We Find the Unfound — Quickly and Discreetly
When someone disappears, we track them down. Results delivered quickly and discreetly, often in under 48 hours.
Our skip tracers use licensed databases, proprietary methods, and real-world investigative tactics to locate even the most evasive individuals. Whether it's a missing defendant, estranged family member, or debtor on the run, we know how to find people.
We analyze digital footprints, cross-reference records, and follow trails others miss. Everything we do is compliant, court-admissible, and confidential.
Let us do the digging — you'll get the answers.
What We Search
Where the Data Actually Comes From
Public records
County recorder and assessor filings, fictitious business name statements, civil and criminal court indexes, bankruptcy and lien records, professional licensing. In Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties this is where property ties, business addresses, and prior litigation surface — often pointing at an address the subject never bothered to update anywhere else.
Licensed investigative databases
Permissible-purpose aggregators that compile address history, telecom and utility connection data, relatives and known associates, and vehicle records. These are powerful and frequently wrong at the margins — the same subject can show four "current" addresses across four vendors. We treat every hit as a lead to be ranked, never as an answer.
Field verification
The step that separates a report from a result. Before we hand you an address we confirm occupancy in the real world — vehicles present, mail and utilities, neighbor and management confirmation, physical description matched. This is also what makes the address usable the same day by a server instead of a week later.
What we don't do. No pretexting for bank or phone records, no unauthorized access to protected financial data, no vehicle trackers, no posing as law enforcement. Beyond the legal exposure, information obtained that way is unusable in court — and an unusable address is worth less than an honest "we couldn't find them."
When a Skip Trace Beats Burning Attempts
Attempts at a bad address don't just fail — they consume the calendar. California Rules of Court 3.110(b) gives you 60 days from filing to serve the complaint and file proofs of service, and under AB 747's diligence standard (three attempts, on three different days, at three different times, operative January 1, 2027) a full round of attempts eats a meaningful slice of that window. Running it twice at an address the defendant vacated last year is how a case ends up at an Order to Show Cause hearing.
The signals worth acting on immediately: a different household answering the door, a listed unit that turns out to be vacant, mail accumulating, a neighbor who says they moved, a returned mailing, or an address that traces back to a relative rather than the subject. When a server reports any of those, a trace is both faster and cheaper than another round — the arithmetic is laid out in our guide to what a process server costs in California, and our own rates are on the pricing page.
A located address feeds straight into service. Because we do both, the trace output isn't a PDF you forward to another vendor — it becomes the case file the server carries: verified address, physical description, vehicles, and the best windows to attempt. If the address is solid but the subject simply won't answer, the next move is a stakeout, not a fourth knock.
General information, not legal advice.
Pricing
| Service | Starting At |
|---|---|
| Basic Skip Trace | $150 |
| Enhanced Database Search | $200+ |
| Field Investigation Add-on | Quoted per job |
Payment required before service begins. Call for exact quote on complex cases.
Common Questions
How long does a skip trace take?
Most skip traces are completed within 24–48 hours. Complex cases may take 3–5 business days.
What if you can't find them?
We notify you honestly. We don't charge for dead leads. If we find partial information, we share it so you can decide next steps.
Do I need the person's full name?
A full name and last known address are the minimum. The more info you provide (DOB, employer, vehicle), the better our results.
Can you skip trace businesses?
Yes. We can locate registered agent addresses, current business addresses, and key personnel.
California Skip Tracing FAQ
How do you find someone's current address in California?
By layering sources rather than trusting any single one. We pull public records (county recorder, assessor, fictitious business name, court indexes, voter and utility-adjacent records), run licensed investigative databases that aggregate credit-header, address-history and telecom data, cross-reference relatives and known associates, and then verify the best candidate address in the field before we call it good. A database hit is a lead; a verified occupancy is an address.
Is skip tracing legal in California?
Yes, when it stays inside the lines. Legitimate skip tracing uses public records, permissible-purpose database access, and lawful field verification. It does not involve pretexting for financial records, accessing phone or bank records without authorization, GPS-tagging someone's vehicle, or impersonating law enforcement. Information gathered improperly is worse than no information — it can taint your case and expose you to liability, so we simply don't use those methods.
When is a skip trace cheaper than more service attempts?
Almost always, once the first round of attempts comes back with signs the address is dead — a different family answering the door, mail piled up, a vacancy, or a neighbor saying they moved months ago. A skip trace starting at $150 costs less than a second and third round of attempts at a wrong address, and it protects the CRC 3.110(b) 60-day service deadline instead of consuming it. See our guide to what California process serving actually costs for the full comparison.
What does a "no-locate" result mean, and do I still pay?
A no-locate means the available data did not produce an address we can stand behind. That happens with subjects who have no credit footprint, who have left the state or country, who are incarcerated under a variant name, or who are deliberately living off-record. We tell you plainly rather than handing over a stale address, we share whatever partial intelligence we developed — employer, relatives, vehicle, prior addresses — and we do not charge for dead leads.
Can you skip trace and then serve the papers?
Yes, and that hand-off is the point. A located address goes straight to a server with the case file, the physical description, and the pattern-of-life notes from the trace, so the first attempt is already informed. Photo and GPS documentation from every attempt attaches to the proof of service — the standard AB 747 makes mandatory statewide on January 1, 2027. If the address is confirmed but the subject won't come to the door, the next step is usually a stakeout rather than another knock.
General information, not legal advice.
Start Your Search
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Found your defendant. Now let us serve them.
Skip tracing and service of process — we handle both, end to end.