Wholesaler · Memphis, TN · Member since 2014 · 18 posts · 2 votes
Anyone have pretty good success with a Skip Trace service? I recently tried Unlimited Skip Trace which is powered by www.findtheseller.com. I wasn't pleased at all with it. It's a product that came with the iFlip program (Cameron Dunlap). It gave me the same outdated information that I found when I Googled vacant home owners.
I have a list of about 30 vacant homes here in Memphis. I just drive and look for vacant homes. I'm having a hard time getting in contact with the home owners. Everything I find is old landline phone numbers and no recent addresses for the most part. Most people have cell phones nowadays. But those numbers are hard to come by.
I usually start my search with www.truepeoplesearch.com or www.familytreenow.com. Both are free and usually can provide or confirm addresses. As with all online searches in the era of Cell Phones the Phone #'s may be out of date.
I and a colleague ran a test of several entry level skip traces sites such as BeenVerified, Intellius (I use this one), Speakeo, usa-people-search, etc and found them to be almost identical. In some cases the only difference was the color and font on the information, otherwise they were identical. But here is the kicker, I found these pay sites seldom provided good cell numbers over the above free sites. Maybe a 20% increase. Decent, but only worth the cost if your bottom line depends on it.
LTO and Micorbilt are good but for individuals or small organizations (Read: Home Office) the hassle of getting approved for an account really isn't worth it. I have found in the case of searching for heirs (when the property has not been transferred after or during a Probate, etc. and you have a name only) their results for phone numbers are no better than the basic sites mentioned above.
Lexus/Nexus or Westlaw (Reuters) can provide the same information with a lot less hassle although somewhat more expensive than LTO. I have a Westlaw account but find problems finding good #'s with it as well when dealing with heirs.
I hope this helps. If anyone has a good site for Mobile Phone #'s please PM me.
@DeMarris Manns Hey did you ever find a good company for a reasonable subscription? I am dealing with this same issue. I am finding great leads when driving for dollars and the neighbors are usually helpful however I seem to always be a step behind when getting the owners most recent numbers. I'm finding it rare to get someone with a land line much anymore. Thanks
I use FindTheSeller.com and love it. The trick is that you have to be willing to make phone calls or spend money on mailers. They provide all kinds of information and some of it is great and some of it is not. I attended Cam's live event and he went thru using his skip trace report. If you tried the summary contact info and couldn't reach the seller, it's time to move on to the family. If you call/mail them and don't get an answer, move on to the "associates". These are co-workers, friends, etc. And if you still run into a dead end, then try the neighbors. It's all in the comprehensive skip trace.
I am blown away by how much information is in these reports. Also, they lowered their price down to $5 per comprehensive skip trace if you are a member of unlimitedskiptrace.com. By the way, i don't order many skip traces because UST has alot of good info.
Some of the guys in my group use MYREIPRO.COM i think its 6 dollars each number look up but it always get the owner or person in charge of the property.
myreopro.com is a lead generation system primarily and has a high dollar subscription. If inside you pay further for skip traces that's a deal I'll pass on. I just want a skip trace, I don't need an entire background check like most of the tracer sites do. Keep posting up BP'ers because we're not done here yet!
@James Bridgers beenverified is not all that useful. While the price is attractive, most of the numbers are out of date. For best results you will need to apply for access to a database or use a skip tracer.
We've had Microbilt for almost a year now. We have not had much success with getting valid numbers (and numbers different from free sites) out of it. We stuck around to see if their system upgrades would produce better results, but that didn't help the hit rate.
By the way, the Premium Skip Trace service from FindTheSeller.com has always produced great results for us. The Premium report gives all phone numbers, relatives, neighbors, associates along with their addresses and phone numbers as well. We've had about a 95% success rate with FindTheSeller's Premium Skip Trace reports. They're $9.95 each with a 24-hour turnaround time.
UnlimitedSkipTrace is not the same as the Premium Skip Trace--it seems that it's their barebones service.
Hi DeMarris!
I recommend BeenVerified.com. It's very inexpensive and has a tremendous amount of data. Also available as an app. We get through to the majority of homeowners on our driving for dollars list. Let me know if you'd like some help.
I usually start my search with www.truepeoplesearch.com or www.familytreenow.com. Both are free and usually can provide or confirm addresses. As with all online searches in the era of Cell Phones the Phone #'s may be out of date.
I and a colleague ran a test of several entry level skip traces sites such as BeenVerified, Intellius (I use this one), Speakeo, usa-people-search, etc and found them to be almost identical. In some cases the only difference was the color and font on the information, otherwise they were identical. But here is the kicker, I found these pay sites seldom provided good cell numbers over the above free sites. Maybe a 20% increase. Decent, but only worth the cost if your bottom line depends on it.
LTO and Micorbilt are good but for individuals or small organizations (Read: Home Office) the hassle of getting approved for an account really isn't worth it. I have found in the case of searching for heirs (when the property has not been transferred after or during a Probate, etc. and you have a name only) their results for phone numbers are no better than the basic sites mentioned above.
Lexus/Nexus or Westlaw (Reuters) can provide the same information with a lot less hassle although somewhat more expensive than LTO. I have a Westlaw account but find problems finding good #'s with it as well when dealing with heirs.
I hope this helps. If anyone has a good site for Mobile Phone #'s please PM me.
@Allen Bruce, we use www.findpeoplesearch.com which provides mobile numbers. Some are accurate, some are not but, have noticed it is one of the few that provides them.