year, and we were all on a family cellphone plan. Since he died, real estate developers, roofing companies, hurricane window salespeople, etc., call me constantly to ask about selling or working on his house (which has already been sold, which is another story in and of itself) because I guess they see my cellphone number attached to the address. If I answer, I tell these people that they’re harassing a family member of a deceased person and that they’re terrible, stupid people, and how would they like it if I called them daily about THEIR dead dad? My friend witnessed this the other day and said I was being unnecessarily dickish and taking my grief out on an innocent person, but I feel like if these people cold call randos and won’t leave me alone, they deserve to get ripped into and maybe I’ll get pulled off their list, but I see her point, and she’s right—I am still pretty angry with the universe about his premature death. AITA? How much respect is owed to spam callers?

Edit: to be clear, they are definitely spam callers. They’re finding my number associated with the address online because of the family cell plan or something and cold calling me about the property. Most of them are real estate companies “looking to buy my property,” except my name wasn’t ever on the deed, my stepdad and I don’t share a last name, and I have never had any legal or really even personal attachment to the property—I never even lived there! His executor, my step-uncle, handled the sale of the house months ago and was the POC for all things house-related.