What is Skip Tracing? How It Works? What You Should Know?
If you’re a business owner or individual initiating a lawsuit you may or may not know the name or names of the defendant or respondent. Sometimes there are multiple defendants and or respondents. Defendants and respondents can be people or entities. The problem starts when you try (and fail) multiple times to reach these people or entities, and it seems that they’ve vanished off the face of the earth. In a situation like this, your best shot at finding them is to hire a skip tracer.
What is Skip Tracing?
Skip tracing is the process of tracking down people, or the people who are responsible for associated entities, who are missing, unresponsive, or hard to find. Skip tracing is an investigatory practice that’s commonly deployed to pinpoint an individual or multiple people’s whereabouts due to transactions such as initiating a lawsuit. The person who tries to locate people like this is known as a “skip tracer.“
How Does Skip Tracing Work?
When you hire Stella Olivas Process Service to find someone there’s a standard process that is conducted. However, skip tracing is part art and part science! The process looks something like this:
- Verify the Information of the Missing Person(s) or Entity(ies) Provided by The Client
Usually, the reason you can’t find a person is that you don’t have their correct contact information. They may have moved. They may be deliberately using bogus information to hide their true identity and or location.
- Gather Necessary Information on the Missing Person(s) or Entity(ies)From Multiple Investigative Sources
If after this initial step, you still can’t reach the person, the skip tracer will scour through public records, letters, files, and proprietary investigation databases to find more information on the skipper. These records include:
- Address history
- Court records
- Credit header data pulled from credit applications
- Criminal records (and background checks)
- Civil court records
- Driver’s license history
- Employment history
- Phone number records
- E-Mail addresses
- Property records
- Tax records
- Utility company information
- Social Media
- Deep web data
3. Contact Friends & Family. The information the skip tracer gets from the above records might be enough to locate the person. But if it’s not, the tracer will often get in touch with the missing person(s) or entity(ies) friends and family. This contact will leave no footprint…. These people may give the skip tracer some information that will help the tracer locate the person.
Why is Skip Tracing an Important Service?
Skip tracing goes beyond finding Missing Person(s) or Entity(ies). Here are a few examples of how people can use skip tracing in different aspect of criminal and or civil law:
- Locating People for a Legal Case – Lawyers can leverage skip tracing service to locate someone (i.e., witnesses, etc.) involved in a criminal case or civil lawsuits. Stella Olivas Process Service has the training background, experience, and the resources that produce the results you need!
- Locating Debtors – Judgment Creditors hire Stella Olivas Process Service to track down judgment debtors so that they can collect the money owed to them. These judgment debtors include:
- Tenants who owe money for rent or damaged property
- Employees who committed fraud or embezzled company funds
- A client who owes money to a business
- Contractors who skipped town after payment but haven’t completed the work they were hired to do
- Landlords who vanished after taking money from a potential tenant without giving them a property
- Businesses that have closed up, but still owe money or services to clients
How Much Does Skip Tracing Cost?
The cost of skip tracing depends on the caliber of service, the parameters of the process, and the experience of the provider. In general, you can expect the cost to vary widely depending on the depth, difficulty, length, and type of person or entity that is being skip traced.
- For an initial search, the cost of skip tracing services varies, but for an experienced skip tracer you can usually expect a flat fee between $250 and $500 keeping in mind there will be limited on what’s included with these services. Contact our office at (626)203-7228 for specific details and current pricing.
Keep in mind that Stella Olivas Process Service is performing skip tracing services by utilizing resources and techniques that the average person does not have access to. When layered on top of solid experience used to confirm information found, they can produce results that are significantly better and more accurate than what can be found by simple online / internet database searching.
Hire Stella Olivas Process Service to Find Missing People & Entities
Tracking down a missing person and/or asset(s) isn’t easy. It’s even more difficult when you don’t have sufficient information about the individual or skills to track them down. To speed up the tracking process, you’ll need to hire skip tracers.
If you need skip tracing services contact Stella Olivas Process Service today at (626) 203-7228
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