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5 Free People and Background Search Tools

Sometimes you just can’t get in touch with somebody — especially when they seem to owe you money. They moved, changed numbers, etc. Before you go crazy, try these free online tools to assist you with background searches and debtor locates.

    1. www.anywho.com Phone and address searches for individuals and businesses. Reverse directory as well.
    2. www.google.com Enter your customers/debtors name and any articles or websites containing their name will come up.
    3. www.argali.com Telephone directory
    4. www.naco.org National Association of Counties. This is a great tool to locate which county your customer/debtor is located for court proceedings etc.
    5. www.contractors-license.org This site will verify if a contractor is licensed. It is set up by state.

Have a locator resource that you would like to share? Post your reply with the link to your favorite resource and we’ll use it in our next resources follow-up article.

About the author: Jan Conte is the President of Your Collection Solution, LLC, a debt collection agency out of Newtown, Pennsylvania. She has over twenty years experience in the debt collection industry. You can find more of her articles at yourcollectionsolution.com/blog/.

This entry was posted on Sunday, September 9th, 2007 at 5:01 pm and is filed under Debt Collection Tips and Advice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “5 Free People and Background Search Tools”

  1. Bethellen Keefe Alpine-BAK Collections Says:
    September 11th, 2007 at 8:32 pm

    Hey Jan, another couple tools I would recomend is your states Division of Corps. online. You can look by the name of the person and or the name of the biz, and it will also give you a few other ways to search with that info as well. Plus this can lead you to people they did the biz with if it’s no longer in biz..other leads to reach whom your looking for.

    Another tool is your local county clerks office on line, again searching by name or biz. If they have a case on file or other things as well can be looked up, it may give you an address, maybe even a spouses name. Plus I know some people put SS# on claims to ensure that they serve or levy the correct persons bank or wages..etc. so you may get a lead that was as well.

  2. Jan Says:
    September 12th, 2007 at 10:43 am

    Bethellen, great tips. Both have been valuable resources for our agency. Should you think of more free resources please let me know.

    Thank you.

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