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Many have heard of the term "skip tracing" but few
know the meaning. Hard-to-locate debtors are known as skips (i.e.,
accounts submitted with invalid addresses and/or telephone numbers)
Skip tracing is the use of electronic databases to track down
debtors who have skipped out.
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"Landlords,Creditors, bounty hunters and private
investigators make use of skip
tracing." |
The growth of the Internet has made available
many online resources for skiptracing, which in turn raise privacy
issues. Skips are traced with searches, social traces, credit
reports, asset searches and public records. These searches can
result in direct hits; past and present contact information, traces
of activity, contact information of friends and relatives.
Landlord2Landlord offers its memebers skip tracing services such
as:
eFunds
Credit Issuance Report tells you how an applicant handles
there checking account and can be used as a collections tool where
you will often get the current phone number of the account
holder.
People
Search is a national credit header search.
People Locator
Detail returns all known addresses along with all the
names and phone numbers, of the people that live on the street.
If you are a current L2L member and would like to access these
skip tracing tools Open Additional
Data Source Addendum Print the form,
choose the skip tools you would like access, sign and fax
this form to
770-516-2192. |