Skip Tracing is a vastly misunderstood concept. Oftentimes, it is mistaken for bounty hunting, which is an entirely different field.

Skip Tracing is an effective tool for locating people for and number of reasons: locating witnesses for court matters, collecting a debt, or ever locating missing heirs.

Just as it is misunderstood, skip tracing is also improperly conducted by many attempting to make a profit off of this line of work. Poorly trained data entry clerks with limited skills and inadequate resources may claim to locate people for a low price but in the long run, you end up paying unnecessarily.

If an individual is making an effort to hide, the wrong person can end up alerting them, which only serves to drive the subject further in hiding. The end result is wasted time, wasted effort, wasted money, and a harder job for the next private investigator you call.