Yeah, and so is my full name, address, age, birthday, star sign, which vehicles I own, my yearly income, criminal convictions, address changes, legal gender, full social security number... It's all public information.
Big deal.
this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2025
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There's probably pictures of the inside of your house too, since it was likely for sale at some point
Looking around here houses have either been in the family for a long time, were built new or have been sold through word of mouth. Lots of those transfers never went through the hands of a real estate shark. I think the whole "building rows of same-ish houses and sell them online" is a rather American phenomenon.
Not mine anyway.
Kinda.
You can't actually see the house. It's covered from above by trees, and from the road by trees and shrubberies.
You can see the fence a little, and the roof of the shed from the road, if you pan around a little, but not the house itself.
Which is lucky, I guess, since my sasquatch looking ass like to hang around naked on the front porch mocking the gods
There's even a 3D model of my house. In fact, there's a 3D model plus raw point clouds of my entire state, they published it as open data. It's pretty useful for planning PV installations e.g.
And before that there were paper maps showing where your house is.
I don't own a house.
So?
There was (is? Haven't gotten one in weeks) a sextortion scam going around where they emailed potential victims PDFs containing personal information associated with your email address along with a Google Street view image of your house/building to try to scare people into paying. Mine was easy to date as you could see the street in front of the house before it was repaved by the city several months ago.
Haha yeah I got those a few times. Funny thing is that they kept showing the house across the street from me.
Only satellite ones :3
No street view?
Not by my house, no
my house is all over the Internet
it's a historic house
I think you're really onto something here
Probably a lot more stats on it too if you look at the county recorder/assessor offices. Used to do document recording work a couple decades back and the amount of info you can get off public records for free is kind of nuts.
Yeah, indeed there is... And a nice time history too since a few years ago.
Love that.