Deed Fraud in Georgia: How to Set Up Free FANS Alerts on Your Home
A deed can be recorded on your house without anyone calling you first. That is how deed fraud works. Someone forges an owner's signature on a deed, gets it notarized, and records it with the county. On paper, the house now belongs to them. The homes I worry about most are the ones nobody is watching closely: a vacant house, a rental, a parent's paid-off home. Georgia has a free way to hear about a filing early. It is called FANS, and most homeowners I talk to have never heard of it. What FANS is FANS stands for Filing Activity Notification System. It is run by the Georgia Superior Court Clerks' Cooperative Authority (GSCCCA). You tell it what to watch, and when a clerk's office records a document that matches, you get an email or a text. It is free. An alert tells you that something was filed and in which county. It does not include a copy of the document, and it does not block anything. It also only watches forward, from the day you sign up. Treat it as an early warnin...