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Ryan Huggins - Thousand Oaks, CA
https://HugginsHomes.com - Thousand Oaks, CA
Residential Real Estate and Investment Properties

Yes.  I know some people who do this work.

Mar 20, 2023 09:43 AM
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John Juarez
The Medford Real Estate Team - Fremont, CA
ePRO, SRES, GRI, PMN

I used to work for a large bank company. We had a debt collection department that did "skip tracing' when needed to locate debtors who were not paying their obligations.

Mar 20, 2023 10:20 AM
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Tammy Lankford,
Lane Realty Eatonton, GA Lake Sinclair, Milledgeville, 706-485-9668 - Eatonton, GA
Broker GA Lake Sinclair/Eatonton/Milledgeville

Yes, I know what it is, used the service to find my husband's bio dad.

Mar 20, 2023 10:05 AM
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Bob "RealMan" Timm
Ward County Notary Services - Minot, ND
Owner of Ward Co Notary Services retired RE Broker

I am unfamiliar with it Peter Mohylsky but it sounds like people must make real good money at it.

Mar 22, 2023 06:29 PM
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Roy Kelley
Retired - Gaithersburg, MD

This is a common practice in debt collections.

 

Mar 20, 2023 12:28 PM
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Wanda Kubat-Nerdin - Wanda Can!
Red Rock Real Estate (435) 632-9374 - St. George, UT
St. George Utah Area Residential Sales Agent

Works better than whitepages.com!

Mar 20, 2023 12:11 PM
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Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist
KD Realty - 408.972.1822 - San Jose, CA
Probate Real Estate Services

I've known of that dating back to my work as a paralegal years. 

These days, with all the big aggregated data, there are so many other ways to get almost immediate information on the location of people.

Mar 20, 2023 10:31 AM
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Carla Freund
Keller Williams Preferred Realty - Raleigh, NC
NC Real Estate Transition & Relocation 919-602-848

I knew this word. I probably heard it on a tv show or something.

Mar 21, 2023 03:12 PM
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Bob Crane
Woodland Management Service / Woodland Real Estate, KW Diversified - Stevens Point, WI
Forestland Experts! 715-204-9671

Always good to learn new things everyday.

 

Mar 21, 2023 02:25 PM
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Wayne Martin
Wayne M Martin - Chicago, IL
Real Estate Broker - Retired

Never had the need but am aware of the concept. 

Mar 21, 2023 04:49 AM
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Andrew Mooers | 207.532.6573
MOOERS REALTY - Houlton, ME
Northern Maine Real Estate-Aroostook County Broker

Media monitoring. There was a clipping service in my county that had an awful lot of workers that worked on media. Skip tracing like gleaning the net.

Always wondered with how easy the Internet helps provide clues and answers how they are doing... even if they beefed up the digital scanning with their newsprint and other ways of providing indepth information Peter Mohylsky . Burrell's the name of outfit gone in my town and another north of me. 

Mar 21, 2023 03:06 AM
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Debe Maxwell, CRS
Savvy + Company (704) 491-3310 - Charlotte, NC
The RIGHT CHARLOTTE REALTOR!

I hadn't heard that before, Peter...thankfully! 

Thanks for the vocab lesson today!!

Mar 20, 2023 09:07 PM
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Lyn Sims
Schaumburg, IL
Real Estate Broker Retired

Yep, I had a seller that did this full time. Looking for all the deadbeats across the US. 

Mar 20, 2023 03:29 PM
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Alan May
Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL
Home is where the hearth is.

You are very fortunate if you have lived this long, and never heard the term "skip tracing".

Mar 20, 2023 01:31 PM
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Diana Zaccaro Broker Associate
ZOOM Realty Group - Cocoa Beach, FL
"The Accidental Blogger" Cocoa Beach, Florida

Many, many, years ago when I was in college I was offered a summer job doing skip tracing for a collections agency but took a job at a local bank instead.

Mar 20, 2023 01:16 PM
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Jeff Dowler, CRS
eXp Realty of California, Inc. - Carlsbad, CA
The Southern California Relocation Dude

I have a pretty good idea what this is.

Mar 20, 2023 12:42 PM
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Candice A. Donofrio
Next Wave RE Investments LLC Bullhead City AZ Commercial RE Broker - Fort Mohave, AZ
928-201-4BHC (4242) call/text

HA! As a matter of fact . . . my attorney is needing to skip trace someone to serve them for me. LOL
Yes, skip tracing is for fly by night tenants usually, or like my situation a party we tried to find using 'normal means' and the Certifieds keep coming back.

Mar 20, 2023 04:29 PM
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Olga Simoncelli
Veritas Prime, LLC dba Veritas Prime Real Estate - New Fairfield, CT
CONSULTANT, Real Estate Services & Risk Management

Makes sense.

Mar 20, 2023 01:38 PM
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Richie Alan Naggar
people first...then business Ran Right Realty - Riverside, CA
agent & author

The people in this business must be kept busy constantly as many skip along

Mar 20, 2023 03:44 PM
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