County clerk's free alert emails owners when a deed or lien is filed in their name, a guard against property fraud

Grayson County property owners can now get an email the moment someone records a document under their name, and county officials want more people to sign up before a scammer tries to use their land.

The free service, called Neumo Property Alerts, runs through the Grayson County Clerk's online records search. KXII highlighted it in a report Tuesday evening, with Precinct 3 Commissioner Lindsay Wright encouraging residents to enroll.

How it works

According to the clerk's portal, a user creates an account and sets up an alert in one of two ways: by entering one or more names or other keywords to watch for, or by finding a document already on record and asking to be notified about related filings. When a real property filing in the county matches, the system sends an email.

The portal notes that many of those filings are routine, such as tax liens or lien releases, but that some can be fraudulent attempts to change who owns a property. The county clerk and the vendor say the goal is to cut down on fraudulently recorded documents.

An alert does not block a filing from being recorded; it gives the owner a chance to act quickly.

Sign-up is at grayson.tx.publicsearch.us/property-alert. The service costs residents nothing.

Keep it local, commissioner says

Wright told KXII that this kind of fraud is hard to catch and flag. Her advice was to work with people you can meet in person.

"That's why it's really, really important to make sure you use local agents, local title companies, local lenders, all of that," she said, calling it a return to "the old school, the face to face."

She said owners are better off turning on the alerts before their property is ever targeted.

Sources

KXII

grayson.tx.publicsearch.us