If your agency, association, or organization needs dedicated program review, custom content development, or specialized training beyond our free resources, Home Fraud Defense can scope a consulting engagement.
Our public education pages and practical tools remain completely free for anyone to link to or use. For everything else, we provide structured, objective analysis and content design to help close the gaps in public fraud education.
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Consulting Focus Areas
01Program Scoping & Gap Analysis
02Content Design & Review
03Notice & Reporting System Integration
04Specialized Professional Training
Clear separation
Public resources remain free.
Our current consumer education pages, tools, and reporting directories are free to link to or use, with no consulting engagement required.
Consulting is a separate professional service for organizations that need dedicated time, custom deliverables, or program-specific development. Any paid scope is discussed and documented before work begins.
What we deliver
Typical engagements
We scope engagements around practical deliverables that an agency or association can review, revise, and use within its own approval process.
Program Review & Gap Analysis
A written inventory of existing fraud-prevention material, identified gaps, dated source notes, and prioritized recommendations for clearer language or coverage.
Custom Content Design
Draft consumer notices, alerts, web copy, staff scripts, or review-ready briefing material shaped around the organization’s stated reporting routes and policy boundaries.
System & Notice Integration
Plain-language flow maps and notice drafts for the handoff between a public-facing resource, a private tool, and the appropriate agency or reporting system.
Staff & Licensee Training
Review-ready outlines, workshops, webinars, facilitator notes, or course-development support on transaction fraud, deed fraud, and exploitation aimed at older owners.
Independence
How we operate
Our consulting engagements are strictly professional services, built on clear boundaries and objective analysis.
No EndorsementsWe do not claim that any agency or association endorses us by virtue of a consulting engagement.
Confidentiality in scopeAny confidentiality, records, access, or data-handling requirements are identified before work begins and reflected in the engagement terms.
Deliverable rightsOwnership and permitted reuse of custom work are stated in writing for the particular engagement rather than assumed on this page.
No Preferred Vendor StatusWe ask for no exclusivity or preferred placement in your vendor lists.
Transparent DisclosuresWe explicitly disclose our role as a private real estate fraud education school during any public-facing collaboration.
Conflicts disclosedIf a proposed program could connect with Home Fraud Defense tools or professional education, that interest is disclosed before the work starts.
Engagement process
From question to review-ready work
A first conversation is used to understand the problem and determine whether custom work is appropriate. It is not a promise of price, schedule, procurement treatment, adoption, or outcome.
1 · Define the needIdentify the audience, current material, decision-makers, jurisdictional limits, and the practical question the work must answer.
2 · Set the scopeAgree in writing on deliverables, source access, review roles, assumptions, and any applicable procurement or records requirements.
3 · Build and reviewDevelop drafts with dated sources and checkpoints for agency, legal, accessibility, or subject-matter review as the organization requires.
4 · Hand off clearlyDeliver the agreed files, source notes, open questions, and maintenance considerations without representing that the organization has approved or adopted them.
Our Experience
Led by John Rowan
John Rowan is a licensed Arizona agent with over 25 years in the real estate industry and is a former federal GSA fraud mitigation contractor. He is the founder of Home Fraud Defense, an ADRE-approved real estate fraud education school (License S25-0019).
Current project materials identify prior fraud instruction for the Arizona Prosecuting Attorneys' Advisory Council, guest lectures at the ASU W. P. Carey School of Business, and an ARELLO/IDECC Certified Distance Education Instructor credential.
Our consulting brings practical, working knowledge of how transactions fail and what happens after closing, keeping your programs focused on actionable prevention rather than generic advice.
Next Steps
Start a conversation
If your organization has a need for custom fraud-program development, send us a brief outline of the project. We will schedule a scoping call to determine if we are the right fit.
