Trying To Collect A Debt Owed: Try Skip Tracing Bank Accounts

By Jessica Clark


If you are a creditor, chances are you have tried unsuccessfully to collect debts owed to you by your debtors. If you have won a court judgment and have been awarded the funds it can be hard to collect even after this method of collection. This is when you should consider skip tracing bank accounts to collect a debt that is owed to you.

When skip tracing is done, there are many methods that are employed to locate debtors assets such as bank accounts, property owned and places of employment. These methods collectively used together can assist a creditor in finding money that is often hidden from plain view. Many debtors who have a judgment against them will try to hide assets and skip tracing can find them.

There are many agencies and investigative services online that offer this service. With the advent of the Internet, this has become a viable business and one that is much easier than in the past. There are many databases of information about people and locating them is far easier today than ever before.

If you can locate a bank account and it has funds in it, you can get a levy against it for a number of days until you collect the money out of it and thus satisfy all or part of the debt owed to you depending on the amount of funds in the bank account. This can help you in your collection efforts. Skip tracing reveals many things about a person and their assets and you would do well to use this service to your advantage.

Besides having an agency do the legwork of locating debtors, there are things that the creditor can do to find out information on their debtors such as phone calls to neighbors and former employers to locate the debtors last know whereabouts. This can aid the agency that you hire by providing them with enough information that you have on file about the debtor.

The Internet is a useful resource for finding out information on debtors even for collection agencies that are trying to collect on a debt. You can often find last known addresses, phone numbers and other information that is useful in locating a debtor who doesn't want to be found. This is often the case in judgment collection.

If you are a debt collector chances are you do not have the time or resources to perform skip tracing on all your debtors. This is when it is best to hire an investigative agency to perform such searches on your behalf. This saves time and resource and proves far more effective as the agency will have many years experience in skip tracing and locating debtors.

If you have a judgment that you need to collect on or many, there are agencies that can help you to locate each and every one of your debtor's assets and help you to enforce the judgment against them. It may take some time but usually, these agencies have resources available to them that are not used by the general public that can trace debtors assets and follow the paper trail straight to them so you can collect your money. It is a process but once completed will increase your bottom line and free up more time and resources for you to do business as usual without having to worry about collecting debts.




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