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Larimer recording alerts help watch your name
A Porch Note from Colorado Porch — plain-English local details for all 64 Colorado counties.
Keeping an eye on your own property records does not have to start with a paid monitoring service. The Larimer County Clerk and Recorder runs a free recording activity notification you can sign up for in a few minutes. Register a personal name, a business name, or the name of a trust, and the office emails you whenever a document is recorded that matches it.
The reason this is worth a little setup is what recorded documents can touch. Deeds, liens, loans, and business filings all flow through the recorder, and a fraudulent or mistaken one filed under your name can quietly cloud a home or a company. An email alert will not stop a bad filing the way title insurance pays for one, and it does not block anything from being recorded. What it gives you is time: an early heads-up that something landed, while there is still room to look into it.
Register the names you actually appear under on property records, not just your own. A trust that holds the house and an LLC that owns a rental each deserve their own alert, since a problem can show up under any of them.
When an alert does arrive, you have a quick way to see what triggered it. Pull up the document through the county’s Easy Access records search, or call the Clerk and Recorder, and read the filing for yourself before deciding whether it is routine or worth a harder look.
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