Solo real estate agent

The situation

You work alone. Your laptop holds contracts, client identification and closing documents, and your inbox is how deals move: offers, counters, title instructions and payment details all arrive by email. There is no IT department and nobody down the hall to ask when something looks off.

What usually goes wrong

The serious risk is rarely a virus. It is someone getting into an inbox, yours, your client’s or the title company’s, and quietly changing the story. A message that looks like it came from the title company arrives with new payment instructions, and a buyer sends closing funds to the wrong account. That money can be very hard to get back.

Other common trouble looks smaller at first:

• A phishing email dressed up as a document signing request that asks you to sign in.
• A hidden inbox rule that forwards your mail to someone else, so an attacker can read along.
• Ransomware that locks your files the week of a closing.
• A laptop left in a car or at a showing.

What we set up

We start with your computer. Security software goes on your laptop and is watched around the clock by a security team that can contain a threat, for example by isolating the device. Web filtering blocks known malicious and phishing sites, and patching keeps your system and apps up to date.

If your email runs on Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, we add protection for your account. We watch for signs of takeover, such as suspicious sign-ins and mailbox rules that forward your mail, and we can respond by disabling access or ending sessions. A second layer of email security looks for phishing and impersonation that the built-in filter lets through, and short lessons help you spot the rest.

Device backup is available as an add-on, so a lost or locked laptop does not mean lost files.

If your email address is issued by your brokerage, we cannot protect that mailbox. We tell you so plainly, and your computer is still covered.

What it looks like day to day

Mostly nothing. The software runs quietly, updates happen on a schedule, and you keep working. Once a month you get a plain-language report of the activity we saw, and once a year we go over it with you and plan what comes next.

If something looks wrong, call or email us and a real person helps you through it. With your permission we can connect to your computer to sort it out. If we see an active takeover attempt on your account, we may lock it down first and tell you right after.

One habit does more than any tool: before you act on new payment instructions, call the person on a number you already have. We are built to reduce your risk and stop threats early, and no service can promise to stop every attack.