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PropertyShark

A propertysite that exposes your name, address, phone, and relatives. Here's what they collect, how to opt out, and why it matters if you're on the job.

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What PropertyShark collects

  • Owner full name
  • Property address and mailing address
  • Sale price and sale date
  • Assessed value and tax history
  • Mortgage lender and loan information
  • Building characteristics, lot size, and zoning

How to opt out yourself

  1. Open a private window and search your address on PropertyShark to confirm the listing exists. Save the URL.
  2. Email privacy@propertyshark.com (CC support@propertyshark.com) with a formal data removal request.
  3. Include your full name, the property address, the listing URL, and a one-line privacy concern. Officers should send from a department email if comfortable — it speeds review.
  4. Cite CCPA right to delete in the email. PropertyShark's privacy policy is hosted by parent Yardi and acknowledges the request type.
  5. Watch for a confirmation email. Reply if they ask for ID verification.
  6. Allow 2 to 4 weeks for the listing to drop.
  7. Re-check the property page monthly. PropertyShark may re-pull from county recorder feeds even after removal.

What PropertyShark knows about you

PropertyShark is a property-records aggregator. Type an address, get the owner's name, the price they paid, the date they bought, the assessed value, the tax history, the lot size, the zoning, and which bank holds the mortgage. Type the owner's name, get the address. The lookup runs both directions.

Source is county assessor and recorder offices, enriched with commercial real estate feeds. Anyone with a free account can pull the file. Yardi Systems bought PropertyShark in 2014.

Why it matters if you're on the job

Property brokers work address-first. Anyone who already has your street address — from a traffic stop, a court filing, a Facebook post — pulls the entire household file. Spouse's name. Purchase price. Mortgage lender. The financial profile sits next to the home address.

Google indexing makes it worse. A sworn officer's home purchase lands in search results under their own name within weeks of closing. For a firefighter or paramedic who picked the suburbs on purpose, the address that was supposed to be private is the first hit.

The mortgage detail is the part most people miss. If a stalker knows the lender, the social-engineering attack on the bank gets a lot easier.

How to opt out

PropertyShark has no public opt-out form. Removal is email-only. Send a formal request to privacy@propertyshark.com — CC support@propertyshark.com. Include your full name, the property address, the URL of the listing, and a short note that you want the record removed for privacy reasons.

Cite CCPA right to delete if you want to lean on a statute. Yardi's privacy policy acknowledges the request type, and California residency is not required as a matter of practice.

Expect 2 to 4 weeks. They send a confirmation when the listing drops. The catch: PropertyShark rebuilds from the county recorder feed. If the underlying public record still shows your name, the listing can come back.

Steps are in the optOutSteps field above.

How long until you're back

Twelve months is the working assumption, but a refinance, deed change, or tax reassessment can rebuild the listing inside a quarter. The opt-out suppresses what's there now. It doesn't block the next sync.

The real fix is parallel. File the broker opt-out, then pursue statutory redaction at the county recorder level. Texas Government Code 25.025 lets covered officers redact home address from public property records. New Jersey's Daniel's Law covers the same ground for NJ officers, judges, and prosecutors. Florida 119.071 carves out home addresses for sworn officers, firefighters, and several other roles. The broker opt-out clears the surface; the county redaction stops the refill.

What we do that's faster

We send the PropertyShark removal email, follow up when Yardi sits on it, and re-check every two weeks. When the county feed pushes you back, we re-file. We also flag whether your state has a statutory redaction track you qualify for and walk you through the county filing. Same drill across 200+ broker sites in parallel.

Doing this for one broker is straightforward. Doing it for 200, on a continuous basis, is what we do.

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