A title alert or monitoring request through your lawyer flags any change filed against your property, which matters most for a house that will sit vacant during a sale, an estate settlement or a long trip away, since an unattended property is the profile fraudsters target.
Legal fees for this kind of due diligence, typically $800 to $1,500, are a small add to a closing file and worth setting up before a health event or a period away rather than after something has already gone wrong.
The one habit that stops the most attempts is refusing to act on anything sent by email link, no matter how official it looks, until your own lawyer's office confirms by phone that the request is real. Get your hand-reviewed valuation from Joel Dyck.