Is grandlakesapts.com safe?
http://grandlakesapts.com/
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How we checked
Coverage: complete · 6 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered): completed
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Interest-list site for a real Virginia Beach senior apartment project, on a domain registered only 29 days ago
grandlakesapts.com is a WordPress marketing page for Grand Lakes, a 172-unit apartment community for residents 62 and older at 5370 Virginia Beach Blvd in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The project is independently documented: the City of Virginia Beach describes 172 units for ages 62+ developed by the Franklin Group Companies, and local news reports ground being broken at that same address. The site publishes a phone number and street address and asks visitors to join an interest list. Nothing malicious was found, but the domain itself is only 29 days old and the only action offered is handing over name, email and phone, so it sits in the low-risk band rather than safe.
Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 78/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 3 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- MinorThe registrable domain is only 29 days old, so the website is new even though the housing project is documented elsewhere.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsCity of Virginia Beach and local news coverage describe a 172-unit senior housing project at 5370 Virginia Beach Blvd developed by the Franklin Group Companies.
- SupportsThe site publishes a phone number and a street address that matches the documented project location.
- SupportsNo Safe Browsing warning, 0 of 93 antivirus detections, valid TLS and a clean hosting IP reputation.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor).
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
grandlakesapts.com is a WordPress marketing page for Grand Lakes, a 172-unit apartment community for residents 62 and older at 5370 Virginia Beach Blvd in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The project is independently documented: the City of Virginia Beach describes 172 units for ages 62+ developed by the Franklin Group Companies, and local news reports ground being broken at that same address. The site publishes a phone number and street address and asks visitors to join an interest list. Nothing malicious was found, but the domain itself is only 29 days old and the only action offered is handing over name, email and phone, so it sits in the low-risk band rather than safe.
A lead-capture page for a development that is still being built
The visible page is a single hero image of a beach dune with a 'Welcome to Grand Lakes' headline and one outlined button, 'Join Our Interest List'. That button leads to an on-page form asking for name, email, phone, move-in date and a message. There is no checkout, deposit or payment step anywhere in the captured pages.
The site's terms are a standard Yardi/RENTCafé property-management template that refers to 'our property's RENTCafé website' and links to rentcafe.com and Yardi's legal pages. That is the software a rental property uses to run applications and payments, and the terms state that payments made through the site go to a property manager or owner rather than to Yardi. It reads like a real property's site rather than a bespoke storefront.
The published contact details are a phone number, (757) 798-7857, and the street address 5370 Virginia Beach Blvd, Virginia Beach, VA 23462, which links out to Google Maps. The address matches the location named in local news coverage of the project.
The project is real; the website is new
City of Virginia Beach material describes Grand Lake Senior Apartments as 172 housing units for residents aged 62 and older, with the Franklin Group Companies as developer. A local news report describes crews breaking ground and clearing trees at Grand Lake Crest, an affordable housing project of 172 units for seniors 62 and up, off Virginia Beach Boulevard at 5370 Virginia Beach Boulevard.
Against that, the registrable domain is only 29 days old. A brand-new domain for a project that was approved earlier and has already broken ground is the main reason this review does not rate the site safe: the site is a fresh marketing page, and its operator disclosure is not spelled out on the captured pages beyond the linked property-management terms.
No technical threat found; the open question is who receives the form data
The browser threat feed returned no threat warning, the multi-engine malware scan showed 0 malicious and 0 suspicious detections across 93 engines, the TLS certificate is valid with an encrypted connection, and the hosting address carries an abuse confidence score of 0/100. No redirect to an unrelated domain, no download and no credential-harvesting login page was observed.
The operator-side uncertainty is the interest-list form: it collects personal contact details, and the terms disclaim responsibility for third-party communications and release Yardi from disputes with the property manager or owner. The contact page itself could not be read during the scan, so where the form submits and whether a privacy policy is present were not confirmed.
Why the score is 78
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsFresh result
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 36 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Clean
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Unrated
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Forcepoint ThreatSeekernewly registered websites
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
Visual context from the captured page
Full-width hero image of a beach dune with ocean and sky, overlaid with a circular 'GRAND LAKES APARTMENT HOMES' logo containing a cattail/plant emblem. Large white headline reads 'Welcome to Grand Lakes'. Outlined button labelled 'Join Our Interest List' below the headline.
What the captured page showed
3 observations- 01
Full-width hero image of a beach dune with ocean and sky, overlaid with a circular 'GRAND LAKES APARTMENT HOMES' logo containing a cattail/plant emblem.
- 02
Large white headline reads 'Welcome to Grand Lakes'.
- 03
Outlined button labelled 'Join Our Interest List' below the headline.
What the page says about itself
Quoted from the pages we read: the site's own words, not our findings.
- Page title
Grand Lakes | Senior Apartments in Virginia Beach, VA
- Meta description
Grand Lakes is a brand-new senior living community on Virginia Beach Boulevard offering 172 modern apartments for adults 62 and older. Bright, airy interiors near Wegmans, Town Center, dining, and shopping.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
- Terms/terms-and-conditions/Read
- Contact page/contact/Could not be read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Grand Lakes | Senior Apartments in Virginia Beach, VA
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
4 external findings were saved and compared with the page evidence.
What remains unverified
The checks completed, but ownership, business claims, and future site behavior can still change after this snapshot.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Content
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is only 29 days old, so the website is new even though the housing project is documented elsewhere.
- 02The site publishes a phone number and a street address that matches the documented project location.
- 03No Safe Browsing warning, 0 of 93 antivirus detections, valid TLS and a clean hosting IP reputation.
Web research findings
Independent findings for grandlakesapts.com, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence.
- City of Virginia Beachopen
"Grand Lake Senior Apartments will provide 172 housing units for residents ages 62 and older."
- City of Virginia Beachopen
"The developer for Grand Lake Senior Apartments and The Silo Apartments is the Franklin Group Companies."
- WAVY.comopen
"It’s being built off of Virginia Beach Boulevard at 5370 Virginia Beach Boulevard near the Haynes Furniture Store."
- WAVY.comopen
"Crews have broken ground and are moving trees at Grand Lake Crest, an affordable housing project in Virginia Beach with 172 units designed for seniors 62 and up"
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too.
Infrastructure map
- Domaingrandlakesapts.com
- Redirects tograndlakesapts.com
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesjs.getresi.co · googletagmanager.com
Domain Timeline
- Oct 7, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 29 days old when this review was saved.
- Nov 6, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- Phone number listed ((757) 798-7857).
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
A certificate issued weeks or days before the scan on a domain registered recently is common on short-lived sites, though new legitimate sites look the same.
Certificate issued for grandlakesapts.com.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Google Tag Manager
Scripts, fonts and CDNs
- unpkg
- jsDelivr
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://grandlakesapts.com/
- 2206https://grandlakesapts.com/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruscomplete
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
The registrable domain is only 29 days old, so the website is new even though the housing project is documented elsewhere.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Completed | No adverse finding | fresh · analysed Nov 6, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 3 visible observations saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
| Independent research | 4 independent findings were saved | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Nov 6, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessfresh · analysed Nov 6, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result3 visible observations saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
- Independent research
- Result4 independent findings were saved
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Nov 6, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Answered from the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Interest-list site for a real Virginia Beach senior apartment project, on a domain registered only 29 days ago
grandlakesapts.com is a WordPress marketing page for Grand Lakes, a 172-unit apartment community for residents 62 and older at 5370 Virginia Beach Blvd in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The project is independently documented: the City of Virginia Beach describes 172 units for ages 62+ developed by the Franklin Group Companies, and local news reports ground being broken at that same address. The site publishes a phone number and street address and asks visitors to join an interest list. Nothing malicious was found, but the domain itself is only 29 days old and the only action offered is handing over name, email and phone, so it sits in the low-risk band rather than safe.
09 · Community
Community
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