Our info is so insecure that the public records associated with recording a deed are more than enough for the floodgates to open up.
You can literally pull up every bit of information you need on someone directly in a map on a county portal if they own a home.
Including all publicly filed documents like divorce, alimony, marriage, etc.
It’s nice that there’s some amount of public information, but it sucks that it’s basically just normal people because the rich don’t have to put PII on their filings and can use fake companies.
Some stuff might be publicly available because FOIA and “Sunshine Laws” (is that a term used outside of Florida?) are mostly about ruining all privacy.
You can google my name (Somewhat unique, at least in America) and see exactly where I used to live and my party affiliation because some boomer takes all the voter registration records and makes them public and google indexed.
Oh, this 100% happens. I’ve been getting texts and calls fopre-approval about 6 different area codes since applying for preapproval.
Once you complete the purchase you will start getting fake letters about you already being delinquent on your mortgage lol.
Good luck all the same though!
