A monitor for the moment your house gets quietly taken.

Why we built this

Deed theft is rising fast in US metros. Per the FBI’s IC3 reports, reported losses from real-estate fraud have grown roughly 5× over the last five years. New York, Florida, Georgia, and Texas have passed dedicated deed-theft statutes (HETPA, GA HB 1292, TX 2025) — and the first convictions under them are landing now.

Several counties already offer free recording alerts (NYC ACRIS RDN, Miami-Dade PFA, LA Homeowner Notification, Fidlar PropertyFraudAlert). They’re great if you live in one county and your property is in your name. They’re useless if you’re monitoring your parent’s home in another state, or if your property is held in an LLC, or if you have a portfolio spread across counties — and they don’t help you do anything with the alert once it arrives.

DeedShield enrolls you in those free alerts where they exist and surfaces them alongside our own monitoring in one dashboard. When something does come up, we walk you through what to do next, and generate the evidence packet an attorney needs.

What we’re not

We’re not the “title lock” products you’ve probably seen advertised. Those products are, depending on who you ask, deceptive or actively illegal — the FTC and several state AGs have taken action on them. They promise to “lock” your title; in reality nothing can prevent recording at the county. We don’t make promises we can’t keep. See our disclaimer for the full picture.

Who DeedShield is for

• People monitoring a parent’s house— the most common deed theft target is an elderly homeowner with an unmortgaged property. The Family plan was built for adult children watching for filings on their parents’ home.
• Small landlords & investors with 2–10 properties— paid per property, with a portfolio view and CSV export. Current free county tools don’t aggregate across counties.
• Single-property primary-residence owners in counties without free alerts — Free tier covers one property forever.

How we make money

Paid plans, plain and simple. No advertising, no data brokering, no “upsell you into things you don’t need.” The free tier is genuinely free — we don’t charge for re-surfacing what the county already provides for free; we charge for cross-county monitoring, SMS alerts, family contacts, and the remediation workflow when something goes wrong.

Where we are

Launching in four US metros first: NYC, Miami-Dade, Los Angeles, and Cook County (Chicago). Each county is a real integration — an API, a data feed, or an enrollment in the county’s own free alert program — not a generic crawler. See the coverage page for current status and a way to request your county.

The company

DeedShield is a small team. We’re building it as a real, sustainable business — not a venture-funded land grab, not a quick flip. If that resonates and you want to talk, contact us.