This is the deed on record for your property.
We pull it from the county recorder, hash its content, and watch for any new document filed against the same parcel.
The threat is accelerating.
You just watched one filing get caught on screen. Across the country, the AG and the FBI are watching this happen at a scale they couldn’t process if they tried.
These numbers are conservative — most cases go unreported until the foreclosure notice arrives. And the products that claim to fix it? The FTC has called what most title-lock services sell not insurance at all.
Up from 222 in 2024 and just 149 in 2023 — a 240% increase in two years.
Up from $173M in 2024. Deed and title schemes are the single fastest-growing category the bureau tracks.
Disproportionately affects Black homeowners, seniors, and immigrants. NY enacted new criminal statutes in 2024 and saw first convictions under them in 2025.
So if the county won’t call you and title insurance won’t catch it in time — how do we?
Ten metros, six states. The places where deed theft is already losing homeowners their houses.
We don’t do nationwide on day one. Each county is a real integration: an API, a data feed, or an enrollment in the county’s own free alert program — surfaced together in one dashboard.
When there’s no title company watching for you.
When a broker sells your home, their title company does the recorder-side research in the background — you never see it, but it’s happening. Everyone else is on their own. The people who need DeedShield most are the ones without that partnership doing quiet work on their behalf.
For sale by owner
Listing without a brokerage means no title company runs a silent check on your parcel while the deal moves. DeedShield flags any new filing between you and closing.
Out-of-state owner
You live in one state, own property in another. You won’t drive past your own house to notice a strange filing. We watch the county recorder daily — from wherever you are.
Parent’s or family home
Elderly owners are the top target profile for deed theft. An adult child adds the family home to their own dashboard in a minute; we handle the daily check for both of you.
No active mortgage
FBI Boston identifies paid-off homes as the number-one deed-theft target. No lender is watching for you either. DeedShield fills the gap you didn’t know existed.
Independent landlord
Own 2–15 rentals across one county? No brokerage partnership to lean on. Our Investor tier watches them all from one dashboard and posts a weekly digest.
Between deed transfers
The recorder can lag your closing by days or weeks. Watch the parcel yourself until the new deed lands correctly.
Working with a broker who’s already inside a title-company partnership? You’re probably covered for the recorder-side check on that specific transaction. DeedShield picks up where their coverage ends: everything else, every day, for as long as you own the home.
Recording happens in public. Detection doesn’t have to.
The county publishes every filing. Most homeowners never read those records — that’s the gap fraudsters live in. We read them every day, score every document, and tell you before the next move gets made.
We’re not a title lock. Nothing is.
The county recorder accepts every filing a notary stamps. No product, service, or insurance can stop a fraudulent deed from being recorded. The category that says otherwise — “title lock insurance” — is not insurance at all per the FTC.
What we do: detect the filing fast, score it for fraud risk, and walk you through a real remediation flow. The rest of this page tells you exactly how. No hype, no fear-marketing.
“Title-lock products” refers to the category the FTC warned consumers about — not any one company. Different providers vary in implementation. The comparison reflects common patterns in their advertising and FTC consumer complaints.
Here’s how we catch it before the foreclosure notice arrives.
Every recorded document looks like this. We read it three different ways, in this order.
Every recorded document, daily.
We pull the NYC ACRIS recorder feed daily, scrape the Harris County Clerk (Houston) directly, and pull Philadelphia's Department of Records on a delayed cadence. For Miami, LA, Cook, and the rest of Texas (Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis) we relay each county's free fraud-alert program into the same dashboard — and switch on a live feed there the moment our integration lights up.
Fuzzy name matching, triple-checked.
Levenshtein + phonetic + LLC-pattern flags on every new filing. Then: OpenCorporates lookup on the buyer (was that LLC formed last month?) and a language-model pass on ambiguous names. Quitclaims disguised as generic deeds get caught.
Suspicious? A wizard that speaks your filing's language.
One plain-English sentence at the top of the alert email. A personalized checklist for verifying YOUR certified copy. Attorney contacts, sample affidavit, credit-freeze walkthrough, and a 9-page evidence packet with cover letters ready to hand-deliver.
Every recorded document, daily.
We pull the NYC ACRIS recorder feed daily, scrape the Harris County Clerk (Houston) directly, and pull Philadelphia's Department of Records on a delayed cadence. For Miami, LA, Cook, and the rest of Texas (Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis) we relay each county's free fraud-alert program into the same dashboard — and switch on a live feed there the moment our integration lights up.
Fuzzy name matching, triple-checked.
Levenshtein + phonetic + LLC-pattern flags on every new filing. Then: OpenCorporates lookup on the buyer (was that LLC formed last month?) and a language-model pass on ambiguous names. Quitclaims disguised as generic deeds get caught.
Suspicious? A wizard that speaks your filing's language.
One plain-English sentence at the top of the alert email. A personalized checklist for verifying YOUR certified copy. Attorney contacts, sample affidavit, credit-freeze walkthrough, and a 9-page evidence packet with cover letters ready to hand-deliver.
That’s what we do. Now choose how aggressively you want us to do it.
Every property arrives with context, not just a monitor.
The moment you finish adding a property, we pull public-record signals from FEMA and the FBI so you can see risk factors most homeowners never look up. No extra clicks, no questionnaire.
Flood zone, on the card.
Zone X, AE, VE, and the base flood elevation if published. Rendered from the same layer the FEMA Flood Map Service Center uses. Fresh on enrollment.
Zone X · MinimalProperty crime, in context.
Statewide property-crime rate from the FBI UCR/NIBRS series, benchmarked against the US national average. Updated when the FBI publishes the annual roll.
1,558 per 100k · Below avgEvery signal is public data, cited by source. We’re monitoring, not insurance underwriting. More sources coming: parcel history, coastal erosion, county foreclosure velocity.
The CarFax of homes. Built while you own it.
Every renovation, every permit, every filing lives in one place. When you sell, generate a shareable report the buyer can verify. No inspector, no title company, no fees to see it.
Every recorded document.
Deeds, liens, mortgages, satisfactions. We already collect these daily. On your report they become the verified ownership chain.
Your renovations, receipts, permits.
Log the roof, the kitchen remodel, the HVAC. Upload receipts and photos. When the county has a public permit database, we auto-verify.
One link for a buyer or realtor.
Generate a public report page with a signed URL. Regenerate to refresh. Revoke any time. No signup needed to view.
Three deeds. Three levels of protection.
We don’t charge for what the county already does free. We charge for family monitoring, portfolio coverage, the remediation wizard, and the deal finder for investors.
The base is not a lead trap. Even Free monitors your recorder every day.
We pull the county recorder every 24 hours and stamp a receipt on your property card so you can see the work happened.
Zone code, base flood elevation, and SFHA flag from the FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer, on enrollment.
Statewide property-crime rate from the FBI UCR/NIBRS series, benchmarked against the US average.
Log renovations, roof, HVAC. Upload receipts. Generate a public link a buyer can verify. Permit-verified where we cover the county.
Cancel any time from the dashboard. No phone call, no retention flow, no dark patterns.
DeedShield is a monitoring and remediation service. It is not insurance, not a legal service, and not a replacement for title insurance. We detect. We do not prevent recording at the county.
Share DeedShield. You both get a permanent extra property monitored, free.
Every account gets a share link. If someone signs up through it and completes their first property check, we add one free monitored property to their account and to yours. Permanently, no billing changes. Up to 10 bonus properties per account.
Same house. Same paperwork. Now with someone watching it.
Live recorder monitoring in NYC and Houston (Harris County); delayed feed in Philadelphia; enrollment-assisted in Miami-Dade, LA, Cook County, and the rest of Texas (Dallas, Tarrant, Bexar, Travis) while we light up their live feeds. Sign in with your email — we’ll send you a one-tap link, no password to remember — and add your first property in under a minute.