“If you own a second home, have a neighbor check in from time to time, or hire a property manager.”
Sound advice, but I fail to see how this would stop a fraudulent filing at the county courthouse.
These fraudsters committed a paper crime, they weren’t squatting, and possibly never visited the property in question.
There was a commercial recently by an ex-con who did this very crime, explaining just how easy it was to do. I can’t remember any more than that.