This content was created by Sander Scott. This content was uploaded by Sander Scott. This is a YouTube video titled "Ultimate Guide to Home Title Protection in Grand Traverse County | Expert Tips from Sander Scott" (created 2024-04-08). The clip is an add-on to an extended podcast featuring Sander Scott, who explains how homeowners in Grand Traverse County can subscribe (free) to the county's Property Fraud Alert notification service to receive automatic alerts about activity on their property title. He references a separate video for Leelanau County, demos how to find the Grand Traverse County property fraud pages, mentions counties and states participating in the program, and contrasts the free service with paid services like Home Title Lock. The speaker identifies himself at the end as Sander Scott, a full-service realtor.
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Hey there, so this is an add-on to the extended podcast that I had with Alex from Talon Title Group where we talked a little bit about how to protect your home title against hackers, fraudsters, whomever that would go in and do something with your title and perhaps take title from you. I've shot a separate video of Leelanau County on how to go in and get title alerts. Anytime any activity is done with the title of your property, you can receive automatic alerts. It's a little bit of a different process in Grand Traverse County, so I wanted to show you that here. So really all you have to do is Google Grand Traverse County home title alert, okay? And then it'll take you right here, Grand Traverse County property fraud. Okay, and then you go here and about property fraud, and right here you can protect yourself by subscribing free of charge to a notification service called Property Fraud Alert. So let's click that, and it takes you here. It's a subscription service. Again, it's free, but you do need to sign up for it. So there's a whole bunch of Now, I do not own property within Grand Traverse County, so I can't really pursue all of those. My property that I own is within Leelanau County, and again, shot a separate video on that. So it's really easy, just sign up here and then you should be getting automatic alerts anytime there's any kind of activity on your property. It wouldn't hurt to also follow up with Peggy here, gives her information over here to make sure that the connection is operating properly and that you've signed up properly. Now, because I don't own property in Grand Traverse County, I can't penetrate this any further for you, but this video is really just to create an awareness around— you hear a lot of advertising on the radio, on television about home title theft. And here's one free, simple way without having to pay for— Home Title Lock is a company that advertises its services. Actually, the very same service is available to you for free if you live within Grand Traverse County or Leon County. And it's not just Grand Traverse County in Michigan. You You can see here that this service is available in all of the states that are marked green. I live in Michigan and am only licensed to sell real estate in Michigan. Let's focus on that. So here are all the counties that are participating with, uh, Property Fraud Alert. So there you go. Hope this video you found helpful. I'm Sander Scott. Your full-service realtor.