Is passportpm.com legit or a scam?
A well-established and licensed property management business in San Diego with a clean security record and verified physical presence.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The website appears to be a legitimate professional business page for a property management company with no visible scam indicators or deceptive design patterns.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional branding for 'Passport Property Management' with consistent logo and typography
Functional navigation menu including 'Realtor Referral Program', 'Tenants', and 'Rental Search'
High-quality, relevant hero image with localized text for 'San Diego County'
Legitimate contact information including a clear (858) area code phone number
Clean layout with no intrusive pop-ups, urgency tactics, or fake trust badges
MT Intelligence
Our analysis confirms this is a legitimate business operation. The domain has been active for over 2,400 days, which is a strong indicator of stability. We verified that the company is operated by LightHaus Realty Inc., which holds an active California DRE Broker license (#02089579) valid through 2027. The website provides a physical office address in Poway, California, and a consistent local phone number. No malicious activity or scam patterns were detected across our security network.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for passportpm.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain passportpm.com is approximately 2494 days old (~6.8 years) and actively promotes property management services for San Diego County with phone (858) 859-8525.
- Company address: 13250 Kirkham Way, Ste B206, Poway, CA 92064; associated with LightHaus Realty Inc., which holds active CA DRE Broker license #02089579 (expires April 2027).
- Website contains multiple client testimonials praising responsiveness, time-saving, and recommending the company (e.g., from Nick B. and Craig D.).
- Listed on Yelp with mixed indication (one 1.0 review noted in snippets, but full details inaccessible); positive mention on Reddit r/sandiego for fast management of an apartment.
- No scam reports, fraud complaints, lawsuits, or negative Reddit threads found across multiple searches for scam, complaint, review combined with the domain or company name.
- BBB lists the company under asset management with rating C+ and not accredited; no specific complaints detailed in search results.
- Business maintains active social media (Instagram @passport_pm, Facebook) and lists managed rental properties on Zillow, Rent.com, and similar sites.
- passportpm.comopen
"Passport Property Management has earned my trust and I certainly recommend them. — Nick B., Property Owner"
- passportpm.comopen
"Passport Property Management has been so great to work with! They have saved me a ton of time and headache from having to manage my own properties. I've had bad experiences with other managers and Passport is far easier to work with. I'd hi"
- Reddit (r/sandiego)open
"Passport Property Management . 13250 Kirkham Way, Suite B206 | Poway, CA 92064 (858) 859-8525 | rent@ passportpm.com . They manage my apt and they're damn fast ..."
Operated by LightHaus Realty Inc. (CA DRE License ID 02089579, expires 04/03/27, status LICENSED). Address listed as 13250 Kirkham Way, Ste B206, Poway, CA 92064 or PO Box 308, Poway, CA. CEO Dave Kaushagen (Broker).
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- Contact email on the site's own domain (info@passportpm.com).
- Phone number listed ((858) 859-8525).
- Postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://passportpm.com/
- 2200https://www.passportpm.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on passportpm.com and not a lookalike like p-assportpm.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on passportpm.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- passportpm.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 92/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. passportpm.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, expiring in 74 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- passportpm.com is 6.8 years old, registered on 8/31/2019 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report passportpm.com as clean.
- No. passportpm.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- passportpm.com resolves to an IP operated by Fastly, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 30, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around passportpm.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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