DeedWatch guides · Florida
Florida is the best-covered state in America for deed alerts, and it isn't close. State law — Florida Statute § 28.47 — required every Clerk of the Circuit Court to create and run a free recording notification service by July 1, 2024. All 67 counties have one. If you own property in Florida, the only reason you are not enrolled is that nobody told you. This page is the telling.
A Florida-focused explainer on title fraud and the free clerk alerts — the description links the Florida Clerks' statewide signup page.
Each clerk runs enrollment on its own site or platform, so the exact screens differ — Miami-Dade's “Property Fraud Alert,” Pinellas's “Property Fraud Alert,” Duval's “Property Fraud Alert,” enrolled on the clerk's own site, and so on. The pattern, though, is the same everywhere:
The Florida Court Clerks & Comptrollers association also maintains a statewide page linking every county's service (flclerks.com) — a useful cross-check that lists all 67 counties. In this directory, each Florida signup link was confirmed on the clerk's or the operator's own page; the counties whose signup pages we have not yet confirmed are marked unverified rather than guessed.
Florida alerts watch names as recorded. Palm Beach County's clerk states it plainly: you are alerted on an exact match, so register every variation. With five statutory slots per email, most owners can cover their realistic variations — and a second email address can hold five more.
Duval County's clerk explains that because the watch is name-based, a John Smith will receive alerts for other John Smiths' documents. The alert includes the document; checking the property address in it takes two minutes and settles the question. Don't unsubscribe after two false alarms — that is the system being thorough, not broken. Our alert-fired guide shows the two-minute check.
A Florida enrollment covers Florida property in that one county. Your house up north is in a different county, likely a different state, on a different platform — or that county may have no alert at all, in which case the deed self-check routine is your layer there. Multi-state owners are exactly who the kit's tracking sheet was built for.
Separate from the clerks, Florida's Department of Revenue and county property appraisers run their own tools (some appraisers offer ownership-change notifications of their own). Those are bonuses, not substitutes: the recording notification from your clerk is the one tied to the official record.
The Setup Kit's name-variant worksheet makes sure your Florida enrollment covers the forms of your name a forged deed might actually use — plus walkthroughs for your other properties, the deed self-check, and the 72-hour playbook. $39 once; the Florida service stays free.